Paris Conference

Between visits to friends around the city, I had plenty of time to ponder what General Clay s reception would be. My thoughts went back to July of 1946 when I had joined Pauley in Paris on his third mission. We had been directed to look over conditions in Germany, but President Truman had also instructed us to attend the Paris Conference. Pauley had divided his staff. Luther Gulick (one of Truman s advisors on reorganizing the executive branch), Pauley, and I checked in at the Prince de Galles Hotel in Paris. The rest of the staff, under Martin Bennett, went on to Berlin. 

Barly findings from this work were published in the Paris Conference proceedings of the XXC on Adhesives and Consolidants (13). This paper gave examples of the results obtained with different acrylic and methacrylic monomers. The monomers were selected because they had suitable physical characteristics and were already used in conservation work. The problems which occur with aged and woody based papers were highlighted. This paper also indicated that the use of certain solvents such as methanol to improve monomer penetration had a detrimental effect on the strength of the paper, in particular its fold endurance. 

Paris Conference (1971), Supplement (1975) Standardization in Human Cytogenetics. Birth Defects Original Article Series, XI, 9, 1975. The National Foundation, New York. Reprinted in Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics (1975) 15 201-238. 

This section zj based largely on the author s address Magnetism and Catalysis at the Paris Conference on the Polarization of Matter, April 4r-9, 1949. 

M.R. Gordon, Paris Conference Condemns the Use of Chemical Arms, and Text of the Declaration from the Paris Conference on Chemical Weapons, The New York Times, 12 January 1989, pp.Al, A10 Burns, Statement included in Hearings... and Biological Weapons Threat,... 

Paris conference (1971) Standardization in human cytogenetics, Birth Defects Orig. Artie. Ser.y Vol. 8, No. 7, The National Foundation-March of Dimes, New York (1971). 

In a speech to the UN General Assembly in September 1988, President Reagan proposed an international conference to consider ways of reinforcing the Protocol. In the revulsion following Iraqi use of gas against the Kurds earher in the year, this proposal commanded widespread support. France, as depositary power for the Geneva Protocol, convened the Paris Conference, which was held from 7-11 January 1989. One hundred and forty-nine countries attended, including Iraq, which acted as spokesman for the Arab states, and Libya - the subject of controversy over the exact state of its chemical weapons production capability. 

There have been three recent international attempts to devise a general system for inorganic nomenclature. A comprehensive set of rules was issued by the Commission on the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry of the International Union of Chemistry in 1940, but because of the war it received no outside comment before publication. A post-war revision was published in 1953 as Tentative Eules much outside comment and further consideration led to definitive rules resulting from the Paris Conference of 1957. Certain revisions have been published by lUPAC in 19654. Together they involve, in places, substantial departures from the nomenclature current in textbooks and journals which precede these rules. 

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