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Experiences of a3 Canadians at World Youth Festival

‘By MONICA SAMUELSON

“Frieden und Freundshaft’’ was the cry that resound-
ed over and over through ten days of the Seventh World
Youth Festival held in Vienna this year from July 26 to
August 4. From all four corners of the earth 18,000 youths
gathered, and on the opening day ceremonies this cry of
“Peace and Friendship’ was on everyone’s lips. For us,
48 young Canadians who attended the festival, coming
from all parts of Canada, it was an unforgettable

experience,

‘We participated in a dozen
international concerts,  put-
ting on the songs and dances
réhearsed in the six day cross-
ing. from Montreal to Le
Havre, Many of us — nurses
electricians, teachers — took
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or profession. We all took part
in delegation meetings with
the Austrian youth, the Hun-
garian, French, Russian, : Ger-
man, to mention but a few. In
these meetings we had’the
chance to discover how the
youth of many countries live
and think’ and of what their
dreams are made. They in
their turn asked us many ques-
tions about life in Canada
which we did our best to an-
swer.

Among the artistic atitrac-
tions of the festival were many
outstanding companies such as
the Leningrad Baliei, the Pek-
ing Opera and Chinese Circus
and Roland Petii‘s Ballet
which performed “Cyrano de

| Bergerac.” In addition to these

professional companies some
of the highlighis of the ten
days were the national con-
certs of the Soviet Union, Ru-
mania, Poland, Viet Nam, Kor-
ea and scores of others.

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But .perhaps, if one is to
speak of the most memorable
evening of the Festival for
all the youth gathered in Vi-
enna, and also «for the Vien-
nese themselves, then. it is nec-
essary to speak of. the night jt
of August. 2. On that evening,
Paul Robeson was to perform
in an. open air’ concert:in the
very heart of ‘Vienna — the
Rauthaus Platz. ‘This is an -en-
ormous town~square, bordered
on- all sides-: by . beautiful
buildings and palaces, On that +
day, the délegations were split
alphabetically in half. —

We Started. a parade at dif-
ferent ends sof ‘Vienna and the
two halves*came together in
the city centre. in a demonstra-
tion for peace.* Thousands of
cheering Viennese lined the

route and it was estimated la-!

ter that 300,000. witnessed the
concert with Paul Robeson
which followed#It.was a night
which was filled. with exhilar-
ation and excitement for ey-
ery one of us. And--of-course®

Eo 11 owing the

attic to this sense of
exhilaration was the fact that
hone of us from Canada had
yet had the opportunity of at-
tending a demonstration for
speace with 300,000 roaring,
scheering. demonstrators.. And
this was quite an experience.
Festival,
Lmany .Canadians | visited the
‘Soviet Union, while four of us
-went . to “Prague to the Fifth
Assembly of the World Feder-
pation of Democratic Youth.
Before the Assembly start-
a. on August 10, we had the
opportunity of touring small
pcities in Czechoslovakia and
Fvisiting. factories and collec-
tive farms. But above all, we
had the chance. to have many,
imany talks with Czech youth.
- In these talks there was one
fthing which came through as
perhaps the greatest single dif-
ference between Czech youth
and Canadian youth. And that
was the fact that all the
Czech youth we spoke with
jseemed to know where they

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no doubt, no
their minds as to education
work. In the case of univers
students, they knew ~ the

would finish school im

and such a year and after t at
they knew they had a Job

them, I could not help rene
bering how often I had heard
a Canadian student say, “fT
return to classes this fall,” OF
“If I finish university.” ;
Another noticeable fact was
that their future was conscious

their cOuntry’s
consiruction, of the possibilit
uses of atomic energy.

ity of hearing the represents
tives of many countries and ak

so talking with them, often far
into the night.

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