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#0 cordially that I shall never forget it. They not only greeted me as the singer PAUL ROBFSON, but also as your and the colored __. people's spokesman fros AWFRICA and representative of a eirels characterising the AMFRICA OF WALLACE and the PROGRESSIVE PARTY, ~ ac well as of the 12 leaders of the COWMUNIST PARTY OF ANPRICAs ' Cutstanding statesmen of these countries received me with the 7 greatest respect because I was your delegate. aed . ae | vinited STALINORAD also. I atood at the historical - . ero place, where the heroic people of STALINGRAD fought at the a od michty VOLCA go that also you, you and nyself, be saved froe ome] FUTLERt All people in the USSR desire peace and a bappy life, t 4 Freedom is theirs already. I deeply love the SOVIET UNION. 74 | The people of the SOVIET UNTON, of the countries with = a4 @ People's Denocracy in CENTRAL EUROPE, of the progressive eet representations of West-Furopean countries and colored people pont wot as --- whom I met dn PRAGUE and MO°COE, were in the majority COMMUNISTS. ~ Co The COVIUNISTS were the first to offer their lives for oar. : liberty and the freedom of all mankind.® Te aman ta AE ee Hatt ae, ee Sa < on = in conciuding PAUL ROBISON appealed to the American a colored people to unite in the struggle for their liberty. Be stated: "If you unite you will get laws against lynching adopted and your right to vote and work. You will gain no if we face a new war with our closest allies and friends in the . whole world. We no longer want to die on foreign battlefields - in the interest of imperialists and warmongers. We wish to aid in the otrugsle ! for peace, for 1iver ty and freedan of the colored people.* - "The ‘Fegro-leader ROWARD and the leader of the COMMMIST . PARTY OF AWFRICA DAVIS heartily welcomed ROBESON and stated that . the colored people will never support a capitalistic war. - =, - ale. Foe ee i cree omy OS