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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.

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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.

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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

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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-:

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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.

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