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Moreover, still within the then adopted resolutions, were contained some funda- 
mental principles intended to form the track to be followed in the creation of the new 
« Essais ». 
Four out of the five suggestions, contained therein, have been fully respected a- 
bout the rules published in the Summer of 1958, namely: the « Essais » practical cha- 
racter, the candidates' freedom to chose preferred methods, abolition of the obligation 
to work on a foreign polygon, and the candidate's obligation to supply a detailed re- 
port of their work done. 
The fifth suggestion concerning the encrease of discipline and controls during 
works instead was not added as part of the new rules. 
Many are the reasons for doing this. 
Above all, both through personal contacts and by what has appeared from the Brus- 
sels discussion on the rules prepared at first by Commission IIT's Presidency and sent 
out by Circular N° 1, the desire was clearly expressed of diminishing more and more 
the competition character of the « Essais » giving them instead an experimental scien- 
tific research appearance, inspired by mutual trust and in a spirit of full collaboration. 
It is evident therefore, that severe control measures could never have agreed 
with such spirit-attitude. 
To increase a proper control, would, on the other hand, have meant a considerable 
financial weight and, probably a scarcely feasible task possessing all the necessary 
seriousness, for the Presidency, owing to the unavoidable difficulties of effectively 
carrying it out throughout the work stages. 
Any type of control ought to have granted a partial feeling of trust to the Organi- 
zations carrying out the work, even if only in limited sectors; and this trust could 
very well be then extended also to other sectors, without impairing at all results. 
Also by exerting a control from afar by enforcing periodical sendings of measurements 
data and calculation results, would imply a colossal work in checking data and calcu- 
lations hardly imaginable especially in present-day experimental research, where so 
very different methods and proceedings are put together to be compared. 
To control analytical triangulation during the carrying out of its « iter » is in fact 
quite impossible to conceive, and not even justificable, because by its nature, analy- 
tical triangulation constitutes a strictly-set proceeding, where it is impossible to inter- 
fere with arbitrarily subjective adaptations and arrangements. 
Analytical triangulation in itself, therefore, exercises by its presence an auto- 
matic control on all research collaborators. 
In June 1958 a Circular was sent out to Rapporteurs, Commission experts and all 
the National Societies belonging to L.S.P. by which the directions given in the first 
rules were clearly modified in the manner said above. 
The circular recepients were invited to express their opinion, make remarks and 
suggest amendments. 
The rules enacted are reported herewith: 
1. — In accordance with the resolutions passed by the VIII Congress of the 
I.S.P. (Stockholm, July 1956), Commission III intends to continue the experimental 
researches that roused great interest during the preceding four years. 
These works deal with the problems of large blocks of strips, a higly topical pro- 
blem. 
Owing to the great practical interest of these experiments, consideration must be 
given to the different experimental proceedings and attention must not be limited 
to a comparison of the results simply on the basis of the standard errors in control 
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