Delegate's Impressions

MY chief impressions of the Conference are my first ones--the ones that struck me very shortly after I walked in late on Thursday night to what was listed on the Agenda as an "Informal Reception" but which had quickly turned itself into an informal discussion meeting with Bill presiding. These were that the delegates were "grass roots" realists in touch with their groups who recognized that they were here for a serious purpose--who knew that in representing their areas they were doing so as servants rather than as superiors--and who felt that their function was to listen and learn rather than to talk and adopt resolutions.