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lines doubtless will be realized at this meeting. At a later date poten- 

 tial participants should be invited to a 2- or 3-day organizational 

 meeting, which might be held at the next IUFRO Congress. 



2. At the organizational meeting, procedures for coordinating the 

 work should be adopted, possibly using the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture's "Manual of Procedures for Cooperative Regional Research" as 

 a model. Then tentative outlines of individual experiments should be 

 drawn up including title, objectives, procedures, and participants. 



3. Administrators of institutions that may wish to participate in 

 the program should be contacted, preferably both before and again after 

 the organizational meeting. The reasons are to acquaint them with the 

 program, to learn the nature of their interests, and to negotiate agree- 

 ments on the terms of their support. 



4. Periodic meetings of all cooperators should be scheduled to assure 

 adequate funding, continued progress, occasional revision of the program, 

 and timely publication of results. It would also be useful to invite 

 representatives of the U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and 

 related IUFRO groups, e.g., Section 24 Forest Protection, and the Section 

 22 Working Group on Provenance Testing. 



5. The sponsorship and support of FAO should be sought for assis- 

 tance with monetary and diplomatic problems. Three special needs come 



to mind. First, it would be most helpful if FAO could temporarily provide 

 a specialist in resistance breeding to make personal visits to institutions 

 that may wish to participate (see Item 3) . As an emissary representing 

 the sponsors and the organizers, he could assist administrators in reaching 

 decisions about their participation. Without the impetus given by personal 

 visits, it is questionable whether Committee members would have enough time 

 and energy to overcome the various types of inertia that could prevent the 

 program from getting underway. Secondly, some means of obtaining reimburse- 

 ment for the cooperators' travel expenses to Committee meetings (Item 4) 

 must be found. It is very difficult, often impossible, to obtain travel 

 funds for international working meetings through regular channels. Finally, 

 it will be necessary to increase the wind pollinated seed collection and 

 controlled pollination work of some cooperators so that there will be 

 enough seeds for other participants. It may be advisable to ask FAO to 

 administer a special fund that would support breeding or other activities 

 carried out by one cooperator for others, the funds to be supplied by 

 participating institutions. 



CONCLUSION 



In conclusion, I feel that we are considering investment in a very 

 ambitious program, but one that can succeed and can pay valuable dividends 

 My suggestions for organizing the program are offered in order to stimu- 

 late discussion of these and other alternatives, so that the best means 

 of proceeding may be found. I can see no good reason for delay. If we 

 don't start planning for international resistance testing facilities now, 

 they will not materialize by themselves later. 



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