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TOM MORRIS

By BERT WHYTE
NTHAGORAS, the Greek
Mathematician, defined
th Childhood as lasting until
a age of 20; adolescence,
, 20 to 40; youth, from 40
0; and old age, 60 to 80.

wefnitions change with time;

1th ethaps time changes people.

F Ousand or more young
Vee ® mostly in their 20’s or
i, ¥, early 30's, who took part
€ World Youth Solidarity
hag in Moscow last month

long since advanced be-
We,, 2 adolescent stage and
ire, re young men and

, theming from 126 countries,

fecin Met to discuss problem’s
Vinee the world’s youth, con-
tinar that through interna-
tion Solidarity and united ac-
lems € solution to their prob-
'~ Could be found.

}y,2tadian delegates to the

of ~¢ Forum were Tom Morris
tig, Onto, a Young Commu-
Xn €ague leader; Bert John-
thre Vancouver, Canadian
Neg. sentative on the World
Bee ction of Democratic Youth
No ttive; Ginette Da Sylva of

0
| Rim eal and Ted Kardash of

Nton

gp Forum was a dynamic
if, SSion of the determination
tmige OS people to fight all en-

Of peace and freedom,”
©m Morris. -

here Declaration spelled out
ao uth platform in detail:

Million’ the envoys of many
Men Ns of young men and wo-
y ,*dhering to different points
ly, WS from 126 countries,
lh, , ised aloft the banner of
hq Tum, the banner of unity
tia vlidarity, guided by the
h ess of our common duty
tonal Up the struggle for na-
Ihe,, dependence and the
iy {Yon of the peoples, to put
tioned, to the vestiges of old
mewtism, and to all other
fy* Of colonial exploitation
© Peoples, and by a desire
eis Jn the struggle against
tints and reaction, a
bete World peace and ensure
€r future of mankind.”

Inyp Went on to say that “the
"48 an active participant
Mion SOcial and national libe-
Movements, and mass-:

om

The youth of the world is a militant and dynamic
force of the present day. In close unity with the
older generation, it is courageously fighting
imperialism, breaking the chains of exploitation
and enslavement and erecting the edifice of

a new life:

scale democratic anti-imperial-
ist movements.”

The colonial system, said the
Declaration, is breathing its
last. “It is collapsing not of its
own accord but under the
blows of the people. So let us
intensify our joint onslaught on
the last strongholds of colonial-
ism!”

The struggle for peace is an

integral part of the struggle
against imperialism, declared
the youth:

“We resolutely support the
principles of peaceful coexist-
ence which create for the op-
pressed peoples new favorable
conditions in their struggle for
national liberation. Peaceful co-
existence also stimulates the
workers’ movement and demo-
cratic forces in the capitalist
countries in their struggle for
progress.”

While the Forum was in ses-
sion an International Commit-
tee of Investigation was set up
to gather evidence, draw up an
indictment and prosecute Prime
Minister Verwoerd of South
Africa, whose racialist regime

— Declaration of the World Forum

has been repeatedly censured
by the United Nations.

The investigation committee
will have four official residenc-
es, in Algeria, Cairo, Prague
and Moscow. Its members, pro-
minent citizens and _ jurists
from many countries, will pres-
ent its case sometime next year
before the International Public
Opinicn Court, which is vested
with the right to hear the case
in absentia.

Open sessions of the com-
mittee were held in Moscow

Sept. 19, 20 and 21, at which
many witnesses from’ the Re-
public of South Africa and
other African countries gave
evidence. It was charged that
in 10 years some four million
sentences had been passed in
South Africa for violation of
the curfew by the colored popu-
lation. Some 10 million Afri-
cans were sent to the Bantus-
tan camp reservations, situated
in barren lands.

The committee also heard
stories of the Sharpesville mas-
sacre, and prison tortures as
terrible as those of the Gestapo
in Hitler Germany.

One witness, 29-year-old Ab-
dulhei Jenet of Johannesburg,
told how his shoes were re-
moved and wires attached to
his toes, and electric shocks
were sent through his body.
Later he was beaten and thrown
into an adjoining room, from
where he could hear the cries
of his friends being tortured in
similar fashion. :

Commenting on the work of
the Investigation Committee,
Novosti press agency corres-
pondent Ilya Agranovsky wrote:

BERT JOHNSON

Youth of 126 countries forge unity

“Prime Minister Verwoerd,
of course, did not appear in
Moscow at the session of the
committee examining the ra-
cial activities of his govern-
ment. This is understandable,
Could it have been expected,
for instance, that in September
1933, a similar case, Hitler and
Goering would have appeared
in London at the call of the In-
ternational Investigation Com-
mittee, which éxamined in ab-
sentia the case of the fascists
who set fire to the Reichstag,
at the same time when the
nazis were trying Georgi Dimit-
rov in Leipzig? But in spite of
this default, the counter trial in
London was neither naive nor
fruitless. It opened the eyes of
many people to the real essence
of the Reichstag fire. Its ma-
terials: were filed by the inves-
tigators who were preparing the
historic Neurenberg trial.” >

Prior to the Moscow Forum
two Canadians, Tom Morris
and Bert Johnson, attended a
meeting of the International
Preparatory Committee in Hel-
sinki.

It was here that Morris first
learned of the decision to hold
the next World Youth Festival
in Algiers.

Previous Festivals were held
in Prague in 1947; Budapest,
1949; Berlin, 1951; Bucharest,
1953; Warsaw, 1955; Moscow,
1957; Vienna, 1959; and Helsin-
ki, 1962.

“The announcement that the
1965 World Youth Festival will
be held in Algiers aroused tre-
mendous enthusiasm among Af-
rican delegates,’ said Morris.
“There is no doubt that it will
attract the biggest African par-
ticipation ever. Equally impor-
tant is that the youth from cap-
italist countries will have an
opportunity to see with their
own eyes one of the new em-
erging nations which has won
its independence.”

In the coming. year efforts
will be made to organize a
large Canadian contingent to
the festival in Algiers. Aside
from the attraction of partici-
pating in the World Youth Fest-
ival, there is the lure of Algiers
itself (“Come wiz me to the
Casbah”) and the probability
that many delegates will be in-
vited to tour Algeria.

- October 30, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7