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Executives of the Communist-pumped World Committee of the Defenders of Peace met in London last week, but were unable to maintain peace within their own family. A row broke out between the two chief U.S. delegates, Party-Liner Paul Robeson and Manhattan Lawyer O. John Rogge, onetime (1943-46) special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, a non-Communist who has been an advocate of Red causes and until lately a darling of the world Communist press...
Rogge offered a resolution in behalf of Communist Dictator Tito of Yugoslavia; it would have readmitted the Yugoslav delegates, whom the Defenders of Peace kicked out last year. Robeson, leading the majority faction in behalf of Communist Dictator Stalin of Russia, succeeded in having Rogge's resolution pigeonholed and Rogge barred from making a speech...
Baritone Paul Robeson, great & good friend of the U.S.S.R., flew to London to speak at a rally on behalf of "peace." But he planned to be back in the U.S. by the end of the week for a concert date in Boston...
...following two days the party's left wing was-comparatively speaking-as sweet as pie. Paul Robeson busied himself with nothing more provocative than singing 01' Man River. Manhattan's leftist firebrand, Congressman Vito Marcantonio, emitted a few wild yips, but concentrated on a routine target-Harry Truman, whom he described as a "little alderman in a big house...
Huber placed Shapley's name with those of Paul Robeson, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, and other "well-known figures...