Joint activities: ASA to join allied nations group announced at Silver anniversary

Participation by the American Standards Association in an Allied Nations Standards Body was authorized by the ASA board of directors at its silver-anniversary meeting in New York, N. Y., held in December 1943. The organization of such a body to secure maximum possible co-ordination of standards necessary for the war effort and the immediate postwar period has been discussed informally for some time between the British Standards Institution, the Canadian Engineering Standards Association, the ASA, and key governmental agencies in the three countries. It is planned that a skeleton staff will be provided for the new organization with offices in London and either New York or Washington, D. C.