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te ete fey 4 : “ re. Paris 100-715 : . ; en | action as stemming from his disillusionment in the Soviet \ claim that all minorities in the USSR lived without the "Yeast restrictions' placed upon them. He supposedly said that in fact in the Soviet Union one tells the minorities that ‘their culture is inferior to the new culture inspired by the Soviet state,’ that "the only great writers’ are Soviets, and that western art is tdecadent.' Robeson supposedly reported that he was disabused because in the USSR he had found ‘another form. of oppression all the more dangerous because it was exercised in the name of a pretended liberation,’ tOn May 3 L'Humanite denied Le Figaro's story, claiming that it had gotten inforntion from its London correspondent that Robeson was in fact undergoing medical treatment in a clinic near the British capital. The wife of Robeson was reported to have said that 'my husband has not broken and has no intention of breaking with Communism.' Associates of Robeson were quoted to have said that he has no intention to visit the U.S. They allegedly asserted that if he does make a trip he would ooner go to Moscow, but that his state of health prevents ‘im from undertaking any voyages," _-- “COMMENT: The rapidity with which L'Humanite denied Le _. Figaro's XXX account is noteworthy. Actually L‘Humanite > « rarely refutes the claims in articles by XXX. e \ haste with which L'Humanite responded suggests that this c time it may feel Itself certain of its facts."