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IV*h WORLD FESTIVALOF Y O U T H AND STUDENTS FOR PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP
Bucharest, August 2nd — 16th
P u b l i s h e d b y t K • I n t e r n a t i o n a l F e s t i v a l C o n i l t t n
Address: Bucureftl Bd. Republic!! 33 * TeL 4.26.00 * Telegraphic address: Festival Bucur*»tl
Nr. 14
GIFTS FOR THE ppRTTVAT.
by Florin ldugur
If you want to make a present -to a well-loved friend,
you think about it for quite some time in order to choose the
most beautiful and s t a b l e gift you oan find. You think of
the happy smile with which your friend will welcome your gift
and try to imagine how useful it will be to him. You will feel
this even more when it is you who makes the gift you want to
offer. Such will be the gifts to be presented to our beloved
guests who are coming to the Festival. These gifts are being
prepared by every young person in our Rumanian People's Re
public. They will be offered wholeheartedly by our enthusi- aati© youth#
Two kinds of gifts will be offered to our guests.
First, the gifts of our whole oountiy : the big stadium where
the youth sports contests will be hsldj the huge Culture and
Sport. Park “August 2Jrd", open 0l* emaB. for varlQufi
performances and many others.
Hundreds of thousands of young people are eagerly wor
king on these gifts. Upon their return to their countries the ■
world youth w21 talk about everything they have seen in our new homeland.
There are other gifts too, siaple gift* reflsoting
our love of peace and the eageraeiUL with which we are awaiting
our guesta to the great peace festival#
“These gifts are more valuable than the treasure of
princes or emperors" wrote the poet Dan Deeliu. Indeed, they
are more precious than any treasure as they reflect not only
the wealth of our country but also the spiritual wealth of
our youth, the feeling of international solidarity inspiring
them and the genuine desire of our people for peace and in
ternational cooperation*During our spare time many o*-ub are engaged in some
hobby in which we exercise our skill. How could anyone be
awkward, when tho present he is working on is to be offered
to our Festival guests!
loan Ni^a is a young worker from the "Ilie Pintilie
sugar factory at Roman. He is carving chess boards for friends
coming to the Festival from all countries.
Elena Vicol and Maria Tambaliuc who work at the same
factory are weaving flowered caipets with national motives
which will decorate the hous of a-young Indian or brighten
the home of a Latin American girl. The flowers embroidered
on these carpets, the flowers of our country gardens will
carry their brightness far away to many thousands of kilo
metres. In the foundry shop of the "August 23rd" plant inany
young men are working. Stefan Petrescu is one of them. He
wants to present a miniature mo to str a in to the young dele
gates who will attend the Festival.
Ilie Cristea is working in the same foundry shop. His
mates oonsider him an artist on his job and that is why the
gift he is going to offer to his German friends will be an
‘'artistic” one. He is going to manufacture the likeness oi a
sportsman, of a young man steeled on the sports ground.
Young Ghita Constantin, one of Ilie Cristea's friends,
will offer sculpture to our Freneh guests; his sculpture will
represent a young fouttdiy worker. Another young worker, Ion
Antip is making a small prototype of the tractor turned out
by the "A u g u s t - 23rd” plant which he wants to offer to our
Indian friends.
Many and various are the gifte wMrvh will bo offered
by our country—youth to their beloved guests* Every one of
these gifts will mirror the times we live in.
The gift offered by Ana Cojan, a school girl from Deva
is particularly inspiring. She has made an album with white
cover* embroidered with golden thread. In this\album in whioh
only a few words are written, you may read the history of our
timgPf the history of our youth.
Nothing could express the heartfelt sentiments of
friendship of the youth of our country for the youth of the
world better than these genuine' presents of youth. They ex
press the desire for closer relations and friendship among
world youth. These gifts are symbols of youth, friendship
and peace.
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ARTICLE SERVICE
lyth WORLD FESTIVALOF Y O U T H AND STUDENTS FOR PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP
Bucborvct, Auguct 2nd - 16th
P u b I I t k • d b y t h • I n t e r n a t i o n a l F •• t I v a I C o m m l t t * * AddrM» : Bucurvftl, B<L Republic* 33 » T*L 12&00 * T.Ugraohk: oddr*tt: F»rt*d BucSar— t
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Nr.15
SOILS IMPRESSIONS Of A VISIT TO
G:- AT BRITAIN AND FESTIVAL PREPARATIONS
"by Steve Endicott
It was a busy Saturday afternoon in letticoat Lane
and many hundreds of people were milling around frori one stall
to another, intent on making their last minute week-end pur
chases. In the midst of all this intense activity, a group
of people began to gather around a small open spot. They stood4
still, listening intently. What was going on?
There were about tv; nty young peojlc, led by a young
man with a guitrr, singing at the top of their voices. Seve
ral of them Lei 1 •colourful posters which said : "3one with
us to Bucharest'1. Suddenly the son- stopped, and the young
man 'with the guitar turned to th< crowd which had by now swel
led t© several hundred and said : "We are the London Youth
Choir. We are singing about the World Youth Festival whioh will
take place in Bucharest, Rumania, t: is sumner. V7c want to show
you new some of the dances and songs which wo will perform
there.
There followed a twenty minute programme of dances and
songs. One of the songs, to a popular tune, went like this .
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The Festival Train is coming, I hear it close at hand,
I hear the wheels a-noving and rumbling through the
land,
From Glasgow and Dunedin, Belfast and Aberdare,
From London and from Lancashire the la&3 will all
be there. *
I hear the call of Friendship in workshop and in mine*
So cone and get your ticket, or you'll be left behind.
Get on board, little children,
For there's room for many a more.
Near the end there was another speech and a collection
was taken up to help pay the expenses of the choir to Bucharest.
As the group started to move on, there were cries of, "When
are you coming again?” , "Tell us niore about this Festival!"
There is widespread public activity in Great Britain
for the Festival. *nd net only in London. Not the least co
lourful parts of the 3<?.000 workers parade on May Cay in Glas
gow were the various youth section* carrying banners saying :
"Come to the Festival of Peace and Friendship", and the co
lourful Festival posters— the same ones which nov: decorate
the streets of Bucharest. In the industrial centers 11*3 Shef
field and Manchester, factory-gate meetings have been held to £
tell about this summer's gr.at youth event.
The Festival has alroady •reached youth of widely dif
fering opinions and occupations. For example, among those al
ready registered iu 3ritain are engineer? and building workers,
students and textile workers, min. r®, scientists, young doctors'
and artist?.In many clubs tn- committees there are discussions and
debates ov-r tie questions raised by the 'Festival and the III
World Youth Congress. I was invited to attend the youth com
mittee of one largt ;rade u :.on . During the discussions on
whether the Youth C nuaittcc should take action on the festival
or not, one y^ung v.orker said : "The ideas of this Festival are
very laudable, but ue as a youth committee should stick stric
tly to the business c f our committee and the young workers v/e
represent hs such. These international events do not concern
us in this capacity at all".
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" I disagree11, replied another. "It ig our business.
Cannot a meeting with youn? trade uiiionists of other coun
tries with similar problems help to fcnrich our experience
and aid our work? Is not the development of international
co-operation and understanding closely tied up with our e-
conomic problems the development of trade to provide employ
ment in our industry for example?’" .* ,
Jhe YoOith Committee decided to do something on the
Festival* And in most places, through all the debates, com-
mon6ense,* the call of World Touth Friendship and Peace are
winning out.
British youth are preparing to present various aspects
of the proud heritage of their culture. Folk dance groups will
bring the famous "Morris Dance". A group of Shakespeare Play
ers ar going to present "Twelfth Night". Choirs and soloists
will sing the songs of the people. The film of the great Youth
Peace Festival, held in Sheffield last year, will be shown.
Likewise with sports. Teams and outstanding sportsmen
and women are being chosen. One interesting example was drawn
to ray attention in Manchester, where there was a notice in a
local newspaper, inviting all young men interested in foot
ball to come to •>. local restaurant one evening to form a team
to send to the Friendly flames at the Festivd .
Arid everywhere, initiatives are boing launched.
Thvse few aspects of the preparations carriod out by
our friends, in Groat Britain show the great possibilities we
have to secur- the participation of thousands young people in
our grand IVth Festival of Peace and Friendship.
Many enthusiastic young British men and wom^n will
to Bucharest.
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A R t l C i E SERVICE - 5 z ^ ■a • a•- **■ A
iy«h W ORLD FESTIVALO F Y O U T H AND STUDENTS FOR PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP
Bucharest. August 2nd - I6*h
P u b I I • h • d b y t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l F e s t i v a l C o m m i t t e e
Address: Bucureytt, Bd. Repoblicll 33 * TeL 426JOO * Telegraphic oddress: Festival Bucharest
Nr. 3,6
THE ROMANIAN AMATEUR ARTISTS ARE PREPARING
FOR THE FESTIVAL
by C a§a Georgescu
Recently the finals took place of the 3rd National
Competition of the Trade-Union Artists groups in which more
than 130,000 working people took part. This event was one
of the most important stages in the cultural work which is
under way in our country in preparation for the 4th World
Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship.
That is why these finals were organised in a particularly in
teresting and attractive way. Finalists of all categories
including choirs, orchestras, dance ensembles and soloists
performed shows of the different regions of the country.
The finals took place in the theater of the Central
Council of the Trade Unions. The performances took a whole
-week and lasted 10 hours a day. The theater entrance was
taken by assault by the hundreds of spectators.
» This is not surprising, for the very structure of the
jperformances was an attraction of unique ^ualx.y. Perfor
;mers from each region presented artistic aspects specific
,to their places of origin including their marvellous natio
nal costumes, and the songs and dances peculiar to the Ruma
nian population and th*t national minorities inhabiting the
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respective areas. Thus every programme was ,a •united whole.
But how much variety in that entirety.
An office worker of a local People's Council played
•a tune from Oltenia on the bagpipes. A dance-ensemble from
Timisoara presented the German dance "Karussel". It was fol
lowed toy a group of flute-players who are working at a depot.
A Bucharest student played the famous "Invartita" dance on
the hark of a ti'ee. He was followed by a lively dance-ensem-
ble from the Hungarian Autonomous Region. A symphony orches
tra took their place to play Tchaikovsky’ s Italian Caprice.
This was just one typical programme of the 12 shows. Time
flew by so quickly that often no time was found for an inter
val.* • *
The variety of the programmes was surpassed only by
the variety of the perform^t's. Since the competition was o-
pen to all trade-union members it was quite natural that the
finalists included the greatest variety of working people.
.Nobody was surprised when the Stakhancvite machine-
mill operator Dumitru Popa of the Braila factory "Progresul"
came to play music by Rachmaninov; that the Aninoasa miner
Constantin Tismanaru, the Timisoara teacher Marta Bugariu,
that the waiter lo^if Ozampoi from Devi and Vasiliu Liviu,
one of the students of the Ia?i Pclytechnical. Institute
• proved to be gifted solo-performers.
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The amateur artists' shows presented various aspects
from the life and work of our people. Here is one example:
the "Excursion train", a ballet performed by railwaymen wor
king in Bucharest’s "North" station, begins with a railman
coming on the stage. He swings his lantern thereby giving the
signal' for a train to enter the station. TV-nc- rs clad in dark-
coloured costumes symbolising the railway carriages appear
preceded by one of their group who puffs smok< . . . from a pipe.
Lively girls in white training suits represcribing the excursio
nists come along and the train starts off. At a certain station
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the travellers get off, the “railway engine" puffs and. turns
and the train continues its journey.
Workers of the -'Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej" clothing fac
tory performed another ballet which shows the work of the
weavers. The looms are rattling and threads inter-weaving
turn and twist in a beautiful dance.
Another ballet, performed by tho dance ensemble of the
Bacfiu factory "Partizanur* is entitled -Hew Life in a Cingoi
village'1,. It deals with the struggle against backward tradi
tions. In the Cingoi villages it used to bs the custom that
girls must not dance with boys. But today tractor drivers,
too, come to the "Hora" of the Cingoi minority. They tell
the young people to dance toother and delicately but with
determination the boys convince the jirlr It lo so.
All kinds of orchestras took part in the competition
including brass bands and symphony orchestras, gipsy-bands
and harmonica-ensembles.$ *
Many orchestras and choirs performed very difficult
i-er-s. When ths 17^ members of the choir and jrcliestra of the
"Sovrometal" works of Resina came on. the stagf’ and performed
excerpts from th- grand ‘Song of the Fores t3" by the Soviet
composer &pstakovich you could hardly believ- that you were
listening to ai.. ‘ r-ur artists.
In the course of the I'd shows the 'rrark. Union amateur
artists played P»vmn}m, Hungarian, German, Serbian, ir.cra, Lan
n.u*ic, as well as work3 by Brahms, Mozart, .Vnx-r and Rossini.
They also performed works specially written for this
competition by amateur composers, .via v vronps presented works
closely related to the production of the ft -A ori s in which
they are working.
The next item is announced. It will be the Clarket of
Giina,< to be performed by the dance ensemble of the ■'Flaraura
Rosie" factory of Arad.
The cii~J Li rises and the stagf. is ir s i;:.i-darkness.
Young girls clad in the national costum -s of the Mo , „pul*rion
blow into the big ‘'bucium" (huge wooden horns several
; w am0UnCil18 the °penio« of market. It is duskThe 3tarte lt3 llTely actlvltj_ The l^ k-
t T \ ^ CBV ^ ^ f9U°Wed by toe p#0ple from « * count y . A lively rhythm dominates every movement. Suddenly a
group of children appears - girls and hoys of 4 to Shears
in the local national costume.
idea * T aUdience. aPPla\ ^ and obviously welcomes the good idea to increase the authenticity of the scene by bringing
these young extras on the stage. But, these children a r ^
anything but extras; they are real ballet artists. The six
pairs of them start a Mof dance so lively that the whole sta
k i n g * a" d thCn the TOUS ®f th° theator sha-
ceiv' ™ 13 the applauae the Performers are re-rng. The little ballot dancers are children of the day-
I Z T Z f r ° FlM,UI'a R0?i° ' fRCt017' the sons and da“S*>-01 factory and office workers.
. .. The leader of this s^oup told 'us some details concer-
V h ^ lopment ° f thda artistic ensemble and the birth
chest° h " !he MarkSt ° f GSlna"- In *950 Che factory or-
cors Today t h ^ T “ * “ “ dan°° eMeBMe 9 PairS of dan‘-rs. Today the orchestra has 18 members -nd +-h« a bip in _ cjemDers «nd the dance ensemble ^0, not counting the children.
“The Market of Gaina" was created following a trip
of several member, * the ensemble and of its choreographer
The’ H J v oil" r , t’'P nf,ishb‘,urh00d of «*-• mountain Gains,
bit ant s of c ^ “ “ “ ° ? ^ ° 8 a M <* ne<* « » i>*a-
of G4ina° ' ^ bnSEd 0,i thCSe the ball9t - » • Market01 Lraina11 was created.
. .. ^ .n ‘1S 3ran'1 cultural competition culminated in the dis-
t i o n t T " ° f th° Varl0US PrlZ''S- ®Ut if we sa'y the oompeti-
a f W e 7 " T 6nd W“ dnly ^ Pl°yi^ th-sa «“ *» -level sin " C°mpi'titlon *>“ on, but on a higherlevel, since very soon, during the Bucharest restival somc-of these am at,„ ..rtists will represent the tu-ar.an People's
Republic before <ho messengers of youth from all over the
wor Their songs and dances will show once more how the
arts of a people flourish und.,r the sun of Rumania.
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Collection Number: AD1812
RECORDS RELATING TO THE 'TREASON TRIAL' (REGINA vs F. ADAMS AND OTHERS ON CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON, ETC.), 1956 1961 TREASON TRIAL, 1956 1961
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