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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 27
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over the proposed legislation to sontrol tsubversive activitiess We
believe this legislation is not only entirely unnecessary pot would go
far to destroy the vital right to freedom of political expression in
America. *
Confidential Informant advised that the subject is a sponsor of the
Chicago Pease Conference to be held from June 29 to duly 1, 1951s
The informant atated that the significance of the eonferance can be |
understood only against the backdrop of the present world Communist bb
plan to the free netions and free peoples of the world by masking © FT>
apeasement of Communist agression aa “peace*,
Confidential Informant advised that the subject spoke at a meeting '
on September 25, 1951 which was sponsored by the committee of Families
of Saith Act Victims at the Riverside Plaza Hotel, New Tork Citys
The subject stated that she was proud to belong to the "Family fighting J
for freedom" and this fenily bad billions of people throughout the worlds 7
The September 26, 1951 issue of the "Daily Worker® contained an article
which reflected that the subject spake on September 26, 1951 at a :
meeting sponsored by the Committee of Families of Smith Act Victims
at the Hotel Riverside Plaza, New York Citys The subject lauded the
wives, children and rdlatives of the Snith Act Victime as part of a
world-wide "freedom famiiy®.
The rally was the opening shot in a steady campalen mapped by the
organization of Families of Smith Act Victims against midnight thought
eontrol arrests and in defense of political freedom guaranteed by the -
Bill of fights, according to the “Daily Worker".
The Novenber ¥, 1916 iasue of "The People's Voice® contained an article
by the subject which described her trip te Africa. The mbject stated
that the African is very conscious of the Soviet Union, especially
their eliminetion of recial barriers and their flent for eclosial
freedoms
“The People's Voice® has been cited by the California Comittee on
Un-American Activities, Report 1948, page 225, as "among publications
which the committee found to ba Communist initiated and controlled
or #0 strongly influenced as to be in the Stolin solar aysten".
The Way 15, 196 issue of the "Hartford Times” stated that the subject
addressed a "Peace and Security” rally on May 1k, 1916 which was held
at the Wew Haven Arena wider the sponsorship of the Independent Citizens
Committee of the Arts Sciences and Professionse
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