Word: ius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group will continue its present policy of efforts of cooperation on specific projects of a non-political nature with the International Union of Students, but in line with a policy decision reached last winter there will be no affiliation with the Communist-dominated IUS...
According to Clark's analysis, whatever industrial progress Russia has made has been largely offset by agricultural stagnation. Soviet productivity, rated in 1900 at .15 IUs (15? worth of goods per man-hour, at U.S. 1925-34 prices), dropped to .10 after the land reforms of 1918-19; it rose to .16 in 1927-28, but forced collectivization of farms in 1928-33 pulled the level down to .12. No Soviet statistics for the war years are available, but by 1947 Soviet productivity had climbed back to .14 IUs, just under the 1900 level. The U.S., on the other...
Lawrence Jaffa 3Dv, told the Cabot Hall audience of his efforts on a three man delegation that was studying the possibility of affiliation with the International Union of Students. Jaffa's committee eventually recommended suspension of negotiations with the IUS. He charged that the IUS did nothing to insure free student expression during last February's Czechoslovakian election...
Chief issue before the convention was the relation of NSA to the Russian oriented International Union of Students. This body carries on many non-political world student projects and NSA sought, and finally evolved, a way to work in these without involving itself in the affairs of IUS as such. Prior to the Czech crisis, NSA had been affiliated with the Prague IUS headquarters...
...recent tragic events in Czechoslovakia have only proved definitely what we assumed then. Nevertheless, we still feel that if representative American students are to meet with students of other nations, we must continue to seek whatever opportunity the IUS affords to spread understanding and cooperation in the educational world...