Alister Taylor past president NZUSA

Recent disclosure have tinued existence [unclear: c] the Student Conferencein [unclear: do] It was reported by [unclear: Ja] the New York Tires in that the American entro Agency, as well as [unclear: s] States National (USNSA) and other [unclear: meric] since 1952 given hue amo to such international progam International Student Cor and the World Asse[unclear: bly] of

The ISC was established [unclear: in] 1948 after West [unclear: Eruopear] student bodies, led by Ameri[unclear: can] student groups, [unclear: became] increasingly restive at the [unclear: so-]called left-wing tendencies [unclear: of] the International Union [unclear: of] Students.

This of course was [unclear: just] another development in the Cold War. which had [unclear: beet] systematically formulated [unclear: a] a policy by the [unclear: American] since as early as 1943. and instituted by President Tru[unclear: man] when he assumed [unclear: power] on the death of [unclear: President] Roosevelt.

Recent research indicate that the dropping of the atomic bomb on [unclear: Hiroshima] was meant by the [unclear: American] as intimidation to the [unclear: Rus] sians—to stop them [unclear: moving] down through Europe, [unclear: and] stop them entering the [unclear: was] against the Japanese.

The Americans [unclear: withdrev] aid from the Russian, [unclear: stopped] aid to other countries [unclear: through] the United Nations Relie and Rehabilitation Adminis tration, and instituted the Marshall Plan whereby [unclear: a] was given only to [unclear: countrie] and organisations [unclear: which] agreed politically with the Americans.

The break-up of [unclear: man] international [unclear: organisation] such as the IUS and [unclear: the]

[unclear: have] put the [unclear: con-]the Internationaldoubt.

[unclear: James] Reston [unclear: in] in mid-February [unclear: entral] Intelligence [unclear: asnsidising] the United [unclear: student] Association [unclear: nerican] bodies, has [unclear: amounts] of money rganisations as [unclear: the] Conference (ISC) ly of Youth (WAY).

[unclear: world] Federation of Trade [unclear: nions], was then an [unclear: import] part of a concerted and [unclear: prmulated] American policy.

"[unclear: wingers]" and "[unclear: fellow]-revellers" on student organi-[unclear: ations] were denounced, and [unclear: he] members of the [unclear: separate] nternational Student Con-[unclear: erence] (including NZUSA) [unclear: ecame] increasingly conserva-[unclear: ve].