Honorary President F. A. HAYEK Executive Committee PRESIDENT G. SCHMOLDERS - GERMANY The Mont Pelerin Society GASTON LEDUC - FRANCE SECRETARY: RALPH HARRIS - UK Treasurer SECRETARY: RALPH HARRIS ARTHUR KEMP - USA Vice-Presidents c/o IEA . 2 LORD NORTH STREET S. H. FRANKEL - UK MILTON FRIEDMAN - USA WESTMINSTER LONDON SW1 Chr. GANDIL - DENMARK J. P. HAMILIUS - LUXEMBOURG TELEPHONE: 01-799 3745 Other Directors ARMIN GUTOWSKI - GERMANY M. MATSUSHITA - JAPAN LEONARD READ - USA B. A. ROGGE - USA B. R. SHENOY - INDIA MAX THURN - AUSTRIA N. ZULOAGA - VENEZUELA 16th December, 1969. Dear Member, The Special Meeting last September at Caracas was enjoyed by more than 200 participants, despite some trouble with air-conditioning in the hotel. Since it was not a General Meeting, there was no AGM and no changes in the Board of Directors. The Board did, however, hold several business meetings and decided to admit 35 new members (proposed at Aviemore) and to send all members of the Society a complimentary copy of Roads to Freedom, which you may know is a festshrift in honour of our founder president Hayek. If the publishers live up to their promise you should have received your copy by Christmas. General Meeting 1970: Munich President Schmolders has confirmed that arrangements are in hand for our next meeting in Munich from Sunday evening 30th August to Saturday morning 5th September, 1970. The central theme will be "The Image and Function of the Entrepreneur" and I hope to be able to circulate further details, including arrangement for booking and guests before the end of January. Meetings in 1971 and 1972 For 1972 the Board agreed there should be a General Meeting held in Switzerland to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Society at Mont Pelerin in 1947. Preliminary enquiries are proceeding to see how near to our birthplace we can find suitable hotel accommodation. For 1971 it was decided that I should explore possibilities in either Scandinavia, perhaps Sweden, or the USA, preferably in California. In the latter event, a special rather than a general meeting would be appropriate.