TASK FOR YOUTH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 March 1939, Page 6

TASK FOR YOUTH

MORE IMPORTANT PART IN WORLD AFFAIRS. . “If the Empire is to continue as a moral force in world affairs youth must be given a much more important part to play,” said the Earl of Bessborough in a recent broadcast address on the establishment of a youth centre in London. “It must have an opportunity to achieve what the older generation fails to secure. We should give youht the chance by corporate action to recognise the duties of Empire and the call to co-operation and service, and there will be hope that the youth of today will, when it has the responsibilities of tomorrow, find a solution of the many problems that perplex British peoples in all parts of the world. Youth movements already play a great part in the national life of this and of other countries —it is a major object of Youth City to provide a home for these movements within the Empire, and strengthen their sense of unity. At the present time London has no building which can accommodate the hosts of young people of secondary school age who come there every year from other part of Great Britain,’from overseas and from foreign countries. To remedy this, Youth City is designed to accommodate 2000 boys and girls of school age from Great Britain and all parts of the Empire who may visit London to study or on holiday. It will also be available for visiting students from foreign countries; and the more foreign students who come to London to experience personally the friendly hospitality we should like to show them, the better - for international relations in the years to come. Youth City will, above all, provide a great centre where the youth of other countries may meet. Such a meeting-place should surely induce a spirit of unity, co-operation and service. Here will be organised the activities the objective of which will be to enable youth, we may hope, to play its part in the building of a new world where the harsh clamour for rights may be stilled by the common call to duty.”