Communist Meetings 1954 Programme (Southern Cross, 30 Apr 1954)

Southern Cross (1954-04-30) - Communist Meetings 7954 PROGRAMME Source: Trove, National Library of Australia - https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article167690253 Date retrieved: 2026-10-17 OCR text (uncorrected) follows. 30 Apr 1954 - Communist Meetings Southern Cross (Adelaide, SA: 1889 - 1954), Friday 30 April 1954, page 16 Communist Meetings7954 PROGRAMMEITVHE newspaper, "La Hora," of Guatemala City, has warned that the Central American and Caribbean Youth Festival to be held in Guatemala City next October is a Communist undertaking. It is being sponsored by the "World Federation of Democratic Youth."Several other Communist-sponsored international meetings have been scheduled throughout the free world for the next twelve months, according to London reports."Soviet Orbit," an anti-Communist weekly review published in London, notes none of the following are professedly Communist, but all are of obvious Red inspiration.APRIL: An International Lawyers' Congress to be held in Mexico City under the auspices of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.APRIL 11—19: An International Student Chess Tournament in Oslo, Norway, arranged by the International Union of Students.APRIL 15-21: An International Architectural Students' Conference in Rome, Italy, under the sponsorship of the International Union of Students.JULY 3—7: An International Conference of Metal and Engineering Workers called by the World Federation of Trade Unionists.AUGUST 1—11: An International Medical Students' Seminar announced by the International Union of Students, to be held in Oslo.OCTOBER: Central American and Caribbean Youth Festival, to take place in Guatemala under the aegis of the World Federation of Democratic Youth. The same organisation is sponsoring a South American Youth and Student Festival at Santiago, Chile.NOVEMBER: A World Peasant Youth Congress, which is expected to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia.FEBRUARY, 1955: Asian Student Games, under the auspices of the International Union of Students, which may take place in Calcutta, India.Among special Communist-organised observances scheduled for the year are an International Children's DefenceDay under the direction of th^Women's International Democratic Federation: and an International Students' Day slated for November 17 under the same auspices. The Council of the I.U.S. will hold a meeting in Moscow at the end of August.^THOUSANDS of Berlin Catholics attended a Pontifical Mass celebrated in St. Bernard's Church, Berlin, by Bishop Wilhelm Weskamm to mark the 40th anniversary of his ordination. The Mass was broadcast over the North-West German Radio network. Among hundreds of congratulatory messages received by the Bishop were those from Protestant Bishop Dr. Otto Dibedius, head of the Evangelical Church in Germany, and Walther Schreiber, Mayor, of West Berlin.Bishop Weskamm, a native of Westphalia, became Bishop of Berlin in 1951, succeeding the late Cardinal Konrad von Preysing.r