Through the spring of 1961, the Paulings spent much of their time organizing, writing invitations, arranging travel, and finding ways to pay for their Oslo peace meeting. Pauling convinced Bertrand Russell, Albert Schweitzer, and twenty other notables to act as sponsors for what he was calling the "Conference to Study the Problem of the Possible Spread of Nuclear Weapons to More Nations or Groups of Nations." Everyone called it the Oslo Conference. The gathering drew sixty scientists from fifteen nations, including four from the USSR. Everything went smoothly, and the result, the "Oslo Statement," called for an end to the spread of nuclear weaponry, a complete test ban, and the study of ways to transition from military to nonmilitary economies. A public reading of the statement drew some five hundred people to Oslo’s great Aula meeting hall. "Everything has gone along almost perfectly," Pauling enthused when it was over. "The Aula meeting was grand." The event was capped with a torchlight parade through the streets of Oslo.