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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.
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