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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

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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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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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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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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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