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_ we wes TRANSLATION FROM FH a oe Qo ‘=1) | 7) PAUL L. ROBESON . iii . cone ‘LL Humanite (GEORGES LEON) September 2, 1960 "So glad to see you" PAUL ROBESON (in English and in French). PAUL ROBESON is coming today. He will sing tomore row, We are going to welcome him presently, glad and proud . to find him faithful to the rendezvous he had made with us a year ago, when he left Paris after his triumph in Meudon. Whenghe boarded the airplane which was to take him away, PA'LYROBESON said goodbye in these words: fied and e please Fra aw Manda unfanenattahia daw hose PPacnas, Prsass SMOW/TNLS UNLOGSt taois aay fas . — moved me deeply. My “meeting with the people of Paris, with- the representatives of all the French provinces, takes on a great importance in my eyes. I have just had a fraternal con- tact with France, I am glad of it as an artist, but also pod especially as a man, as a militant. Friends, I am con- vinced .that never again now, when I shall come back, will I feel r-ftkKe :s a stranger in this country. So long. Thank you. kill be secing you soon again.*® -PAUL ROBESOK is coming back and a fine day will ; rise when we, all of us, shall be before him to hear him Saat! to ot him for being what he is, for being here, _ just BO or A year, living tn England, going around Europe, PAUL ‘ROBESON has been fighting the good fight for justice and brotherhood, with music as his weapon and his eloquence as his strategy. He has kept on the way on which earlier he made up his mind to engage, without changing anything in his habits and without denying any of his convictions or of his certitudes. We will find him again as we left him last year in Meudon, With new songs, PAUL ROJESON's art is 80 intimately bound up with ‘ his way of life that one cannot speak of him without recal- _ ling at once the great problems of our ar tires iN FORMATION CO! TAINED " PRANSLATSD BY: HERENY IS UNCLASSIFIE RE Ml, gu er BLE TERE A ees September 15, 1960 an ENCLOSURE 0 & —_— 00 on Bee BE ee a RL es aa eae a <