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Casta aD AA A ae a A a hae SAL ae CRG Son Ucar arts AES aE CERRO Be he pe eared? Daten ea Ouchi wd gated Seok: dase each Sn x a - ’ MI-66-1A714 At this paint ROBESON remarked that he was ouite certein that they Wauld da samething about FEPC and civil rights leeislation because the ferce of the Negro people would make them. ‘s an illustr=tien he referred to his invitation te the bi-annual conference of the &. Fe Ee Zion Church in Brooklyn last week, with a ponbor ship af 250 000. welcomed him and cheered bir ag he left. | . B eee serene Fihat there wis a erowine leRro pe “tnoy were waiting for a stalwert 90007 leader aS ROBESON and organizations like the N. FP. E. 0. felt that leaders Tike Mr, ROBESON EN one all they could to knit the lseal progressive unite together because in order to do thet ther would hove to stiy en the local scenes loneer than just over night, ROBESON agreed, and fer that reason, at the end of this concert tour he will return te the various plices that he hid been and stay three to four days, Ne wuld meet with representatives of the cross- section of exch csommmity, He will be back in Milwiukee during the ister part ef July. ROBESON stated that one thing he wanted te destrey in our minds was thet. there was any fear or belief on the part of our preages that he was a Communist, The question is not whether PAUL ROBESON fis a Communist ar not-—-df that were true and they could prove it, thoy would already hve hauled me before a congressional committee or court, Many tines I have offered to geo before any committee and present my feelings and to clarify ov stand, Yes] I heve stated that I Liked wht I saw in Soviet Russia during my visits there, The great tranefiguration of a neople that wis shown ind thit had taken place between my first visit in 1936 «rei my last visit in 1947 makes _ me dike what I saw, For that reason I educated my eon there, But “ the resl core of my Might is not political but is based on the sym pathy and the leve for my people and all solored poople of the world, I am deternined to strike down "JIM CROWIEM" and sstond elasa eitizen- ehip wherever I find it, The only thing we must concern ourselves with is Negre liberrtion te full eitizenship—tr AIT the world and world peace,