Delegations Arrive for National Day (FBIS, 29 Sep 1959)

=== [PDF page 1] === DELEGATIONS ARRIVE FOR NATIONAL DAY (Editorial Report) In its English transmissions, NCNA continued to report the arrival of foreign delegations for the national day celebrations. A lengthy list of foreign delegations was published in the BBB section of the Sept. 28 Far East DAILY REPORT. A list of delegations previously unreported follows: Mongolia The Mongolian working people's delegation headed by Genden, chairman of the control commission of the Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary Party of Mongolia, arrived in Peking Sept. 28. North Vietnam The 2Q-member Vietnam working people's delegation headed by Bui Ky, member of the presidium of the Central Ccemmittee of the Fatherland Front of Viétnam and vere taent of the Vietnam-China Friendship Association, arrived in Peking sept. 28. Finland A four-member Finnish cultural del egation hended by (Temavi Harki?) arrived in Peking Sept, 28. === [PDF page 2] === Venezucla A five-memocr Venezuelan cultural and good will delegation headed by Humoerto Cuenca arrived in Peking Sept. 28. Hait Frank Fouche, Haitian writer, arrived in Peking,Sept. 28. Morocco A delegation of the National Union of Popular Forecs of Morocco, headed by Mehdi Ben Barka, arrived in Peking Sent. 28. Mrs. Barka was on the same plane. Mauritius (Ba Abdul Aziz?) secretary general of the National Union of Mauritania and legislator of Mauritania, arrived in Peking by plane Sept. 28. Afghanistan The government dclegation of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, headed ty Ghulam Mohammed Sherzad, minister of comacree, arrived in Feking by plane Sept. 29. The other member of the delegation is Sardar Zalmay Mahmoud Ghazi, acting director of the economic department of the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Japan A Japanese delegation arrived in Peking on Sept. 27. Comprising 30 persons the delegation is headed by Tetsu Katayama, adviser to the Japanese Socialist Party. World Federation of Democratic Youth Christian Echard, sceretary general of the World Federation of Lemceratic Youth and head of the WFDY delegation, and three members cf the delegation arrived in Peking Sept. 25. In all, seven members of the delegation have arrived in the past fuw days. They are Miroslav Vecker, president of the central committee of the Union of Czcchoslovak Youth; Noriabdel Razail Hussein, secretary general of the Iraqi Democratic Youth Feacration; Mario Bariona, member of the national executive committce of the Socialist Youth Movement of Italy; H.G.S. Ratnaweera, president of the Federation of Communist and Progressive Youth Leagues of Coylon; Payes Alioune Badara, president of the African Democratic Youth Congress; Jose Ratzer, member of the exccutive committce of the Federation of Communist Youth of Argentina; and Matsika Aime, secretary general of the Congo Union of Youth. === [PDF page 3] === Women's Democratic International Federation N.J. Mudikdio, member of the parliamentary group of the Indonesian Communist Party, member of the council of the WIDF, and vice chairman of the women's movement of Indonesia, and Kotoko Takada, secretary gencral of the Fukushima congress of mothers of Japan, arrived in Peking by plane Sept. 23. Thcy are members of the WIDF delegation. Noreen Hewett, national president of the Union of Australian “lomen; Helen Kasian, member of the national executive Congress of Canadian Women; and Grace Ayensu, councillor of the Sekondi-Takoradi Municipal Council in Ghana, arrived Sept. 21 and 22. Maric-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, head of the delegation, and four other members arrived carlier. International Union of Students A delegation of the IUS headed by Jiri Pelikan, president of the IUS arrived in Peking Sept. 26. The other members of the delegation are Mamadou Barry, vice president of the IUS, Mehdi Abd al-“arimn, president of the Gencral Union of Students of Iraq; Manuel Conrado, president of the National Union of Brazilian Students; Abd al-Magid Baghir al-Amhadi, former president of the Khartoum University Students Union of Sudan; and Pathe Diagne, representative of the General Union of Students of West Africa. World Pcace Council The WFC delegation arrived in Peking by plane Sept. 26. Members of the delegation are Dr. James G. Endicott, member of the presidential committee of the WPC and chairman of the Canadian Peace Congres:, and his wife; Isabelle Blume, member of the presidentiad..committee of the VPC; Setiadi, member of the presidential committee of the WFC and wice chairman of the Indonesian Peace Committce; Yves Farge, member of the WFC Bureau and member of the presidium of the French National Peace Council; and Maria Rosa Oliver, member of the WPC Bureau. Nikolai Scmyonovich Tikhonov, member of the WPC Bureau, chairman of the Soviet Peace Committce, and head of the Soviet-Chinese Fricndship Association delegation, is also a membcr of the delegation. The delegation is headed by John D. Bernal, exccutive president of the presidential committee of the WPC and vice president of the British Peace Committce who will arrive later. === [PDF page 4] === Othe Delegation NCHA also reported the arrival of the following: A celegation of the Labor Party of Switzerland led py Guido Cabagna, member of the Central Committee. A delegation of the Communist Party of Sweden headed by the president of the party, Hilding Hagoerg. A delegation of the Communist Parsy of Algeria headed by Larbi Bouhali, sceretary general of the party. Johanna Koplenig, president of the Austrian Communist Party, leading a delogetion of tix Austrian Comminist Party. Roge.io Hspindola, member of the Central Committee o2 the Communist Party cf Paraguay, leading a delevat’on of the Commu:ist Party of Paraguay. A delegation of the Communist Party of Italy, headed by Girolamo li Causi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee A delegatic. of the Communist Party of Uruguay headed by Enrique Rodriguez, member of bie secretariat of the Central Committe. A eee on of tue Communis. Party of Ecuddor headed by Alejandro Idcrovo, memoer of t..e Central Committee, A delegation of the Peoplé*s Part:- of Iran headed by Tubali, member of the executive burcau of the Central Committee. A celegation of the Communist Party of France headed by Waldeck Rochet, memoer of the Political Bureau and member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee. A delegation of the Communist Party of the Netherlands headed by G.- Pothoven, member of the Central Committee. A ceiegation of the Greek Communist Party headed by Apostolos Grozos, president of the party. A delegation of the Cuban People's Socialist Party headed by Anibal Escalante, executive member cf the national committee and member of the Executive Bureeu A delegation of the Canadian Labor P: ogressive Party headed by Nelson Clarke, member of the executive committee of the national conmittee and editor in chief c2 the Canadian TRIBUIT. === [PDF page 5] === Umberto Barulli, member of the Central Committee and of the political secretariat of the Communist Party of San Marino. A Brazilian Communist Party delegation, headed by Luiz Carlos Prestes. A Nepali Communist Party delegation, headed by Dr. Kesher Jung Raymajhi, ge:.eral secretary of the party. A Venezuelan Communist Party delegation, headed by Jesus Faria, secretary general of the Central Committee. A Costa Rica People's Vanguard Party delegation, headed by Arnoldo Ferreto, member of the party Central Committee. A Syrian Communist Party delegation, headed by Khaled Bakdash, secretary general of the Central Committee. An Icelandic Socialist Unity Party delegation, headed by Eggert Thorbajarnarsc member of the Central Committee. An Israeli Communist Party representative, Zvi Breitstein, chairman of the central control committee. of the Israeli Communist Party. A Colombian cultural delegation headed by Dr. Enrique Gomez Hurtado, Colombian economist. Ricardo Auaya, Bolivian professor of economics; and from Cuba Enrique Labra Luis, assistant director of the Cuban paper DIARIO NACIONAL; Marino Rodriguez, painter; Vicente Reuveiitas, theater director; and Isable Monal, director of the Cuban national theater. NCNA also reported the arrival of a delegation of the Socialist Party of Nicaragua, but gave no remes.