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...otherwise laudable editorial your reference to Paul Robeson as a "traitor to the good name of the American Negro" was unfortunate. After all, the word "traitor" is a pretty strong one to apply to an individual who holds views that are unpopular. If Robeson and his co-fellow travelers of Communist double-think are ever judicially determined to be traitors, then they will be such not to any ethnic or religious group, but to their country. Why, it is as silly to refer to Paul Robeson as a "traitor to the good name of the American Negro" as it would...
...time has not yet worn off. After the Law School's Record, Legal Aid Society and Forum cased controversial students and speakers off their rosters and programs, the U.N. Council now announces that it has relinquished its rights to show The Emperor Jones because, starring as it does Paul Robeson, it is "too controversial." This University has never, like some, banned a film. But it does not even have to consider the problem these days. Student exhibitors are banning them themselves...
...NAACP group had refused the film, they could expect sympathies, since Robeson has proved himself a traitor to the good name of the American Negro. But the U.N. Council presents a particularly lame reason for chickening out of the Emperor. Its exhibition will make them a "partisan" organization, they say, and thus restrict their ability to get UN diplomats as speakers. Disregarding the patent observation that the film's content is as controversial as a baby chick, this argument assumes an incredibly naive view of the UN itself. There are, in fact, few institutions more controversial than the UN. Patriotic...
...Friday, the Advocate said it was entering the film business and would show "Emperor Jones," starring Paul Robeson. J. C. Peter Richardson '56, film director of both the UN Council and the Advocate, said that the Advocate was badly in need of funds. "Emperor Jones," because of its controversial nature, "has an excellent chance for financial success," Richardson said...
...London School of Economics, Kenyatta studied anthropology and fell among Marxist intellectuals. He made several trips to Moscow. In 1934 he shared an apartment with Paul Robeson while the American Communist was making Sanders of the River. He married an English schoolteacher, Edna Grace Clarke, and had a son named Peter, but abandoned both when he returned to Kenya in 1946. By then he was a powerful man among the million-strong Kikuyu. He formed the Kenya African Union and established schools in which the teaching was based on old Kikuyu tribal lore and customs, including black magic...