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==World War II==
==World War II==
In 1939, during the Hitler-Stalin pact, Du Bois agitated against U.S. aid to the allies; the Roosevelt Justice Department indicted him under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, whereupon the NAACP promptly fired him. When Germany turned on Russia in June 1941, Du Bois reversed course, becoming fanatically pro-war.
In 1939, during the Hitler-Stalin pact, Du Bois agitated against U.S. aid to the allies; the Roosevelt Justice Department indicted him under the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act]], whereupon the NAACP promptly fired him. When Germany turned on Russia in June 1941, Du Bois reversed course, becoming fanatically pro-war.
In 1942 DuBois signed a statement of the Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party (and as the Venona transcripts later revealed the leader of a large Soviet espionage ring), who was then serving a four-year term for using false passports; President Franklin D. Roosevelt released Browder from most of his sentence as a gesture of goodwill to Stalin. DuBois also signed a letter protesting the arrest of Chilean poet and diplomat, Pablo Neruda, a Communist and Soviet agent who was briefly held on charges involving the conspiracy to assassinate Leon Trotsky.
In 1942 DuBois signed a statement of the Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party (and as the Venona transcripts later revealed the leader of a large Soviet espionage ring), who was then serving a four-year term for using false passports; President Franklin D. Roosevelt released Browder from most of his sentence as a gesture of goodwill to Stalin. DuBois also signed a letter protesting the arrest of Chilean poet and diplomat, Pablo Neruda, a Communist and Soviet agent who was briefly held on charges involving the conspiracy to assassinate Leon Trotsky.