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DELEGATES MEETINGS 
1st Delegates Meeting held on Monday, 5th September, 1960 at Senate House, 
William Beveridge Hall 
The President: Major-General R.L1. Brown 
The President welcomed the Delegates most cordially to this their first 
meeting of the 1960 Congress. He expressed the hope that, as there was to be a 
further meeting next day, the present meeting would be kept short, its main purpose 
being to inform delegates and to give them an opportunity to see and meet one 
another. The Council, he said, had spent most of the previous day and part of that 
morning reviewing the affairs of the ISP and amongst many other things had 
prepared, as was their duty, the agenda for the present meeting. 
On the first item, the revision of the Statutes, he intended to speak in his 
opening address to the Congress; but he would like the Delegates to know the position. 
Though much had been done there was as yet no draft ready to put before the Con 
gress, but it would nevertheless be valuable if members would discuss and think about 
the questions at issue. There seem to him to be five important points at which revision 
was desirable. First, a restatement of the objects of the Society. Secondly, the in 
troduction of some expression of the international and non-political character of the 
Society. Thirdly, some rethinking of the method of adherance to the Society. Fourthly, 
the method of calculating subscriptions. And fifthly, whether bye-laws should be 
introduced to regulate matters of less fundamental importance than statutes and 
requiring to be varied with more ease. 
The second item of the agenda concerned the meeting place for the 1964 Con 
gress. The President said that Belgium, who had so generously stood down at Stock 
holm in 1956 in favour of Great Britain, had now through force of circumstance had 
to withdraw their invitation for 1964. He knew that all the delegates would sym 
pathise with them. There had been no other invitation for 1964. Canada had been 
interested in holding the Congress, but not in 1964. In the short time available he 
had made contact with five European members who might be willing to extend 
invitations: France, Federal Republic of Germany, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland. He 
would be meeting their delegates that afternoon in the Court Room and he invited 
any other delegate, who might seriously consider extending an invitation, to be 
present. 
The next item of the agenda was the allocation of Commissions for 1960-64. 
The President said that, though it was by no means incumbent upon the IS P to 
change the Boards of the commissions at every Congress, and indeed it might often 
be desirable not to do so, he would, if the meeting agreed, now declare all commis 
sion and sub-commission boards vacant. This method of proceeding, he thought, 
would simplify the subsequent discussions. He then invited those countries who were 
willing to undertake responsibility for a commission to give him as soon as they were 
able the following information: 
Which commissions and sub-commissions they were willing to under 
take, giving the order of their preference. 
What personalities they had in mind for Presidents and Secretaries. 
What facilities, such as secretarial and financial support, were likely 
to be available to the commission board.