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neal ssobeson Says He - Loves se Russians Mast NEW YORK. () - Paul Robe- son, addressing a welcome-home rally shortly after seeing hia son _wed to a white girl, declared last night he lovea the “soviet people more than any other nation.” =; - The Negro singer told « Harle= tudience of 3,500 persons that he asves thea Piresians “hacauss ai we Sen 2 . Rheir suffering and sacrifices tor, us, the Negro people, the pro4, gressive people, the people of the future of the world. & ' Robeson, just returned from a ‘tour of the soviet union and sev- eral caeuntries of Europe, said be! ; would “defy any part of an tnso- ‘ Tent, dominating America to chai- |; , lenge my Americanian.’ ae 7 The Hariem rally wea sponsored » by the Council of Africa Affairs, "s group listed by Atty. Gen. Tom Clark as subversive. ‘The baritone said he had experi-| “enced discrimination aa a youth, |, and declared: i “I never accepted an intertor| ! role because of my race or color, , and by God I never will.” | }; Robeson told the crowd that tn! : Paris he had said “it was unthink- | ,, @ble the Negro people of America’ | | or anywhere else in the world could: be drawn into war with the soviet ; lunian” t : i “T repeat it with hundredfold « ; {emphasis They will not,” be de- . Clared |. (Several Negro leaders, includ-* ' ing Walter White, secretary of the" _ National Association for the Ad-/ _ Vancement of Colored People, pre-:. . viously have repudiated Robescn’s *. _ atatement.) t. . Robeson addressed the rally aft-; : or attending the wedding of his’ ‘gon, Paul Robeson, Jr., 21-year-old | electrical engineer, to Miss Mari-, ‘lyn Paule Greenberg, 21. } 3 Young Robeson, only child of the. baritone and his wife, met his, j bride at Cornell university, where: ‘he starred on the football and. track teams. ‘| They were married by a Pro- | ena clergyman in an apart- [ ment house. A crowd of several hundred persons gathered outaide, | .|and some in the crowd booed as the wedding party left the build- eo. * * ei ed a ta = ALL INFOPMATION CONTAINED . RoiN i 4 7 Sides ~— HEREIN Sec FR pst Vet ppp ep Se — (24 e-fP3 of -/ 70 ENCLOSURE