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WY 100-25857 . leaders. at Foley Square ; whom we can free and must free." 7. that : ROBESON'S speech had dealt mainly with the trial of the twelve Camunist leaders and that ROBESON had emphasized the need for everyone to fight for the freeing of these laaders. Serve noe - & . The Ne Ip re "Daily Mirror", issue of July 14, 1949, reported’ that Rabbi BENJAMINYSCHULTZ of New York, Executive Director of the American league Against Communit am, had testified before the House Committee on Un-american 4ctivities in Washington, D. C., on July 13th. Rabbi SCHULTZ, in his testimony, had stated that PAUL ROBESON "was taking part in a deliber- ate Communist conspiracy to inflame racial and religious minorities here in the United States." Rabbi SCHULTZ also had stated that the object of | this was "to throw this land into Confusion, paving the way for Stalinist _ oe “revolution and conquest." a . ; . a The "New York Post and Home News", issue of July Wh, 19L9, reported than MANNING JOHNSON had testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington, D. C., on the above date. JOHNSON, an admitted former member of the Comnunist Party National Committee, had testified that PAUL ROBESON "had been a member of the Communist Party for many years." JOHNSON stated that ROBESON "has illusions of grandeur and that ROBESON is desirous of becoming the black STALIN and the Communist Party is encourag- ing that." The article further reflected that JGHNSON had stated that he had been a member of the Communist Party up to 190 and that "during my years of Communist membership I frequently met PAUL ROBESON in Party Head- quarters, going to or coming from meetingswith top Commupist leaders." JFCHNSON advised that: these Communist Partw leaders wi whom RORESON shad associated were EARDLEROWDER, WILLIAM ZxfRQSTER, J@KPATACHEL a JOHNSON stated that ‘ROBESON'S Party membersMip has béan kept secret! trom rank and file Communists. ta oo! fhe "Daily Worker", issue of July 18, 1949, reported that at the Bill of Rights Conference held at the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York City on July 17, PAUL ROBESON had told the delegates that a Non-Partisan Com- mittee to Defend the Rights of the Twelve Communist Leaders was in the ~ process of formation. ROBESON is reported as having stated that the case - of the Communist leaders "was the key. to the entire struggle ! for civil See “ vights in America.*® The "New York Post and Hone ews", issue of July 18, sis, re- ‘ur ee | ~ oiLsp HOATIT DeOnDPer Tomer Td ae ori Russia t= = = mm 4nd ported that "PAUL ROBESON, whose S0VELLY VO VOVIGt nuSSIa 15 puLea,