First session of UN's permanent Social Commission.

*Bureau of Public Assistance, Technical Training Service. Miss Lally, formerly welfare consultant with UNRRA in England, France, and Germany, was technical adviser to the United States representative at the Social Commission meetings. Vital decisions on pressing emergent problems and the necessity for laying the foundation for long-range planning for international organization in the social field faced the Social Commission at its first session as a permanent organization of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Arthur J. Altmeyer, Commissioner for Social Security, is United States representative on the Social Commission.