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...Died. Eslanda Goode Robeson, 69, wife and biographer of Baritone Paul Robeson, Negro (1930), a fellow traveler who joined Robeson on his trips to Communist countries in the '30s and '40s and then into self-exile in Britain in 1958, during which Paul became ill and reportedly disillusioned with Communism, though she stiffly maintained, on their return to the U.S. for good in 1963, that "he still thinks Communism is terrific and he always will"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...after five years of self-imposed exile over his Communist sympathies. Paul Robeson, 74, has not sung publicly in almost two years, has been living in a London nursing home, except for the last four months, when he was taken to East Berlin for what his far-leftist wife, Eslanda, described as "a medical examination." Now "he is to all intents and purposes retired," says Eslanda, who does practically all the talking. "He does not wish to see anyone or give any interviews. Nor does he wish to be photographed, because he has lost a lot of weight...
...Communism. One thing was sure: Actor-Singer Paul Robeson, 65, had disappeared into East Germany for what was called "a medical examination and a stay in a rest home." Mysteriously ill for the past two years, he has been protected from the press by his permanently left-leaning wife Eslanda, who even fended off a persistent reporter who flew with them to Germany by threatening him with judo. Finally, from East Germany came a statement attributed to Robeson calling talk of recantation "completely absurd. The fact is that I have gratefully accepted the heartfelt invitation of the German Peace Council...
Lovable Pygmies. In Uganda, Eslanda began to learn about "custom and tradition"-the native monarch arranged a "typical English garden-party" in her honor. One of his tribes trekked 70 miles to dance for her. Surprised native herds-women agreed to teach Eslanda the dairy business ("they think it is a bit silly for me to learn all about [it], when I have no cattle and no hopes of getting...
...Eslanda saw everything, from the local jail, which was "clean, pleasant and sanitary," to "lovable pygmies." At last a 120-year-old native, "her eyes glazed with a film of age," insisted that "my hair, eyes, nose, and 'especially my spirit' were pure African." But while Eslanda was trying to become primitive, all the natives she met were hoping to become civilized. They feared that it would take "1,000 years." Eslanda, getting in a bit of a plug for ideology, told them that the Soviet Union had civilized its primitives in a mere ten or 20 years...