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Pudi NY 100=25857 he spoke at a meeting sponsored by six campus organi zations including ° American Youth for Democracy, a known Communist-front organization at. | the University of Chicago. -— a oo a " 7 It is reliably reported vy EE «+ the subject in his speech calling for racial eq y praised highly the example set by Russia in which country he anc his family spent several years. He concemneé Fascists both in the United States and abroad and pre- dicted that FRANCOts Spain would soon suffer the sane fate as that o. MUSSOLINI 's Italye _ On May 20, 1945 the subject spoke in Chicago on the subject, ne “San Francisco and the Negro", at a large affair sponsored by the newly rganized Chicago Council on African Affairs. Arrangements for this ne -fappearance were made by MAX YERGAN of New York, PATTERSON, and ISIMAEL -.. }— FLURY, Secretary of the Negro Peoplets Assembly in Chicago and a re= ‘ported member of the Executive Committee of the CPA in Chicago, The “7 subject departed thereafter from Chicago. Informant vised b1P that preliminary arrangements for appearances of the cuUject in major affairs in Chicago during this period were made by MAX YERGAN, the Executive Director of the Council on African Affairs. It was indicated by Confidential Informant an that the subject returned to the New York City area at . oubse~ quent thereto, Icformants ont lf ved the New York Office that arrangements were belng made between ISHMAEL FLORY of Chicago and MAX YEPGAN for the appearance of the subject in Chicago on June 17, 1945. It was cisclosed by these informants that this was to be an TWO fund va raising affair and, as later substantiated by Informant these arrangements were for the appearance of YERGAN before +t sable Lodge "61 of the International Workers Order in Chicago, which is the largest lodge in the IWO and which organization is known to be a Communist front. . Arrangements were made through YERGAN for the appearance of | the subject on June 19, 1945 in Chicago-at the fifteenth anniversary t dinner of the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, an alleged Commnist- { dominated organization. According to the Chicago Daily News of June 6, 6 1945, thig dinner was sponsored under the names of the subject and HARS TELD of that city, the purpose of which was to raise funds . -—- . for committee. ItAvas reported by that arrangements. « were made for one .NANCE, a known member o Communist) Party, to accompany ROBESON as his secretary on this trip. These informants also reported that an offer was made to YERGAN for ROBESON in the amount y