390 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



terested in science and technology. Customarily, the committee got to 

 know which individuals in the embassies were specialists in the areas 

 on which the committee concentrated. 



Dr. O. M. Solandt, Chairman of the Science Council of Canada, addresses the committee's 

 Panel on Science and Technology. 



So far as Canada was concerned, the principal contact in the Cana- 

 dian Embassy was J. W. ("Ward") Greenwood. In making plans for 

 the January 23-25, 1968, Panel on "Applied Science and World Econ- 

 omy," the committee invited Dr. O. M. Solandt, Chairman of the 

 Science Council of Canada, to present the main paper on Wednesday 

 morning, January 24, 1968. Dr. Solandt addressed the Panel on the 

 subject of "The Utilization of Scientific and Technical Resources in 

 Canada." He noted that the Science Council had only been in opera- 

 tion a little over a year. He described it in the following fashion: 



It is somewhat similar to your Presidents Science and Advisory Committee. 

 It is directly advisory to the Prime Minister, and the Cabinet. 



Shortly after Dr. Solandt's acceptance had been received, Ward 

 Greenwood telephoned Colonel Gould on November 17, 1967, to alert 

 him to the fact that the Canadian Senate had just passed a resolution 

 "to enquire into the Scientific Establishment in Canada". He asked 

 Colonel Gould about details of Dr. Solandt's participation in the Panel. 

 Colonel Gould responded on November 20 with more specifics, noting 

 that Dr. Solandt had accepted the invitation, and that additional 



