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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 29
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avowed purpose of preventing the execution of JULIUS and ETHEL
ROSENBERG who were sentenced to death on April 15, 1951 in the
United States District Court, Southern District of New York,
for conspiring to commit espionage by furnishing United States
atomic secrets to the government of the U.S.5.Re (subsequently
executed).
ae :-: advised that the LACSJRC is controlled and
dominate y the LACCP through the assignment of Communist
Party members to the eteering committees of the LACSIRC. The
a LACSIRC receives advise and directives on all important issues
ud from leaders of the LACCP.
According an subject appeared at the meeting
of the LACSJRC on Junc 15, 1953 at 607 South Western for a
brief program of songs and a speech in behalf of the ROSENBERGS.
Ate that ROBESON spoke concerning the fact that he
entified himself with "this kind of struggle" because he,
himself, is a member of a minority group and felt very keenly
4 the kind of punishment these people (the ROSENBERGS) were faced
hove: j with since his own people had been inflicted with this type of
punishment for many decades. He stated that the ROSENBERGS
must be saved and that the peaple must do it and not depend
on the courts. :
we in reporting subject's epeech, stated that b D
oy ROZESON said, "We have hundreds of millions of friends
“i throughout the world and we cannot lose the battle for
3 freedom as long as we, the Nogroes and Jews, stick together
py and fight."
GD es :oncec the above meeting and advised that
ROBESON s @ of the oppression of the Negro psople throughout
the world and the fight he is having in spreading his belief
in a world community.
also attended the above mesting and
observed ect a overheard his remarks.
ae De eee for Subject,
a as advise a reception for subject was held
Ue
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