Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-20
Robson Tells Rally
OF Love for Soviet.
After Sons Wedding
by the Assoeiofsd Press


home rally shortly after seeing his
son married to a white girl, de-
clared last night he loves the
"Soviet people more than any
other nation"
The Negro singer told a Harlem
audience of $500 persons that he
loves the Russians because Of
their suffering and sacrifices for
us, the Negro people. the pro-
gressive people. the people of the
future of the world"
Robson. Just returned from a
tour of the Soviet Union and sew
eral countries of Europe, said he
would defy any part Of an in
solent, dominating America to
challenge my Americanism."
Group Listed as Subversive.
The Harlem rally was sponsored
by the Council of African Affairs,
a group listed by Attorney General
Clark as subversive.
The baritone said he had ex-
perienced discrimination as a
youth, and declared:
II never accepted an inferior
role because of my race or color,
and by God I never will"
Robson told the crowd that in
Paris he had said, "It was I'M
thinkable the Negro people of
America or anywhere else In the
world could be drawn into war
with the Soviet Union.1
II repeat it with hundredfold
emphasis. They will not" he de-
clared.
(Several Negro leaders, in
GLIDING Walter White. secre-
tary of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of
Colored People, previously have
repudiated the Robson state
ment.)
Robson addressed the rally
after attending the wedding of
his son, Paul Robson, IT,, Al
year-old electrical engineer, to
Miss Marilyn Paula Green
berg, 81.
Met at Cornell.
Young Robson, only child of
the baritone and his wife, met
his bride at Cornell University,
where he was a member Of the
football and track teams.
They were married by the Rev.
John Whittier Dair, jr., a Con-
gregationalist clergyman. In an
apartment house. A crowd Of
several hundred persons gathered
outside, and some in the crowd
booed as the wedding party left
the building.
The elder Robson. who once
was an All-America end on the
Rutgers University football team,
told newsmen this marriage
would not have caused any excite
ment in the Soviet Union"
The singer, who became angry
ut news photographers, told q
group Of them:
II have the greatest contempt
for the democratic press. and
there Is something within, me
which keeps me from breaking
your cameras over your heads"
Brides Mother Attends.
His wife previously had said
that their son and his bride had
been ''in love for years" and that
her new daughter-in-law Is "a
darling"
The brides mother. Mrs. Rae
Greenberg, Of Forest Hills,
Queens, attended the wedding.
The brides father, Jack r.
Greenberg, did not attend. The
elder Robson was best man for
his son.
The bride, who majored in
psychology at Cornell. has been
active in the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People and the American Youth
for Democracy. The later or
ganization is listed by the At
torney General as subverSive.
At the HARLEM rally, the singer
delivered an attack on discrimina-
ton.
Noting that he was born and
bred In this America Of ours" bel
declared:
IT want to love it. I love al
part Of it. But it's up to the rest
Of America when I shall love it
with the same intensity that II
love the Negro people from
whom I spring-in the way that
I love progressives in the Car
ribean, the black and Indian
peoples of South and Central
America, the peoples Of China
and Southeast area-yes, suffer-
ing people the world over-in the
way that I deeply and intensely
love the Soviet people. That
burden of proof rests upon Amer
ica."
Refers to Bad Trial.
Referring to the current Federal
Court trial here of II top Com
munist leaders on charges Of con-
spiracy to advocate violent
overthrow of the Government,
Robson said:
eff the 4" Communists are not
freed, all Americans can say
goodbye to civil liberties. Espe-
cially the Negro people can say
goodbye to any attempt to secure
civil liberties"
Benjamin Davis, jr., Negro New
York City councilman and a de-
PENDANT at the Communist con-
spiracy trial, told the rally he
brought greetings from all the
defendants.
Robson said the Associated
Press reported inaccurately the
reaction of the audience to O con-
cert appearance he made IN
Stockholm.
He said the dispatch reported