Held on November 11th 1956
At Restaurant Kettners, London, Great Brittain

Present:
Mr. G. Sievi IBA President, SBU
Mr. Vigo Christensen, DBL (also representing the OBG (Norway)
Mr. Fred Friede – Rudolf Streiff, DBU
Mr. Jacq.Platteschore – Henk Bluemink, NBC
Mr. Ernesto Brega – Luigi Parenti, AIBES
Mr. M. Lagognee – A. Marsuadon, GABF
Mr. Tan Ahvenainen, FBSK
Mr. Helmer Jansson, SBG
Mr. Michael Gonley – H.W.Roberts, UKBG
Mr. Gustave Tops, LBU
Mr. Roger Lebet, SBU
  
Agenda
1. Welcome Mr. Gonley, UKBG President
2. Welcome IBA President Mr. Sievi
3. Minutes of the IBA Meeting 1955 in Amsterdam
4. Report of the President
5. Financial Report of the Treasurer
6. Applications for IBA Membership of Argentine and Uruquay
7. To consider the proposal of the DBL concerning IBA and ICC Rules
8. To consider the place and date for the 1957 IBA Meeting and ICC
9. To consider the Report of the IBA Pres. concerning the IBA Bulletin
10. To consider the SAS Heering – Copenhagen Competition 1957
11. Any and all pertinent business

Point 1
UKBG President Conley welcomes all participants in London and he hopes that the Meeting will be a great success.

Point 2
IBA President Sievi opens the Meeting official at 10.30

Point 3
He reads his Report over the period 1956 till this Meeting. The Report is accepted.

Point 4
Mr. Sievi presents also the Financial Report. The finances are in order only he remarks that the costs for the News Bulletin are too high. Especially the sending of the Bulletin to the different IBA Members is deficient and gives quite some worries. Many times he receives the Bulletins back. This gives the IBA extra expenses and him a lot of extra work.
Mr.Viggo Christensen says that the collaboration with the divers Scandinavian Guilds is very good.

President George Sievi      

Point 5
There follows a long discussion about the acceptation of Argentine and Uruguay as IBA Member. All Presidents gives their opinion. The final result is that both Countries are accepted as new IBA Members.  President Sievi observes that there are quite a lot of Cocktail competitions. He says, that the ICC of 1956 was not very good organised in spite of the common good impressions and results. Once again he liked to emphasize that the IBA- ICC Rules must be followed.

Point 6
No Country wants to organise the ICC in 1957 and therefore is decided that only an IBA Meeting will be held in Milan.
Viggo Christensen likes to reserve the IBA Meeting 1959 for Copenhagen in occasion of the DBL Jubilee. This request is fully accepted.

Point 8
The Bulletin affair gives again reason for long discussions of the Council. Pres. Sievi underlined again that the take care of the Bulletin gives a lot of sorrow and extra work to him and his co-operators in the Guild. He insists that the frequency will be only two Bulletins a year. There is quite a strong dispute between Mr. Sievi and the Dutch President Mr. Jac. Platteschore but at the end everybody agrees that the importance of the progress of the IBA is more important than the Bulletin. However, a good Bulletin will definitely be a help to that goal.

Point 9
Concerning the IBA Meeting and ICC 1957 Mr. Vigo Christensen proposes that this could take place in Denmark during the final of the SAS Heering Copenhagen Competition.
While the Rules of that competition will be equal as those of the ICC was decided that this SAS competition would substitute for the ICC in 1957.
With the announcement that: for lack of time, the remaining points will be discussed later that night, at 18.30 ends the official Minutes of that Meeting in London written (in France) by the SBU Secretary Mr. Roger Lebet.
However, at that very same Meeting later on a new IBA board was elected with the following results:

IBA President: Mr. Comm. Pietro Grandi, AIBES.
Vice-President: Mr. Vigo Christensen, DBL.
General Secretary: Mr. Angelo Zola, AIBES.
Treasurer: Mr. Roger Lebet, DBU.

London, 1956, Roger Lebet