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x % Office Meme, andum a® UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT eases Mee Inch park -_w = DAIS: FIV Dy 27 TV neat SAC, Los Angeles Cs ." SUBJECT: PAULSR OBESON SECURITY MATTER - C On the night 6, 1950, Special — ig and < aa 200 the services of CNDI D-63 C or ep ose of recording 4@ meeting sponsored at the Embassy .- ‘Auditorium, Los Angeles, by the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order of the IWO. The announcement in the "Daily Peoples World" for May 5, 1950, reported that the occasion would be the Twentieth Anniversary celebration of the JFFO, featuring PAUL ROBESON in a ad Dall ogran VL OWRD « a*@Y SLY BHM OAUE Fhe AD FO Paha OAC & talk apart from the entertainment. The chairman of the evening was listed as SADIE} DOROSHKIN, Los Angeles Executive Secretary of the JPFO and the principal C speaker &s RUBEN/SALTZMAN, General Secretary of the JPFO and y~—~ e Loy Ts) au i MvWiLA GW “ National Vice sident of the IWO, The detailed information concerning this meeting will be - set forth in separate reports emanating from this office. The Bureau, however, is being furnished at this time with a verbatim transcript of the comments made by PAUL ROBESON, being made at the conclusion of the musical portion of ROBESON's appearance. His off-hand comments are as follows: "I just want to say before I go that I was happy when I came in, and it's wonderful to know and to experience this kind of spirit and courage in Los Angeles. I've been going across the country----- as you know, we hear a lot of nonsense, about fear et cetera, but I've seen the people from below, among the Negro people, among the Jewish people, among the foreign born, among the workers who are saying that we are going to have peace in our time, we're gonna have a decent world for our children whoever they may be, whether they he black or white, I've seen those kind of people and they aren't frightened, they aren't step- ping back any more than you are stepping back here tonight, and I wanta thank you for this feeling of courage that you give to me, and I am sure to those others who come into your midst. It's nice to know, going about this America, fighting as the song said, for our kind of America, not a reactionary America but@m America of the people - that kind of &@n America that I said before that I — love to the depth of my being, but the other nh OY he 1e5o 18s -_12.4 CMW. OEE, wibesudeol ee Air Mail , tn ty tage 7 Reet CLACSTF 00-25661_ EX-125 4 ip Pde: mars Vetqyep (RES ASEE ~ Od 00430398 —s ean coping sewer af wY