Partisan Nature of IUS

Publications

Some sincerely believe that a student organisation cannot avoid political activity but the sincerity of those in IUS is questionable when that activity is examined. There is evidence to support the suggestion that this activity is not impartial. "When the report speaks of Western Germany becoming a military base, we would expect it to express far more concern at the state of affairs in Eastern Germany, where the people's police are organised on military lines, officered by such men as Major-Gens. Wiz and Weech, who both held important positions in the Wehrmacht under the Nazis."

"If the IUS reported fairly the views of all its members there might be some excuse for trying to settle matters which statemen have failed to settle, but if it merely repeats the Soviet case while suppressing those of other countries we can and do justly claim that the IUS is partisan. The Peace Campaign.

"It is selective treatment which has brought the activities of the Partisans of Peace into disrepute . . . All of us want peace." They (the Partisans of Peace) are not against [unclear: ar] in any part of the world if it is fought for communist aims. The National Union of Students has mandated its delegates to support the Stockholm Appeal only if it were amended to ban all weapons.

The IUS could play a leading part in the campaign for peace by the breaking down of barriers to understanding.