IUS Questioned in Birmingham

"Guild News" (Birmingham University) for February 16, recounts incidents during the visit of the International Union of Students Executive to the University following the meeting in London the previous week. Speaking to a gathering in the Mixed Lounge, delegates from Ecuador, Hungary and the Soviet Union stressed the importance to young people engaged on study of world peace, economic security and spiritual freedom. Questions about the expulsion of Yugoslav student organisation were satisfactorily answered by reference to the unrepresentative nature of that organisation. One question ran as follows: "In view of the formation of a Society for the Return of the Stuarts at Cambridge, would the formation of a society in Russia for the return of the Czarist regime be allowed?" Gennidaz Feminov refused to answer this question, but remarked that he "could think of no section of Russian society which might be represented by an equivalent of the Conservative Party."

The meeting closed with mutual expressions of goodwill, and support for the Ideals and fighting programme of the I.U.S.