Paul Robeson, outstanding
world artist and beloved fighter
for peoples’ rights will sing for
the third successive year at the
Peace Arch this coming Sunday,
August 1, at 2:30 p.m. Thous-
ands are expected to flock to
the border to hear him.

The recent “get Robeson”
campaign in the U.S. (see story
on page 8) has failed dismally
and the great singer is appear-
ing before larger and larger
audiences. :

The movement to compel the
U.S. state department to restore
the passport of the world-re-
nowned concert perfomer has

attracted international  atten-
tion. Robeson had his passport
lifted by the United States auth-
orities following a successful
tour of Europe in 1950.

He reapplied for it this spring
so he could go abroad fo fill act-
ing and concert engagements in
Great Britain and Israel.

it has again been refused by
the»State department.

The annual border concert
started in 1952 when the U.S.
authorities invoked a seldom-
used law to prevent Robeson
from coming to Vancouver to
sing at the Canadian Convention
of the International Union of

Mine, Mill and Smelter Work-
ers.

He sang to the Canadian
audience over a_hastily-rigged
telephone line and later 30,000
people converged on Peace Arch
Park to hear him in person.

This year the Mine-Mill spons-
ors of the concert have issued
a special invitation to British
Empire Games competitors and
visitors ito attend this great
cultural event.

Transportation is being prov-
ided for those wishing to go to

.the border and buses will leave

from in front of the CNR station,
Main Street at noon August 1.

Robeson sings at Peace Arch on Sunday

A brilliant student and ath-
lete in his youth, Robeson plan-
ned a career in law. He drifted
into singing and acting almost
by accident.

He has had an outstanding
career, appearing in movies, on
the stage, in the concert hall
and becoming one of the world’s
best-loved artists.

Born the son of a minister
whose church had been a stop
on the Underground Railroad
bringing the slaves to freedom,
Robeson has always been a front
line fighter in the struggle of
his people for their rights.

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Eyes of the world are centred on Vancouver this week,
awaiting the official opening Friday of the British Empire and Com- |
montvealth Games, biggest sports event since the 1952 Olympics and
greatest athletic jamboree ever staged in Canada.

Half a million Greater Vancouver citizens, plus an estimated
100,000 visitors, have caught the “Games fever.’’

More than 700 top flight athletes from all corners of the
Commonwealth: will”surround the Tribune at Empire Stadium on
opening night and take the BEG oath:

“We declare that we will take part in the British Empire
and Commonwealth Games of 1954 in the spirit of true sportsman-
ship, recognizing the rules which govern them and desirous of par-
ticipating in them for the honor of our Commonweatlh and Empire
and for the glory of sport.”’ ;

And before the curtain rings down August 7, the chairman
of the BEG will call upon the youth of the Commonwealth to as
semble again in four years’ time to celebrate the sixth Games, and
declare: Aes

‘May they display cheerfulness and concord, so that the
spirit of our Family of Nations may be carried on with ever greater
eagerness, courage and honor for the good of humanity and the peace
of the world.”

The Pacific Tribune welcomes the Empire and Commoh-
weatlh athletes to Vancouver, extends best wishes for a successful
meet, and expresses the hope that the Games will prove a powerful |
weapon in the fight against racial discrimination, and act as a lever ay
in the struggle to end colonial oppression and halt the unjust wars |
against the people of Malaya and Kenya.

International sports gatherings such as the Olympics, British
Empire Games and European Games are becoming important factors ae
in the struggle for world peace. May the day soon arrive when all Pi.
countries of the world compete on sports fields rather than battle- ae |

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