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: random por nation "Ye occurs at a time when no other American Negro of ble stature has spoken so | fearlessly and critically of United States policies... We have to take a stand, here and now, with Dr. Du Bais. On February 23, one week after his arraignment, « tes- timonial dinner to honor Dr. Du Bois on the occasion of his eighty-third bathday took place in New York City. The sponsoring committee of the dinner was composed of more _ than three hundred of the nation’s outstanding educators, “I stand tonight facing the possiblity of celebrating my future birthdays in prison,” Dr. Du Bois told the hundreds of men and women assembled to pay tribute to him. “The prospect is not pleasant. Yet I continue to maintain that advocacy of peace is not treason; that I am the agent of no forcign principal and never have been; that I am the cham- pion of no idea alien to this nation; and that ] have the right .. Within the Taw in the future as in the past to ight for peace.” Ti is to safeguard this right not only Jor Dr. Du Bois and numbers of Americans are demanding the Government abandon its willful prosecution of the Peace Information Center. And in proclaiming their prerogative to fight for peace and the prevention of an atomic war, these Americans are asserting their unalienable right to life itself.