Editor: SAMUEL SILLEN • Associate Editors:

HERBERT APTHEKER, LLOYD L. BROWN, CHARLES HUMBOLDT

Masses &
832 BROADWAY

Mainstream
NEW YORK 3
Gramercy 3-5145

April 7th, 1948

Mr. Langston Hughes
Hotel Clark
Washington & Central Avenues
Los Angeles, California

Dear Mr. Hughes:

Masses & Mainstream is sponsoring a mass
meeting protesting the war drive to be
held in New York on Thursday, June 3rd.
Among the participants will be Max Weber,
Shirley Graham, Howard Fast, William
Gropper, Paul Robeson.

Would you find it possible - please - to
make an appearance and speak briefly -
five or six minutes - at this time?
Should you be unable to do this may we
have the honor of including you amongst
the sponsors of this demonstration?

HA:ML
ang-cio

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