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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 23
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bre (Sineton — Direct}
“i 1GeE1752 Cie 5/0/45)
wrile the Nations] Gu rd wos present with full Crficer Complement and hed refusec
te act ertinsy ie Lynch mob on the provnio Unel thay pec orders mt toaet unicee
@ requcst wes mede by the Cloriff, The Gncrifi id ucthing te prowert te Ayneh ig
and po the schesl building and the hyun body were burne:! to the crount end ORIRY
rit & hed the pretlex of overconin: the sinttere? and abendoned hopes of hig
ecthor wit, undersiendin: thet BY 8. CUMS ae Likeriee uno leoeé, felt thet
dn the secre: for exploywent it wuld be mooeassry for he, IAUILA, te go into
hostile gommumities knowing thct tension: wise being fines Bs WT voas elermnis
in the community, FIRGSUE gedd ‘he helped to quirt the fears of hie nother and
favtly by tryin: to “cha some form of po-fiive action to prove th.t necrove and
whites in the ity of Lena:.s City, Kissouri, could unite on the basis o° an
intellivent pro rat ef denoeretic action throwh buaniterien people sho wre
interested in decency am Juriice.
(TR. 24.696) SACEO asked GTeSTON were he hed Joined the Youn: Comunizt -
Lacreee TUK 0. answered that he hed Joined the Letrve in Jenuzry, 1°51, at
Kanores City emt bid joined the Comsuial Ferty durtcs the Icve sunser ef the enne
“ yoor, BIT TN gsi2 thet he hed ecniinued to recite in Fensaez City efter Joining
the Young -ostumist Ler sve wntil about the end of hovenber or berinnin: of
Lecemter of 103° ard durin his residence in Yeners City he ssid he bed encared -
in the setivities of tw Younc Garmuntst terpue. S10. 8 then aaked SINtick to
deacrite briefly wat activities he envared in in the Young Communist Leveie in - -
hengig City guriig the perio’ of his wecsisener theres
Cpe Uayg607} Weck a objestils. Shc Court guriwdred gs esdr ft eculd
remit a deseription of any efficisl poritions hel¢c by the witness tit ~-> ~~
did not went @ generul st tecent of whet hy dia in tha Youn, Cowudst
Let rue becausg it felt thst world come within the line of rulin’s me ce
by the Court a month or tuo earlier, _
es . -o«
i.
OXTESTOR cae anked by S422°2 whether he hed Joined ‘the Yous Coreuntst Lecpue
with the intent to overthrow the Goverment of the United Stctes by forec and
violence, WIEST answered in the necrative and wan then eskod to atate rtere he
bid pone after leeving tansae City. The witnesa answered t at he bed been @
sclecrte on the natiem1 hancer march te Anetincton fn thet yeer which wee in
Leceiver, 193<- He said he stayed in fashincton possitly a week after wich he
ted cone to Mew Yorke AACHEN saaked the witness wiusbh hed been the first ‘niet he
hed done when be had | eone to Kew Torte . :
afar t being assured by Et oh “tet i$ yl ensured y one aententes :
The witness acid tht epon arrivin: in lew York ha hag visited the offices of
the Younc Gommuriat leccupe ShcA then asked hin whcvher he hid entered the eehsol
of the Canucniat Lerrue after thet vieit and AIPSTCL euswered in the effin tive
writing tht he hee studied euijects in pelitical econoy, histery of the labor
movencnt ==
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