embly and the Economic and Social Council of the United ations.

4. Invited the Board of Governors and the Director General, fter such further study as might be required, to implement s soon as practicable a South African proposal for biennial rogramming within the framework of annual budgets.

5. Urged the Board of Governors and the Director General > continue to provide assistance to member states in the deelopment of nuclear power projects.

6. Requested the Board of Governors and the Director Genral to study ways and means of establishing under IAEA uspices an international center for research in theoretical hysics and, if the results of such study should warrant action, > prepare plans for the establishment of such a center.

ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Article VI of the IAEA Statute provides that the Board Governors shall designate each year 13 members to serve the Board in the succeeding year. At meetings June 12-19 a July 16, 1962, the Board made these designations for the six Board which took office following the Sixth Regular Session the General Conference.

Under the terms of article VI.A.1 of the statute, Canad France, the U.S.S.R., the United Kingdom, and the Unit States were designated as "the five members most advanced the technology of atomic energy including the production source materials." With respect to each of the followi geographic areas not represented by any of the aforesaid fiv members, the following additional designations were made "the member most advanced in the technology of atomic energ including the production of source materials":

Under the terms of article VI.A.2 of the statute, the Boar selected Belgium and Poland from among the four member listed in the statute as "other producers of source materials, and designated Denmark to replace Sweden in the seat reserved for other members supplying technical assistance.

Article VI.A.3 provides that the General Conference shall with due regard to the equitable representation on the Board of all geographic areas, elect 10 members, with 5 being elected each year for 2-year terms. On September 26, 1962 the General Conference elected the following 5 new members:

Africa and the Middle East Iran (to succeed Iraq)
Southeast

Thailand)

Asia and the Pacific - Indonesia (to succeed

Brazil, Mexico, and Italy (to succeed Argentina, El Salvador, and the Federal Republic of Germany)

result of these actions, the composition of the sixth Board was, as follows: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, the U.S.S. R., the United Kingdom, the United States, and Viet-Nam

Or. I. H. Usmani of Pakistan was elected its Chairman, and Miss Blanche Margaret Meagher of Canada and Wilhelm Billig of Poland were elected Vice Chairmen. The Board also decided o invite Ghana and Tunisia to participate without vote pending he entry into force of an amendment to the IAEA Statute providing for the increase of the Board membership by two nore seats for the regions of Africa and the Middle East. As of the end of 1962, this amendment had not entered into

Torce.

PROPOSED

SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND

AMENDMENTS TO THE BUDGET, DISTRICT OF CO

LUMBIA

COMMUNICATION

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMITTING

PROPOSED SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS IN THE AMOUNT OF $774,600 FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1964, AND AMENDMENTS TO THE BUDGET FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1965 IN THE AMOUNT

OF $1,850,300

FEBRUARY 13, 1964.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations,

and ordered to be printed

THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, February 13, 1964.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

of the Congress proposed supplemental appropriations in the amounts SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of $774,600 for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1964, and amendments to the budget for the District of Columbia for the fiscal for their submission at this time are set forth in the attached letter The details of these requests, the necessity therefor, and the reasons from the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, with whose comments and observations thereon I concur.

year 1965 in the amount of $1,850,300.

Respectfully yours,

LYNDON B. JOHNSON.