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Council” showed how
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The picturesque city of Kampala, capital of Uganda, is built on
the summits of seven mountains. After a long period of suffering

under colonial oppression,
a new life for its people.

Uganda is now independent and building

Britain's biggest union
hits Wilson on Vietnam

LONDON

The Transport and Genera
Workers’ Union has added its
powerful voice to the demand
that the Labor government
should dissociate itself from
American policy on Vietnam and
call for the removal of all for-

eign troops.

The Vietnam resolution was
carried by an overwhelming ma-
jority of the 800 delegates at the

conference of the  1,480,000-

strong union.

It makes it certain that Prime
Minister Harold Wilson will find
it tough going to defend his po-
sition of “all the way with
L.B.J.” at the Trades Union Con-
gress and Labor Party confer-
ences in the autumn.

Delegates insisted that the
American bombings had to stop
before peace talks could start.

Belafonte blasts

Johnson

By WILLIAM ALLAN
DETROIT

Harry Belafonte, noted Negro
entertainer told several hundred
Detroiters that President John-
son lied to the American people
in the recent election against
Goldwater when he promised to

care about poverty and peace. ”

Belafonte spoke at a fund rais-
ing party for the Detrait Com-
mittee to End the War in Viet-
nam.

“Johnson seemed to care about
poverty and peace, he got on
TV and said we shall overcome
and I felt good until I saw what
he wanted to overcome — in
Vietnam, as in the Congo, and
later in the Dominican Repub-
lic,” said Belafonte.

“We seem to have a grand de-
sign for being in all the wrong
places at the wrong time. John-
son is a sick man, I don’t need
him to wipe my nose. He lied,
however, about what he would
do.

“Patriotism has now a whole
different meaning to me than I
was taught on the battlefields in
World War II. I don’t under-
stand flags anymore,” he said.

Belafonte related how on a
trip to Japan he got to know
Japanese youth and discovered
they were passionately opposed

policies

HARRY BELAFONTE

to American military policies.
He said he visited Hiroshima
and saw bodies still writhing in

pain 20 years after.

He compared the international
scene to the degradation, dis-
franchisement and segregation of

Negro Americans.

Last month a reception

WwW
aoe in San Francisco in
butes Of. Paul Robeson. Tri-
to Robeson’s career as
ortist and leader were
oe, by William Bradely,
rae Albrier, Dr. Carlton
The pelt and Alvah Bessie.
oh ea Tribune is pri-
tribup 0 publish Bessie’s
€ in its entiretys

a pee be difficult to ima-
than eect birthday present
iS a One you have given
Sayin ay: the privilege of

8 a few words about a

Na

With oe has honpred me

the ¢ '8 friendship for 41 of
years of my life.

Rive,

ee first saw—and met—
the — when he was playing
Nes role in Eugene
Dlay fe then controversial
Wings Mt God’s Chillun Got
in 1994 in Greenwich Village

signe 14 years later, as a
hearg at the front in Spain, I
“has . aul sing again; for he
Very way of turning up at
Wher, Point in the world
Bress &reat events are in pro-
bein 8nd his fellow human
8S are being tested.

moe, Such in the fantastic
in 194s, of this man that —
in in = when I called on
rincet a dressing room at
he ,.,0% University, where
tion . 9pened a trial produc-
Wite Othello, he asked me

fang; tously—he asked me

ee hever got over the

question) whether I thought
he was good enough in the
role to take it on the road!

If I may be immodest for
another moment, I would like
to read two items from my
personal dossier, which help-
ed to send me to prison in
1950, and which may be found
in the records of the House
Un-American Committee. I

quote:
“The Joint Anti-Fascist Re-
fugee Committee, together

with the Council on African
Affairs, held a dinner at the
Ambassador hotel, Los An-
geles, California, Feb. 4, 1945.
Alvah Bessie attended this
meeting and introduced the
featured speaker of the even-

”

ing, Paul Robeson . . -

“On Dec. 16, 1945, a ‘wel-.

come home, Joe’ dinner was
given as a ‘tribute to Ame-
rica’s young fighting men
and women on the occasion
of the second anniversary of
American Youth for Demo-
cracy -. Alvah Bessie’s
name appeared on the pro-
gram with the names of John
Howard Lawson and Paul
Robeson...”

It was on that occasion
that another great man, whose
name seems to have been
overlooked by the witch-
hunters, turned to me after
Paul spoke and said, “I wish
I could make a speech like
Paul’s.” I. said, “you will,
General, you will.” “Not as
long as I wear this uniform,
said the late General Evans

Calson_ of the United States
Marines.

(So you see what sort of
company. this man keeps.)

In June of 1950 when the
Hollywood 10 held a meeting

in New York’s Town Hall,
Paul made an unannounced
appearance, saying, “I heard
there were some friends of
mine here, who were on their
way to prison, and I thought

SINT

PAUL ROBESON

e he is so BIG

‘They fear this man becaus

I would like to say a few
WOPGS=45.<7

It was on that occasion —
not knowing that Paul was
going to appear — that I told
a story to the audience, and
I would like to repeat it here.

I was telling the audience
how difficult it was to explain
to my six year old daughter
— who is now 21 years old
and is here tonight — why
her father was going to pri-
son.

She finally asked me, “Who
is on our side?” and I told
her — in terms of the people
she had known and met. I

~ told her Paul Robeson was on

our side and she smiled for
the first time in our conver-
sation and said, “Oh, the bad
people will be afraid of him.
He is so big!”

We have missed him for
too many years, but now he
is back with us. He has re-
turned precisely at the mo-
ment when his people — and
our people, the Negro people
— are leading the greatest re-
volution in our history since
the Civil War.

He had no small part in in-
spiring that revolution — by
his artistry, his courage, his
incorruptibility and the power
of his example.

Which may explain why
this man is loved by more
people on this earth than any
other living human being, and
why the bad people are still
afraid of him — he is so BIG!

July 23,

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