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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 6. June 7, 1951

Representation and Unanimity

Representation and Unanimity

2. IUS maintained that members of the governing body of WSR must be delegates of constituents and responsible to them. ISS, WSCF and Pax Romana maintained that the governing body must be composed not of delegates responsible to constituents but of Individuals selected from the milieux of represented bodies. The principle of unanimity was also a dividing Issue. The minutes of the Executive Committee of WSR August 2-4 1946 London (P7) state "the principle of unanimity was generally considered to be impracticable and agreement could usually be reached upon a compromise based on common sense." IUS maintained that on policy matters unanimity in effect should apply.