Meetings of the IMO International Meteorological Committee (continued)

Sir Nelson Johnson also had a great respect for Warren as a man and as a force in international meteorology. In an obituary for Warren, Johnson (1950) wrote "he was present at the IMO Commissions in Toronto and the Conference of Directors which followed in Washington. At the latter meeting he played an important and effective part as chairman of the Committee responsible for drafting the Convention of the WMO. The last task he performed was to attend the meeting of the of the Executive Council of the IMO at Lausanne in May of this year, and it was during the course of this meeting he was taken seriously ill. After resting for a while in a local clinic, he came back to England at the end of June, and almost immediately left by boat for home. He was destined, however, not to reach Melbourne, but died on the ship in Adelaide on August 5.

Those who had the good fortune to know Mr Warren recognised in him a man of strong character and robust common sense. His independence of thought made him the champion of any cause which he regarded as worthy, and his sense of fairness earned for him the respect of all. Those of us who met Mrs Warren at Toronto and Washington or in this country in 1947 will wish to offer her our profoundest sympathy in her loss".

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