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NY 100-56680 The New York "Herald Tribune" issue of December 31, 1958, page 9, carried the Following L | under the dateline "London, December 30:" "PAUL ROBESON, American singer, and his wife arrived today | in Moscow to start a months stay in the soviet Union. An article appeeree in the "News Chronicle,” a a London, England, daily newspaper, for May 29, 1959, indicat- ing that Mrs. ROBESON was a speaker at a meeting of the Interracial Friendship Coordinating Council held in London on May 28, 1959. According to the newspaper article, this meeting was held to protest the murder of a British West Indian named KELSO COCHRANE who resided in the Notting Hill section of London. Mrs. ROBESON, according to the article, was cheered by an audience of about 450 white and colored people when she said, “I believe that KELSO COCHRANE was killed because he was colored. He died because of. racial prejudice and hatred."