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tam t x RY 100825857 a_i 8 ee ee GvViseG taat TERGAN askeq ROBESON to make arrangemshies vo give tne Council aa on African Affairs from $750 to $1,000 so as to avoid any financial embarrassments wnile the subject or YERGAN was away from New York City. 7 . Confidential Informant whose reliability is not questioned, advised that MAX YERGAN of the Council on African affairs conferred wits | LOUISE BRANSTEN at San Francisco, California concerning the handling of tickets for the benefit performanceof "Otnello”® in Les Angeles, In this .. connection, LOUISE BRANSTEN informed TERGAN toat the subject should refuse — Sa a or a0 invivation or ie San Francisco Counci ofr ABGTiCan and Soviet Frisnas aLp and YERGAN agreede advised that ROBSRT ROCKMORE, Attomey for the subject a t 10 East 40 Street, Cenfidental Informant whose reliabliity is not questioned, ’/p Mew York City, conferred with MAI YERGQAN and told the latter that the subject had given the Council on African affairs $1,000 in 1941 and $500 to the Hegre Youth Congress indirectly, but that althougn the Internel Re~ Wenue approved these contributions in New York City, Washington might not — -_ mw 2 Sllew ths deduction on ti Zuccws Tax ana wisTrevy oes ROD=SON $3,000 axe in penaltys ROCKMORE is reported to have said that he wished to fignt the Internal Revenue Collector's decision, but would not do so inasmuch as a fignt would embarrass the Council on African Affaires At this time, YERGAN said that the Council on African affeirs' income hed been cousidered as exempt from taxas but he was undecided as to whether the contributora to the Council on African Affairs eould make a claim fer deduction on ci tts to that organisation, In the igses ow ths Daly Forksr of February 2 23, 1545, there appears an article under date line of Los Angeles, on a meeting of the Joint anti~ Fescist Refugee Comittee held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Cali» fornis, This meetingreportedly raised $17,000 for the committee, and among the guest speakers was the subject, who is quoted as having said "We are ‘standing at the crossroads of history. Something is wrong when suph Fascists as Hearst are allowed to mislead ad misinform the American people. ‘The Anerican people do not etirely understand that we can have Fascien here, wrlesa we learn how to use our productive resources for the benefit of all thea People. We cantt wait for Fasciem to dis out—wend the oppressed pecples of the world will not waite We must understand that we have already entered a changed world. We must have those 60 million Jobe that Wallace speaks of, We must clean out our own fascists." In the March 12, 1945 issue of the Datly Worker there appears an article under date line of San Frencisco, March 11, which stated that PAavL ROBESON has urged President Roosevelt to @Ad the deportation case against