At a meeting on December 1, the Council of the Organization of American States considered a draft agreement between the Council and the Pan American Institute of Geography and History and approved recommendations by which the Institute was to be considered an Inter-American Specialized Organization under Article 96 of the Charter of the Organization. On a United States motion, the Council appointed a Special Committee to consider the subject of specialized inter-American conferences and to recommend to the Council a procedure for the convening of such conferences. The chairman of the Council (Corominas) notified the members that fourteen governments had appointed representatives to the American Committee on Dependent Territories and that in accordance with Resolution XXXIII of the Ninth International Conference of American States the Council should convoke the committee.
The Fourth General Assembly of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History met in Caracas at the invitation of the Venezuelan Government on August 2 5 to September 1, 1946. Caracas is an interesting city for a meeting and the Venezuelan Government was a gracious host. The arrangements had been in charge of an organizing committee, headed by Dr. Cristóbal Mendoza as chairman and Sr. José Nucete Sardi as general secretary. The Liceo Andrés Bello, a modern and well appointed industrial school, afforded most commodious quarters for the meetings.
Economic Survey of Latin America, 1953The Pan American Institute of Geography and History. Its Creation, Development and Current Program, 1929-1954