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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past summer in their global attempt to create, and win, a new social class of "Youth." The World Youth Festival did not succeed in this, however, for as a propaganda instrument it was blunted by the independent efforts of Western student groups, and in particular by American participants working within the Festival. But the Soviet did not fail with all of the 20,000 "youth" who arrived in Vienna for 10 days of rallies, cultural events, slogans, and seminars...
...show that even the slogan omitted "Freedom," counter information and sentiments were pressed upon the delegates both within and outside of the Festival. Over Vienna small planes towed signs reading Remember Hungary and Remember Tibet, and the Austrians offered free rides to see the reality of the Hungarian border's barbed wire and watch-towers. With the cooperation of the Americans, students published a seven language newspaper to present accounts ignored in the Russian reports. All over Vienna bookstores displayed books impossible to obtain in satellite countries, and "Information Booths" sought to attract the wandering delegates. And there...
Inside the Festival it was a different picture. The only active non-Communist group to venture within was the American, and what they found was an atmosphere chiefly filled with confusion and credential checks...
...author and his wife were among the American participants within the Festival. A former CRIMSON President and Rhodes scholar, Thompson was active in the seminar program. fuls and another 70, young and vacousminded, faithful to the people who got them there...
...even when the seminar argumentation was not totally censored, the Communists did no better. It was in this area, and in the opportunity for personal contact, that the Americans working within the Festival achieved their best effects...