Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-14
potsdam Agreement

Paul RODeSOn, the singer ana
actor, and the National Committee
to Win the Peace, of which he Is
co-chairman, drew more than 5000
people to the Water Gate last night
to hear him and other speakers de-
mand that the United States and
Great Britain uphold the Potsdam
agreement by stamping out Ger
man Nazism and stopping the
spread of fascism elsewhere
The rally, together with a press
conference which Mr.. Robson held
yesterday afternoon at the Willard
Hotel, launched the committee S
drive to obtain 100000 signatures
to petition for presentation 10
President Truman July rs. first an
niversary of the Potsdam agree
ment.
The petition, Mr.. Robson ex-
planned, will try to alert the
American people to the danger that
current policies tend toward "iso-
lating' Russia and encouraging I'M
democratic movement which could
lead to third world war.
With Mr.. Robson on the Water
Gate program were Representative
De Lacy, Democrat, of Wash
ington; Vincent Price, stage and
screen actor; Sergt. Gerald Geller-
man of Brookline, Mass, an amputee
veteran at Walter Reed Hospital,
and the Rev. Stephen Friedman of
Boston, editor of the Christian
Register, who presided. DR.. Jose
Giral, prime minister of the Spanish
Republican Government in Exile,
telegraphed from New York that
consideration of the Spanish issue
before the United Nations organiza
ton prevented him from coming
here last night.
Presents Seven Songs.
Mr.. Robson sang seven songs,
several of which he said were select
ed for their social significance They
ranged from old English ballads to
Negro spirituals. a chant of protest
composed by a Polish rabbi, and a
popular unity" song which he gave
in Russian and English.
During the speech by Mr.. De
Lacy, four policemen elected a
spectator They released him after
questioning which disclosed, they
said. that the audience had mis-
taken his enthusiastic applause for
heckling.
Last nights rally was a develop
ment of the Win the Peace" con-
ference at which TOO delegates from
organizations in % States formed
the National Committee last April
to work for return to the Roose-
welt policy of Big Three unity"
The American people, Mr.. Robe
son asserted at the press confer
ence, should be more concerned with
what the United States and Britain
are doing to foster FaSciSm and de-
feat democratic aims thu ou2hou
the world than what Soviet Russia
is often accused of doing
Scouts War With Russia
The Rankins, the Biloos. the
Khan and the Constitution Hall
policy show vestiges of Fascism in
this country he declared.
He contended that war with Rus
STA is neither as inevitable nor logi :
cal as some of our prominent peo-
pie, including military officers, say
it is"
Although he made no airect refer
ence to President Truman in the
press conference or at the rally
Mr. Robson asserted that Secretary
of State Byrnes and Foreign Min
lister Bevin of Great Britain have
followed policies which tried to
isolate Russia and that is a step
toward war"
He singled out John Foster Dulles
Senator'S Vandenberg Of Michigan
and Taft of Ohio, and former Prime
Minister Churchill for attack be-
cause of what he called reactionary
principles and prejudices especially
toward Russia.
Mr.. De Lacy declared the United
States is embarked on a course
which the late President Roosevelt
and Wendell Willkie promised that
the war would abolish. He calico
on the American people to assure
real independence for the Philip
pines and to protest against Presi.
dent Roxas, the Jap collaborat ton.
ist who is a friend of Gen. Mac.
Arthur"
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