Answering Dr. T. Blaelm t •’ r telegram 
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I regret that Ted Blachut could not come here. Be sure that we, 
in the Council, appreciate the job he has already performed and that 
our coming ISP Council in Paris will examine the matter very carefully 
with the President of Commission VI, Prof. Zbigniew Sitek. 
I woul like to make a few statements. Pardon me the disorder of 
their presentation : 
a) I very well understand Ted’s position : ISP officers have 
spoken about the history of photogrammetry for decades and have only 
spoken until recent years; the members of the editorial board need to 
be assured that they do not work for nothing; 
b) unfortunately, Ted Blachut’s first letter, dated March 15, 
1977 was received after the last ISP Council which was held in Heston, 
USA, in the‘very early days of March, so that we did not discuss the 
matter; the following Council will be the laris one, next September; 
c) I visited two important persons in UNESCO to try to get a 
financial help, i.e. : 
- in July 1977, Dr* Michel Batisse, the UNESCO Assistant Director 
General for Earth sciences, without any success, 
- in September 1977, with Ted Blachut, Dr. Yuri Novozhilov, 
another UNESCO Assistant Director General, for Sciences, who encouraged 
us to get the support from national delegations, 
d) so Ted and I met a representative of the Canadian delegation 
and later on, I visited the Vice-President of the French delegation- 
and the former President of Mexico, chief of the Mexican delegation 
to UNESCO; 
e) having received a draft budget from Ted Blachut, I first 
consulted the ISP Secretary General, Dr. Frederick Doyle and the ISP 
Treasurer, Mrs. Aino Savolainen; 
f) later on, I consulted the other throe members of the Council; 
g) in spite of the general agreement which resulted from these 
consultations and in spite of our intention to discuss the matter very 
carefully at the next Council, I would like to state without engaging 
anyone but myself;