YOUTH CONGRESS
NOTABLE GATHERING IN U.S.A. FURTHERING FRIENDSHIP AND PEACE; IMPRESSIONS OF BRITISH DELEGATES (British Official Wireless). (Recd This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, September 6. Five of the sixty members of the British delegation to the second Youth Congress at Vassar College, New York State, have returned to London. The delegates were impressed with the proceedings of the congress,, at vzhich 700 delegates from fifty-four countries attended, and which they regarded as a tribute to the enthusiasm of young people from democratic countries for the building of peace. The delegates deplored the absence of any Nazi representative from Germany, particularly as Herr von Schirasch had declared that 1938 would be a year of understanding for German youth. The congress recommended that tours should be arranged under the auspices of the World Youth Congress to further’ friendship and peace throughout the world.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 6
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141YOUTH CONGRESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 6
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