Moscow Festival Recruits U. S. Youth
LEWIS, WALTER K.
Moscow Festival Recruits U.S. Youth Through Keyhole By Walter K. Lewis Communist groups throughout the world are stepping up preparations for the Sixth Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and...
...In this country, however, every reputable youth organization has repudiated the Moscow meet, leaving its handful of promoters to spend their time crypto-Hirsch-ing about the post offices of New York and Chicago...
...Hirsch, whom they claimed to know "well...
...monopoly capitalism" and "aggressive imperialism," they are in for a rude awakening...
...Youth Festival Committee was originally headquartered at a Chicago address which turned out to be the office of the local Council for American-Soviet Friendship...
...A little research has revealed that "Hirsch" is a purely mythical person...
...Jerome" is Fred Jerome, son of V. J. Jerome, the Communist editor and writer recently released from a Federal penitentiary after serving five years under a Smith Act conviction...
...The major job of screening applicants for the Festival is being handled through P.O...
...Box 975, which was rented by "Walter Hirsch, c/o Jerome, 320 Second Ave...
...Youth Through Keyhole By Walter K. Lewis Communist groups throughout the world are stepping up preparations for the Sixth Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship (NL, April 29), slated to draw some 30,000 young people of all nations to Moscow in late July and early August...
...When application was made for the post-office box, Jerome and one Jack Rosen gave themselves as character references for the non-existent Mr...
...The U.S...
...Here in the United States, however, the planning for this new pro-Soviet propaganda jamboree is taking on a distinctly comic-opera aspect...
...If the Kremlin leaders expect to see a mass protest by American youth next month against U.S...
...In New York City, the cloak-and-daggering has been even more intense...
...When newspapers became too inquisitive, the operation, headed by a Miss Barbara Perry, was shifted to a post-office box...
...Abroad, the Festival's Communist sponsors have obtained endorsements from celebrities ranging from Italian movie actress Silvana Pampa-nini to Prime Minister Mohammed Daud of Afghanistan, and from non-Communist youth groups and spokesmen in France, Belgium, Sweden and elsewhere...
Vol. 40 • June 1957 • No. 26
