Day 743: rapporteurs

The selection of the rapporteurs proved significant.

Art of the day
Nicholas Roerich : Buddha Investigator (1927)

Word of the day
rapporteur : someone chosen by an organization to prepare reports of meetings or to investigate and report on a problem

Quote of the day
“Bethmann expressed concern for unity and exhorted the deputies to "be unanimous" in their decisions. "We shall be unanimous, Excellency," a spokesman for the Liberals replied obediently. The all-knowing Erzberger who, as rapporteur of the Military Affairs Committee and a close associate of the Chancellor, was considered to have his ear to Olympus, bustled among his fellow deputies assuring them that the Serbs would be beaten "by this time next Monday" and that everything was going well.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August