Memorandum from Abbott Washburn to Andrew Goodpaster Regarding the People-to-People Foundation

UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR MEMORANDUM FOR: Col. A. J. Goodpaster Staff Secretary Road The White House At the workshop session of the People-to-People - Conference on September 12, a committee of eight of the chairmen was set up to study ways and means of financing and coordinating the prospective work of the forty- one separate committees. This action has led to incorporation of the People-to- People Foundation. Formal and final organization is to be effected at a meeting at the Ambassador Hotel in New York on February 4, next monday Chairmen of the committees will at that time become trustees of the Foundation. A Board of Directors will be elected from among these trustees, and it will in turn elect officers. The prospect is that Charles E., Wilson will be chosen President and General William J.Donovan Chairman of the Board in recognition of the leadership they have provided in organizing the Foundation. The trustees will consider bylaws and the further activities of the Foundation to support the committees and inspire and guide their activities. President Eisenhower, in a letter to General Donovan, has already agreed to be honorary chairman. personal same General Donovan and Mr. Wilson are now anxious to have 4 a message from the President for the February meeting which will be the first assembly of the chairmen since the President addressed them last September. If at all feasible they would like to arrange for the message to come in the form of a telephone call at the conclusion of the luncheon, about 1:30 P. M.