Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer of '54 Sigmund organized the NSA international student relations seminar here in Cambridge ("I had been interested in NSA as an undergraduate, but only mildly active"), and at the NSA congress in August was elected international vice president, "really a full time job." He tried keeping tutorial through the fall but found the combination impossible. "I remember calling once from Chicago to cancel a meeting." And anyway Sigmund wanted to go to South Africa and write a report on segregation in the universities there. "I got as far as Europe, but the South African government refused me a visa...
...oath is extremely unfortunate in this case," she pointed out, "because it singles out students particularly as people who are suspect. But, since this is the first national loan program that has been passed by Congress, there are bound to be flaws...
...Banda, who has dubiously honored himself with the title of "extremist of extremists," is the area's chief nationalist spokesmon. Until his return to Southern Rhodesia last summer, there had been no trouble in six years, but since then his messianic influence seems to have encouraged the nationalist African Congress party to turn from politics to militant agitation. This has served to discredit the moderate whites who permitted his return to Rhodesia and to strengthen extremists on both sides...
...anxious to assert its authority and frightened by the recent outbreaks in the Belgian Congo, the Federal government's reaction was hasty and excessive. A state of emergency was declared, the African Congress was banned, and Dr. Banda and many of its leaders were arrested. While these measures may have been necessary to preserve the peace, the use of white Rhodesian reservists in Nyasaland, rather than the British ones available in Kenya, was not needed, and is certain to stimulate bad feeling. Equally unfortunate was the recent forceful expulsion of a visiting Labourite Member of Parliament, who was accused, perhaps...
Most criticism was levelled against the annual Congress rather than the day to day affairs of NSA. "When it comes to international issues, we hesitate to say what is and what is not Harvard opinion," commented Edward B. Segal...