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NY 100-25857 The "World Telegram" issue of April 20, 1949, reported that at the Communist sponsored World Peace Conference in Paris PAUL ROBESON de- clared that the focal point | of world Fascism is the United States and that President TRUMAN'S program for African development meant "new slavery" for millions of Negroes, ROBESON reportedly brought the aighteen hundred dele- — gates to the conference to their feet with a call for "a fight for friend- ship with Russia." He then stated that American Negroes never would go to war for the United States against Russia. The "Post & Home News" on April 22, 1949 reported that a con- cert given by PAUL ROBESON in Stockholm, Sweden, on Apri] 21 turned into a political row, The trouble, according to the said paper, started when ROBESON sang a Russian anthem. The first verse, sung in Russian, was greeted quietly; however, when he sang the second verse in English, which most of the audience understood, a demonstration started, which for e time drowned out the singer. Anti-Communists whistled loudly and many left the hall in protest. Pre-Comunists answerad with loud cheers and frantic applatse. Following the anthem, ROBESON stepped to the microphone and told the audience he could no longer draw the line between his art and his volitical convictions. He said he wanted universal peace, but above all peace with the Soviet Union. The "Daily Worker" issue of May 25, 1949, reprinted an article which appeared in the British "Daily York on April 18, 1949, concerning an interview with PAUL ROBESON by SHEILM LIND, British "Daily Worker" writer, ,;ccording to the article, ROBESON, er \di scussing his early history and fis realization that other Negroes are not so fortunate as he, stated that he had visited the Soviet Union where he first "felt the full dignity of being a human being." He said that he loved what he found in Russia and until the war returned there every year, In Moscos, he said he studied MARXISM, finding WARK! experiences "capital", "enthralling." He would have settled in Moscow, he further remarked, if friends had not told him "If you believe in Socialism, you have a job elsewhere.” He also mentioned that his son, now in an Amertcan university, had received his early educa~ tion in Moscow, Referring to the people of Africa, ROBESON stated that once the Africans have learned the meaning of Socialism, they could not be enduced to fight the Soviet Union. America, according to ROBESON, is ready to fight the war with Socialism to the last European and last Negro. According to the | "New York Daily News" of May 26, 1949, one of mone me ee eee mee te eet A ao bint the biggest international Communi st meetings since the war opened Ch Budy date in Prague, Czechoslovakia in an atmosphere of secrecy. Newspaper men