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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Breaks with IUS...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: NSA Rethinks Role of 'Students as Students' | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

Once the Association began to function, a third issue split the membership: whether to join the IUS. NSA sent a representative, William Ellis '46, to Prague, charged with 13 conditions under which NSA would join IUS. While the negotiations were going on the Communist coup d'etat took place, and the IUS refused to take a stand against the new government for jailing anti-Communist student leaders and professors. Ellis broke off negotiations, resigned from the Prague Secretariat, and denounced IUS's betrayal of student liberties...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: NSA Rethinks Role of 'Students as Students' | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

...year after the IUS was formed, 1947, delegates from student governments met at Madison, Wisconsin to draft the constitution of the USNSA. The student organization that was to emerge was new in name and structure, but in spirit a descendent of the student organization of the thirties, the National Student Federation of America. The President of NSFA in 1932 had been a young man named Edward R. Murrow; its last congress in 1940 had been organized by Orville Freeman, now Governor of Minnesota...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: NSA Rethinks Role of 'Students as Students' | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

...report noted that "few NSA leaders doubted that the IUS was controlled by an outside political force which disregarded the interests of "students as students," but for the next few years members still clutched at what they considered the last straw for international student relations. The issue was not laid to rest until the early fifties...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: NSA Rethinks Role of 'Students as Students' | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

...turning point came in 1950. Student associations of the free world decided to split from the Communist-run IUS. Tactics such as levelling germ-warfare charges against the United States convinced many associations that IUS could not be reformed. A meeting in Stockholm established the International Student Conference, now the largest international student organization in the world...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: NSA Rethinks Role of 'Students as Students' | 10/23/1959 | See Source »

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