Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 7. June 16, 1955

IUS and Cominform

IUS and Cominform

The release recalls that the first International Student Conference was held at Stockholm in December 1950. It was felt that a non-partisan machinery for promoting genuine International co-operation among students was necessary; the existing organisation, the IUS, was felt by many student Unions to have become too committed to the political line of the Cominform to serve as an effective vehicle. Since then, annual meetings have been held in Edinburgh (Jan. 1952). Copenhagen (Jan. 1953) and Istanbul (Jan. 1954).