The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
GROUNDWORK OF CONFERENCE UP
 TO COMMITTEES
By United Press

A big steering committee, com posed of chairmen of the 46 United Nations delegations. win have the job of keeping the world security conference running smoothly.
 The steering committee will be the most important of the multi tudinous committees, subcommit- tees and subcomnittees scheduled to do the shirt-sleeve work" at San Francisco.
 The mechanical arrangements alone are enough to cause a run on the city's aspirin supply. But United States officials insist that preparing for the meeting has been no harder-in fact little easier than preparing for the 1943 food conference at Hot Springs, Va, or for the more recent International Aviation Conference of 56 nations at Chicago.
 Maps Assembly Program
 The steering committee will boil down to smaller executive com mittee designed to arrange plen- ary conference sessions, commits sion meetings, and generally map the daily conference program. Four principal committees will work out the opening phases of the conference, the first to prepare a slate of conference officers, the second to handle the problems of official credentials, the third to draft conferences rules, and the last to prepare the conference agenda.
 If past performances are cri- terion, the nominating committee will propose that Secretary of State Edward R. StettiniuS, Jr., chief of the host delegation and temporary conference president, be named to the post permanently. The rules committee will deter mine the conference language probably, English, with French and Spanish as secondary languages. It will iron out conference voting ar rangements-on vote for each del- egation, with either two-thirds or simple majority required to car- ry or reject.
 Plenary sessions-the full-dresS meetings of all delegates-actually will do little more than add frills to the work done in conference rooms by the committees and com- missions.
 Big-Issue Commissions I There will be several commis- sionS, one on each of the main conference issues, such as the In- ternational Court or the Security Council voting procedure. Actually commission is the full conference sitting as committee of the whole. Each commission comprises 46 del- egates, each of whom is empow- cred to vote for his country.
 Any suggestion or proposal made at full-dress sessions will be refer red to a commission. The commits sion in turn will designate many committees to handle specific parts of the issue. Then committees will spawn subcommittee some of which will break up into sub-sub committees.
 When 8 problem has been work ed out on the committee level, it goes to a commission for approval, disapproval or amendments. Then the commission hands it to the full-dress body.
 A co-ordinating committee will come in for pile of work late in the conference. This group, usual ly made up of second-level experts and technicians - must comb through all the work prepared by the committees and commissions to prevent duplication, resolve con- flicting proposals and edit all do- cuments into a general, most un- derstandable style.
 A secretariat of from 200 to 300 interpreters, stenographers, trans lators and others will perform the conference "legwork." They are hired and paid by the United States, the host government.