| Description | This Committee was established in 1966 to deal with ICSU affairs and its component bodies when the large International Relations Committee, which had hitherto dealt with these matters, was replaced by a smaller International Relations Committee to consider general policy in foreign relations. Thompson was ex officio Chairman of the Committee as Foreign Secretary and after his retirement from the Foreign Secretaryship was an ex officio member of the Committee as member of the Executive Council of ICSU. |