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Paul Robeson — Part 22
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In the "Daily Worker" issue of October 30, 1947, it was reported
that ROBESON on the previous day, as Chairman of the Council on African
Affairs, protested to FRANCIS B. SAYRE, United States representative to
the United Nations Trusteeship Comittee, the vote of the United States
against India's resolution on the Southwest Africa question. The vote in
the Trusteeship Committee was on Indiats motion requiring South Africa to
give its old League of Nations mandate over Southwest Africa to the United
Nations Committee by the next General Assembly.
The "Daily Worker" issue of November 4, 1947, contains a picture
a. on page 16 of ROBESON and LARRY PARKS, the accomoanying news item reporting that
~t TAPRY PARKS obtained the signature of PAUL ROBESON on Civil Rights Congress
etifiocn demanding the end to the House Un-American Activities Committee,
Be ARKS is described es ster of the motion picture "The Jolson Story". o/i
L
Confidential Informant n furnished the
New York Office with a list of thé Difectors and Directors~at-Large of the
now defunct GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER SCHOOL which had been a Comnunist Party
controlled and dominated institute, The name of PAUL ROBESON appears on
the list as a Director~at-Large. .
c.
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: c's ie. on Novenbér 3, 1947, |]
attended a Civil Kights Congress rally in the St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West
66th Street, New York City. Purpose of the rally was to open an intensive
campaign against the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The afore-
mentioned agents heard ROBESON sing several songs, one of which he dedicated
to GERHART EISLER, and make a general attack in a speech on the House Committee
for its alleged violation of people's rightse
Confidential Informant Larewrt on advised that bf
POBESON on November 30, 1947, attended a rele Center, New York
City, sponsored by the ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE and Comite Coordinador pro
Republica Espanola, Communist Party front organization, ROBESON, according
8 to the informant, spoke against racial discrimination and announced that he
mee! planned to make a tour of Porto Rico in the near future, The principal
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