During the Fifth International Pediatric Congress in New York a Committee of Seven (composed of Professors R. Debre, Paris; Gomez Santos, Mexico; H. F. Helmholz, Rochester, Minnesota, former President; L. Emmett Holt, Jr., New York, Secretary-General; Maslow, Leningrad; A. Moncrieff, London, and G. Fanconi, Zurich, who was elected President of the 6th International Pediatric Congress) met in order to draw up Rules for the Constitution of an International Pediatric Association (I.P.A.).
Pending the acceptance by the International Congress of 1950, this Committee of Seven decided the following: