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LBL a €00819039 . - Qe The Supervision Committee met on 9th February, 1969 in Leiden and decided that for.” financial and technical reasons it wes not possvile to hold the Conference os scheduled. — as During the lengthy discussions which followed, the Committee sought to find some i... arrangements which would hove enabled the Conference to be held. Costs incurred ia 3 ‘fi : the preporation for the planned Conference in Salzburg further reduced the funds OE Ss Ee ovoilable and the Supervision Committee was of the opinion that ony reduction of travel “AB grants would have made the holding of the Conference ¢ meaningless exercise. Faced anes with the undeniable reality of the Conference Fund, inadequate even to holding a : Conference restricted to member unions and bearirg in mind the wishes of mony member i orgunisations for'o very broad-based Conference, the Supervision Committee reluctantly _. ,, €ome to the conclusion that no Conference could be held in the forseeoble future. ; | _ However, the Suparvision Committee noted with gratitude the Financial support of SFS, | NSU, OH, PKPM, NUKS, DSF, SYL, NZUSA, NUAUS for the Conference. oc ' e = As © consequence of this decision the Supervision Committee turned to the exomination eR Sy a re a he rt i of the viability of the Internotional Student Conference continuing to operate os on I institution for international student co-operation. This in ium ted the ittee to i t examine the changes thot have taken place in the international student community over — i the t two years ond the present trend of developments among National Unions of i. ants. ; , i a 966 has witnessed a dro crease in the’ - ‘throughout the world with not only the question of their education and their pertlcipation in it bu This t also with the ills and inequities of the society in which they live. trend ” hes not been restricted to any one continent yet nowhere hos the political change been as in, atked os in Europe. While the increase in the politicisotion of students ond their greater involvement in sociefy is, in the opinion of the Supervision Committee, a =~ generally welcome odvance it is drawn to the conclusion that it-is the politicol develop- ments thot hove ocourred in the European and North American student scene thot are « + chiefly responsible for the International Student Conference being in the state i¢ Finds ' thelf today. The politicisation of students in Asia, Africa and Latin Americo hes abo progressed. However, Notional! Unions of Students in these creas hove continued to value the work and political orientotion of the ISC and the changes in their attitudes to the " International Student Conference thot have occurred have not been of the nature or degree that could have led to the present situation. 5 s. Denne ae anes ence t nent ona VE Rtn «REE National Union: in Europe have been Influenced in differing measure by the changing student mood ond now at present it is: no? possible to create o consensus between unions who over the years have traditionally found the. Internationol Student Conference to be the most appropriate vehicle for the international contacts ond multilateral co-operation. -_ : The European Unions today are unable to opree on such fundamental issues os thele ' epprooch to the purpose “fonctions or even structure of the International Stedent rence, Te 4 . + wan’ These unions can be.divided into three rough groupings. The first includes ‘those unions whose policies emphasise the importance of the student ** @ the vanguard in the struggle to completely restructure bourgeois sozlety ond: thot becouse of Its present nature, this change con only be brought about by rev } . ° ORT E LN OSE WOE. OU" POEREOTTE D. .6 DER MEARE oF