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WY 2100-25857 Activities ¥ "Masses and Mainstream” issue of January 195] contained an article antitied, "Our People Demand Freedom.™ ‘This article presents extracts from speechea made by WILLIAM L. PATTERSON, National Executive Secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, and by PAUL ROBESON, ROBESON'S speech was a recorded message sent by him to the Second World Peace Congresa, ROBESON'S message was sent te Sheffield, England, where the peace conference was scheduled toe be held. The British Labor Government prevented this by barring most of the delegates. ‘The following extracts are from ROBESON'S apeech: ve "The life and struggles of thie outstanding American of the nineteanth century afford me great inapiration as I find myself separated from you by the edict of the United States State Department. You may be asaured while I remain in the United States a wictim of the detestable program of house arrests initiated by cur govermment, while I cannot be in your midst and ameng many friends from all parte of the world, ag has been my custom in years past, I do not remain quietly or to dive a life of ease. - "I remain in the United States as Douglass returned to it, and in his words, ‘for the sake of my brethren,! remain toe suffer with them, to toll with them, to endure insult with them, to undergo outrage with them, to lift up my voice in their behalf, to speak and work in their vindication and. struggle in thelr ranks for that emancipation which shall yet be achieved by the power of truth and of principle for that oppressed people, And so today at this World Peace Congress we move forward in the beat traditions of world democracy, representing ag we do the hundred of millions throughout the world whose problems are much the same. We are peoples of all faiths, ail lands, all colors, of a11 political beliefs, united by the somuon thiret for freedom, security and peace. , "Over here our American press and commentators and politicians would discourage these basic human aspirations because Communists adhere to them as well ss others, Now I have seen the liberty~loving people and peace-sesking partisans in