Word: ius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formed last summer in Prague. On this issue the "Progressive's" contributor, J. C. Farrar of Yale, takes a qualified affirmative position, proposing "affiliation at once" but only on the grant of "certain contingencies." Though reasserting the benefits of affiliation, Farrar says that since "the majority opinion of the IUS is far to the left of the usual American student" and "the European student is a much more active citizen and a more violent political figure" than his American counterpart, "it may seem advisable to ask the IUS to alter the clauses of its constitution covering withdrawal, which...
...true that the IUS is "Kremlin dominated." The British National Union of Students, certainly nobody's potsy, was in on building IUS from the first. The Executive Committee is not 3 to 1 composed of Reds, or Red-controlled. As to Elliott's squawk that the U. S. has only one man on the executive, how in the devil many should we have on a 17-man committee which represents 36 nations...
...IUS, American students will associate with Reds. Everybody concerned knows this. They will also associate with laborite, socialist, Christian democrat, Kuomintang, Congress Party, Moslem, anarchist, and every other conceivable kind of student, except Fascist, against whom we all have rather a prejudice. The IUS is a little United Nations, and everybody is in it, even Russians...
...made plague. They will be wary of anyone who tries to fool them. That includes the Vogis of the Government Department as well as the Commissars. Professor Elliott would do us all a service to get an honest idea of what actually happened at Prague, of what the IUS really is. Allen H. Barton...
...Commission on Colonials and Imperialism: That the IUS (1) Ask the U. S. to remove troops from China; and (2) That troops (a) should be withdrawn from countries where they are being held for political purposes, and (b) should refrain from political activity in countries where they are being held for other reasons...