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et PE . t. NY 100-25857 but whose exact reletionship to the Communist Party has been a matter of Goubt, appeared today to have cleared up the latter point." _ In this article it was reported that ROBESON, in speaking on July 17 at the closing session of the Bill of Rights Conference at the | Henry Hudson Hotel, had said that “we Negro people, we Progressives, we Communists, wa little people would be in the forefront of the struggle of the American people who are losing their rights." The article further reported that ROBESON had not denied using the above phrases nor had he repudiated or explained another statement reportedly made by him, namely "Ne have found a weapon with which to fight--a weapon which originated with & man named MARX." - that mass picketing had been expected vhen PAUL ROBESON "leftist Negre | singer speaks at a rally scheduled at the Mosque Theatre, Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey." VY The article further reflected that a eall had been issued by CEORGESSIEVENS, Essex County Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, for mémbers of all the forty-six posts to meet in front of tha theatre. oN According to this article ROBESON had been billed as the prin- cipal speaker of the meeting which had been called by the Civil Rights Congress in connection with the case of six Negroes who were convicted | of purder in Trenton, New Jersey. \ The "Daily Worker", issue of July ab, 199, reported that PAUL ROBESON, on July 22 had assailed the "machine politicians" for ganging up on Councilman BENJAMIN J. DAVIS by running EARL/SROWN as a coalition candidate in the 2ist Senatorial District. Thelarticle reflected that ROBESON had charged that BROWN would have the"dubious pleasure of splitting the Negro people, of undermining racial unity and of furthering the interest of his master by campaigning against New Tork's fighting council Jnan.® ; 7 . The "Baltimore Afro-Ameriean", 4asue of July 26, 1919, reported that when interviewed in Moscow during his recent trip te the Soviet Union, PAUL ROBESON had told the Russian people that"Russia is the So, country F love more than any other. I always have been, F am now and -. always will be a most loyal and sincere friend of the Soviet Union." The New York "Herald Tribune", issue of August 5, I9h7, re- ported that PAUL ROBESON, with more than 100 persons, had picketed the --— + ----- The "New York Journal American", iesue of July 20, 19L9,. reported. a