Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great majority of the some 350 Americans at the Festival were non-Communist. Of these about 150 participated directly through the contacts and encouragement of of the Independent Service (see Box); the remainder included 30 prematurely professional Communist party faith...
World Youth Festival: An allegedly representative meeting held every two years since 1947, this summer for the first time outside the Soviet controlled countries. Financed by the U.S.S.R., it was managed by Communist front organizations--the World Federation of Democratic Youth, and the International Union of Students. Some 20,000 "youth," officially including many over 30 years old, attended from over 100 nations...
...Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival: A small group of Americans, centerer in Cambridge, who publicized the Communist nature of the Festival and prepared informative pamphlets for use there. The Service was responsible for encouraging the attendance inside the Festival of some 150 non-Communist Americans, and coordinated much of the press and student activity inside the Festival. Financed by the private contributions of prominent citizens, the Service has the support of national leaders such as Senator Humphrey. Gloria Steinam and Leonard Bebchick were co-chairmen, and Paul E. Sigmund of the Harvard Government Department, and Senior...
...York-Chicago Split": Non-Communist Americans signed up with both of the U.S. Festival groups, and the publicized "split" became an easy way of simplifying a number of facts: that party faithfuls like Paul Robeson, Jr., were New Yorkers who were cooperating with the Festival organizers, and that it was a large number of the Chicago group whose right to attend was challenged on fabricated technical grounds...
...violence that the Communist organizers made their gravest publicity error. You may recall, for instance, the American girl who was struck by a Communist guard when she was trying to add Department of Agricultural reports to the "people's literature" at an agricultural meeting...