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e oe o~ NY 77-23894 ; ass 4 the audience for complete support of the Council. a Lad re ~ fae oe ~ bt . “. New York W..: recontacted on May 28, 1958, w' and could furnish no additional information concerning the above meet ing or Miss ANDERSON. An axticle entitled” "ROBESON, ANDERSON Pack “Aid to Africa' Meeting", on page ho; columns 1 and 2, of the January 12, 1946 edition of "The Peoples Voice", a New York newspaper, reflects that MARIAN ANDERSON and PAUL ROBESON addressed a meeting sponsored by the Council on African Affairs at the Abyssinian Baptist Church on the previous Monday night. This article stated that MAX YERGAN, founder and executive director of the Council, addressed the meeting. The article went on to say that "Miss MARIAN ANDERSON received a standing ovation that lasted for several minutes before she was allowed to speak. After declaring that she wanted to go to Africa in the near future, she said she knew the audience would 'give until there was no more to give for the suffering South ~ Africans'"... "PAUL ROBESON was the climax speaker and he had the audience hanging on his every wort." la f) ; New york WA who is not available for recontact, a ' “in March, 1942, advised that MARIAN ANDERSON (not further identified) had agreed to be a sponsor of the congress “To Free EARL BROWDER’. \ The "New York Herald Tribune" of October 1, 1952, a New York daily newspaper, refers to EARL BROWDER as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1930 through 194k, An article by LOUIS BUDENZ in the "Daily Worker" of May 23, 1944, page 2, reflects EARL BROWDER was elected \ President of the Communist Political Association on May 22, 1ghk., oy the” ‘Attorney General of the United States pursuant to The. Commnist, Political Association has been designated ' Executive Order 10450. \ - RUC - - 16 -