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JERE TE October 28, 1944, indicates that Mrs. R Kee ona [a es VRS dy one ar ge alg Ma eee ea ce - ane ae Lathe : _ »~ . * pan WFO 12100-14994 ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE One copy of this report is being delegated for the ime w ¥ork OfFfiee as it is known subject spends mueh t4 ter rritory “of that. Office. _ ot The Washington Post, daily newspaper in Washington, De G., on Monday, September 12, i949, page 12, part I, contained an article captioned: Where's Civil War in United States says Mrs, ROBESON." This article was datelined September 11, Mexico City, and stated "Mrs. PAUL ROBESON, wife of the negro singer, told the leftist Continental Peace Gonference today that "there is civil war in U.S.?*", The article further states “she said that was her interpretation of what she called 'the battle of Peekskill? “ * » Mrs. ROBESON spoke in place of the singer at the first session of the Feace Conference.* A newspaper article from the Chicago Defender, dated BESON denounced charges“ ""” by Jd. B. MATTHEWS , then research director from the Biles Committee, that. PAUL ROBESOR was a communist. . 14 An article in the National Guardian, Volume I, No. 43 D Page 10, August 8, 1949, New York City, furnished by Informant @gMy /r indicates that the Young Peoples Educational Foundation which conducts its first National Leadership Institute at Clarion Acres, Montecilla, New York, from August 22 to September 4 wili be under the chairmanship of Mrs, ESLANDA GOODE ROBESON. The Foundation address was listed as 19 West 45th Street, New York. An article on page 11 of the February 22, 1950 issue of the National Guardian bearing the subjects byline, was titled "China, Russia, and Everywhere--the women of the world are worried about us", This article indicated that the subject had attended the Women's International Democratic Federation Meeting in Moscow in November 1949 and the Conference of Asian Women in Peking in December 1949. It is to be noted that on her passport renewal application of October 10, 1949, she stated that she intended te visit England and that the purpose of her trip was "to collect my household furniture, stored there since the war®. This seems to indicate fraudulent statements and might be a possible violation of the federal statutes covering passport matters. Informant advised that Mrs. MARY. “CHURCH? TERRELL 4] D attended the meeting at Laborers Hall June 16, 1949 with Mrs. ESLANDA ROBESON and THERESA LEESROBINSON, Informant stated that Nes. TERRELL was an elderly negro woman who had sought entrance into the American Association of University Women, which had eaused quite a.national controversy within the American Association of University Women, as no colored women were members of the organization at that time. a Nil , FNAL y/ -ll- ee REPRE de 2% RTE Be RE SA ES SECa ENT £ PRES SE pal esc Sneas ES AEN ES Koen : 2 ce