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. : — i a at ee ee @ ~ {ue APPENDIX . * THS UNITED STATES FESTIVAL COMMITTEE, INC. (EIGHTH WORLD YOUTH FESTIVAL) The third 1961 issue of "World Youth," a publication of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), reported that the first meeting of the International Preparation Committee (IPC) took place at Helsinki, Finiand, on February 20-22, 1961, to prepare for the Eighth World Youth Festival to be held in Helsinki, in 1962. at the meeting, the IPC elected a permanent commission composed of representatives of a number of countries including Canada, the United States as well as revresentatives of WFDY and the International Union of Students (1S). The IUS with headquarters in Prague, Czechoslovakia, ' and the WFDY with headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, are . cited as communist organizations in the "Guide to Subversive 7 Organizations and Publications" dated December 1, 1961, published by the Committee on Un-American Activities, United | States House of Representatives, Washington, D, C., pages t .—~9] and 177. | | A source advised that 1n April, 1961, DANNY RUBIN, National Youth Director, CPUSA, advised that CP districts should concentrate on getting broad groups to sponsor the United States Festival Committee (USFC). A pamphlet issued by the USFcC describing the program for the Festival and advised that the USFC was organized by ° students and youth leaders at a founding conference at Chicago, Illinois, October 15, 1961, to publicize and encourage participation in the Helsinki, Festival. The USFC had been recognized by the IPC, the sponsoring body of the Festival, as the United States Committee to administer United States Participation in the Festival. { | On February 4, 1963, a second source reported the : USFC had changed its address from Room 807, 460 Park Avenue H i South, New York, New York, on February 2, 1963, to Post Office °- Box 172, Highbridge Station, Bronx 52, New York. ” APPENDIX