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CONFIDENTIAL | The Attorney General has cited the AYD. Ce World Youth Council World Youth Conference ' American Youth for a Free World The "Daily Worker" of March 17, 1945, reported that Sinatra had accepted an invitation to address the World Youth Week Rally at Carnegie Hall, in New York City on March 21, 1945. This rally was sponsored by the American Youth for a Free World in co-operation with various racial groups. A report concerning this meeting does not make cny reference to Frank Sinatra, however, during May, 1945, the International Workers Order issued a pamphlet, #Fhoughts of An American® which highlighted excerpts from a talk allegedly made by Sinatra at said meeting. _ The 1948 report of the California Committee on Un-American Activities described the American Youth for a Free World as “heavily infiltrated and effectively.dominated by the Communist Party*. In September, 1945, Sinatra was reported to be one of the American sponsors of the World il, which was described as an "International Commmist dominated youth organizati in the 1948 report of the California ape ww Coumittes on Un-American Activiti ® » The "Daily Worker" of September 15, 1945, reported that Frank Sinatra would be a sponsor of the World Youth Conference, which was Scheduled to be held in London, England, during October 31 - November 9, 1945. that the delegates elected by the American Youth for a Free World to attend the World Youth Conference in London in November, 1945, credited Frank Sinatra with having assisted in raising funds to help defray their expenses to the Conference. | In testifying before the HCUA on July 21, 1947, Walter S. Steele stated _..... The 1948 report of the California Committee on Un-Amerivap Activities referred to the World Youth Conference as an international gathering in London in November, 1945, at which a committee was created which developed the completely ' Communist dominated World Federation of Democratic Youth. EE | Organization OO Citation Nature of Association Action Committee to Free Spain Now (1) Listed as a speaker for aimer at” | Veterans of Abraham Lincoln Brigade (1) Henry Hudson Hotel, N.Y.c., 59-46 American Committee for Spanish Freedom (1) but sent telegram of support and | regret at not being able to attend.| i TT rere nee crcmmccat at at apres RnR OE ee Ht am