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om ae) RY 100=25857 of New York. The conference was scheduled to be held at the Hotel Diplomat, 108 West 43rd Street, New York City, on the following Monday evening. ROBESON and GOLD urged "the widest participation in this conference by every trade union and community organization interested in the defense of our democratic rights. The shocking discrimination revealed by the defense lawyers in open court, means that no trade union or minority racial, religious or political group can hope for a 'trial by peers' a right which is. granted to everybody in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution, In the "New York Sun" issue of February 12, 1949, it was reported that PAUL ROBESON, in an interview before sailing for Europe on that date, stated concerning the Cardinal Mindszenty case "I was not there, but evidently See ee eS eee Saw Se ee eo Soe Ae eS Qe ee Cardinal VINDSZENTY did commit overt acts against the state. What happens to ten million American Negroes should occupy our attention. Alabama is worth more attention than the business in Europe. I am an anti-Fasciate* Referring to the trial of the Communist leaders in New York, ROBESON said he did not cére to compare that trial with that of the Cardinal, He stated "The courts will be used to serve the interests of thoze who are not demo~ cratic, The trial of the Communist leaders is a subtle way to bring force on the people." According to the "Daily Worker" of March 10, 1949, ROBESON, when interviewed at Glasgow, Scotland, said that following the trial of the Con- munist leaders in New York at which he intended to testify as a defense witness, he would tour Eastern Furope and Russia and would complete his concert tour in China in the fall, The "D Worker" issue of March 23, 1949, reported that PAUL ROBESON and ESSMAN, former CIO Counsel would address nine rallies for "Peace Joba sponsored by the Bronx County American Labor Party. ‘ROBERT WESTGATE, London correspondent of the "Daily News", in an article in the said paper on March 31, 1949, reported that ROBESON'S concert engagements have taken him to Birmingham, Sheffield, Cardiff, Glasgow and Liverpool, According to WESTGATE, ROBESON would discuss Negro problems with Prine Mini ster ATYLEE and Colonial Secretary CREECH JONES. The "Daily Worker" issug.of April 17, 1949, reported that ROBESON was scheduled to speak at the rottish-USSR. Society “peace demonstration in Glasgow on May 12, 1949,“and that HEVLE7IpORNSON, Dean of Canterbury, also would be a speaker at the aforesaid demonatrations—— al