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ever. Negroes were stirred up long : and they'll stay stirred up long after the Party has disappeared-- unless Jim Crow has disappeared by then as well.: :. "g've been asked to express my views on Paul Robeson's statement in Paris to the effect that American Negroes would refuse to fight in any war against Russia because we love Russia so much. I haven't any comment to make on that statement except that 1f Hr. Robeson actually made it, it sounds very silly to me. But he has a right t his personal views, and if he wans to sound silly when he expresses them in public, that is his business and not mine. He's still a famous ex-athlete and a great singer and actor. "I understand that there are some few Negroes who are members of the Communist Party, and in the event of war with Russia they'd probably act just as any other communist would. So would membersdf other minority and majority groups. There are some colored pacifists, and they'd act just like pacifists of any color. And most Negroes--and Italians and Irish and Jews and Swedes and Slavs and other Americans--would act just as all these groups did in the last war. They'd do their best to keep their country out of war; if successful, they'd do their best to help their country win the war--against Russia or any other enemy that threatened us. This isn't said as any defense of the Negro's loyalty, because any loyalty that needs defense can't mount to much in the long run. And 5. CONFIDENTIAL 1004Q8850-N0T REC0RDED