The U.S, Information Agency's program of liaison with professional groups bore fruit during this period with the passage by three international organizations of resolutions supporting President Eisenhover's atomic energy proposals. These were the International Couneil of Women, (Helsinki-June), the Congress of Medical Women's International Associations (Lake Garda, Italy-September), and the British Cooperatives Guild Congress (Brighton, England-May). The United States Information Agency has explored “ways and means of establishing awards for outstanding contributions to nonmilitary applications of atomic energy", pursuant to point 7(c) of ‘Recommended Implementing ictions" of the OCB paver of March 15, 1954. The Atomic Industrial Forum is enthusiastically willing to sponsor such avards but lacks funds, Several philanthropic founda- tions have been contacted, so far without success, Explorations are continuing, 5. Implementation of the CCB-approved "program to exploit the A-Bank proposals of the President's UN speech of December 8, 1953", dated March 15, 1954, was continued during the period under review, particularly by AEC action and USIA cross-reporting in connection with a continuing series of public events, including an International Nuclear Engineering Conference in June 1954; press and photographic views of unclassified portions of the National REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHTD. EISENHOWER LIBRARY Reactor Testing Station, August 17 and 20; AEC staff participation in public discussion of peacetime application of nuclear energy, at various conferences of the Atomic Industrial Form, Inc., and the National Industrial Conference Board. WANABee oe na , Fer te ror RRR ee BL 8 Pa oe FUR ba.