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The President asked whether delegates would be agreeable to his holding a 
meeting, restricted to the Council and those delegates willing to sponsor a commis 
sion, in order to work out an agreed solution. This was agreed. The President said 
he would hold this meeting immediately after the present session and invited those 
concerned to be present. 
The Secretary-General read a motion on cooperation with other organisa 
tions (Resolution 29, p 69). 
The President said that this motion stemmed from a proposal by Sweden. 
It had been discussed by the Council, who approved it. The motion was carried. 
He then referred to the proposal to reconstitute the Statutes Committee 
(Resolution 28, see p 68). The Council had debated this question at some length, he 
said, and had now brought forward a draft for the constitution and terms of 
reference of this committee. The draft covered a number of suggestions made by 
delegates and the committee’s activities would be a useful means of considering the 
content of certain other proposals, those of Iran and Sweden for instance. He hoped 
that delegates and I S P members would have ample opportunity to study and discuss 
in advance of the 1964 Congress any recommendations that the proposed committee 
might make. It was essential, of course, that they should do so if any positive action 
were to be possible in 1964. 
Professor Hallert said he wished to emphasise that the first idea of the 
Society was scientific and that that definition ought to be maintained. In reply the 
President said that that lay within the terms of reference. Views such as these would 
no doubt be taken into account by the committee and were welcome. 
Mr Ebrahimi, on being asked whether the present proposals sufficiently 
covered that submitted by him, agreed and withdrew his own proposal. Professor 
Hallert did likewise. 
The proposal (Resolution 28) was then put to the vote and carried. 
The President: We now come to the recommendations for the new council 
for 1960-64. (Resolution 30, p 69). The present Council have given very close and 
careful consideration to this over several meetings. They have kept before them this 
principle: that in accordance with the statutes the Council is small, that any endeavour 
to make it representative of all countries, and of various interests such as the 
OEEPE, and of educational establishments, and of language groups, and so forth, 
can only result in it becoming large. This principle is no doubt one that will be con 
sidered by your Statutes Committee in due course. We have set ourselves to do what 
has been done in the past, that is, to find seven competent trustworthy persons of 
good standing and acknowledged skill to whom we can entrust the work of guiding 
our Society over the next four years with real confidence. We have of course con 
sidered finding people from different parts of the world and from those various 
interests that the Council must necessarily take into account, but each time, on 
thinking of a particular interest such as a language group etcetera, we have come 
back to the dilemma either of enlarging the Council almost to the size of the Delegates 
Meeting, which is not permissible and hardly sensible, or of finding seven personal 
ities on whom you can all rely. We have put aside any attempt to make the Council 
representative in any other sense. Nevertheless, we have by no means forgotten that 
various interests and groups need to feel assured that their views are in fact being 
taken into account by the Council.