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as oo article Mrs, ROBISON branded as “absurdly foolish” such charges and declared, "I recognize the noise that you hear every time you to any= .— . thing that is even remotely intelligent, They used to call us *blackt but now they call us tred! *, ; oo, - Tne Stanford Advocate on October 24, 1944 published an article "stating : that Mrs. PaUL ROBESON was a sponsor of a State-wide meeting of the Colored Democratic Federation of Connecticut, which meoting \ Was held in New Haven, —— on i advised that wma Itt, one of the lea- tp ders of the American Youth for Democracy, was Considering asking kirs, ROBSON to speak atone of their meetings. He mentioned that Mrs» ; ROBESON'S son, | FaUL_ ROBESON, TRes was a member of the American Youth for Democracy. On May 15, 1946 the Hartford Times in an article stated that rs, ROH- ss “SON on May 14, 1946 in the absence of her husband addressed a “Peace and Security" rally held at the New Haven grena under the sponsorship of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Proe: . fessions. In her address Mrs, ROBESON scored colonization as the blight of democracy. She’ further stated thet all subject peoples should be ~ civen the ri ght of salf-determinstion and thet all G@oloniee. in the world St tre a om Pe ee A ee dl i, re ee re should be mandated to the United Kations. ST 1-2 advised that on the afternoon of February 2, 1947 Mrs. ROBESON - Co addressed a group of approximately 500 people at the a. Leo Weil, School in Fittsburgh, Fennsylvania. Her speech, which she read in its, entirety, - Was on the topic, “Negroes and the Fattern of World affairs". iy her introductory remarks Ere, ROBESON advised that she Was an old iF end - of Pearl Buck, founder of the East-i/est Association and that she was 4 = - appearing at the lecture for the East-est Association. She remarked oo ‘thatduring the War people came to know what occupied countries’ endured. - The war called on them to fight but not to speak, that they have no. : voice in the UiG, yet Ruseia and China have spoken up for the Negro. S There is a request for Southwest Africa to join the rest of africa, but eincs 1909 Britain has refused te turn over har Pa ans <r but since 1909 aan Fé to turn over her rich lands te Afri Che irs. ROBESON stated that since the world powers feel that colonization « Cannot continue in the modern world, colonization officials had beea careful not to show what colonization means, She pointed out that even. _ though African natives had a civilization before being subdued by the Me "whites" now a white population totalling less than one-fifteenth of - the entire population of Africa exploits the Negroes, She further stated . that although forced to pay a “head tax" the native African receives s* little or no benefit from suth tex, ; y or