Foreign News: The Doves of Berlin

Along East Berlin streets boxed in with grotesque caricatures of a bloody-handed Uncle Sam bludgeoning a prostrate world, half a million blue-shirted young Germans marched up & down this week yelling their battle cry: "Freundschaft!" (friendship). Occasion: the opening of Communism's World Youth Festival, a grandiose, two-week propaganda brawl, designed along the lines of last year's huge but unsuccessful Berlin youth rally.

East Germany's blood-Red Free German Youth Movement (FDJ) snared "peace doves" (as the Communists called the festival delegates) from Communist roosts all over the world. To swell the big flocks from East Germany, the other satellites and Russia, hundreds of...

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