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...almost mobbed in East Berlin by cheering Reds who mistook "Robinson" for Robeson...
Last week, on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. "The death of my boy," said his father, "distinctly makes a liar out of Paul Robeson and others who have said the Negro will not fight for our country. Those. . . who have felt that the Negro is a second-class citizen must know in their hearts that...
...Perhaps I am speaking out of turn", he said, "but what I object to is the essence of Academic Freedom." Peterson then spoke on the virtues of hearing all view-points--using Paul Robeson as his example. Boshkoff retorted that Robeson is "willing to come out into the open" unlike the secretive YP's and John Reed Club...
...years, the gold key of PBK has become a powerful symbol in U.S. education. Though most off-campus Americans pretend not to care much about it, most know what it is. Those who wear it can be as different as Franchot Tone and Senator Paul Douglas, as Paul Robeson and Senator Robert Taft, as Byron ("Whizzer") White and Helen Wills Moody. But they all have one thing in common: they got good marks in college...
...successive columns she became pro-fascist, a troublemaker and a Communist-guided provocateuse. Her supporters became "the Josephine Baker riot-inciters." Winchell reported darkly that "newspapermen are checking the tip that one of the complainants against the Stork Club (and her husband) helped incite and participated in the Paul Robeson-Peekskill riots." Then he reported that in 1935 Josephine had declared: "I am willing to recruit a Negro army to help Italy" in Mussolini's war on Ethiopia...