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iN bee at NY 10025857 the said dinner to be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania on February 9, 1948. The "Daily Worker" issue of February 16, 1948, reported that on the previbus day a monster WALLACE For President relly was held at the Golden Gate Ballroom, Harlem, six thousand persons having attended. Congressman VITO MARCANTONIO, one of the speakers, stated that he would recommend that the atate chairmanshin of the naw party be offered to PAUL ROBESON, According to the February 19, 1948, issue of the "Morning Freiheidt" | OBESON attended and spoke at a memorial reeting on that date for SOLOMON 7 MIKHOELS, late President of the Jewish Anti~Fascist Committee in Moscow. he theme of the meeting ,was establishment of a lasting friendship between the United States and te USSR.) Another speaker at the aforesaid meeting was Soviet Vice ConsulBAKUNOF. On March 1¢, 1948, the Honolulu Office of the FBI advised that PAUL ROBESON arrived at Honolulu on that date and was greeted by a number of prominent local Communists. While in Hawaii, he visited the islands of Kanai, Malokai ’ Lanai and Yaui, giving a total of fifteen public concerts an +h == aon? at tea hte depart: - on the islands. at a press conferences prior to his departure for the United States on March 21, 1946, ROBESON declined to state whether or not he was a Communist, but remarked that as far as he knew "The Communist Party is a legel partys" ROBESON said he was a real Socialist and a "strong WALLACE » but one who "goes beyond WALLACE'S thinking on progressive capitalism." He. also indicated that if there were a strike or ea shooting, he would be “on the union's side.* The "New York Herald Tribune” issve of April 13, 1948, reported that an organizational meeting of the New York State WALLACE for President Committee would be held on that dete at the Manhatten Center, New York City, five hundred representatives fron New York City and up-state being expected to attend. PAUL ROBESON, as Co-Chairman of the National WALLACE Committee, was scheduled to speak at the said meeting. The "New York Post-Home News" on April 5, 1948, reported that MAT YERGAN, Executive Director of the Council on African Affairs, charged PAUL ROBESON, as Chai of the said organization, with part of "a Communist plot" to seize ” Counc 1 on African Affairs prestige and policy, YERGAN