"The Split"

However, believing that emergency needs created by the war were receding ISS proposed on August 1949 that WSR and ISS should be merged on the completion of the WSR agreement in September, 1950. in this view they were supported by Pax Romana and WSCF. The World Union of Jewish Students did not commit itself while IUS strongly opposed the proposed change.

The disagreement between the two groups on the future of WSR led to the collapse of that body and its replacement by two organisations each administering relief. The major reasons for disagreement were:—