COMMUNIST YOUTH CONFERENCE STARTS IN WARSAW
(Ptec 9.40 a.m.) WARSAW, August 8.
One thousand youths from the International Conference of Working Youth paraded the streets of Warsaw, shouting: “Down with the Marshall Plan! ’ Down with American imperialism: ”
Delegates from 50 nations have been convened to draft a world youth charter for presentation to the United Nations.
Mr Albert Williams, of Sydney, who is. one of the key organisers, said the charter which pledged youth to fight against Fascism for “peace, democracy and a better future,” would be adopted on August 14. There are large delegations from Russia and Eastern European countries, but the United States refused passports for an American delegation, because “attendance is not in the United States interests."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1948, Page 5
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