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President Reading: Thank you, Professor Hallert. Because of the various 
difficulties of communication and transportation that exist in the present day 
world, the delegate committee agreed to the postponement of the nomination 
of the Secretary-General and the new Treasurer. I am sure we all approve and 
applaud the nomination of Professor Hallert for Mr. Mogensen of Sweden as 
out next President. 
President Reading: I believe you all recognize that one of the principal 
difficulties of an International Congress of this sort is the language difficulty 
in communicating with each other. Because of the large preponderance of the 
Americans at this Congress, the English speaking people, we had found it 
impracticable to provide earphones for all as they do in the United Nations. 
But due to the extraordinary work and great intelligence of our interpreting 
staff, I think that the result has been ever so much more beneficial than an 
attempt to secure interpretations after the speakers have finished their words. 
Technical interpretation requires the highest ability that could possibly 
be given. I know this because we have asked for volunteers who have simply 
been appalled at the difficulties in translating the technical proceedings of a 
Congress such as this. 
We, to some extent, were able to assist in this by having the interpreting 
staff read the papers and prepare preliminary translation in advance for this 
work. I know personally that Mr. Gruner and Mr. Gruner’s family, Mr. Ortiz 
and four or five of our friends from Central and South America volunteered 
the German and Spanish. There is a tremendous amount of preliminary work 
even when they did get advance copies of the papers. We are deeply indebted 
to them for their splendid work and I am sure that I express the feeling of the 
whole Congress in thanking them for their extraordinary efforts. 
Needless to say, we are also very grateful for the interpreters from the 
staff of the Department of State for handling the French, as it is the language 
which is understood by a great many, in addition to the English. Their able 
efforts have contributed very much indeed to the success of the Congress. 
It now is my happy duty to thank you all for your participation in the 
Seventh Congress of Photogrammetry, thus far. Every American with whom 
I have talked has been extremely enthusiastic and grateful to our colleagues 
from across the water for bringing so many samples of their eminent achieve 
ments, their beautifully designed instruments, and for their courtesy and cordial 
care in explaining the details of these achievements. It means, I am sure, a great 
impetus to photogrammetry in the Western Hemisphere, and we are very 
deeply grateful for their cooperation. We shall be happy at any time to do 
anything we can to reciprocate for their wonderful contributions. 
I think all of us are inspired by what has happened here. We feel that we 
have a new vision of a much wider usefulness of photogrammetry. All of these 
developments which you have heard about in the technical sessions and viewed 
in the exposition cannot help but increase our effectiveness and our enthusiasm 
and our joy in going ahead with the important task of photogrammetry. 
Ladies and Gentlemen, this concludes the sessions at the Shoreham Hotel. 
Thank you very much.