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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 5
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the same information regard)
convention as set forth above,-
“eronsored by o Bay oh nLoS Bay
that seventy or ‘elenty persons: were ‘in ations and ROBESON,
- the course of the meeting commented on various current .
ssues,
With regard to the East Bay Youth Committee,
has advised that it was, in reality, the LYL, which
organization uses such names in planning for broad attendance -
at ea function, .
——— of American-Soviet Friendship (NCASF)
advised that Om 2 oes.
November 16, Tote, PAUL ROBESON was a specker at a dinner: .-
Sponsored by the NCASF held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel,
New York City. advised that the main purpose of the dinner
was to celebrate the establishment of the Soviet Union 32 years
previously and was attended by Sovist United Nations Delegate
ANDRI VISHINSKY urther advised that ROBESON, in hig
apeech at the dinner, spoke of the lynching of Negroes in the .
United States, the trial of the eleven Communist leaders, no
and the Peekskill affair. ROBESON stated in part, “I love oo
the Soviet Union because I am a Negro and an American,”
Gaitoe! . . 7 we a : ren oa
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