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Director, FBI fos. & 4 FE: PAUL ROBESON July 6, 19845 9 Uv: INTERNAL SECURITY = C 1945 and was made an Hono Member of that local on the motion of SAYA RIANI, Member of the Executive Committee, District No. 6, CPA. According to informants, subject's talks were reported to center about the broad topic of the San Francisco Conference. He sang and spoke at a meeting sponsored by six campus organizations, including American Youth for Democracy, at the University of Chicago on May 15 1945 and it was noted b; Special con's i ay and who attended the meetin g rac quality praised highly the examples set by Russia in which coun- try he stated he and his family spent several years. In his talk ROBESON also condemned the Fascists, both at home and abroad, and redicted that FRANCO in Spain would soon suffer the same end as befell MUSSOLINI. Immediately preceding» ROBESON's departure from Chicago on May 20, 1965 he spoke on the subject, "San Francisco and the Negro" ata large affair sponsored by the n organized Chicago Council on Afri- ean affairs. This event was arranged by MAX’YERGAN of New York, WILLIAM L. L. PATTERSON, and ISHMAEL F. RY, Secretary, Negro People's Assembly, and reportedly a menber of the Executive Committees, District No. 8, CPA. Because of uncertainty connected with the subject's scheduled appearance overseas, a luncheon benefit for the Abraham Lincoln School] scheduled far June 18, "1945 was cancelled. It was learned through informants that * VARSHAIZ- FIELD, Publisher of the "Chicago Sun", had agreed to sponser the luncheon for the LaSalle Streat Rusinesamen in honor of ROBESON. i LES Se ee Se eee Be So te Se er oe Se a ee The subject did return to Chicago, however, on June 17, 1945, to keep a commitment to appear on that date before a large affair held. under the auspices of DuSable Lodge 751, International Workers Order. The Du Sable Lodge, with an ali-Negro membership, claims over two thousand men bers which makes it the largest lodge in the TWO. A It was also learned throu, and local newspapers that ROBESON remained in Chicage to appear at the 15th Anniversary Din- ner of the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, an alleged communist dom- inated organization, on June 19, 1945. According to an article in the | "Daily News" for June 6, 1945, the dinner was sponsored by MARSHALL FIELD and PAUL ROBESON and it was subsequently learned through an informant that the Comittee receivéd commitments amounting to $25,000 on the occasion of the dinner. JeCs00 61-147 ec = Hew York LT. bIp