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Ww # . The "Washington Post" on 7old-49 carried an article on page & of section B, entitled: "Robeson Given Slap Aa NAACP Opens Session," According to the article Roy Wilkina, Acting Secretary of the NAACP, took an indirect alap at Negro singer, Paul Robeson, at the opening session of the Fortieth Annual Convention of the NAACP, held in Los Angeles, Calif. Wilkins was quoted as saying, "We do not cry out bitterly OS ee eee ee | ith that we love another land better than cur own, or another people better than ours." In addition to his own message to the convention, Wilkins read a message, fron President Truman. 61-317¢-A "Wash. Post," The "New York Tinea" on 7-14-49 carried an article by George Streator entitled "Negro Governor Defends Radicals, Association Hears Hastie Call Neutrality of Officials on Bias a Greater Menace." The article, which reported the speech of Governor Hastie of the Virgin Islands before the NAACP convention tn Los Angeles on 7-13-49, quoted renarks made by Roy Wilkins, Acting Secretary, at the association's opening session. Newspaper article enclosed b1C