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375 132 ICID 20 HELE USE HOLD FOR RELEASE HOLD FOR RELEASE September 26, 1947. CONFIDENTIAL: The following report on the 1947-48 Grain Export Program, submitted to the President by the President's Committee on Foreign Aid, MUST BE HELD IN CONFIDENCE until released. NOTE: Release is for all regular editions of newspapers appearing on the street NOT EARLIER THAN 6:00 P.M., E.D.T., Saturday, September 27, 1947. The same release applies to all newspapers, radio announcers and news commentators. PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE PUBLICATION OR RADIO ANNOUICCMENT. EBEN A. AYERS Assistant to Charles G. Ross Secretary to the President. The President has received a Report on the 1947-48 Grain Export Program, submitted by the President's Committee on Foreign Aid. The Committee, which was appointed by the President on June 22, 1947 to determine the facts as to United States Resources available for economic assistance to foreign countries, and to advise him concerning this assistance, consists of the following: Hiland Batcheller, Pres., Paul G. Hoffman, Pres., Allegheny-Ludluu Steel Corp., The Studebaker Corp., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. South Bend, Indiana, NARA Robert Earle Buchanan, Dean, Calvin B. Hoover, Dean, Graduate College, Graduate School, Iowa State College, Duke University, Ames, Iowa. Durham, North Carolina. W. Randolph Burgess, Vice-Chairman Robert Koenig, Pres., National City Bank of N. Y., Ayrshire Collieries Co., New York, N. Y. Big Four Building, Indianapolis, Indiana. James B. Carey, Secy-Treas., Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., C.I.O., Barr Building, Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C. John L. Collyer, Pres., Edward S. Mason, Dean, B. F. Goodrich Company, School of Public Administration, Akron, Ohio. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Granville Conway, Pres., George Meany, Secy-Treas., The Cosmopolitan Shipping Co., Inc., American Federation of Labor, 42nd and Broadway, Washington, D. C. New York, N. Y. Melville F. Coolbaugh, Harold G. Moulton, Pres., 1700 Maple Street, The Brookings Institution, Golden, Colorado. Jackson Place, Washington, D. C. Chester C. Davis, Pres., William I. Myers, Dean, Federal Reserve Bank, College of Agriculture, St. Louis, Missouri. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. R. R. Deupree, Pres., Robert Gordon Sproul, Pres., Proctor & Gamble Co., University of California, Cincinnati, Ohio. Berkeley, California. W. Averell Harriman, Chairman, Owen D. Young, Department of Commerce, Honorary Chairman of the Washington, D. C. Board of Directors, General Electric Company, Van Hornesville, N. Y. OVER