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#400 HOLD FOR RELEASE HOLD FOR RELEASE HOLD FOR RELEASE Decmeber 10, 1945 CAUTION: The following statement by the President MUST BE HELD IN CONFIDENCE Until released. NOTE: Release will be automatic at 10:00 A.M., E.S.T., TODAY, MONDAY, December 10, 1945, simultaneously with a similar announcement in London. The same release applies to radio commentators and news broadcasters. Extrème care must be exercised to avoid premature announcement or publication. CHARLES G. ROSS Secretary to the President STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT The composition of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry which was announced in Washington and London on November 13, and which will oper- ate under a rotating chairmanship will be as follows: Joseph C. Hutcheson, Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court at Houston, Texas (American Chairman). Sir John E. Singleton, Judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, London (British Chairman). Frank Aydelotte, formerly President of Swarthmore College, now Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princoton, and American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust. FRANK W. BURTON, Editor of the Boston Herald WILFRED P. CRICK, Economic Adviser to the Midland Bank, London, formerly with Ministry of Food. Richard H. S. Crossman, Member of Parliament (Labour); formerly Fellow and Tutor of New College, Oxford, assistant editor of New Statesman and Nation, and Deputy Director of Psychological Warfare, A.F.H.Q., Algiers. O. Max Gardner, former Govenor of North Carolina, now practicing law in Washington. Sir Frederick Leggett, until recently Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and National Services. Major Reginald E. lianningham-Buller, Member of Parliamont (Conservative), a barrister. James G. McDonald, formerly Chairman of the Board, Foreign Policy Association, High Commissioner for Rofugees, and member of the editorial staff of the New York Times. Lord Morrison (Robert Craigmyle, Baron Horrison), Member of Parliament (Labour) William Phillips, formerly Under Secretary of Stato, Ambassador to Italy, personal representative of the President with the rank of Ambassador at New Delhi, and Delegate to the London Naval Conference, 1935.