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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...
Jaffa's statement agreed with the staff committee's censure of the IUS for not protesting the suppression of student demonstrations in Prague at the time of the Communist coup, but questioned the right of the group to make such a move...
Commenting on reasons for his protest, Jaffa pointed out that when affiliation with IUS was first considered by the NSA last September, "it was known that the IUS leadership was, at least, pro-Soviet and, probably, Communist-dominated...
...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...