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HRH The Prince of The ·etherlands in conversarion with IIW President, F L Plummer in 1966.

afterwards, the President in particular being the subject of a degree of criticism such that the Executive Council refused to accept the relevant communications. In responding to this unhappy sequence of events, President Plummer acted with commendable restraint, discretion and magnanimity. Consequently, few at the time were aware of what had happened and the damage was correspondingly limited, only a brief and enigmatic statement being made to the Governing Council in r 967. A happier event which took place in Delft was the posthumous award to Walter Edstrom of the first Edstrom medal; this was pre– sented to his son by HRH the Prince of the Netherlands, whose presence was symptomatic of the increasing standing of the IIW. Another landmark of the r 966 Assembly was the resignation as Secretary-General of Mr G Parsloe who had held this office for r 8 years and had been re-elected five times. At that time no one had held continuous office in the IIW for so long, but Mr Parsloe's election as Vice-President meant that he retained for three years longer a seat on the Executive Council, of which by then both