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vide fee particularly so now, when the Iran Conference has emphasised the need for decent treatment for citisens of al) the United Kationsecseeds far as I ean make out Mrse BROWER's ‘evasiveness' consisted in her refusal te attack — the Soviet Government wiier which she had lived for Bany years and te defane her husband and the-ame rican Communist Party of which he is General Secretaryes In these days of close cooperation with the Soviet Union, many Americans had come to feel that the Government would no longer resort to persecuting indi- viduals who refused to malign our gallant ally and the Communist Party in this countryeosee® e . BY 100=25857 On Decerber 1, 1943, Confidental intornant i rs reported that LOUIS \ Secun of the NMU mentioned to WAVERLY’ROOT, @ newspaper man, that PAUL ‘ROBESON was being considred as Chairsan of the Reichstag Fire meeting for DIMITROFF at Carnegie Hall, New York City on December 22, 1943_ Further, . this informant advised on December 2, 1943 that LOUIS OGUL conferred with —..... -- an unidentified woman about having PAUL ROBESON as the Chairman of the sponsors of the tenth anniversary mecting of the Reichstag Fire Trial at Carnegie Hall on December 22, 19439 Also these individuals were reported to have discussed sending wires to Vice President EENRY WALLACE, United - Statea Congressman SOL,BLOOM, Helen,Xeller and Senator CLAUDE #PEPFER for their greetings to the meatinge --- —=. ; advised that PAUL ROBESON, along with FREDERICK MYERS, Vice President of the National Maritime Union and acting chairman of the Reichstag Fire Trial Anniversary Committee, 55 west 42 Street, New York City, sent a cable te GEORGE DIMI TROFF, Moscow, which said: Confidential Infornent SB whose religbility is not questioned, zp MHISTORIC REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL IN WHICH YOU PROVIDING WORLDS FIRST MAJOR VICTORIES OVER FASCISN WiLL BE OBS“. KVED DECEMBER TWENTYSECOND AT GREAT TENTH ANNIVERSARY RALLY CARNEGIE MALL NEW YORK STOP TRIBUTE WILL BE PAID 10 VETERANS OF THAT aND SUBSEQUENT ANTIFASCIST STRUGGLES BY NOTSD PERSONALITIES INCLUDING LILLIAN-HELLNAN COMA ARTHUR GARFIELD“MAYS COMA CHANNING+TOBIAS - OF YMCA NATIONAL BOARD COMMA LOUIS~ADAMIC COMMA’ PHILIP-VANGELDER COMA FARL BROWER STOP HOWARD,FAST AUTHOR CITIZEN TOM PAINE HAS WRITT-N SPECIAL DRAMA~ TIZATION FOR OCCASTON STOP PURPOSE OF RALLY TO FURTHER UNITY FOR VICTORY STOP AMERICAN PEOPIE WOULD EAGERLY WELCOME MESSAGE 10 BE READ AT MEETING FORM YOU . oo AS HERO OF REICHSTAG FIRE TRIAL AND FORENOST CHAMPION WORLD ANNIVERSARY | AGAINST FASCISMe” ot Confidential Infornant advised this of fice that a letter hd Ip been written by the subject to ous people in Wew York “ity, over the subjectts signature to the effect that on Dec Yr 22, at Carnegie Hall, ' “TAL baba