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Having adopted, subject to the later consideration of certain .amendments, the provisional Rules of Procedure drawn up by the Preparatory Commission, the Assembly appointed a Credentials •Committee under the Chairmanship of Mr Gustav Rasmussen (Denmark) ; adopted its Agenda (Appendix I) ; and set up six main Committees as follows:• — First Committee. Political and Security Questions. Second Committee. Economic and Financial Questions. Ti-ii-rd Committee. Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Questions. Fourth Committee. Trusteeship. Fifth Committee. Administrative and Budgetary Questions. Sixth Committee. Legal Questions. At a later meeting two other Committees were set up to deal respectively with the transfer of certain functions, activities, and .assets from the League of Nations to the United Nations, and the Permanent Headquarters of the United Nations. The Assembly elected as Vice-Presidents the first delegates of — China United Kingdom France United States of America Union of South Africa Venezuela Soviet Union At separate meetings of the six Assembly Committees, which had "been held in the meantime, their Chairmen had been elected as follows — Committee 1. Dr D. Z. Manuilsky (Ukrainian S.S.R.). Committee 2. Mr Waclaw Konderski {Poland). Committee 3. Rt Hon. Peter Fraser (New Zealand). Committee 4. Dr R. E. MacEachen {Uruguay). Committee 5, Mr Faris Al-Khoury {Syria). Committee 6. Mr Roberto Jiminez {Panama). The President of the Assembly, the seven Vice-Presidents, and the six Chairmen of the Assembly Committees together constituted the General Committee of the Assembly. V. ELECTIONS Security Council At the meeting which was called for the election of the six nonpermanent members of the Security Council, the delegate of the Soviet Union proposed a short adjournment in order to allow for further consultation between delegations. This was opposed by Mr Byrnes (United States) and by Mr Bevin (United Kingdom).