Britain Quits International Student Plan

Britain has temporarily suspended its membership in the International Union of Students, American students learned from a recent NSA release.

The IUS was once a world student organization with Britain being the last major non-Communist member. The United States NSA quit the IUS in 1948 when the organization failed to protest the curtailment of student rights following the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. Since that time all non-Communist members except Scotland and South Africa have withdrawn.

The British National Union of Students, an organization similar to the NSA, suspended its membership until the Second World Student Congress meets next August to protest the arrest of the Yugoslavian delegation to an IUS meeting in Sofia and the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the IUS in February because that country is "Fascist."

Despite these developments, the NSA will send observers to the 2nd World Student Congress in Prague August 14 to 28 and tours to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.