Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "5568200",
    "label": "Minutes, Agendas and Correspondence - 1948",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5568200"
}

{
    "id": "5568200",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5568200",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Minutes, Agendas and Correspondence - 1948",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5568200",
    "collections": [
        "Records of the Committee for the Marshall Plan",
        "Subject Files"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-cmpr/1696647/5568200/5568200-001.tif",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-cmpr/1696647/5568200/5568200-001.tif",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-cmpr/1696647/5568200/5568200-001.tif",
    "imageCount": 179,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5568200",
    "naId": 5568200,
    "levelOfDescription": "fileUnit",
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 31,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/truman/hst-cmpr/1696647/5568200/5568200-031.tif",
    "mediaId": "32542eeb928b7b56",
    "ocrText": "-3-\nproperly informed. Mr. Waller and the other field men will pay particular\nattention, therefore, to local leaders in each community and see that they\nare supplied with proper information.\nMr. Waller made a general report of field activities up to date. Mr. Blanford\nhas been in Cincinnati for the past week. He has found there is a great lack\nof information on the part of the people regarding the Marshall Plan, and\nwherever he has gone he has felt that he was able to do a great deal of good.\nHe has drawn up suggestions for field representatives in detail and will\nsupply the field men with information on the communities to which they are\nassigned.\nThe motion was made, seconded and approved that three additional field re-\npresentatives be added to the staff.\nOther Business\nMr. Lovestone raised the question about a field which he said we had not yet\ncovered, i.e., foreign language groups in the United States. He feels that\nthey have particular value for a number of reasons; many are in basic in-\ndustries like the Italians and Yugoslavs; secondly, their press goes over to\nthe other side and is not censored as readily as mail; thirdly, it would\ngive us an opportunity to counteract the very energetic opposition of the\ncommunists. He also mentioned that he has had a request for 500 copies of\nthe Stimson article for Czechoslavakia.\nMr. Ferguson stated that this matter has already been discussed at a former\nmeeting. There are organizations interested in translating material and\nmaking it available to the foreign press, and they have funds from Carnegie\nand other sources for this purpose. When the matter was taken up with Mr.\nHiss he advised that these organizations have enough money to do this on\ntheir own, and it is their job to do it. We have, however, been asking these\ngroups to help us and have been supplying them with material. We have also\ntaken up the matter of supplying material abroad and it is Mr. Ferguson's\nunderstanding that it was agreed that it is our job to inform the American\npeople, and if we dispersed our efforts in trying to inform people abroad we\nwould perhaps not succeed in our primary jective.\nMr. McKee then brought up the question of what the cost of the Western\nNewspapers Union would be for publicity. It was reported that for 5,000\npapers it would be $1,700. for each two-column article 10\" in depth. Miss\nMandigo stated that Western Newspapers Union is willing to work with us.\nShe suggested that we take 1,000 papers in farm areas to begin with and\ntry it for a test. It would cost about 1/4 of $1,700.\nThe motion was made, seconded and approved on the above suggestion.\nMr. Altschul made the suggestion that Mrs. Louise Wright be invited to\nbecome a Committee member. It was agreed that she would lend considerable\nassistance with the Chicago problem."
}