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Although the Browder affair left its scars on the University, a new, clearer policy toward speakers was evolving. By 1948, the invitation of Gerhart Eisler by the Harvard Young Democrats could pass almost without notice. The Democrat Club, unable to get Paul Robeson who was out campaigning for Henry Wallace, sponsored Eisler's speech here on the evening of April 26. Two students, dressed as Cossacks, interrupted Eisler's speech and strode down to the front of the auditorium. Both were ejected, as the crowd, encouraged by the performance, jeered Eisler and created general disorder...
...outstanding services in the struggle against warmongers and for the strengthening of peace." Baritone Paul Robeson received the International Stalin Peace Prize for 1952 (complete with diploma showing a picture of Joe Stalin) in ceremonies in Manhattan. The award, good for $25,000 in cash, would have been tendered in Moscow if the State Department had let Robeson make the journey. The substitute presentation of what Communist Author Howard Fast called "the highest award which the human race can bestow upon one of its members" was described by the Daily Worker: ". . . There was a hush as the medal, with Stalin...
...charged, was laced with Communists; 2) been a member of the Portland, Ore. Urban League, and sponsor of an "intercultural program" of Negroes and whites while assistant superintendent of schools in Portland; 3) introduced in 1953 a banquet speaker who in 1945 had allegedly sponsored a dinner for Paul Robeson. Rogge claimed to represent hundreds of "taxpayers, school patrons and citizens," but refused te say who they were. Though the slur upon the non-Communist Urban League was obviously absurd, the board thought Rogge's charges required investigation, hired a firm of former...
...Colorado visiting friends, Baritone Paul Robeson, great and good friend of the U.S.S.R., intoned an off-key lament. His appearances were getting harder and harder to arrange in the crass concert halls of Capitalism. "I think I find more difficulty here in Denver than anywhere," wailed the burly (6 ft. 5 in., 265 Ibs.) singer. "And that's no credit to Denver, since I still remain one of the greatest singers and actors in the world...
...about time we stopped thinking about the Bunches and the Robesons as credits or discredits to their race. If they are anything, they are credits or discredits to themselves and their country. It is the frustration of being thought of in purely racial terms that leads men like Robeson to reject the ethics of democracy for the false promises of communism. The individual Negro wants nothing more than to be accepted as an American with the same freedom from race labeling that all other Americans enjoy. Walter Carrington...