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fe canis ae tet Sek nent ee ome a in the courts, police prutalitgO?: and lynching when it happens doesn't change the truth of his . charges. Just because communists kick up a big fuss over racial discrimination when it suits their purposes, a lot of people try to pretend that the whole issue is a creation of communist imagination. "But they are not fooling anyone with this kind of pretense, and talk about tommunists stirring up Negroes to protest,’ only makes present misunderstanding worse than ever. Negroes were stirred up long before there was a Communist Party, and they'll stay stirred up long after the Party has disappeared-- unless JIM CROW has disappeared by then as well. "I'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 if Mr. ROBESON actually made it, it sounds very silly to me. But he has a right to his personal views, and if he wants 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. "J 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 members of other minority and na jority groups. There are some colored pacifists, and they'd act _ | 00-4583 50 CONRHOENTIAL