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Parliament of Youth

Wechsler, James | August 27, 1938 issue

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The article focuses on the second World Youth Congress held at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. About 500 representatives from youth movements in more than fifty countries on every continent came to this congress. According to the author, no Youth Congress that was genuinely representative could be of a single mind. This one was the meeting-ground of a hundred passionate and often clashing hopes. While this congress was immensely broad and representative, it failed to be a world body due to the absence of German and Italian youth, whose governments, on their behalf, had rejected the invitation.

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CONGRESSES & conventions; YOUTH movements; ACTIVISM; VASSAR College; POUGHKEEPSIE (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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