Report on the Vienna Youth Festival Held in Vienna, Austria, July 26 through August 4, 1959 by [WOMEN] [STEINEM, Gloria] INDEPENDENT SERVICE FOR INFORMATION ON THE VIENNA YOUTH FESTIVAL; Hubert H. Humphrey, foreword - 1960

Cambridge: Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's blue printed staplebound card wrappers; [6],108,xivpp.; photographic illus. Spine edge a bit sunned, else Near Fine. Having struggled to find work in New York City, 25-year-old Gloria Steinem moved to Cambridge in 1959 to assume the position of co-director of the anti-Communist program the Independent Service for Information on the Vienna Youth Festival. The Service, masquerading as a private enterprise whose aim was to send democracy- and capitalism-loving American youth to the communist-run Festival, was funded by an anonymous donor later revealed to be the CIA. The present title is one of a series of pamphlets on the Communist-sponsored Festival. Senator Hubert Humphrey smugly describes the proceedings in his foreword: "The balance swung to the Free World because of the effective challenge by non-Communist youth who initiated a dialogue for which the Communist youth had no response.