World Student Relief The Work of International Student Service

Abstract

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICE dates from 1920, when European student relief was brought into being as an autonomous section of the World's Student Christian Federation to cope with the vast problems of student relief and rehabilitation in the university centres of Europe. In 1926, when the purely relief problem was less acute, and the need for a permanent organization on an international basis had come to be felt by many thousands of students, it was necessary to give European student relief a legal status in Swiss law. To this end International Student Service was formed, an autonomous body continuing the traditional work of student relief and cultural co-operation on a basis of entire impartiality in all matters of religion and politics, and thus encouraging the participation in the work of all men of goodwill, whatever their race, nationality or belief*.