Word: robeson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the State Department changed his plans. On the ground that he had misused his passport, DOS voided it (State took the same action against Paul Robeson a fortnight ago). Kent thought this was a dirty trick to play "on a man who was only working for peace," and added, "Anything that the Communists say about peace sounds good...
...world's highest-paid musicians, Paul Robeson had traveled far from the house in Princeton, NJ. where he was born the son of a runaway slave. But he wasn't satisfied with his progress in the U.S.; 16 years ago, he went all the way for Moscow, and decided that Negroes had a better chance of advancing under the Commies. For the last three years, in London, Moscow, Paris, Manhattan, he had faithfully slandered the Atlantic pact, the Marshall Plan, the U.S. defense of Korea-shouting, all the while, for Soviet-style "peace...
Last week the State Department, to block his appearance at Red "peace" riots abroad, voided his passport. Robeson would have to stay put a while in the land that has seemed to him, at various times, fascist, imperialistic, bourgeois and warmongering. To the State Department, Robeson's statements did not seem in the best interests of the U.S., or representative of the U.S. people. A sample: "It is unthinkable that [American Negroes] would go to war on behalf of those who have oppressed us for generations," against a country (U.S.S.R.) "which in one generation has raised our people...
Ring sat on the platform as Paul Robeson denounced the U.S.'s "wicked and shameful policy" and Gus Hall, national secretary of the Communist Party, accused the U.S. of making "undeclared shooting war against all the peoples of Asia." To the 9,000 "peace partisans," Ring cried: "For a mere screenwriter to be imprisoned for his beliefs elevates him ... to a fraternity which includes Socrates ... St. Paul . . . John Donne . . . Thomas Paine...
Afterwards, the pair met the press. Said Baritone Robeson: "Yugoslavia has tied itself firmly to the capitalist camp which, at the behest of the Du Fonts and Wall Street, is preparing for a new war." He accused Rogge of being a paid agent of Tito...