...and a jive band

Included in the scheduled activities are exhibitions by all manner of youth organisations, governments, trade unions, etc. Lectures and discussions by Youth Leaders from different countries and from prominent personalities will form a basis of the educational programme. The cultural side will include various films, dramatic performances, ballet, concerts, symphony orchestras, singers, musicians and national folk dancers.

Sports activities include demonstration of national sports, games and displays by outstanding teams and all manner of sports competitions. Possibly the most important part of the Festival will be the recreational and social activities. As far as we know, these will include camp fires, sing-songs (and how), ballroom and folk-dancing, tramps, picnics, cycling tours, sight seeing, fairs and amusement parks.

But the most pleasurable, memorable and important part of the Festival will be not the planned activities, valuable as they are, but those spontaneous unplanned and informal gatherings, discussions and friendships that inevitably occur when young people get together.

The success of this World Youth Festival will be an outstanding demonstration of the integrity, value and importance of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, and a unique refutation of much of the thoughtless, unintelligent and uninformed criticism that has hitherto been levelled against WFDY.

A policeman of Stillwater Junction,
Who owned an immoral pagoda,
He said that he could,
And the jolly chair broke,
But think of the money he saved.