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    "ocrText": "Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting\nCommittee for the Marshall Plan\nNovember 13, 1947\nNew York Yacht Club\nPresent: Honorable Herbert H. Lehman, Presiding\nAlger Hiss\nClark M. Eichelberger\nFrederick C. McKee\nAllen W. Dulles\nArthur W. Page\nFrank Altschul\nHugh Moore\nJ. Lovestone (Alternate for David\nDubinsky)\nStaff: Harold Stein, Melvin Fox, Harold L. Oram\nMinutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.\nPolicy Statement:\nAfter discussion of the policy statement prepared by Mr. Hiss\nand Mr. Stein, it was agreed that this was for the information of\nthe Committee itself and not for publication and that any suggestions\nfor changes or amendment should be sent to Mr. Oram. For public\npurposes the Committee will hew to the line of the policy statement\nas expressed by Mr. Stimson in his FOREIGN AFFAIRS article, i.e.,\nthe pertinent section being that to be published in the advertisement.\nAcceptances of Council Membership:\nMr. Oram reported that more than two hundred leading citizens\nhad accepted membership and that additional acceptances were coming\nin daily. It was agreed that the conditional acceptance sent by Mr.\nBunting would be considered a refusal since his position is clearly\nopposed to that of the Committee. Mr. Page reported that he had sent\na letter to Mr. Alfred P. Sloan confirming his conditional acceptance.\nMr. Oram reported that he had sent a telegram to Mr. Philip Murray con-\nfirming his conditional acceptance.\nPublicity:\nIt was agreed that the Committee should release its first an-\nnouncement to the Sunday papers and that the full page advertising\nwould be published in the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune and\nWashington Post on Monday, November 17th. Mr. Oram was authorized, if\nnecessary, to take additional advertising space to enable the printing\nof every name received. A budget of $7,500 was approved for the publi-\ncation of the advertisements.\nHARTS TRUMAN NARA"
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