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important statement to the Convention.
The officers of the Convention and the Chairman
of the Committee on Calendar ana Aqenda have, as 1. am
sure all of you realize, kept very closely in touch with
the progress of the Convention and the status of the work
of the Convention has been the subject of practically daily
conversation and concern amonq us.
Unless we sit on Sundays, the calendar tells
us that there are available only eight more days until
December 12. If we sit on Sunday we would have 10 days.
I don't think anyone could possibly suggest that
this Convention could work harder or could engage in more
continuous, intense consideration of the matters before it
than it has been doing, not merely in this past week, but for
many weeks past.
We have accomplished a tremendous amount, but a
great deal more remains to be done.
Consideration has been given to the possibility
of extending or increasing the number of night sessions.
All of us feel that this is undesirable for two reasons:
There is a limit to human capacity, and this work requiring