CALENDAR OF ACTIVITES TO BE SPONSORED OR SUPPORTED BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS 15 September 1957 - 31 December 1958

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14. October 1957
CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES (SCHEDULED OR PROPOSED)
WHICH ARE TO BE SPONSORED OR SUPPORTED BY
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS
15 September 1957 - 31 December 1958
[Note: This Calendar consists of four parts,
each listing activities to be held in certain
regions. "Part I: Soviet Bloc" lists activ-
ities nroposed or scheduled to be held in
any Communist-controlled country. Future
events that are to be held in the Free World
are listed regionally, as follows: "Part II:
Near East, Africa and the Far East", "Part III:
Western Europe", and "Part IV: Western Hemi-
sphere"2j
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1. SOVIET BLOC
1.
International Seminar for ~'Jomen Trade Unionists
Place:
Date:
Sponsor:
Prague, Czechoslovakia (? )
:L5-19 September 1957
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTTJ),
2.
International Mechanical Engineering Study Tour and Seminar
Place:
Prague, Brno, Czechoslovakia
Date:
15--30 September 1957
Sponsors:
The Czechoslovak Youth Organisation (CSM), with
the support of the International Union of Students
(ILLS)
Cost:
$2.50 per day
Program:
First day:
Sightseeing in Prague
2nd day:
Seminar on "Technique and Society"
3rd day:
Continuation of discussion and con-
clusion
lath day:
Visit to engineering factories in
Prague
5th day:
Visit to the Higher Technical School
in Liberec
6th day:
Visit to the factories in Liberec
7th day:
Visit to the Industrial Exhibition in
Brno
8th day:
Visit to the Industrial Exhibition in
Brno.. Sightseeing in Brno
99th day:
Visit to Brno's engineering factories
10th day:
Return to Prague, conclusion of the
Seminar. Departure.
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A. 12ai (continued)
3. Fourth World Trade Union Congress
Place: Leipzig, Germany
Date: 4-15 October 1957
Sponsor: WFTU
Agenda: "1. Report on trade union activity in the world,
on the development of fraternal ties and on
international trade union unity for the
raising of the living standard of the workers,
for their economic, social and democratic
rights, for disarmament, peace and national
independence.
"2. Report of the Auditing Commissior.
"3. Report of the Management Commission of the
Workers' International Solidarity Fund on its
activity, its accomplishments, and on the
assistance it can lend to the ultimate develop-
ment of international solidarity.
"4. Proposals for amendments of the WFTU constitution.
115. Elections of directing bodies of the WFTU and
the Auditing. Commission.
"6. Struggle of trade unions in colonial countries
against the colonialists."
4. Annual Council Meeting of the International Association of
Democratic Lawyers (IADL)
Place: Moscow
Date: 16-18 November 1957
Sponsor: IADL
Participants: Representatives of IADL affiliates and Council
members only.
Agenda: Putting into effect the recommendations of the
Brussels Congress of the IADL (lay 1956).
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4. Annual Council Meeting of IADL (continued)
Note: The Soviet IADL affiliate is organizing a "Colloquium on
Administrative Law" which will be held in C1loscow imme-
diately after the IADL Council Fleeting, 19-20 November
1957. The question to be considered at this "Colloquium"
is "k comparative: examination of the different systems
of control of administrative acts actually in .force," on
which que Lion an English, a French z::id a Soviet specia-
list will speak. Participants at the IADL Council Meeting
have been inviter.. to attend the "Colloquitnn".
5. International Student Winter Camp
Place: Poland
Date: Winter :1.957
Sponsor: Association of Polish Students, with the support of
the ITTS.
6. International Student Winter Camp
Place : Tatra l fountains, Czechoslovakia
Date: Winter 1957 (14 days)
Sponsor: Student Section of the C`?,M, with the support of the
Its.
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a.. IntE:rnatJ.onal Youth Tourist Camp
Place: Soviet Union
Date: 1958 (unspecified, probably during sumaner)
Sponsors: Committee of the Youth Organizations of the USSR and
the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY)
Note: The Fourth WFDY Congress (Kiev, 16-22 August 1957)
"supported the proposal of the USICR Youth Organi-?
ration's Committee to join with the WFDYY in setting
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B. 12.LS: (continued)
2. International Conference of Young Workers
Place: Unspecified
Date: 1958 (possibly "luring the summer)
Sponsor: World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), with the
support of the WFDY
Note: The Fourth 1FDY Congress, "while supporting the idea
of holding an International Conference of Young
Workers in the summer of 1958, as suggested by the
WFTU, called for efforts to ensure the success of
.that conference."
4.
International Seminar on the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy
Place: USSR (unspecified)
Date: 1958 (unspecified)
Sponsor: Co mittee of Ycu th Organizations of the USSR, with
the support of the WFDY
Note: The Fourth WFDY Congress endorsed the Soviet pro-
posal that such a seminar be held in the USSR in
1955.
Asian-African Youth Delegation to Visit USSR for Three Weeks
Date: 1958 or 1959 (summer; dates unspecified)
Note: Soviet delegates to the Fourth WFDY Congress announced
that the Committee of USSR Youth Organizations planned
to invite a youth delegation from Asian and African
countries in the summer of 1958 or 1959 to visit the
USSR in order "to see something of the way of life of
Soviet youth"'.
5. WFDY Youth Leader Training Seminars
Places: Unscheduled
Dates: Unscheduled
Note: In view of the fact that the following two specific
proposals were made at the Fourth WFDY Congress, it
it felt that the WFDY may be planning to organize.
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WFDY Youth Leader Training Seminars (continued)
:Note : some sort of formal youth leader training activities in
the future, probaoly in the Soviet bloc:
A 1N1oroccan delegate, Lah BABI, called upon the WJFDY
to give more effective assistance to organizations
which lack .ef ficient. exoerionce, He also suggested
setting up sum-c- er camps to train youth leaders,
A Finnish delegate, Key JURELIA, proposed that the
WFDY organize seminars for the training of leaders
of ?youth organizations.
6. International Youth Delegation Invited to Visit Hungary
Date: Unspecified
Note: The invitation was extended at the Fourth. WFI)Y Congress
by the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Young
Ccmuciunist League of Hungary, Zoltan KOP-IOCSIN.
7. International Seminar on the Russian Language
Place: USSR
Date: 1958 (unspecified)
Sponsor: To be organized by a Preparatory, Committee:, with the
support of the IUS,
8. International Architectural Students Seminar
Place: Warsaw, Poland
Date : Summer 1958 (postponed; originally scheduled 15-20
August 1957)
Program: Lectures and Discussions
Excursions and Visits
Followed by a tour of places of architectural inter-
est in Warsaw, Gdynia and Cracow
Sponsors: Organized by the Polish architectural students, with
the support of the IUS Architectural Faculty Bureau*
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B. 1955: (continued)
International Architectural Students Seminar
Place: USSR
Date: 1958 (unspecified)
Sponsors: To be organized by the Soviet Preparatory ComrmLittee,
with the support of the IUS Architectural Faculty
Bureau
Note: In late 1956, the IUS planned to hold two "Inter-
national Architectural Students Seminars": one in
Warsaw in 1957, the other in the USSR in 1958. Since
the Warsaw seminar has been postponed until 1958, it
is not known whether the USSR seminar will be in turn
postponed until 1959, or whether only one of the
seminars held and the other canceled.
10.
International Agricultural Student Seminar
Place:
Date:
Sponsors:
Rumania
1958 (unspecified)
To be organized by the Rumanian agricultural students
and supported by the IUS Agricultural Faculty Bureau.
11.
International Conference on "Economic Factors Affecting Access
to Higher Education"
Place:
Date:
Sponsors:
Poland
1958 (unspecified)
To be organized by the Polish Students Association,
with the support of the IUS.
12.
International Medical Students Seminar
Place: Bulgaria
Date: 1958 (unspecified)
Sponsors: To be organized by the Bulgarian medical students, with
the support of the IUS Medical Faculty Bureau
Program: To include tour and visite
Note: Not to be confused with the International Medical
Students Seminar to be held in Calcutta, 22-31 Decem-
ber 1957, also with IUS support.
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B. j3: (continued)
13. Inte;rnationai Chem.stry Students Seminar
Place : Hungary
Date: 1955 (unspecified)
Sponsors: To be organized by Hungarian students, with the
,.support of the IUS Technical Sciences Bureau
Note: This c=eminar was scheduled before the Hungarian
uprising in October 1956. Recent I:US publications
:o not include this seminar as one of the activi-
es still scheduled by the "US.
14. International Seminar on the German Language
Place: Leipzig, Germany
Date: 1958 (unspecified)
Sponsors: To be organized by a Preparatory Committee, with
t.e support of the IUS.
15. International Student Seminar on Automation
Place: Dresden, Germany
Date: 1958 (unspecified)
Sponsor: To be organized by the Dresden Higher School, with
they support of the IUS Technical Sciences Bureau.
16. European Youth Rally
Place: Poland
Date : Summer 19 58
Note: A proposal was made at the 4th iFDY Congress in Kiev
(August 1957) that a European Youth :Rally be held in
Poland in the Summer of 1958.
17. Baltic Youth Games
Place: Riga, Latvia
Date: 1958
Note: At the 4th WFDY Congress it was proposed that the
annual Baltic Youth Games be held in Riga in 1958.
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B. 1958: (continued)
18. International Student Summer Camp
Place: East Germany
Date: Summer 1958
Sponsors: To be organized b~~ the students of Halle University,
with the support of the IUS.
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19. Summer Camp for Baltic Youth
Place: East Germany
Date: Summer 1958
Sponsor: Free German Youth (FDJ), probably with the support
of the WFDY
Note: At the Fourth WFDY Congress, Karl NAMOKEL announced
that the "GDR youth intended to arrange a summer
camp for young representatives of the Baltic countries
in 1958". The GDR delegation to the Fourth WFDY
Congress is also reported to have proposed that a
"Youth Rally of the Baltic Countries" be held.
20. Ten Scholarships Instituted at Moscow State University for
"Students from Africa, Asia and Countries Which Had Recently
Gained Their National Independence"
Place: Moscow
Date: Unspecified, probably for 1958
Note: At the Fourth WFDY Congress, Professor YJRZAJANZADE of
Azerbaijani University reported that "ten scholarships"
had been established and that the Committee of Youth
Organizations of the USSR suggested that "A Fund of
Solidarity with the Youth of Dependent and Colonial
Countries should be set up in the WFDY".
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C. 1959 -? 1961:
Seventh World Festival of Youth and Students
Place: undetermined (possibly= Peking;, China, or somewhere in
4estern iurope)
Date: Summer 1.959 or 1961
Sponsors: tJFDI and the IUS
I;fote: The Fourth Congress adopted a. resolution to lengthen
the interval between Festivals from two to three years.
I=otirever, instead of having the next Festival held in
1960, the same gear as the Olympics, it was decided that
it should be held either in 1959 or 1561. The Congress
instructed the ';JF i1. executive Committee to begin talks
with all national and international organizations in
order to achieve agreement on the name, character and
meeting place of tha Seventh ulorld Youth Festival. The
Congress also considered a proposal that preparations
for the Seventh Festival begin by organizing regional
meetings to provide the foundation. for t his event.
One of the participants at the Moscow Festival re-
ported that the Seventh Festival would be held in
Peking in 1961. Other reports from Festival partici-
pants indicate that the sponsors feel that the format
of the next Festival should be changed and that a
loner period of time should elapse between Festivals
than the traditional two-year intervals.
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II. NEAR EAST, AFRICA. AND THE FAR EAST
A. 11957:
1. International Art Students Seminar
Place: India
Date: Late 1957
Sponsors: To be organized by Indian art students, with the
support of the IUS
Program: To include visits, followed by a tour. Sponsors hope
to hold an international exhibition of items brought
by the participants.
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2. Fourth International Medical Students Seminar
Date: 22-31 December 1957
Place: Calcutta, India
Sponsors: To be organized by the Council of Medical Students,
West Bengal, in cooperation with the IUS Medical
Faculty Bureau.
Agenda: "1. Lectures on medical education by participants
and experts from different countries.
112. Discussion on problems of medical students in
different countries.
113. Discussion on international cooperation between
medical students.
"4. Lectures and discussions on specialized medi-
cal topics (e.g. tuberculosis, the spread of cancer
in modern times, questions of nutrition in Afro-
Asian countries, etc.)
"5. Medical film shows and cultural functions
"6. Visits to places of interest."
Participants: About 100 foreign and 100 Indian students are ex-
pected. The Seminar is open to representatives of
medical colleges and faculties and to all medical
student organizations. Observers may attend.
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2. Fourth International Medical Students Seminar (continued)
Participants: :Invitations :issued in July. Applications should
be in before 22 November 1957. Information con-
ccern.iag this Seminar may be obtained from:
Th.e Medical Faculty Bureau of the IUS
Vocelova 3, Prague 2, Czechoslovakia
or
The P ?epa.ratory Committee of IVth International
Medical Students Seminar
1 Relgachia Road
Calcutta 4, India
Attention: Satya Chatterjee
'P2.00 per day, which includes all accommodations,
meals and full. access to all seminar events. Accord
ng to a recent circular letter of the IT?S, "the cost
of special travel will be covered by the Preparatory
Committee". However, according to an official IUS
publicity leaflet on the Seminar, participants are to
pay their own expenses for travel to and from Calcutta.
Miscellaneous
Data: Dr. Arun SEN is reported to be assisting Satya
CCHATTERJEE (President of the Students Union of the
R. G. Medical College) in making the necessary prepa-
rations for the Seminar.
The Medical Faculty Bureau of the IUS appears to
be part of the Education, Culture and Travel Depart-
ment of the IUS, which is headed by CHEidG Chi-ming.
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3?
Conference of the Asian and African Peoples (also called "Afro-
Asian Solidarity Conference")
Place: Cairo, Egypt
Date: December 1957
Sponsor: Asian Solidarity Committee (recently referred to
as the "Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee")
Preparations: Organizational preparations are to be made by a
"Preparatory Committee" which includes repre-
sentatives of all the Bandung Conference Powers,
plus Algeria, Ghana, Liberia, Libya, Malaya,
Morocco, Nigeria, Somaliland, Thailand, Tunisia
and Uganda. The "Preparatory Committee" is to
hold a three-day meeting in Cairo, beginning 21
October 1957, to arrange the date and agenda
for this conference. A "10-member Egyptian
Committee" has sent an "invitation" to the Secre-
tary of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee in
New Delhi (the actual sponsor), who in turn
telegraphed branch committees in the following
countries inviting their participation in the
conference: Burma, Ceylon, Communist China,
Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Nepal, North
Korea, North Vietnam, Pakistan, Syria and the
USSR.
Agenda: To be determined at a 3-dq meeting of the
"Preparatory Committee" in Cairo, beginning 21
October 1957
Note: At the First Conference of the Asian Countries
(New Delhi, April 1955), at which the Asian
Solidarity Committee was formally established,
a proposal was made to hold a "Second Conference
of Asian Countries" within two years.
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Conference of Asian and African Men of Law
Place: Damascus, Syria
Date: 7-10 November 1957
Sponsor: Arab Lawy=_ers Federation (a Communist?-front also
called the "Permanent Office of the Arab Lawyers
Conference")
Preparations: Organizational arrangements are being made by a
Preparatory Committee composed of representatives
of the bar associations in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon,
Libya, Syria and Tunisia. The Preparatory Committee
has entrusted Egypt with sending one or more dele-
gates to the African countries to contact the law
organizations there. Countries in the Far East
and in Southeast Asia are also to be contacted.
The Committee has also entrusted the Syria bar
association with contacting the bar associations
in Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey.
Agenda: At meetings held in Damascus, 28-29 September 1957,
the Preparatory Committee approved the following
agenda subjects:
"Nationalization in the light of international
law;
Indirect aggression and interference in inter-
nal affairs of other countries;
Economic pressure;
The right of attacked countries to c ompensa-
t:i on;
Imperialism and the right of the peoples to
self-determination, requested by Cypriot
lawyers;
Pacts and treaties between unequal parties
and of foreign military bases, requested by
the bar association in Baghdad /i7;
Positive neutrality, requested by Syria;
Arab Palestininan refugees, requested by Jordan;
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Conference of Asian and African Men of law (continued)
Agenda: Racial discrimination, public freedoms and
natural rights, requested by India;
World Peace, requested by People's China;
and
The nuclear explosions and their effect on
human rights and the future of mankind,
requested by Japan."
Note: While not sponsored by the IADL, the international
Communist front for members of the legal pro-
fession, several IADL affiliates (including those
of Egypt and Syria) are connected with the spon-
soring front, the Arab Lawyers' Federation.
Recent broadcasts indicate that the Preparatory
Committee had decided to form a "higher super-
visory committee for the conference...composed
of the Minister of Justice in India, the Ceylon-
ese Ambassador to Cairo, the President of the
Bar Association.in Japan, the Secretary General
of the Law and Political Science Society in
People's China and the Presidents of the Bar
Associations in Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Sudan
and Damascus."
International Students Seminar on Problems of Colonialism
Place: Tunisia
Date: 1957 (unspecified)
Sponsors: To be organized by an International Preparatory
Committee, with the support of the IUS
Note: The Fourth IUS Congress (Prague, August 1956) de-
clared its support for this Seminar. Since more
recent IUS publications do not continue to list
this Seminar as part of the IUS' future activities,
it is possible that it has been canceled.
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B. :
1. Seminar on the "Role of the Youth of the African and Asian
Countries in the Economic and Social Development of Africa
and Asia"
Place: Unspecified (some country in Asia or Africa.)
Date: Unspecified
Note: At the Fourth WFDY Congress, a member of the Soviet dele-
gation proposed that-the WFDY "initiate in an Asian or
African country" a seminar of this type. The Soviet dele-
gate also proposed that "closer contacts be established
with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth".
2. A Meeting of Afro-Asian Youth
Place: Japan
Date: 1958 (unspecified)
Note: At the Moscow Youth Festival, the 'Uhief of the Egyptian
Delegation proposed "that a permanent committee be form-
ed for the youth of the Bandung Conference Powers, that
a meeting of Afro-Asian youth be held next year in Japan,
and that the exchange of cultural and other missions
among the countries of both continents be expanded."
This may or may not be identical with the Japanese pro-
posal;, which was supported by the Fourth WFDY Congress,
to organize an International Youth Meeting to Ban Atomic
Weapons and for Disarmament.
3. Meetings of Girls from Asia and Africa
Places: Unspecified
Dates: Unspecified
Note: At the Fourth WFDY Congress, Galina MARTSINKEVICH of the
USSR advocated "the strengthening of contacts with the
WIDF, with the Christian and Catholic organizations of
young women, and the orga.nizationcf meetings of girls
from Europe, Asia and Africa." These regional meetings,
if held, may be in preparation for an "International
Meeting of Women and Girls" from all parts of the world
to "dis;cuss the question of equal rights of women", as
proposed by the Italian delegate to the Fourth WFDY
Congress, Anne CIAI.
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4. Mediterranean Youth Rally
Place: Unspecified
Date: Unspecified
Note: This rally Tras proposed by an East German d.elegata to
the Fourth W?DY Congress.
5. International Youth Meeting for the Banning of Atomic Weapons
and for Disarmament
Place: Unspecified (possibly Japan)
Date: Unspecified (1955)
Note: The Fourth WFDY Congress "received with pleasure the
proposal of the Japanese youth to organize in the near
future an international youth meeting, the aim of which
would be the banning of atomic weapons and for disarma-
ment."
6. Asian Farming and Fishery Conference
Place: Not yet determined (possibly Japan)
Date: January 1958
Sponsor: Asian Solidarity Committee of Japan
Program: Discussion of farming and fishing techniques and en-
vironmental hygiene.
Note: This meeting has not yet been definitely scheduled,
but the Asian Solidarity Committee of Japan had pro-
posed that such a conference be held in January 1958.
7. Asian Culture Seminar
Place: Unscheduled
Date: Unscheduled
Sponsor: International Union of Students
Note: In an official brochure issued in the spring of 1957,
the IUS listed the "Asian Culture Seminar" as one of
its "envisaged projects".
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B. 1958: (continued)
8. World University Swnmer and Winter Games
Place: Unspecified (Africa or Asia)
Date: Unspecified
Sponsor: IUS
Note: The IUS Executive Committee Meeting in Prague, March
1957, instructed the IUS Physical Education and Sports
Department to "investigate the possibilities for the
next World University Summer and Winter Games to be
held in Africa or Asia".
9. Miscellaneous decisions for improving IUS work in Asia and
Africa, based on decisions adopted at the It?S Executive
Committee Meeting in Prague, 19-24 March 1957:
a. "'To pay more attention to regional activities and
give them more effective help [which/ in line with
the ,Fourth IUS/ Congress resolutions should con-
siderably improve its work in Asia, Africa and Latin
America.
b. ":To promote bilateral relations between. the members
of IUS and between the members and non-members of
IUS as a positive contribution to universal coopera-
t:ion among the world student comrnanity..."
c. To have the "Editorial Board of the r Student
News start -publishing a regular supplement on the
student movement in the different regions of the
world with special emphasis on the student move-
ments in Asia, Africa and Latin America."
d. To have "all member organizations to appoint a per-
manent correspondent of WS in their respective
countries and to make further efforts to improve
the sale of WSN."
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B. 1958: (continued)
10, Asian-African Journalist Conference
Place: Unscheduled
Date: Unscheduled
Sponsor: Covertly promoted by the International Organization
of Journalists (IOJ). Proposed at the International
Journalists Meeting, Helsinki, June 1956, which was
covertly sponsored by the IOJ.
11. Economic Conference of Asian and African Peoples
Place: Unscheduled
Date: Unscheduled
Note: The Asian Solidarity Committee has insistently called
for an "Afro-Asian Economic Conference". In June 1957
a statement was released calling for such a conference
at the earliest possible date, which statement was
issued jointly by Ichiro HATOYAMA and NESTEROV, a
sponsor of the Moscow Economic Conference.
III. WESTERN EUROPE
A.
1957:
1-.--World Peace Council Session
Place:
Date:
Sponsor:
Paris, France
20 September 1957
World Peace Council.
2.
Second World Congress of Doctors
Place:
Date:
Cannes, France
27-29 September 1957.
3.
Mediterranean Anti-Colonial Congress (alto called General Assem-
bly of the International Union for the Freedom of Colonial
Peoples)
Place: Athens, Greece
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3. Mediterranean Anti-Colonial Congress (continued)
Date: Not designated (indefinitely postponed? last scheduled
for 31 October - 4 November 1957)
Sponsor: Greek-Anti-Colonial League
Program: To examine the problems of Algeria, Aden, Cyprus, Egypt,
Goa, Hong Kong, Malaya, Okinawa and Singapore
Note: Although this congress is not sponsored by an inter-
national Communist front organization, it will be attend-
ed by front activists and exploited as a forum for pro-
Soviet propaganda.
4. International Conference of Experts on the Prevention and Treatment
of TB among the University Community
Place: Unspecified (originally scheduled to be held in France)
Date: 1957 (unspecified)
Sponsors: An as yet undetermined student group in Western Europe,
with. the support of the IUS
Note: This conference was originally publicized by the IUS
as one that would be "jointly organized by the IUS and
the World University Service". However, the World
University Service has refused to cosponsor this meeting
with. the IUS.
5. Baltic Peace Conference
Place: Helsinki (Tentative)
Date : 7-8 December 1957 (Tentati.v(:~ )
Sponsor: Finnish Defenders of Peace
Suggested Theme: "Mankind on the Threshold of the Atomic Age".
B. 1258:
1. International Congress Against the Atomic Danger
Place: Unspecified (in one of the North-European countries, if
possible)
Date: Spring 1958
Sponsor:West German Women's Peace Movement .
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2. Fourth World Congress of Women
Place: Unspecified (possibly Brussels or Vienna)
Date: Spring 1958 (originally scheduled for December 1957)
Sponsor: Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF)
Appeal: At its Council Meeting in Helsinki, June 1957, the
WIDF issued the following "Appeal":
"In the spring of 1958 the WIDF will hold its
Fourth Congress.
"This Congress will reflect the ever-growing con-
tribution women are making in every continent to
economic, cultural and political life, a contribution
which is one of the most important factors in the
development of the world today.
"It will also express the struggle women are waging
against the discrimination which still exists in a
great number of countries.
"It will express their aspirations for a better life
for their peoples and their will to win and defend the
independence of their countries and the maintenance
of peace in the whole world.
"Today peace is gravely threatened. While atomic
energy could be a source of well-being and progress, it
is mainly used for the preparation and perfecting of
weapons capable of exterminating millions of people.
The testing of the bombs alone has already affected the
health of a certain number of those living today and
endangers future generations. No woman can remain
indifferent to this danger, no woman can refuse to act
at this decisive moment of the future of mankind.
"The WIDF calls upon all its national organizations
and all women without distinction of race, rationality,
religion or political opinion, to participate in this
congress in order to unite their efforts:
(i) to defend peace;
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2. Fourth World Congress of Women (continued)
(Ii) to win and defend their rights as citizens,
nzothers, workers, and to improve their conditions of
life;
(iii) to ensure security for their homes and fami-
lies and for the happiness of their children.
'?The WIDF also makes an urgent appeal to all national
and international women's organizations, who each in
their own way contrihite to the improvement of the status
of women and the well-being of children. It asks them
to make known and support this Congress which will be a
mighty demonstration of the determination of women united
in their wish to safeguard peace, defend their rights and
those of their children."
3. Miscellaneous European youth meetings proposed at the Fourth WrDY
Congress in Kiev,, 16-22 August 1957, but which are as yet unscheduled
or unplanned:
a.
A European youth rally
b.
A Mediterranean youth rally
c.
A European meeting of young intellectuals and artists
d.
e.
f.
Regular meetings between editors and/or journalists
journals of ='11 Euronean countries
Regional Meeting of European Girls
European "Fri.enr hip Week"
of youth
Regional ar._; general European rallies and meetings of young
people with the same interests
h.
Bilateral and multilateral contacts by all youth organiza-
tions and exchanges of delegations, information, publications,
etc.
Note: Reports of the WFDY Congress indicate that; the iFDY is contem-
plating organizing "in Europe several events during the next
few mcnths to get better acquainted with European youth, especial-
ly those with different social systems."
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B. 1958: (continued)
4. Third International Conference of Leather, Shoe, Fur and Leather
Products Workers
Place: Unspecified
Date: May 1958
Sponsor: The Leather Workers Trade Union International, a trade
department of the WFTU
Agenda: Activities of the Trade Union International for the
safeguarding of young leather workers.
Third Trade Conference of Clothing and Textile Workers
Place: Unspecified
Date: May 1958
Sponsor: Trade Unions International of Textile and Clothing
Workers, a trade department of the 'JFT{J
Note: This conference was proposed at the Administrative
Committee Meeting of the TUI in Prague, 9-10 April
1957.
6. International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) Third
World Congress
Place: Unscheduled
Date: Early 1958
Sponsor: FIR.
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7. International Education Seminar
Place: Sweden (?)'(originally scheduled for Akers Runo,
Sweden)
Date: 1958 (originally scheduled for 6-1.7 August 1957)
Sponsor: "An International Preparatory Committee" set up
at the "initiative of Danish, Finnish, Norwegian
and Swedish students of pedagogy, and supported
by international organization,,, including the IUS."
Themes: "The Aim of Education; Unity and Continuity in
Education; and Teacher Training."
Agenda: Participants will discuss problems of education
n,d their importance for international understand-
ng and cooperation and get an oven-all picture of
the school reform in Sweden.
Participants: l0'}-150 participants expected originally, prior
to Seminar's postponement. Half of the participants
were exnentFrl to be "students of pedagogy studying
at universities or teacher _t raining
and the others we expected to be teachers who
obtained their diplomas during the last ten years."
Note: Information concerning this Seminar may be obtain-
ed by writing to IUS Education Faculty 1~ireau,
liocelova 3, Prague XII, Czechoslovakia.
IV. IdESTERN HEMISPHERE
0957 - 1258.-
1. A Festival of Latin American Youth
Place: Unspecified
Date: Unspecified
Sponsor: Unspecified, presumably WFDY affiliates
Note: At its Fourth Congress in Kiev (August 1957), the tiTDY
announced that "the countries of Latin America have
decided to organize a Festival of the Latin American
youth."
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"To assist Latin American students in their struggle in
"To render further help to the students of that region to
participate in the seminars of the IUS programme.
emphasis on the student movements in Asia, Africa and Latin
America."
To have "all member organisations to appoint a permanent
correspondent of WSN in their respective countries and to
defense of university autonomy and student rights by.organi-
sing international solidarity campaigns and through publi-
city work."
To have "mAber organizations of the IUS...find possible
means to d3velop exchanges with student organisations
from Latin America."
To have the "Editorial Board of the World Student News to
start publishing a regular supplement on the student move-
ment in the different regions of the world with special
he "To pay more attention to egional activities and wive
the more effective help which in line with the Fourth
IUS/ Congress resolutions show d considerably improve its
work in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
i. "To promote bilateral relations between the members of IUS
and between the members and non-members of IUS as a posi-
tive contribt tion to universal cooperation among the world
student community..."
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2. IUS plans for improving its work in Latin America, based on
decisions adopted b~~ the IUS Executive Committee Meeting in
Prague, 19-24 March 1957:
a. "To increase the number of scholarships for Latin American
students.
be "To promote and help the realisationcf sports contests
between the students of Latin America.
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3. Miscellaneous proposals made at the Fourth WFDY Congress (August
1957) for improvement of WFDY work in Latin America:
a. BURBONO of Ecuador expressed the desire that the' new, WFDY
Executive Committee take measures to strengthen contacts with
national organizations.
b. Sisto FLORES of Venezuela recommended that the WFDY "find a
common language with other organizations and conduct a broad
campaign for the rights of youth." In his opinion WFDY was
regarded as a "coordinating center linking various organi-
zations".
co Litio ABARCA of Peru emphasized the "necessity" that the WFDY
pay "special attention to the youth movement in Latin American
countries".
d. Samuel WEIN:3 y'EII' of Uruguay spoke of the "problems of 3 ncreasing
contacts betwoon youth organizations and expanding cooperation
between the '"l and the youth of Latin America."
e. Christian ECHARD, the newly elected Secretary General of the
WFDY, advised that the Fourth Congress of the WYa'DY had "ex-
panded the composition of the steering bodies, including
countries of Latin America, Asia and Africa, which were riot
represented in it."
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