Peace

"The Congress was not limited to Budapest Its most significant leature, as of the festival before it, was the fuller mobilisation of youth organisations all over the world behind the fight for peace. Committees worked for months, fired by the spirit of the Partisans for Peace Congress. From Norway to the Argentine, from Tunisia to Viet Nam, and even far away New Zealand.

"There is room here to quote only one example. In Australia, headed by the Eureka Youth League, students and young workers united in one committee, Christians, Jews, Atheists—meetings, petitions, rallies. Two hundred thousands people sent 112 delegates from all comers of the country to Canberra, where they protested to the Government at the decline in living standards, at the White Australia policy which is used to divide Australians from their brothers in Asia, and at the policy of exterminating the Aboriginals.

"They elso protested to the Dutch and French legations at protracted wars against the people of South East Asia, and against the British High Commissioner at the military terror In Malaya.

"Result? A firmer unity of young folk around the programme of, WFDY and enthusiasm for the Congress and Festival. This was the pattern all over the globe."