In his foreword to the Annual Report of the World Meteorological Organization for 1953, the Acting Secretary-General (Swoboda) stated that the publication combined the anual report of the Organization to the United Nations with the annual report to its members, and therefore contained highly technical as well as general information. Part I of the report constituted a general review of WMO's activities; it noted that, as compared with previous years, there had been an increase in technical program activity; six of the eight Technical Com-missions and three of the six Regional Associations had met during the year and had adopted resolutions and recommendations for making international cooperation closer in such fields as exchanges of weather data and standardization of meteorological methodology and the application of meteorology to agriculture.