International organizations: records, 1951-1962.

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International organizations: records, 1951-1962.

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The material is organized into two divisions. The first division, which covers the background material on national and international unions, consists of correspondence, lists, reports, reprints, memoranda, and a questionnaire. Material in this category includes the history, structure, purpose, and functions of the United States National Student Association, the International Union of Students, the International Students Conference, and the Youth and Trade Union Organizations. The second category, which covers the unity issue, miscellaneous topics, and national unions in Europe and related areas, consists of correspondence, reports, reprints, resolution, lists, memoranda, a statement, and a bulletin. Material in this division includes reports on cooperation and unity in international student organizations, the Catholic Youth Organization program, 1961, the relief program of the World University Service, and the student movement in Europe, 1957, 1961; the Baghdad resolution on Negro segregation in the United States; statistics on Western European population, illiteracy, and education, 1955-1957; and the problems and activities of the national unions in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, Italy, Belgium, France, Spain, Norway, and Austria.

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United States National Student Association

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The National Student Association was founded in 1947 as a confederation of student governments across the nation, united for the purpose of improving education. It advocated federal aid for education, student publications without censorship and it took a stand against discrimination. Smith College students began affiliation with the organization the year it was created. In 1978 it merged with the National Student Lobby, forming the United States Student Association....

International Student Conference

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Established in 1950; Western counterpart of the communist orientated International Union of Students (IUS); organized congresses for its members, the National Unions of Students (NUSes); its Coordinating Secretariat of National Unions of Students (COSEC), established in Leiden, Holland, was specifically without policy powers; the ninth ISC in 1960 abandoned the s̀tudents-as-such' clause, making political statements of the ISC possible; supreme authority between conferences was now endorsed by a ...

International Student Relations Seminar (10th)

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The International Union of Students was established for the purpose of securing the most effective means of protecting student rights and of serving student needs. However, some of the National Student Unions throughout the world objected to the compromise charter that was established by the International Union of Students and their failure to protest developments within Czechoslovakia during the coup d'etat of February 1948. The International Union of Students was accused by some national stude...

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)...