Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe no other American institution evokes half Harvard's response in informed youth circles. Beyond looking ahead to an expansion of the seminar scheme designed to bring a slimpse of the U. S. intellectual heritage to Continentals the Council new entertains plans ("in the conversation stage") for taking on the equipping of a divastated German University...
...another shipload of Jewish refugees; one Jew was shot to death and nine were wounded in a scuffle with the boarding party. In Palestine, Haganah stepped up recruiting. Five Zionist leaders, including Jewish Agency President David Ben-Gurion, received messages signed by "the commander in chief of fighting Arab youth for free Palestine." The messages promised: "You will die as soon as possible...
Members of the Progressive Citizens of America, the Harvard Youth for Democracy, Students for Democratic Action, the Harvard Liberal Union, and the Radcliffe League for Democracy, who attended a reception in honor of Robert Kenney, National Co-Chairman of PCA, agreed that "there is no need for another political organization but there is used for work on behalf of the liberal movement...
...discrimination in the shape of quota systems and Jim Crow facilities. What would ordinarily have amounted to a simple conflict of attitude between white delegates became complicated by the easily exploitable character of the entire affair for such agitation groups as Young Progressive Citizens of America and American Youth for Democracy. Negro delegates found themselves the focus of solicitous attentions. They were urged not to "back down." Only the counter-efforts of interested liberals from both North and South finally gained Negro support for give-and-take...
Unmentored by adult-level leadership in U.S. education, the founding delegates of the new National Student Association have won a notable first success: UNESCO has awarded NSA a seat on its American commission to speak officially for this country's widely-dispersed millions of youth. Such authoritative recognition for the fledgling body has come only because of the imposing conduct of the young men and women at Madison. They strutted maturity and the best statesmanship of their generation...