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ee ke Foe ee “@eenerenecees With reference to the Septonder kth, 1949 a Paul Robeson Demonstration at Feekekill, E.Y. “sueeae ; “Nem Thomas F, Doves, Governor of the State of Nov Tork, in hiv prose release Of Reptenber 13th, 1989, Airects that an inquiry be mier- = @hether the mosting was initiated ant sponsored for the wt purpose of delideretely inciting disorder and a breach of. .; the peace, anit whether it vee part of the Communist strategy to foment ‘rectal and religious hatreds,” enieeae ane ~ Peal Robeson, negro Communist leader who spearheads the international Comuuni drives amongst the negroas, bad but a few veeks prior to the Peokekill denonstretic made a widely publicized statement in Paris, France to the effect that, in cass of war with Soviet Russia, the American negroes will refuses to fight for the Thited States, With this statement fresh in the minis of the public, the Commmiat nigh Coumazit decided to throw their support behind this statement making Paul Robeson .. the primipal figure at the Peekskill demonstration, . It mast be stated to the credit of the American citizens of negro extraction, that all majcr negro organizations in the United States as well as the negro Breas, with few exceptions, had repudiated Robeson's Paria declaration of dialoyalty ent war a that less than a fifth of the total number of demonstrators vere negroes, lene Om the basis of facts available in connection with the Peekskill demonstration of August 27 ant Septender 4, 1949, plus my own experience with C, P. metholes ~ following appeara to be the motive for thia Cc. P. organized demonstrations ~ 3a. eee - “To start a frog puil4-up of Pan] Robeson as a “ pepresentative at “the — = 2, cap pe Deseo it pnroee ill rafun to fight for the Dalal Staten in cate of wer ith Rata. i % A hostile went -rurel neighborhood within easy ; peach of ew York was dense nt oe abel . wt - brately, selected with ry view of drematizing alleged disloyalty of the pagroes an - 7 poet sot wee co cxpressel in the person of Panl Robeson clashing with the loyal white popelace 7 _¥ - ~ fh, The C. ¥. real organ! ter of the mesting, fully cattetpated the antagont om of the patriotic elmoenta of the county. Tuay sought unler the cover of free apes Protection fron the County authorities for oir agua ba Cdoyal denonstration, we Ss 2 Sys AR! 4 Bering fallad te oOtain Wat protection et te iret meeting, the 0. F, 7 BRA Ropewrncemes crete eee =