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ST oe pale tne pal de we ak a ee tenet Rae at na ial pelt tt ee lara aaa oe EpMimiwo + ty a Bo 2 . A . 8 a oy ny es i wy 100425857 7 COME: Address BEN DAVI® Perole Herring". This article stated in Pores part, "Washington, Feb. 10-Five men and one woman .ppeared .--—— 1: , todcy at no two-hour Federnl Parole Board hearing to esk ° parole for former City Councilmin B@NTJAMIN J. DAVIS. DAVIS, one of the 11 Communist lenders, acntenced to five years in _ the 1949 Smith Act trial...." The article names PAUL ROBESON @s among those appecring at the hearing and describad him as a"long-time friend of DAVIS." The "Dally Worker", issue of September 25, 1953, —_ page 3, column 1, contained en article entitled, "Peace -.-—-. - Award Presented to PAUL ROBISON". This article stated that | a group of severel hundred hnd recently gathered in tae Hotel Theresa, New York City, to present a gold medal to PAT, ROBESON, reprosenting part of the 1952 STALIN Peace Aword. The article stated that, in connection with the pre- _ sentation, ROBISON stated, "I hive always been, Iam, and - I_eclwaye be, a friend of the Soviet Union.™ advised thet on _ - | a] . x a foming from {Pb In testimony befora tho House Un-American Activi- tice Committees on Mry 4h, 1954, at Pitroit, vinber during Te identified es a Communist Party m-mber during G by HAROLD MIKKELSSN, an sdmitted cp mombor from 1947 00CT TT to 1953, who also testified on buhalf of tho Government in ~~ the Detroit Smith Act trials held in Decombor, 19530 - BEN PAUL ROBZSON Me that he had finslly received Russia, namely, $25,000.00. the monsy he had Tho "Daily Worker", issue of August 19, 1955, page - 3, column 4, conteined on articlo entitled, "ROBISON Says He'd Gindly Join United Statos - Soviet Cultural sxchange.® _ ... This article stated that PAT, ROBESON was highly gratified .--..° . by recent reports from tho Sovist Union listing him as one ~~ of tho Amorican artists whom Soviet Cultural leaders would = ~~" like to be included in a program of cultural exchange with oo the United States, Tons articles stated that ROBZSON - ; oP duscribod as"complstely unfounded", a wire service dispatch weet aon + on August 3 16, 1995, indienting that he did not Antend to visit @?- ball : fae ee ”