International Union of Students.

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Founded in Prague 1946 as a world wide nonpartisan association of National Unions of Students (NUSes); aimed to foster international understanding and lasting peace the IUS supported contemporary efforts to continue the anti-Hitler war coalition in peacetime; with its secretariat in Prague the IUS was strongly influenced by communists in key positions from the beginning; left by most Western member unions after the communist take-over in Czechoslovakia 1948 (see International Student Conference), became a communist controlled front organization; from 1956 noncommunist NUSes from the Third World (Latin America especially) got some influence on IUS policy; in 1968 IUS strongly protested when the host country was invaded by its socialist allies; periodicals: World Student News and News Service.

From the description of Collection (1943) 1946-1970 (1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 85218787
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referencedIn Oliver Tambo papers University of Connecticut. Libraries
referencedIn Guide to the Tamiment Library Poster and Broadside Collection, 1904-1991 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn International Student Relations Seminar (10th). International organizations: records, 1951-1962. University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC
referencedIn Association of Internes and Medical Students. Harvey Cushing Chapter. Association of Internes and Medical Students. Harvey Cushing Chapter. Records, 1946-1949. Yale University, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
referencedIn Association of Internes and Medical Students. Harvey Cushing Chapter. Association of Internes and Medical Students. Harvey Cushing Chapter. Records, 1946-1949. Yale University, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
referencedIn International Union of Students : PAD/D pamphlet file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
referencedIn Scales, Junius. Reminiscences of Junius Scales : oral history, 1988. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
referencedIn Herbert Aptheker Papers, 1842-1999, (bulk 1934-1994) Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn [International Union of Students pamphlet collection] [microform]. Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library
referencedIn [International Union of Students pamphlet collection]. Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library
creatorOf International Union of Students. Collection (1943) 1946-1970 (1975).
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