Show Were y the Communists And Showed Up U.S. Delegation the This is the second of two articles by Kathryn a University of Utah graduate of 1947 and delegate to the World Youth from the Utah Association for the United By KATHRYN THORNLEY The question that is continually put to me when I begin to talk the World Youth festival at Prague this summer is the Festival I guess this question can mean two If the question means the World Federation of Democratic which is the sponsor of the communist Here are the The World Federation of Democratic Youth was founded at the World Youth congress in London in 1945 by youth delegates from almost as many organizations and 60 representing more than democratic youth of all shades of political and social The and officers of the federation were democratically voted in at this During the past two years it has become an even more rep- 65 coun members in It by the M and Social salesmen They excellent are conducted competition for months in Russia before the ad the finest students artists in Russia to send to the festival as These students won three first places out of the four competitions of the and in the field of piano won all three sharing third place with Since the festival was a cultural exchange the Russians were enthusiastic and cooperative They showed us that cultural education in Russia is highly When I talked to an old Russian violinist after his performance of a violin concerto he explained to me how in Russia they pay their students to attend the Moscow conservatory instead of the having students pay the of all of showed its results in the The Russians played an excellent exhibit iH since they arrived first at til their exhibit was fi place winner America Their exhibition was ar wel very and uc The Russians had the If there ever was right a ti and place to show good saS manship this was the hi the American deli gation was stymied by its Stab which refused send an exhibit or help the gation compose one UNESCO sent one of it's or contribute money toward sending any sort of cultura It even turned thumb down on giving us priority a ship until the last on But in spite of this absolute lack of forsight and intelligence on the part of the State department the American delegation constructed an formed a musical and entered two students from Julliard in musical The exhibit wasn't a professional but it was The musical drama of People was conceived and rehearsed on shipboard to but it was very We are sure these were a positive from America toward friendship of world The American delegation felt that the State department missed an important opportunity to demonstrate to the youth of the world its cooperative interest and desire for peace by failing to finance and send an exhibition to the The governments of 35 of the world's major nations sent official exhibitions to the I hope we have I feel that America must get busy and sell itself as Russia is It shouldn't be hard to sell something we believe in once we see that our customers need a sales The American delegation felt that the festival was a tremendous It clearly demonstrated the strength of the federation and the respect the youth of the world have for this It successfully exhibited the cultural abilities of youth and the great potentialities of culture as a force for The American delegation on returning to the United States therefore strongly urged all American you of the U of to read and weigh these We think that the world Federation of Democratic Youth is the greatest force for peace among the youth of the world and therefore urge the youth of the United States to consider affiliation through their We feel that American youth in order to attain the maximum democracy from American must enter the main-stream of international and national unity of To accomplish this we feel that American youth must learn to work together with all youth of different political and national and racial backgrounds for the unity of all American youth in the cause of |