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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard delegates who was present at the Festival was Robert L. Warshaw '46 1L. Warshaw had first heard about the Festival last spring when he had applied for a job as an NSA discussion leader aboard the S. S. VOLENDAM. He had put in a year of graduate work in the Social Relations Dept., had been a part-time research assistant at the Russian Research center, and was interested in Eastern European problems. "I joined the delegation to see what was going on," says Warshaw...
...group program was slightly different. The delegates staged folk-songs, dances, and some original choral work in a pageant that represented the history of America. Their offering was popular; the delegates noted before they left that people were humming folk-songs from the show all over Budapest. "To help explain the thing," says one of the returning delegates, "we got up a program...
Next, the notes said, "A girl arose, and with deep emotion, spoke slowly, forthrightly, and earnestly. 'I work in a trade union. We try to keep people together. There are over 200 of us and we can't stand for any wishy-washy business. People are either for or against. We get rid of those who are against. Here there are a small group of vicious people trying to disrupt our delegation. There is another small group that is native. We came here for peace. Let's make decisions. There are too many disruptive points. Let's prevent it from...
...create dissension. The Steering Committee finally moved that 'We condemn this action as a criminal act. We regard it as part of a plot, and if we discover the perpetrator we shall expel him. This is but another crude attempt to disrupt the unity of this delegation and out work for peace, but we shall not be disrupted. We shall go on in militant solidarity." The motion was approved...
According to the speaker, the girl had admitted "that her purpose in coming to the festival had not been to work for peace but to see 'what Hungary was like,' and to study art." In view of this incident, the Steering Committee asked the power to investigate similar people whose purposes were "disruptive" in closed hearings, and to recommend their expulsion...