WILLIAMS MOVES TO CHINA
According to a July 20 UPI dispatch from Moscow, Robert Williams has decided to change his place of residence from Cuba to China. He stopped off in Moscow July 1 together with his wife en route to their new home.
He told the press that while he remained an American citizen, he would not return to the United States until he has been declared not guilty of the "kidnapping" charge filed against him in Monroe, | North Carolina,in 1961.
The victim of a frame-up in the small town, Williams was the target of a nationwide FBI hunt. The publicity issued by the FBI gave every reason, to fear that he would be shot on sight.
His real "crime" was to advocate black self-defense and to organize it on a local scale. In connection with a series of civilrights cases centering in Monroe, Williams became nationally known. His ardent defense of the Cuban Revolution also made him a hated figure to the American authorities.
Williams managed to escape the FBI dragnet and went into exile in Cuba as a political refugee, arriving there in October 1961.
.dIn Havana, besides continuing to publish his newspaper The Crusader , he conducted a radio. program beamed.to.the U.S. and oe , directed:-to black Americans..He wrote a book Negroes with Guns. which met with a favorable reception in the civil-rights and mevolubionary movements.
‘Robert. Williams has visited China. previously. He was warmly _, received. there as a representative of the most oppressed. sector, Seutes pied of the. American working class. a ee oe
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