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: JY1O him to sevcral midwestcrn universities and Aray caips during the rinter, including a covernnent radio broadcast from Toronto the poet mill seal: Lay 26th at the Tom Faine Forum in Philadelpilia. In an article anpcariny in the Daily * orker, dated Lay 24 1943, page 1, column 5, it was reflccted that Lailgsroi uuci:s was one of 220 promincnt Americans who addresscd an open lutter t the Fresident urgsng.an immediate severence of diplonatic relations :id: Iinland, and a declaration of war. Confider.tial Int'orant T- reported a conference bctzeen BEi QAVIS and GIL GrLe!!, rl:ich tcok place on tsy 2C, 1943. EEil DAVIS conplained of the lack or coopcration c. the Daily .orkcr in publicizing a mceting (probably thc Negro Frecdor. clly in which LAnigsToN Hugt's prescnts his drama "For this c Ii ht"). GPuLN rantd to know if thc Daily '.orker was getting cnough material, and Davis replici that thcy rere Letting more than they could use. Green is reported to have said that thcre should bu somc rcal uaterial on the cultural aspcts on RoEroN, on that thc LaNGstoy! Hus thing is, and, of course, thc nain thing is th. political iuportanc: of tli. mecting. In an articl occurring in thu Daily orl:er datcd September. 16, l943, it was reilected that a mcctiny of writers zas hsld under thc auspiccs of thc NATIOI.L COUNcIL OF AERIC.N SOVIT mIDSIIP for thc purpos3 of a nation.id. coll.ction of books.to rustore th. librarics of the Soviet Union. LAGsTol! iuis is notcd s bcin, on tnc committcc. Conridcntial Inrorment A, whosc identity is known to thc Bureau, advised thut LaNGston 3ugies sponsored and attuixed a Citizens Emergency Conferenc. for Internation:l Unity at lunter Collcge, Fark Aveme and 69th Streut, Ncw York City, on Sptenbcr 25, lg43, and thet onc of th pancl dis- cussions was devotd to ths problem of discrimination in thc armed Forccs. An articl. appearing in thc Daily lorhr dated October 1, 1943, pac 8, coluan 6, rcflccted that th. I.0 hus called a Cultural Confercnce ior Sunday, Octobr 10, 1943, at llin Studios, 135 '.cst 134th Strcet, ilw York, to dcal ith the problems of thc drana, music, dance, and instrumental groups specch on folk art and the rar. lo