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DIARY

Book 664

September 14-16, 1943

ABook

Page

664

207

American Bankers' Association

Brand (R. H.) speech, New York City - 9/15/43

-BBook-of-the-Month Club
See Financing, Government: War Savings Bonds

(3rd War Loan Drive)

Brand, R. H.

See American Bankers' Association

-cCables, Treasury
See State Department
China

See also Post-War Planning: Currency Stabilization
Students: Plan for sending 700 to United States

annually for five years training as technical

personnel discussed in American Embassy,
Chungking-State-Treasury correspondence - 9/15/43.

227

Congress of Industrial Organizations
See Post-War Planning: Currency Stabilization
Currency Stabilization
See Post-War Planning

-D-

=

Deferments, Military
Hoffman, Michael L.: HMJr-McNutt discussion 244,246

9/16/43

-FFinancing, Government

Security Markets (High-grade) - current developments in:
200

Haas memorandum - 9/15/43

(See also Book 666, page 173 - 9/22/43; and
Book 668, page 88 - 9/29/43)
War Savings Bonds:

3rd War Loan Drive:
See also Speeches by HMJr

Harry Scherman (Book-of-the-Month Club) thanked for
advertisement - 9/16/43

275

-Germany

White memorandum on conditions there - 9/16/43

292

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Hoffman, Michael L.

See Deferments, Military

-L- Lend-Lease

United Kingdom:

Aircraft despatched, week ending September 7. 1943 664
British Air Commission report - 9/14/43

86

Federal Reserve Bank of New York statement

showing dollar disbursements, week ending
September 8, 1943 - 9/16/43

288

M-

Marshall, General George C.
See Speeches by HMJr

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.

Radio Artists, American Federation of: HMJr elected
to membership - 9/15/43

196

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Post-War Planning

Currency Stabilization:
Luncheon conference; present: HMJr, Keynes. Berle,
and White - 9/14/43
Kung memorandum acknowledged by HMJr - 9/14/43

29
31

Congress of Industrial Organizations offers

cooperation - 9/21/43: See Book 666, page 124

Finance Ministers of various countries: Revised

drafts sent for consideration - 9/14/43

33

(See also Book 666, page 120 - 9/21/43)
Mexico reply - 9/27/43: Book 667, page 221
Canada, Iceland. Panama, and Philippines
replies: Book 668. page 86
Guatemala reply - 10/6/43: Book 670, page 59
Honduras reply - 10/7/43: Book 670, page 144
Ecuador reply - 10/11/43 Book 670, page 191
Norway reply - 10/11/43: Book 670. page 192
New Zealand reply - 10/14/43: Book 670. page 219
Peru reply - 10/18/43: Book 671. page 44
Dominican Republic reply - 10/22/43: Book 671.
page 82

Venezuela reply - 11/2/43: Book 672, page 252
Costa Rica reply - 11/6/43: Book 674, page 171

-Radio Artists, American Federation of
See Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.

-SBook Page

Scherman, Harry

See Financing, Government: War Savings Bonds

(3rd War Loan Drive)

Security Markets (High-grade)
See Financing, Government
Spain

White memorandum on conditions there - 9/16/43

664

292

Speeches by HMJr

"Back the Attack" Army show - HMJr's speech
September 15, 1943:
1

Marshall resume of war reported by HMJr to Gaston.
Smith, Albee, and Cook - 9/14/43
Actual speech - 9/15/43
a) Drafts

130,157
158

Washington Post (Eugene Meyer)-Treasury

correspondence - 10/4/43: See Book 669, page 422

State Department
Treasury Cables:

Delay in transmission discussed by Treasury group 9/16/43

236

a) HMJr-State Department conversation
Discussion by Treasury group - 11/3/43: See Book 672,
page 262

U.S.S.R. invitation to HMJr (never delivered)

discussed by HMJr and State Department - 11/9/43:
Book 674, pages 277 and 292

Students (Chinese)
See China

-U.S.S.R.

See State Department: Treasury Cables
-

War Savings Bonds
See Financing, Government

238

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September 14, 1943
9:45 a.m.

THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE (Speeches)

Present: Mr. Gaston
Mr. Smith
Mr. Albee
Mr. Cook

Mrs. Klotz

H.M.JR: The reason I sent for you people is this:
I have just had one half hour with General Marshall.
I went over there to see him to try and get up to date
on the war. I wanted you (Cook) here; you ought to get
this, you see. This is for a speech.

Now, in the first place - I don't know as this is
any particular news - there is no question, after talking with this man, that we are up against a tough situation - see? - a very tough situation.
What General Marshall said to me was this - here

are some of the things: "We are just settling down now

for the big fight. We are just ready for the big de-

ployment. By that he means really sending troops from
here overseas. "So far all we have been doing is soften-

ing them up for the big thing." I am actually quoting

his words, you see.

He said, "The air thing has just started out from
Great Britain." That hooks up with the other thing - to
try to soften them up. "We are going to lose heavily on
the ground from now on; heavy casualties right now at

Naples."

This is the thing: "The next show will be a consuming

furnace. This is all a little contrary, you know.

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Now, he gave me two things. This is very, very

interesting. This just came in this morning. It is

dated September 13. I have got to go over there - of
course I think it is outrageous that we don't get any of
this here, but I have got to traipse over there and get
it myself. This is signed September 13, and it is from
Algiers headquarters. It is directed to General Strong,
General Arnold, General Hilldring, King, and the White
House.

6.15

"Directive for PWE" - I don't know what that is "OWI radio to Italy." In other words, this is what they

want to send. Does that mean overseas or something?

First just get this. Here this fellow - I mean, I

have gotten so excited this morning - this fellow, the
Chairman of the District of Columbia, called up Bell and

said, "Is there any use of doing anything? It is all

over."

Read this, will you? (Mar Department Incoming Message
dated September 13, 1943, read by Mr. Smith, copy attached.)

H.M.JR: Particularly underline that part about labor

because I don't know that we have done any of that. That
certainly we can get.
MR. ALBEE: The one that came through from the labor
unions in France had some request that we answer - that
our labor unions answer.

H.M.JR: I don't know. This is only part. It will
take a little while to get this picture. The other thing -

this is for background - but here is the thing on losses.

It makes a picture after a while. That is that.

Here is the thing on losses. This is dated September 6. This is from Algiers. (Indicating War Department
Incoming Message dated September 6, 1943.)

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-3Then it shows how many tons of stuff went in. But

that isn't it - I will show you.

Get this: "For example, out of 83820 general purpose
vehicles alone authorized under TBA for theater only
62788, or 74.7% were available at the start of the

Sicilian Campaign." That isn't it.

"Actual battle losses plus shortage of parts have

materially reduced this number." That isn't it.

Here is an example of losses in one month: They

lost twenty-two percent of a certain kind of carriage.
Fifty-seven millimeter gun, they lost forty-six percent.
Seven thousand five hundred tons of ammunition were ex-

pended. Then it gives the shortages. It is an amazing

thing, all the things that they lost, you see. He says

we can use this to show what was burnt up. Would you
mind reading from here on?

MRS. KLOTZ: "It must be born in mind that the Sicilian
Campaign was an assault against an outpost of the Fortress
Europe, defended chiefly by Italian Coastal Divisions of

little fighting value. Yet supply of this operation has

taken top priority among the Allied Nations for several
months. An assault against the Main Fortress of Europe

defended by Germans will be much more costly in both
equipment and man power. Sicilian operation was launched

only by stripping other Divisions remaining in North
Africa to extent that they would not have been able to
participate effectively in the operation had they been
requested.

"I fully appreciate the magnificent production effort

already achieved, but a cold blooded estimate of the tasks
still ahead should dispel beyond doubt any misplaced
optimism that the effort in production can now be relaxed."

H.M.JR: This is available.
MR. COOK: That is the kind of a statement that we

were looking for this morning. If we could use that--

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-4H.M.JR: Now, wait a minute. I am doing this thing
backwards.

Now, here is the most amazing thing, which we also

can have - all of this we can have.

Would you mind reading this? It is by Private Frank
B. Sargent. (Indicating booklet entitled The Most Common
Short-comings in the Training of Battalion and Regimental
S-2 Personnel, and some Suggestions to Overcome These.'

I will go back to one year ago; I was talking this
stuff to Mrs. Roosevelt. All this is there but you have
to go to the number one man to get it.
MR. GASTON: Is this a secret publication?

H.M.JR: It was up until this morning. Marshall read
this whole thing out loud to me, himself. He read the
whole thing out loud - took the time to read it to me.
Just start reading here. When you get through I want

to tell you another story he told me.

(The following excerpt from the booklet read by Mr.Smith:)

"In the training of the American soldier there is one

point which, unfortunately so far, has been overlooked. We

may call it 'psychological preparation for combat.

"We had the general impression, at the front, that
newly arrived American soldiers did not realize the nature
of war; neither did they have a conception of the psychology
of the enemy. American soldiers are innocent and trusting;
good-hearted and confiding. They are not at all aggressive.
Unlike the British and French, Americans have never seen
enemy actions in the raw. Maybe they saw ruins of bombed

buildings in Angland, but they used to regard them as if
they were remains of ancient Pompeii, or Carthage. The

young soldiers could never visualize the human beings who
used to live in those buildings and who were now dead.

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Americans never had to drag the torn bodies of loved ones

out of smashed buildings, or to fight for survival. Unlike the French, they were never subjected to terror. In

other words, Americans never had any reasons to hate any-

body. When American troops first came to the front they

did not hate their enemy. but if you don't hate your
enemy you will fear him if his determination to kill you
is stronger than your determination to kill him.

"Psychology of hate. The British and French know what

they are fighting for because they have been in this war a
long time, and the Germans believe that they do too. The

British fight for their very lives; they fight to stop the
Germans from bombing their homes; to stop them from killing
their families. The Dritish front line soldier slashes
forward without mercy. He hates the enemy. The American
soldier is different. He is fair minded and thinks that
the enemy will be fair too. He does not really want to
kill, because he does not hate, yet. Subconsciously he
thinks of war as a game where the umpire's whistle will
stop it before it gets too rough. He cannot imagine anybody wanting to kill him, and so he commits all the mis-

takes which have cost so many lives already. Enemy prisoners
marvel at the thoughtlessness with which American soldiers
move. They cannot understand why Americans never even

think of taking cover; why they don't follow through; why
they can be bluffed and trapped so easily.

"I know so well those men who were cut to ribbons at
the Kasserine Pass, and I know why they were thrown into
confusion, panicked by attacks, and accepted their fate
almost paralyzed. When they jumped into foxholes to let
the tanks roll over them, and were bayonetted in these

foxholes by the Infantry that came behind the tanks, they
died with an astonished look on their faces, as if they
wanted to ask: "Could that be possible, would they really
do that?"

"We are prone to regard the Italians with a mixture
of contempt and pity. But the boys I knew, who were blown

to bits by Italian hand grenades would not think so. If
they could come to life again they would not feel pity for

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The poor, coerced Italians; they would go after them,

until they had killed every last one. So would the

medical orderlies I knew, who wanted to treat German

casualties and lost their arms by booby traps.
"The psychology of hate is such:

"Until John Doe learns to hate he will be no good.
As long as he regards his opponent as a good fellow, a man

who, after all, does not really want to fight and kill
him, John Doe will go into combat carelessly and not
aggressively. He won't go and look for the enemy; he

won't want to kill, to destroy; to win. When the enemy
proves to be stronger, John Doe will not hold out and
counter attack; try to beat the enemy with the last ounce
of energy, beat him by his stronger will. John Doe will
probably give way, get panicky, and want to leave alone

in order to be let alone. He will fall into traps and

never lay any traps himself. He will trust anybody and
never suspect. His slogan will not be "go (get?) the

B...s," but "let's not give away our positions." when
lead starts flying thickly, he'll want to run.

"It is in the nature of hate that it can be instilled
or acquired. It was instilled into the German, Italian,

or Japanese soldiers until it became a habit with them.
The American soldiers acquired it after they had been at the
front for awhile. Then, of course, they went ahead and
nothing could stop them. Then they whistied when they
threw hand grenades. But then it was late, and we had
lost so many unnecessarily.

"Hate is like gin. It takes awhile, and then,

suddenly, it hits you. After you have seen your buddies

killed; after you see bodies, or what's left of them,
piled up for burial; when you realize that they are after
you, too; when it finally connects in your mind that moral
code does not exist in this way, then you will begin to
hate, and want to retaliate. A soldier has to develop
the primitive instinct to kill anybody who threatens him or
his own. Beyond that he must learn to kill before the
other can get at him.

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-7"Until he hates the enemy with every instinct and
every muscle, he will only be afraid.
"This is primitive psychology, a cruel and inhuman

one. But war is all that. Hate must become first nature
to a soldier and make him want to use every trick. We
went out for days to look for the enemy, we fired at anything that moved, we laid booby traps all over the front,
because we wanted to kill. We only had to remember

"In the training of intelligence personnel, this
psychological factor is of greatest importance. Intelligence personnel, being of intellectually higher standards,
must realize that their job will be to know and outwit the

enemy. As counterintelligence personnel they will have to
detect and neutralize the enemy and his agents. They must

learn not to trust. They must be able, through their
specialized training, to warn the men in the lines.

"As an example we could mention the numerous casual-

ties suffered due to Arab espionage. Our men trusted the
Arabs, made friends with them, tolerated them near positions. Then the bombs and shells came and fell right into
those positions where the Arabs had previously been. Dead
men don't need to hate any more, but the survivors learned
their lesson.

"Intelligence personnel must be trained not to trust
anybody, to suspect lies in firm assurances of friendship.
They cannot afford to make fine distinctions between good
and bad in native populations. They must understand that
the lives of other fellows depend on them. The boys in

the foxholes like to live too, and hate to die just be-

cause some intelligence men had big hearts and could not
understand that spies and agents are ostensibly friendly
people.

"It would be a good thing if newly arrived intelligence
personnel could be given a chance to visit hospitals, and
hear some of the stories our casualties would have to tell.
They should be given talks by experienced intelligence and

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-8counterintelligence men (American, British, French).
They should read casualty lists and be told why these
men had to die, and how they died. They should be given

the shock of their lives, now, in the rear areas, in

order that they be prepared psychologically to such a pitch
that they want nothing else but to get in and retaliate.
After that, they should be taught how.'

H.M.JR: Isn't that a wonderful piece of writing?
MR. COOK: It certainly is.
H.M.JR: And that has been kicking around in the
War Department; nobody has used it.

MR. COOK: It sounds like the Marine talks down at
Paris Island.
H.M.JR: was it you who told me the story about the

Marines?

MR. COOK: I don't think so.
H.M.JR: One of the newspapermen said there was a

talk a colonel or a general gave these Marines. He said,
"Remember, the Army and the Navy are our Allies just like
the Russians and the Chinese." (Laughter)
Well, when he got through Marshall told me this story

to illustrate it. He said he had a letter from a parent
who lost a son in the Air Corps. It went on to say that

he felt everything had been done for the son and he appre-

ciated their sending back his remains - his trinkets -

then he enclosed a photograph that the Germans had sent
the grave and said, "Look how nice the Germans are - a

of

"

beautiful grave, and they took a picture and sent it.
Marshall said he had to sit down and write this parent
a letter and say he was glad they were taking this thing
in such a reasonable way, but then he said, I had to go
and explain that the Germans did this thing just to get
them at home to feel kindly disposed towards them."

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-9When we got through he said, "What are you going to do?"

I said, "General, I don't know."

He said, "Have you seen these wonderful movies?

I said, "I have seen some of them." But then, he
has this kind of thing which they haven't released.
Now, to sum up - I mean, to me it kind of makes a

picture in this sense. Our people at the front and at

home still don't know what this war is all about because
we are too far removed from it. That is number one.
I think in my speech I can do something to bring
the thing home. Instead of doing the thing - "what are
we fighting for?" - I think we have to say something
about this business, hate, along this line.
Number two, we have got the facts instead of this

thing - I thought up until this morning that maybe in a
couple of weeks we will take Italy. We are right up
against the real thing. And even in Sicily, which they
reported like a football game - or baseball - look at the
stuff we lost. And this idea that Sicily was easy and we
just took it - "Here are some of the ideas of the losses
and we had to strip everything in Africa, even to put our

forces into Sicily."

When I went to England last year the thing that
shocked me was that when they sent the thing to Africa
a year ago they had to strip everything in England and

practically everything we had in this country to send

those few troops we had then. That was a year ago, and
evidently we are still not ready, although he says we
are. He said that we are now ready to really send people
from this country. He told me how many; I won't mention
it.

But this idea which has more or less gotten into this
country that this is an easy war, that we took Sicily and

didn't lose anything, that Italy is going to be a walkover - I certainly can do a job on that.

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Now, you only want one idea at a time. The other

idea is this psychological idea which is so beautifully
expressed by this Sargent, and this thing - "the next
show will be a consuming furnace. "

Have you got something to think about?

MR. ALBEE: I have been thinking about it for a
year, sir.
H.M.JR: I know, but for me to talk about?
MR. ALBEE: I think we need some atrocity stories

and have needed them for a year.

H.M.JR: On the atrocity end, I called up Watson
at five minutes of eight. There are six men-MR. SMITH: There are six?

H.M.JR: There are six, but they are in the midst
of negotiation of swapping prisoners with Japan and if
they release the story now they are fearful that the
Japanese will kill all of our prisoners and therefore
they want to not release this story. And General Marshall
pleaded with the President for fear of what would happen
to our other prisoners. And General Marshall asked him

and he said, 'When this is released this is so big that
nobody can handle this but the President." But they are
holding it up on account of other prisoners. There are
six people who escaped from prison who have the most

terrific story. But he said--

MRS. KLOTZ: Escaped from where?

H.M.JR: Japan. So there you are, gentlemen. And

then this little pin-prick of a girl over there won't

let me talk about bombing Germany and Berlin. What is
the matter with OWI? And OWI gets this and they don't

tell it to us.

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MR. ALBEE: I wrote a rough draft of the thing for
Wednesday night; it is going to sound pretty weak in the

face of all this stuff.

H.M.JR: What do you think, Herbert?
MR. GASTON : I think we have got to talk about the

job that is ahead. People are beginning to feel it, of

course. They see how sticky this thing is at Naples and

they are a little receptive toward it.
MR. ALBEE: I think so, too.

H.M.JR: What I had in mind, in view of this morning "The very equipment which is listed there is within my
eyesight. I can see over there such and such a piece of

equipment. We lost so much of it. Over to the right of
me is this kind of a gun - we lost so much of that. And
this, ladies and gentlemen, was just a little show. Now,

we lost so much of this - this gun cost twenty thousand
dollars - we lost ten thousand of them, which alone is
so much money" - instead of saying for one - "For this

one piece of equipment alone we lost twenty-five thousand

dollars.

"I can see over here one of these amphibious boats;
one of these boats cost twenty-five thousand dollars - we
lost five hundred of them.

"Now, just within my eyesight 1 can see this. Now,

we have got to - if we lost that much in Italy--'
MR. SMITH: Sicily - we aren't even in Italy yet.

H.M.JR: "In Sicily - which, in a sense, was a walk-

over - what are we going to do?'

See? That is the kind of speech. "And what I can
see from this place here, walking around this show" - just
that one idea - "I can stand here and see these things that gun - we lost so much; that piece of equipment we
lost cost so much.

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"Now, in Sicily alone it is estimated we lost so

many million dollars; they were consumed in this furnace.
Now we have got to go on; we have got to raise this fif-

teen billion dollars and you might as well know it. We
think there is going to be a fourth and a fifth "ar Loan."

Just this thing - just this little one idea-MR. ALBEE: Good, that is swell.

H.M.JR: Now, the thing I think made the biggest
hit that "This was a cannon and that a bullet, and that
cost SO many million dollars - but here I am standing on
this platform and here I can see this.

I think that is my talk. Then if we want to get

into the St. Louis thing we can talk about the psychology

of hate.

MR. GASTON: Where is that speech?
H.M.JR: My speech?
MR. GASTON: This one.

H.M.JR: This is at the arena wednesday night.

MR. GASTON: It isn't from the arena; it is from the
radio station.
MRS. KLOTZ: You can't do that, then.

H.M.JR: If you want me to do a good job, let me
stand in the arena.

MR. SMITH: If we can pipe it over - we will see if

we can do it.

H.M.JR: I can't get inspired sitting in a glass

cage thing - or can I?

MR. GASTON: "As I stood in the arena, I looked"--

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H.M.JR: I thought Stimson was standing at the

arena.

MR. SMITH: No.

H.M.JR: I guess the other would be better.
MRS. KLOTZ: Say, "Five minutes ago I stood at the
Army Show.

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MR. SMITH: As a matter of fact, it isn't announced
where it comes from, anyway, and if you want to be full
of integrity you can look out the window and you can see

practically everything. It is right up here on New York

Avenue.

H.M.JR: "If I could take you by the hand and lead
you through this show I could show you this and that.
Let me take you by the hand and walk you through this

exhibit of the Army. Let me show you this piece of

equipment - we lost so much of that. I would like to
take you on a tour of the show, ladies and gentlemen."
Mr. ALBEE: Good.

H.M.JR: Whether I do it up there or here it doesn't

make any difference. "Let me take you on a tour through
this show."

MR. ALBEE: You are going to have to make speeches

between drives as well as during drives from now on.

This is getting pretty tough.

MR. GASTON: I was thinking of a general outline for
all this stuff, which is what we have got ahead - what

is it going to take of materials and lives; what it is
going to take on the battle front; and what it is going
to take at home.

H.M.R: And then General Marshall, whom I admire and

am fond of - he said, "How are we going to do this thing?"
He said, "We got out these moving pictures."

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I bet they don't show them on the front. Osborne
is now going to start debates.
Well, anyway, I am going over there again. But I

have given you enough, haven't I?
MR. ALBEE: Yes, sir.

MR. COOK: Yes, sir, excepting what I am interested
in is what we can publish and whether General Marshall
can get us some of the pictures we are trying to get,

and also some of the facts we are trying to get out of the

War Department and Navy to base - that is, on which we can

base some stories that will let the public around the

country realize this thing through the newspapers so we
can get our headlines.

H.M. JR: Well, you will have to think it out. We
know it exists. You have got to get to see Surles.
MR. COOK: We will get somebody over to Surles
right away and see what we can get out of him.

H.M.JR: Right.

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I bet they don't show them on the front. Osborne
is now going to start debates.
Well, anyway, I am going over there again. But I

have given you enough, haven't I?
MR. ALBEE: Yes, sir.

MR. COOK: Yes, sir, excepting what I am interested
in is what we can publish and whether General Marshall

can get us some of the pictures we are trying to get,
and also some of the facts we are trying to get out of the

War Department and Navy to base - that is, on which we can

base some stories that will let the public around the

country realize this thing through the newspapers so we
can get our headlines.

H.M. JR: Well, you will have to think it out. We
know it exists. You have got to get to see Surles.
MR. COOK: We will get somebody over to Surles
right away and see what we can get out of him.

H.M.JR: Right.

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SECRET

WAR DEPARTMENT

CLASSIFIED MESSAGE CENTER
INCOMING MESSAGE

13 Sept. 1943

Priority
From: Algiers

To: War

No.

W 9915, 13 September 1943

Directive for PWE OWI radio to Italy follows. To AGWAR
for Combined Chiefs of Staff to USFOR for British Chiefs of
Staff signed Eisenhower, FHINC. This is NAF 401
(1) Background Not for propaganda use.

First phase exploitation dramatic combination Armistice

and Naples landings now over. 2nd phase begins. Main objective

now is to sustain Italian civilian resistance both active

resistance of tiny saboteur minority and passive resistance
vast majority.
We advise propaganda to Italy should be based on tacit

assumption of long and arduous campaign between evenly balanced

forces. This campaign may well last into 1944. Even on short
view we cannot reckon on early fall of Naples. Here German
forces roughly equal our own in strength. Nor can we reckon
on Montgomerys advance being rapid enough to affect Naples

battle. Nor can we expect in immediate future any but local
exploitation capture of Taranto.
Propaganda problem therefore is how to prevent sudden

slump volatile Italian moral as Italians come to realize what
lies ahead. In our view it will be disastrous suddently to
disclose this grim prospect. On the other hand it is impossible
to maintain propaganda at high pitch of confidence early victory
recommend in our 1st directive. The following directive attempts

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From: Algiers
To:

war

No. W 9915, 13 September 1943

to indicate a middle way. It should be borne in mind by

French and english desks

(2) Directive
(A) Take Roosevelt/ Churchill message as key note.

Address
Italian
people
as friends and as an occupied people
but
do not
call them
Allies.
(B) Continue in all propaganda to Italy confident op-

timistic picture military situation linking appeals resis-

tance with stress Allied strength and news of campaign in
Italy.

Admit Germans control Rome and Northern Italy but do
not stress German strength. Comment constantly upon German

strategic embarrassment stressing Russian victories ferment
in Balkans inside Germany news and European resistance.

(c) Continue appeals for sabotage German communication

lines. Aim of this campaign is not of course to give instructions to actual saboteurs but to create sabotage atmosphere

and in particular to insure Italian civilians regard saboteurs

as heroes and assist them. This special SOE request. Give
there for only such detailed sabotage instructions necessary
to create atmosphere. Take care never to call such sabotage

appeals instructions but only advice. On this point we are

correcting our own broadcasts. Quote in news wherever useful.
German admissions Italian sabotage resistance.

(D) Give increasing attention to passive resistance
campaign such as majority Italian civilians, actually carry
out. To antidote bombing effects stress our bombing directed

against German communications and suggest Italians help our
bombing by themselves slowing up these communications. Con-

tinue labor leader messages to Italian workers especially

CM IN-10571 (14 Sep 43)

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From: Algiers
To:

War

No. W 9915, 13 September 1943

transport workers.

(E) Continue ban all appeals to Armed Forces. Requote

frequently any official Italian appeals we may be able to obtain.
(F) Continue to avoid all discussion Italian government and
King. For your information we are seeking to arrange radio Palermo
and if possible at later stage radio Bari become Italian government
stations. If they do so should be quoted when giving instructions
but we should take care to avoid identifying Italian government
propaganda line with our own.

(G) Treat with derision so called National Fascist Government.
Dont spotlight Mussolini.
(H) Continue to harp on courageous action Italian Fleet. We
shall seek to provide material.

(I) Continue to regard morale German troops in Italy as
important propaganda objective. Here our previous directive for

week beginning August 30 th still holds unchanged by Armistice

announcement.

(J) Remember Italian audience only interested by events in

Italy and such outside events as directly affect Italian situation.

Concentrate therefore in news bulletins on Italian and Russian

campaigns Balkan news European resistance and German weakness.

Briefest references far east sufficient. Show explicitly how all
news from outside Italy links with Italian situation. Avoid at

all costs impression of remoteness from Italian situations.
ACTION: CCS
No Sig
INFORMATION: OPD, GEN STRONG, GEN ARNOLD, GEN HILLDRING,
ADM. KING, WHITE HOUSE, LOG

CM-IN-10571 (14 Sep 43) 0334Z VC

Copy No. 43

September 14, 1943
10:40 a.m.

Operator: Operator.
HMJr:

Have you got those two men?

Operator:
HMJr:

Yes, sir. I have them.
Put them on. (Pause) Hello.

Operator:

There you are -- on the phone.

George

Albee:
Fred

Albee here.

Smith:

Hello.

HMJr:

Listen, men. I just got a knockout. When I talk
about this piece of equipment, let's say it's a
gun. We lost 80 much of it. Then I'd say, "Look,

this was made in the Dodge Factory at Pontiac by
workmen at Pontiac. You lost -- you manufactured

this -- this was lost. You've got to make more of

them. Now, workmen of the Dodge Branch at Pontiac,

your bond quota is Four Million Dollars. Come on,

now! Get busy and fill that quota.'

A:

Uh huh. Uh huh.

HMJr:

Hello.

A:

Yeah.

HMJr:

Take the piece of equipment, trace it back to the
factory where it was made and get the quota that
they have and call on them to fill this quota.

A:

Yeah.

HMJr:

We'll get them mad. "All this equipment you made
was blown up to hell."

A:

Uh huh.

HMJr:

Now, we could -- "You've got to make more equipment.
You ve got to buy more bonds

A:

Uh huh.

HMJr:

.... and your quota is 80 much. Now, come on and

A:

fill that quota. .
All right.

18

-2HMJr:
A:

HMJr:

19

What do you think?

Okay, if it's physically possible to do it.
Sure it is. You've got plenty of time - you take the
particular piece of equipment, trace it back to the
factory, you tell these factory workers that that
thing was blown to hell, that they've got to make more
of it and they've got to pay for it, and their quota
is so much - now, come on, boys, fill this quota and
make more of the same thing, only make it better.

A:

HMJr:

Uh huh. Okay.

That takes it right back to the factory and right

back to them and right back to the war bonds.
A:

I've got to get this out fast as hell because I've

got to begin on St. Louis
Fred

Smith:

Well, I'll - I'11 get somebody who can follow - who
can contact the Army and do that business of tracking

back.
A:

Well, I'll do a rough draft of it - all they'11 have
to do is fill in. I'll have that in your hands in

half an hour and then somebody can fill in the
figures.

HMJr:

Do you like the idea?

S:

I think it's wonderful. The only catch is that there

may be five factories making gun carriages
HMJr:

That's all right. Then only take - use one as an

example.
S:

HMJr:

Take one as an example.

And then we could get out a series of releases on the
others. I'll tell you who is the fastest worker - it's
this Colonel Dow in Eddie Greenbaum's office.

S:

That's right. Colonel Dow

HMJr:

Yeah.

S:

All right.

-3HMJr:

S:

And then you can use this and use all of that stuff
and trace it back, one after another, and let the
factories announce it in connection with their
program to get their quota.
That's right.

A:

Hit local newspapers with the stuff.

HMJr:

Yes.

A:

Circularize releases for local papers.

HMJr:

Yeah.

A:

Yeah.

S:

Okay.

HMJr:

Okay.

S:

All right. I'11 get it organized.

A:

Right.
.

ft

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September 14, 1943
11:20 a.m.
HMJr:

Very good. By you yet how is it?

Sam

Rosenman:

What's on your mind, Henry?

HMJr:

This is to remind me to remind you to remind the
President that at his press conference

R:

HMJr:

Yes.

he Tax
is toBill.
say that the Treasury is the manager
of the

R:

Uh huh.

HMJr:

Had you forgotten it?

R:

HMJr:

No. I mentioned it this morning.
Well, you'll have to see that he does it. Will you?

R:

Yes.

HMJr:

It will be most helpful all around.
Okay. All right, boy.

R:

HMJr:
R:

I'm seeing you shortly.
Yes, sir.

HMJr:

In ten minutes?

R:

Fifteen -- yeah, ten minutes.

HMJr:
R:

HMJr:
R:

Yeah. But you'll see he comes through.
Yes, sir.
I saw a nice story about you in today's Times.

Yeah, damn it. That -- that was a leak.

HMJr:

Okay.

R:

All righty.

HMJr:

Bye.

R:

Bye.

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September 14, 1943.
MEMORANDUM

TO: Secretary Morgenthau
FROM: Mr. Gaston

I attended with you a conference with the President
at 11:30 o'clock today at which were present also Mr. Paul,
Judge Rosenman, Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Vinson. As we came in

the President said: What are Herbert and Sam doing here?
They don't know anything about taxes, do they?" Both Sam
and I offered to leave but the President gave no indication
that he was serious and we sat down. Justice Byrnes seated
himself along side the President's desk, at the President's

left, the others being grouped in a circle in front of the

President's desk. Justice Byrnes immediately took the
lead. He began in reverse order to take up the various

items of the tax program which had been discussed with him

and with Vinson the day before. At the outset you endeavored

to interject a statement but Byrnes replied by asking if it

wasn't best to consider the items in the same order we had
yesterday and proceeded with his discussion.

He quickly disposed first of the sales tax by stating
that we were all in agreement against it, to which the
President assented. Then he took up the items of increased
excise taxes on luxuries, an increase in the normal and surtax on ordinary corporate income to a total of 50 per cent
and increases in the estate and gift taxes. There was no

argument on any of these points and Byrnes stated that all
were in substantial agreement. He then came to the important

item of integrating payroll taxes at the rate of six per cent

on employer and employee, as provided in the Wagner Bill,
with an income tax schedule in the brackets above $3000 to

raise about 8.7 billions as called for by our original pro-

gram, to raise a total of 12 billion dollars. An alternative

to that he said was a straight income tax increase, to which
he said we were all opposed. There was no dissent from that
statement. Byrnes then proceeded to say much as he had on

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-2Monday that both he and Vinson were strongly sympathetic

to social security and had battled for it but neither of

them thought there was any chance of getting such a plan
through Congress. Vinson supported his arguments. The
President then took up the matter and proceeded to summar-

ize the arguments against the plan. As he had apparently
concluded you asked for permission to say a word. The
President asked you to wait a minute, saying he hadn't
finished. He then proceeded to give a good argument in

favor of the plan, largely on a political basis. He was
inclined to think the country would favor the plan if it

were properly presented even though Congress would be
against it and there would be a great advantage in demon-

strating that the Administration had not swung completely
to the right as so many people were saying. It appeared
at that point almost as if we had won our case in favor

of the integrated plan. However, Byrnes quite insistently
asked the President's attention to an alternative plan,

which he said Mr. Paul had suggested at the meeting on

Monday, which would substitute for payroll taxes a partially
refundable increased income tax. Vinson also indicated
strong support of this plan.

After discussion to clarify the refundable tax plan
the President suggested a possible modification of it to
include an optional insurance plan. His suggestion was

that refunds might be made in cash of 75 per cent or thereabouts of the total refunds contemplated, but at the rate

of 100 per cent if taken in the form of the purchase of
insurance. This insurance might be acquired from the

post offices or through the Veterans' Administration or some
other appropriate agency. The President thought that the
taxpayer might be permitted to acquire insurance in an amount
equivalent to what combined employer and employee payroll
taxes would buy under the social security system for the same

amount of contribution represented by the refundable tax.

It was the President's idea that we might present both

of the plans, or all three of the suggested plans, as alter-

natives to the committees of Congress. He then proceeded
to write a pencil memorandum. The problem he said was to
raise about five billion dollars, whi cl was the approximate

amount of the combined increase of employer and employee
taxes under the Wagner Act. His memorandum was as follows:

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-3"1. 5-B. ($5 billions) Refundable Tax, Graduated
2. 5-B. Combination of
Post War Optional Refund into

(a) Cash less than the Taxes

(b) Paid up insurance 100% of the tax.

3. 5-B. Social Security Contributions."
At one point in his discussion of the political phases
of the matter the President said to Vinson that in talking
with people on the Hill it would be a good thing to call

their attention to the political implications of the pro-

posals.

Vinson brought up again his two proposals of eliminating
the earned income tax credit and replacing the family status

exemptions with tax credits. Mr. Paul agreed that the socalled earned income credit was not a true earned income

provision and that it might well be dropped. As to the tax

credit to replace the exemptions he said it ought to be considered that this change would increase the burden on married
men and men with families. Vinson could not see this and
the matter was not made clear. The President while listening
sympathetically did not seem to commit himself to either pro-

posal.

There was a fairly spirited discussion of the question
of eliminating the Victory Tax. Mr. Paul reported that

several members of the committee, including Bob Doughton,
had come back from home convinced that because of the discontent of taxpayers over having to make what amounts to a

double return it would be necessary to eliminate the Victory
Tax. Vinson argued against doing this on the ground that
we had to give way to the Victory Tax last year in order to
escape getting a sales tax and that we would probably be in
the same danger this year. The President concluded the
matter by saying that we could suggest the elimination of
the Victory Tax but he thought nobody would cry very hard

if we didn't get it.

25

-4You expressed concerne about the effect of a refundable
tax proposal on the present War Bond drive, remarking that

by whatever name it was called it was forced lending. It

would be very unfortunate, you said, if it came out during
the drive that the Administration was considering a forced
loan or refundable tax, whereupon Byrnes suggested that it
might be possible to defer the whole tax discussion on the

Hill until after the drive was concluded. You agreed that

would be a very desirable thing to do.

Thereupon there was discussion of the matter of meeting with the Congressional committee leaders and it was arranged that the tax committee leaders would be called to a

meeting with the same group in the President's office at
2:00 P.M. tomorrow, Wednesday.

The meeting then adjourned having held from approximately 11:45 until 1:00 P.M.

2

Mr

9/14/43

26

Outside Reactions to Social Security Income Tax - Combined
Increases

Lauchlin Currie:

Favorable to idea, but uncertain from
strategical standpoint.

Judge Vinson:

Favorable to social security, but

vigorously opposed to presenting plan
at this time because Ways and Means

Committee's hostility to social security

will hurt tax aspects of bill.
Gerhard Colm:

Favorable to idea of plan, but is
concerned about strategical, political
aspects.

Paul McNutt:

Apparently favorable to plan provided

social security is put on its own feet

and anti-inflation not too much emphasized.
Altmeyer:

Is dubious about the plan, but not
disposed to oppose it.

M. Eccles:

Vigorously opposed to plan on the ground

that it endangers the tax bill and

anti-inflation front. Will send over a
memo in day or two.
Madame Perkins:

(thru Maggs)

Opposed to a combination of social security
and taxes, because she is afraid social

Senator Wagner:

Doubtful, but wishes help on social security.

security will suffer.

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2nd copy to9/14/43
7.N.R.
Outside Reactions to Social Security Income Tax - Combined
Increases

Lauchlin Currie:

Favorable to idea, but uncertain
from strategical standpoint.

Judge Vinson:

Favorable to social security, but

vigorously opposed to presenting
plan at this time because Ways and

Means Committee's hostility to

social security will hurt tax aspects of bill.

Paul McNutt:

Apparently favorable to plan pro-

vided social security is put on its
own feet and anti-inflation not too

much emphasized.

Altmeyer:

M. Eccles:

Is dubious about the plan, but not

disposed to oppose it.

Vigorously opposed to plan on the
ground that it endangers the tax

bill and anti-inflation front. Will
send over a memo in day or two.

Madam Perkins:

(thru Maggs)

Opposed to a combination of social
security and taxes, because she is

Senator Wagner:

Doubtful, but wishes help on social

afraid social security will suffer.
security.

28

Wayne Taylor:

Favorable to plan, although doubtful
as to increase in employers' contributions.

Harold Smith:

Believes proposal would impair, rather

than enhance, chances of early enactment

of adequate fiscal program. Thinks
Social Security contributions should be
increased gradually so that maximum
rates become effective as decrease in

war taxes and compulsory saving become
possible.
Justice Byrnes:

Favorable to Social Security, but opposed

to presenting plan at this time. Favors
instead alternative, incorporating

post-war rebate.

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Lunch in the Secretary's office, September 14, 1943.
The Secretary invited Lord Keynes, Mr. Berle and myself to lunch,
and asked Keynes through me if he would care to bring someone with him.
Keynes did bring Mr. Robbins.

The Secretary stated that, unfortunately, he had been delayed at
the White House, and had to keep an appointment at 2 o'clock, and so he
hoped he would be forgiven if he pursued some business during the lunch
hour. He asked what plans Keynes had for continuing the monetary
discussions here. Keynes responded that he had been talking with White
about it, and that there was to be a general meeting in which he was to
bring his men and meet the Treasury and State Department people, and he

thought that after that, if there had been some progress, that a draft-

ing committee, to be selected among the United Nations, would begin
work. He understood that this was our desire. He added that a promise
had been made to his Parliament. to debate the matter before it took
final form and so he hoped there would be some statement of principles
in a f'ew pages that would be made public and which the Parliament could

debate publicly before a final draft was published.

The Secretary asked me how that fitted in our program in view of
his commitments to Congress. I expressed the view that I thought that
he would have to appear before Congressional Committees sometime soon,

preferably next week, while the discussions with the British experts
were going on and leave for a later appearance discussion of the plan.

I said that there still remained the necessity to clear with the

President whether or not to go forward with the formal drafting and
calling of a conference. We had hoped to make enough progress to take

up with the British in a week or so to justify the Secretary's taking

it up with the President before any drafting committee would begin work.
The Secretary asked Mr. Berle whether that program met with the

approval of the State Department. Mr. Berle said it definitely did.

The Secretary asked Mr. Berle whether there was anything he wanted to

add and Mr. Berle said no, that our program was quite all right.

The Secretary said it would be desirable to move right along with
the British in the matter of discussion, but since Keynes said Parliament
would not be discussing it until late October, he (the Secretary) might
not be able to wait that long before his next appearance before the
Special Committees. Mr. Berle stated he thought it could not wait that
long, because the pressure of Congressional inquiries would rapidly
increase and it were better to give them such additional information as
we could at this stage. Keynes said it would be perfectly satisfactory
to his Government to have the Secretary appear before the Congressional

Committees at this time particularly since it was not a public meeting.
The Secretary stated that though it was not public there still would
doubtless be some leaks. Keynes replied, notwithstanding, he thought

it would be perfectly all right.

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Division of Monetary
Research

2-

The Secretary then went on to ask whether they had come prepared

to talk about the Bank as well as the Plan. Keynes said that they had
no specific instructions with respect to the Bank, that they had progressed more in their discussions on the Fund than they had with the
Bank, but they hoped to be able to discuss it here.

The Secretary asked me what progress we were making with the Bank
proposal and I said that we had made a good deal of progress and we

hoped soon to be able to bring it to the Secretary, and at which time

we would bring it to the President's attention if satisfactory. The

Secretary said that Mr. Berle deserved the credit for pushing this
Bank, and Berle replied that yes, he had felt constantly that the Fund
without the long term investment aspect was quite inadequate.
The Secretary then went on to report Churchill's comments to the
effect that there was "too much gold business" in the Stabilization
Fund and his people do not like it for that reason. The Secretary
explained the advantages of gold in the Fund and Churchill explained
that he did not understand the whole business. The one mistake in his
career, Churchill said, was when he listened to his Treasury advisors
and went back on the gold standard after the last war.
The Secretary asked Keynes some questions on the financing of
relief, whether much progress had been made on the matter, and whether

the British delegates were going to include that topic in their discussions. Keynes replied that the subject was still somewhat in a fog
and he would like very much to discuss it, but he wasn't sure with whom
it was to be discussed. He added that he would like very much to
discuss it with the Treasury people if possible. The Secretary replied
that we would be glad to discuss it with him.
The Secretary then excused himself and asked the group to stay

and continue their discussions. After the Secretary left we talked
about methods for financing relief.
H. D. White.

HDW

31

SEP 14 1943

Dear Dr. Kung:

This is to express our appreciation for the
memorandum which you had Chinese technical experts
prepare on monetary rehabilitation and stabilisation and for the memorandum giving general observe-

tions on the American and British plans for an
international monetary organisation.

Your willingness to devote the time and energy

of your Ministry to the preparation of these proposals is another indication of the willingness of
China to participate actively with the other United
Nations in solving the difficult economic and fi-

nancial problems which now confront the United
Nations and which will take on enhanced importance

after the conclusion of hostilities.

The technical exports of the United States
have carefully studied and analysed your proposals.
They have indicated considerable interest in the
views expressed in these proposals, particularly
with regard to the desirability of giving special
consideration to the needs of China and countries

in similar position.

The draft proposal of the United States technical experts has already been modified to distin-

guish between member countries whose home areas

have been wholly or partly occupied by the enemy
and the other more fortunate member countries with
regard both to gold payments and the establishment

of initial rates of exchange. These modifications

have resulted largely from discussions held with
the Chinese technical experts in the United States.

32

-2In our future discussions, we will have the

adventage of your detailed proposals and these

will be given full consideration in any future
revision of the present draft proposal.

Sincerely yours,
(Signed) H. Mergenthen, Jr.

Secretary of the Treasury

Dr. H. H. Kung,

Minister of Finance,

Chungking, China.

ISF/efs 9/11/43

Transmitted via "Liplematic

Pouch"

33

Treasury Department

Division of Monetary Research
Date
To:

1943

Mrs. McHugh

From: L. Shanahan

Attached is a copy of each of the

letters sent to the Finance Ministers of
various countries. Copies have also
been sent to Mrs. Farrell.

Sent

34

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ex-

perts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying

the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of those discussions, the technical experte of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative
proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft
embodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts
of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the

contributions to the discussions made by Dr. Gorrondona and
Dr. Guerrero, the technical experts that you sent to Washington.
The several conversations they held with the experts of the United
States were helpful to us and we hope to them.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund.
It is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monstary
cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

/a/ H. marguttan. 2.
Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, Alfredo Machade Hernandes,
The Minister of Finance,
The United States of Venesuela,

Caracas, Venesuela.
Enclosure.

EMBirl 9/9/43

35

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an international stabilization fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical exports and to send their ex-

parts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ex-

perts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying
the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these discussions, the technical exports of

the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative
proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. While this draft
ombodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts
of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you ay appreciation for the

contribution to the discussions made by the late Mr. Pedro Cosio.
The several conversations he held with the experts of the United
States were extremely helpful to us. His untimely death is a great

loss to his colleagues in this country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in
connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

/o/ N.
Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, Ricardo Cosio,
The Minister of Finance,
The Oriental Republic of Uruguay,
Montevideo, Uruguay.
Enclosure

EMBirl 9/9/43

36

SEP 16 1943

Hanellency:

Same time ago there was sent to you and to the other ministers
of finance of the United Nations and the countries associated with

them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation

Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury
in cooperation with the technical experts of other departments of this
Government. It was intended that the finance ministers would submit

this tentative proposal for critical study by their technical experts

and would send their experts to Washington for informal discussions
with the technical experts of this Government.
These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying

the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative propoeal. As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft
embodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts
of any other country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the

tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It is

my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in
connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation,
Sincerely yours,

Secretary of the Treasury

life Excellency, Arseni Origoryevich Overev,
People's Commissar of Finance,

Moscow,

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Enclosure,

Eilter 9/9/43

37

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical experts and to send their a

perts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ex-

perte of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying
the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative

proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft

embodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contribution to the discussions made by Dr. Holloway, the technical
expert that you sent to Washington, The several conversations he
held with the experts of the United States were extremely helpful
to us and we hope to him. You will find embodied in the revised
draft some of his suggestions.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International stabilisation Fund.
It is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary
cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

/e/
Secretary of the Treasury,
The Honorable Jan Hendrik Hofmays,

Minister of Finance,
The Union of South Africa,
Pretoria, Union of South Africa.
Enclosure

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38

SEP 1 1 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
National and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the teahnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I saked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical experts and to send their ex-

parts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ex-

perts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the
problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other
country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contributions to the discussions made by the technical experts that
you designated. The several conversations they held with the experts
of the United States were extremely helpful to us and we hope to them.
You will find embodied in the revised draft some of their suggestions.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It is my
intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

/o/ H
Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, Henryk Strasburger,
Minister of Finance,
Republic of Poland,
London, England.
Enclosure.
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39

SEP 16 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposel for an international stabilisation fund, prepared by the teahnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation dt the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experte to Washington for informal discussions with the technical parte of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying
the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. to a result of these discussions, the technical experts of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative
proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft

embodies some of the suggestions of the technical exports of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts
of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contribution to the discussions made by Dr. Gonziles, the technical
expert that you sent to Washington. The several conversation he
held with the experts of the United States were helpful to us and

we hope to him.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund.
It is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developmonta in connection with the proposals for international monetary
cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

/d/ 4. Mauguithan, I
Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, Rogelio Espinona,
The Minister of Finance,
The Hepublic of Paraguay,
Abunction, Paraguay.
Enclosure

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40

SEP 141943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an international stabilisation fund, prepared by the teahnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their exports to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts of this Government.
These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying

the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative
proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft
embodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts
of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contributions to the discussions made by the technical experts that
you designated. The several conversations they held with the experts of the United States were extremely helpful to us and we hope
to them. You will find embodied in the revised draft some of their
suggestions.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It is my
intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

/o/
H. margutuan,
Secretary of the Treasury
His Excellency, Paul Hartmann,
Minister of Finance,
Kingdom of Norway,

Kingston House, Princes Gate,
London, England.
Enclosure

EMB;ah 9/9/43

41

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an international stabilisation fund, prepared by the teahnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical exports and to send their -

perts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical exports

of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the

problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the

contributions to the discussions made by Mr. de Longh and Mr. Polak,
the technical experts that you designated. The several conversations

they held with the experts of the United States were extressly help=
ful to us and we hope to them. You will find embodied in the revised
draft some of their suggestions.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

/al
Secretary of the Treasury
His Excellency, J. van den Brook,
Minister of Finance,
Kingdom of the Netherlands,
A.L. Stratton House,
London, England.
Enclosure

42

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the teahnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical exporte and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical -

perts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the

problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the

contributions to the discussions made by Mr. Monteros and Mr. Gomes,
the technical experts that you sent to Washington. The several conversations they held with the experts of the United States were extremely helpful to us and ms hope to than. You will find embodied
in the revised draft some of their suggestions.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

Secretary of the Treasury
His Excellency, Eduardo Suares,

Minister of Finance,

The United States of Mexico,
Mexico City, Mexico.
Enclosure

43

SEP 16 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the teahnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
teshnical experts of &ther departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical orperts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
same time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the
problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contributions to the discussions made by Mr. Liautaud and Mr. Chauvet,
the technical experts that you designated. The several conversations

they held with the experts of the United States were extremely helpful
to us and we hope to them. You will find embodied in the revised
draft some of their suggestions.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sinoerely yours,
/2/
Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Abel Laaroix,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Haiti,

Port au Prime, Haiti,

Enclosure

44

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On April 28, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their exports to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ex-

perta of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the

problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of those discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contributions to the discussions made by the technical experts that
you designated. The several conversations they held with the experts
of the United States were helpful to us and we hope to them.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It is my

intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

/al W mayouthan. J.
Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Kemal Sedki,
The Hinister of Finance,
Kingdom of Egypt,

Gairo, Egypt.
Enclosure

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45

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their exparts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ex-

perts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying

the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggest one for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative
proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. While this draft
embodies BONE of the suggestions of the technical experts of other

countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts

of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contribution to the discussions made by Mr. Carbo, the technical
expert that you designated. The several conversations he held with
the experts of the United States were helpful to us and we hope to
him. You will find embodied in the revised draft some of his suggestions.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It
is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary coopera-

tion.

Sincerely yours,
121

Secretary of the Treasury.

His Excellency, Alberto Wright,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Ecuador,
Quito, Equador.
Enclosure.
DMB/mb

9/9/43

46

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an international stabilization fund, prepared by the technieal experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ex-

parts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the

problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the

contribution to the discussions made by Mr. Henneman, the technical
expert that you designated. The conversation he held with the exparts of the United States was helpful to us and we hope to him.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It is my
intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

/e/
Secretary of the Treasury.

His Excellency, J. Furey Pichardo,
The Minister of Finance,
Dominican Republic,
Sante Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Enclosure
EMB/mb

9/9/43

47

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an international stabilisation fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical exports of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical experts and to send their @
ports to Washington for informal disgussions with the technical parts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying

the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tontative proposal. As a result of those discussions, the technical experts of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative
proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft
embodies SOUND of the suggestions of the technical experts of other

countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts

of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contributions to the disquasions unde by the technical exports that
you sent to Washington. The several conversations they hold with the
experts of the United States were extremely helpful to us and we hope
to them. You will find embodied in the revised draft some of their
suggestions.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It is my
intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in donnection with the proposals for international monatary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,
1-1

Secretary of the Treasury
His Excellency, Ladialav Faiorabend,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Caechoslovalda,
Puruccroft, Brown Street,
London, England.

Enclosure

am alhas

48

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft propoeal for an international stabilisation fund, prepared by the teahn
nical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ex-

perts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the

problems connected with international monstary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contribution to the discussions made by Mr. Pasos, the technical part that you designated. The conversations he held with the capable
of the United States were helpful to us and we hope to him,
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It
is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary opoperation.

Sincerely yours,

/o/ H. margenthan 2
Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Eduardo I. Montoulieu,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Cuba,
Habana, Cuba
Enclosure
3

49

SEP 1 4 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an international stabilization fund, prepared by the toohnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to Submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical experts and to send their ex-

perts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical @xports of this Government.
These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying
the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these discussions, the technical exports of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative
proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft

embodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts

of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contributions to the discussions made by the technical experts that
you designated. The several conversations they held with the experts
of the United States were helpful to us and we hope to them.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund.
It is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

121 W marguture
Secretary of the Treasury
His Excellency, Carlos Manuel Escalante,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Costs Rica,
San Jose, Costa Rica.
Enclosure

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50

SER 1943
Excellency:

Some time ago there was sent to you and to the other ministers of
finance of the United Nations and the countries associated with then a

tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, pre-

pared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperstion with the technical experts of other departments of this Government.
It was intended that the finance ministers would submit this tentative
proposal for critical study by their technical experts and would send
their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical
experts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for some

time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the problems
connected with international monetary cooperation and in calling forth
suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of
these discussions, the technical experts of the United States have prepared & revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International
Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions
of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contributions to the discussions made by the technical experts that you
sent to Washington. The several conversations they held with the experts of the United States were extremely helpful to us and we hope to
them. You will find embodied in the revised draft some of their suggestions. Since the publication of the revised draft, we received your
proposals which contain many interesting suggestions. Your proposals
are now being carefully studied by the technical experts of the United
States.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It is my

intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

101 H. Marguether. I
Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, H. H. Kung,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of China,
Chungking, China.
Enclosure.
EMB/grs

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51

SEP 1 & 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an international stabilisation fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying
the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these discussions, the technical exports of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative

proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. While this draft
embodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other

countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts

of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contribution to the discussions made by Mr. Illance, the technical
expert that you designated. The several conversations he held with
the experts of the United States were helpful to us and we hope to

him,

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary 00-

operation.

Sincerely yours,

Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Guillermo del Fedregal,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Chile,
Santiago, Chile.
Enclosure

liBier 9/9/43

52

SEP 14 1943

My dear Mr. Minister:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an international stabilisation fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical experts and to send their ex-

parts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
same time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the
problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in
calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contributions to the discussions made by the technical experts that
you sent to Washington. The many conversations they held with the
experts of the United States were extremely helpful to us and we hope
to them. As you will note we have embodied in the revised draft a
large number of their suggestions.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in
connection with the proposale for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

12/ H. margenthan J
Secretary of the Treasury.

The Honorable J. L. Ilsley,
Minister of Finance,
Dominion of Canada,
Ottern, Canada.
Enclosure.

EMB/grs

9/10/43

53

SEP

incellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technioal experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that time, I
asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal for

critical study by their technical exporte and to send their experts
to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experte of
this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the
problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the contribution to the discussions made by Mr. Bulhoes, the technical expert
that you sent to Washington. The several conversations he held Fith the
experts of the United States were helpful to us and we hope to him.
You will find embodied in the revised draft some of his suggestions.
There 1s enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an Internation Stabilisation Fund. It is

my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in
connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

121
Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Artimer de Souse Costa,
The Minister of Finance,

The United States of Brazil,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
Enclosure.
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54

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an international stabilization fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experte of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical 0%

perts of this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time, The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying

the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these discussions, the technical exports of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative
proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft

embodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts
of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the
contribution to the discussions made by Mr. Ballivian, the technical expert that you designated. The several conversations he held
with the experts of the United States were helpful to us and we
hope to him.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund.
It is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary
cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

/el
Secretary of the Treasury
His Excellency, Joaquin Espada,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Bolivia,
La Pas, Bolivia.
Enclosure

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55

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technical exports of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical
experts of this Government,

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the
problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative pro-

posal for an International Stabilization Fund. While this draft -

bodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts
of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the contribution to the discussions made by Baron Boel, the technical expert
that you sent to Washington, The several conversations he held with the
experts of the United States were extremely helpful to us and we hope
to him. You will find embodied in the revised draft some of his suggestions.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It is my
intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation,
Sincerely yours,

W. Marguthan ,
Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Camille Gutt,
The Minister of Finance,
Kingdom of Belgium,
c/o Belgian Embassy,
London, England,
Enclosure.

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56

SEP 14 1943

My dear Mr. Minister:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
National and the countries associated with them & tentative draft pro-

posal for an international stabilisation fund, prepared by the technical experte of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance Ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical 6Xperts of this (Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying
the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and

in calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of
the United States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative
proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. While this draft

embodies some of the suggestions of the technical experts of other
countries, it does not necessarily represent the views of the experts
of any other country.

I particularly wish to express to you my appreciation for the

contributions to the discussions made by Mr. Coomba and Mr. Brigden,
the technical experts that you designated. The several conversations
they held with the experts of the United States were extremely help-

ful to us and we hope to them. You will find embodied in the revised
draft many of their suggestions.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It
is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary coopera-

tion.

Sincerely yours,

J.
Secretary of the Treasury.

The Honorable J. B. Chifley,
Treasurer,

Commonwealth of Australia,

Canberra, Australia.

Enclosure.

57

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

on March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proInternational Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the techof the United States Treasury in
nical posal for experts an cooperation Government. with At that the
technical experts of other departments of this
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts
of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical GXperts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already
held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected with
international monetary cooperation and in calling forth suggestions

for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these

discussions, the technical experts of the United States have prepared

a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International

Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund.
It is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

(sl M.Marywhan J.
Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Juraj Sutej,
Minister of Finance,
Kingdom of Yugoalavia,
Kingaton House,

Princess Gate, S.W. 7,
London, England.
Enclosure

EMB-ef 9/9/43

58

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the teahnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical experts and to send their ex--

perts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts

of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical

experts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected
with international monetary cooperation and in calling forth sug-

gestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of

these discussions, the technical experts of the United States have
prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International
Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions
of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It
is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

/s/ Hd. marguther J
Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Rodrigo Samayoa,

The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of E1 Salvador,
San Salvador, E1 Salvador.

Enclosure

EMB-ef 9/9/43

59

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

on March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
National and the countries associated with them a tentative draft
proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the
technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with
the technical experts of other departments of this Government. At

that time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative
proposal for critical study by their technical experts and to and
their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical
experts of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical
experts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already held have been very helpful in clarifying the problem connected
with international monetary cooperation and in calling forth aug-

gestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. AE a result

of these discussions, the technical exports of the United States have
prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International
Stabilization Fund. While this draft ambodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the viewe of the experts of any other country.

There is enclosed for your c consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperstion.

Sincerely yours,

/s/ H. marguthan J.
Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Julio East,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Peru,
Lima, Poru.
Enclosure

EMB-of 9/9/43

60

SEP 1 & 1943

Excellency:

on March 4, 1933, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft
proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the
technical exports of the United States Treasury in cooperation with
the technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal for critical study by their technical exports and to send their
exports to Washington for informal discussions with the technical
experts of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical
experts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected
with international monetary cooperation and in calling forth sug-

gestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result
of these discussions, the technical exports of the United States have
prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International
Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions
of the technical experte of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proponals for international monetary cooparation.

Sincerely yours,

/sl margeture J.
Secretary of the Treasury

Him Excellency, J. Ramon Sevilla,
Minister of Finance,
Republic of Micaragua,
Managem, Nicaragua.

Enclosure
EMB-of 9/9/43

61

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft
proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the
technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that

time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal for critical study by their technical experts and to send their
experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical

experts of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical
experts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected
with international monetary cooperation and in calling forth sug-

gestions for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result

of these discussions, the technical experts of the United States have
prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International
Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions
of the technical experts of other countries, it doos not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.
There 16 enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

2/15. J.
Secretary of the Treasury

The Honorable Walter Nash,

Minister of Finance,

Wellington, New Zealand.

Enclosure

EMB-ef 9/9/43

62

SEP 14 1943

by dear Mr. Minister:

On April 28, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with then a tentative draft preposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experte and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical exports of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical experts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already
held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected with
international monetary cooperation and in calling forth suggestions

for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these

discussions, the technical experts of the United States have prepared

a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International

Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It
is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperetion.

Sincerely yours,

H is margeture J.
Secretary of the Treasury.

The Honorable James T. Phillips,
Secretary of the Treasury,
Monrovin, Liberta.
Enclosure.

EMB/grs

9/9/43

63

SEP 16 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with than a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the teahnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical experts and to send their -

parts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical -

parts of this Government.

I regret that it WIME not possible for you to send technical -

parts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already
hold have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected with
international monatary cooperation and in calling forth suggestions

for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these

discussions, the technical experts of the United States have prepared

a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International

Stabilization Fund. While this draft ambodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.
There is enclosed for your consideration the rovised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in
connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

1d/ H.
Secretary of the Treasury

His Excellency, Salih Jaber,
Minister of Finance,
Kingdom of Iraq,
Bughdad, Iraq.

Enclosure.

64

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On April 28, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experte of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for oritical study by their technical experts and to send their exports to Washington for informal discussions with the technical exparts of this Government.

I regret that it WELL not possible for you to send technical experte to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already
held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected with
international monetary cooperation and in calling forth suggestions

for nodifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these

discussions, the technical experte of the United States have prepared

a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International

Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It
is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, Allayar Saleh,
The Mintator of Finance,
Tehran, Irun.
Enclosure.

EMB/grs

9/9/43

2

65

SEP 4 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with then a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technical exports of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical ex-

parts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already
held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected with
international monetary cooperation and in calling forth suggestions

for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these

discussions, the technical experts of the United States have prepared

a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International

Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperstion.

Sincerely yours,

Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, Jeremy Raisman,
Finance Member of Governer-General's
Executive Council,
Government of India,

Delhi, India.
Enclosure.

EMB/grs

9/9/43

66

SEP 16 1943

Excellency:

On April 28, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their exparts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ex-

perts of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical ex-

perts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already
held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected with
international nonetary cooperation and in calling forth suggestions

for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these

discussions, the technical experts of the United States have prepared

a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International

Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

H. Margulthan I

Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, Thor Thors,
The Minister of Iceland,
3839 Masaachusette Avenue, H. W.,
Washington, D. 0.
Enclosure.

EMB/grs

9/9/43

67

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal

for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical ax-

perts of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical ex-

perts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already
held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected with
international monetary cooperation and in calling forth suggestions

for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these

discussions, the technical experts of the United States have prepared

a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International Sta-

bilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily

represent the views of the experts of any other country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It
is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

1.1
H.
Margutuan
J
Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, Jose Gonsales Campo,

The Minister of Finance,

The Republic of Guatemals,
Guatomala City, Guatemala.

Enclosure.
EMB/mb

9/9/43

68

SEP & 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft propoeal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their exparts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experte of this (lovernment.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical -

parts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already
held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected with
international monetary cooperation and in calling forth suggestions

for modifiestions in the tentative proposal. As a result of these

discussions, the technical experts of the United States have prepared

a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International

Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the exporte of any other country.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of

the tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It

is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.

Sincerely yours,
1d.

Secretary of the Treasury.

His Excellency, Alfonso Areujo,
The Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Colombia,
Bogota, Colombia.

inclosure

EMBirl 9/9/43

69

SEP 14 1943

Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to Washington for informal discussions with the technical exparts of this Government.

I regret that it was not possible for you to send technical ox-

perts to Washington for these discussions. The conversations already
held have been very helpful in clarifying the problems connected with
international monetary cooperation and in calling forth suggestions

for modifications in the tentative proposal. As a result of these

discussions, the technical experts of the United States have prepared

a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an International

Stabilisation Fund. While this draft esbodies some of the suggestions

of the technical experts of other countries, it does not necessarily
represent the views of the experts of any other country.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund.
It is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary
cooperation.

Sincerely yours,

12/ Hi
Secretary of the Treasury.

His Excellency, Urbano Quesada,

The Acting Minister of Finance,
The Republic of Hondures,
Tegucigalpe, Honduras,
Enclosure

EMBirl 9/9/43

70

SEP 14 1943

My dear Mr. Minister:

On April 12, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
National and the countries associated with them a tentativ draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the tochnical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts
to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts of
this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying
the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tontative proposal for an
International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies done of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I wish to express to you my appreciation for the great interest
you have shown in the tentative proposal. I am particularly glad that
you found it possible to come to Washington for the exploratory discussions. You may be sure that your conversations with the experts
of the United States were extremely helpful to us.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the

tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It is

my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in
connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

1st W Marguthan J
Secretary of the Treasury.
Colonel Andres Soriano,

Minister of Finance,

Commonwealth of the Philippines,
Rits Tower, Park Avenue,
New York, New York.
Enclosure.

- 9/9/43

71

St. i it as
Excellency:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical exports of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts
to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts of
this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the
problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft ambodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I wish to express to you my appreciation for the great interest
you have shown in the tentative proposal. I am particularly glad that
you found it possible to come to Washington for the exploratory discussions. You may be sure that your conversation with the experts of
the United States was helpful to us.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of
the tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It
is my intention to keep you fully informed of further developments
in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely,

/s/
Secretary of the Treasury.
His Excellency, Jose A. Sone,
Minister of Finance,
Republic of Panama,
Panama City, Panium
Enclosure

EP 9/9/43

72

Sept

ADD 1 * 1943

Excellency:

on March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with thom a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilization Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the toohnical experts of other departments of this Government. At that time, I
asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts to
Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts of this
Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying
the problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of those discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies BOND of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I wish to express to you my appreciation for the great interest
you have shown in the tentative proposal. I am particularly glad that
you found it possible to come to Washington for the exploratory discussions. You may be sure that your conversations with the experts of
the United States were helpful to us.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund. It is my
intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

Secretary of the Treasury
His Excellency, Pierre Dupong,
Minister of Finance,
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,

809 Sun Life Building,
Montreal, Canada.
Enclosure.
9/9/43

73

Sept
AUG 14 1943

My dear Mr. Ambassador:

On March 4, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposel for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the teahnical experte of other departments of this Government. At that time,
I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal for

critical study by their technical experts and to send their exports to
Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts of this
Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for
some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the
problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experte of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilization Fund. While this draft embodies some of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I wish to express to you my appreciation for the great interest
you have shown in the tentative proposal. I am particularly glad that
you found it possible to come to Washington for the exploratory discussions. You may be sure that your conversations with the experts
of the United States were extremely helpful to us.
There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for an International Stabilization Fund. It is my
intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

1st Md. Margulon I

Secretary of the Treasury.
The Honorable K. Varvarencos,

Special Envoy of the Kingdom of Greece,
Royal Greek Government,
London, England.
Enclosure.

EMB/grs

9/9/43

74

Sept.

14 1943

Excellency:

On April 2, 1943, I sent to the finance ministers of the United
Nations and the countries associated with them a tentative draft proposal for an International Stabilisation Fund, prepared by the technical experts of the United States Treasury in cooperation with the
technical experts of other departments of this Government. At that
time, I asked the finance ministers to submit this tentative proposal
for critical study by their technical experts and to send their experts
to Washington for informal discussions with the technical experts of
this Government.

These exploratory technical discussions have been going on for

some time. The discussions have been very helpful in clarifying the

problems connected with international monetary cooperation and in

calling forth suggestions for modifications in the tentative proposal.
As a result of these discussions, the technical experts of the United
States have prepared a revised draft of the tentative proposal for an
International Stabilisation Fund. While this draft embodies same of
the suggestions of the technical experts of other countries, it does
not necessarily represent the views of the experts of any other country.
I wish to express to you my appreciation for the interest you have

shown in the tentative proposal. I - particularly glad that you found

it possible to come to Washington for the exploratory discussions.

There is enclosed for your consideration the revised draft of the
tentative proposal for on International Stabilization Fund. It is my
intention to keep you fully informed of further developments in connection with the proposals for international monetary cooperation.
Sincerely yours,

Secretary of the Treasury.

His Excellency, Lij. Yilma Deressa,
Vice Minister of Finance,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Enclosure.

KMB/grs

9/10/43

75

September 14, 1943

Fred Smith.

The Secretary.

Please telegraph my regrets to the invitation to

come to Springfield, Illinois, this week. I feel that
if I'm going to do anything at all I'd like to do it
properly. Maybe we can do "We The People" program

from there during the Fourth War Loan. Anyway I've

not enough for this week without taking on another
date. Thank them very much.

Done

76

September 14, 1943
Fred Smith.

The Secretary.

I think that Harry Sherman certainly ought to get
a nice letter from me on his ad "Shall We Let Him Come

Home to This." I understand it's in several hundred
newspapers. Will you get the facts and then write me

a nice letter of appreciation? I really think he's doing
something very patriotic and deserves a letter as well as
some of the Hollywood stars. Done

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GEORGE W. Cox, DURHAM. N. c.

HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE

AND VICE-PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

FRED A. ALLEN. DETROIT. MICH.

MRS. FANNIE . PECK. DETROIT. MICH.

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

1ST VICE-PRESIDENT

ALBON L. HOLSEY

MRS. KITTY HALL ST. Louis, Mo.

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. ALABAMA

AND VICE-PRESIDENT

ASSISTANT SECRETARY

MRS. OBELIA CLAY, BRISTOL, TENN.

MRS. ROBA BROWN BRACY
TUSKEOKK INSTITUTE. ALABAMA

and VICE-PRESIDENT

MRS. CHRISTINE M. FUQUA

AUDITOR

DETROIT. MICHIGAN

THEODORE JONES. CHICAGO, ILL.

TREASURER

TREASURER COMPTROLLER

MRS. SADIE WRIGHT. MEMPHIS. TENN

J. B. BLAYTON, ATLANTA, GA.

SECRETARY

GENERAL ORGANIZER

MRS. LUCY WINSLETT
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA

R. E. CLAY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
ASSISTANT GENERAL ORGANIZERS

PUBLICITY DIRECTOR

MRS. U. B. BOND. MADISON, ARK

MRS. A. v. BOUTTE. NEW ORLEANS. LA.

LYNWOOD W. BROWN, RICHMOND, VA.
REGISTRAR

Honorable Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Secretary of Treasury
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:

J. R. E. LEE. JR., TALLAHABBER. FLA.
ASSISTANT REGISTRAR

ROBERT R. MOTON. JR.
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE ALABAMA
DIRECTOR OF PUBLICITY

CLAUDE A. BARNETT, CHICAGO, ILL.
CHAPLAIN
BI

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TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR

JESSE O. THOMAS, WASHINGTON, D. c.
LEGAL ADVISOR

J. R. BOOKER LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

DON A. DAVIS. CHAIRMAN
HAMPTON,

VIRGINIA

JOSEPH v. BAKER. PHILADELPHIA PA.

HENRY ALLEN BOYD, NASHVILLE, TENN.

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DR. w J. HALE NASHVILLE TENN.

BELMONT HAYDELL. NEW ORLEANS, LA.

T. J. HUDDLESTON YAZOO. Miss
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DR. T. W. JOSEY, AUGUSTA, GA.

EMMER M. LANCASTER WASHINGTON D.C.

O. K. MANNING, HOUSTON Tax.
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MRS. GERTRUDE TALBERT, DETROIT. MICH.

DR H. M. WILL AMSTON, IDABEL, OKLA.

O. D. WOODS, ST. LOUIS, Mo.

I take this method to thank you for appearing
on program of the 43rd annual convention of
the National Negro Business League on August
25, 1943 in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Associated Negro Press proclaimed it to
be the greatest convention since the time of
Booker T. Washington, the founder of the
League, and some say it is the greatest of
all former League conventions.
I want you to know that we give you credit
for this outstanding achievement. Your appearance brought together the immense crowd
on "President's Night".
Again expressing the appreciation of the

REGIONAL VICE-PRESIDENTS

National Negro Business League, I am

WILLARD W. ALLEN. BALTIMORE. MD.
WM. H BELL. ALCORN. MISSISSIPPI
L c. BLOUNT. DETROIT. MICH.

Yours very truly,

BOOKER T. BRADSHAW. RICHMOND VA.

M. c. CLARK, CLEVELAND. OHIO
J.
U.

E. DICKSON COLUMBIA a. c.
. FALLS, ST. LOUIS, MO

a. B. FULLER CHICAGO, ILL

A. G. GASTON, BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

JAMES J. HENDERSON. DURHAM, N. c.
W.

Le

J E. Walker, M. D.

HORNSBY, AUGUSTA GA.
1CCONICO, LITTLE. ROCK, ARK.
v. MCKISBACK. NASHVILLE, TENN.

President

GEOME R. RAGLAND, OKLA. CITY, OKLA.
G. D. ROGERS. TAMPA FLA.
MACEO SMITH, DALLAS, TEX.

LEO M. WALLACE BATON ROUGE. LA.

JEW:ba
NEXT ANNUAL CONVENTION: BALTIMORE, AUGUST 25, 26, 27

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September 14, 1943.

Dear Mr. Vincons

Thank you for your letter of September 10.

transmitting a on of the statement explaining
the various methods of measuring workers' earn-

ings. I was very much interested in seeing the
information contained in the report and apprealate your bringing 11 to my attention.
Sincerely,

(Signed) H. Ja.

Menorable Fred N. Vincon,

Director, Office of Economic
Stabilisation,
Washington, D. c.

GEF/dbs

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A photostat of the letter and the
enclosure was sent to each member
of the Nine-thirty Group on 9/14/43.

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OFFICE OF ECONOMIC STABILIZATION
WASHINGTON, D. c.

FRED M. VINSON
DIRECTOR

September 10, 1943.

Honorable Henry Morgenthau

Secretary of the Treasury
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Mr. Secretary:

Recently, because of the interest expressed therein by
various members of the Board, I requested the Bureau of Labor

Statistics, Department of Labor, to submit a statement explaining the various methods of measuring workers' earnings. The

attached statement is in response to this request, and I am

transmitting it to you for your information.
Sincerely yours,

Director

PORVICTORY

BUY

WAR
STAMPS

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Measures of Wages and Worker Income

There are five ways of measuring what workers earns

Wage rates measure the prices paid for specific jobs.
Average hourly earnings measure the gross amount received per hour of
actual work, including premium pay for overtime and work on extra shifts.

Straight-time hourly earnings eliminate the effect of extra pay for

overtime, but otherwise are the same as average hourly earnings.

Straight-time hourly earnings with constant weighting provide the
closest avainable measure of changes in wage rates. elminated from this
measure is the rise in average earnings due to the movement of workers from
"low-wage" to "high-wage" industries.
Average weekly earnings measure the "take-home" wage, before tax and

bond deductions. These figures will rise, not only because of any wage-rate
increases, but also as a result of overtime pay, shift pay, upgrading and
shifts of workers toward "high-wage" industries.
The following table shows, for manufacturing industries, the
changes in each of these measures of wages since January 1941, wage rate
changes being most closely reflected by column 3:
Average

Date

Hourly
Earnings
(gross)
(1)

Aferage Straight-Time
Hourly Earnings

For Industries

Currently

as of Jan. 1941

Average
Weekly

Earnings

Cost of
Living

(4)

(5)

100

100

(3)

January

100

100

100

July
October

125

122

118

137

116

131

126

122

146

118

June

140

135

127#

163

124

(2)

The movement of the cost of living is shown above for comparison
with the various measures of wages. The cost of living index of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics measures average changes in prices of the items which enter
into the family budgets of American industrial wage earners and lower-salaried
workers. The index includes representative costs of food, clothing, rent,
fuel, house furnishings and miscellaneous family expenditure.
In The following pages of this memorandum contain a more detailed
explanation of each of the measures of wages, as listed above.

#Preliminary.

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1. Labor leaders almost invariably discuss wage rates. It is
around these-and these alone-that their most vital experience in bargaining
centers.

The wage rate is the price paid for a specific job. The rate is
usually expressed in cents per hour, or per day or week of a specified
length. For some occupations the wage rate is expressed as a price
per unit of output, determined ordinarily by considering how much an
average worker will be able to earn per hour. In some cases there are
bonus systems that provide a guaranteed minimum wage rate per hour, but
provide for further compensation if production exceeds a minimum
standard.

The wage rate corresponds to the price of a ton of steel. Like the

price of steel, it may be surrounded with a series of "extras": for

example, a premium for work on the night shift, Sundays or holidays;
or for work of more than a specified number of hours per day or week.

2. Average hourly earnings are derived by dividing the total

amount of the payroll by the number of hours worked.

They correspond to mill figures for the average realisation per ton
of steel, including all extras. Thus an increase in night work or
in overtime will affect the average. So also a change in the proportion of skilled or semi-skilled labor hired affects the average.

For example, when an airplane company suddenly hires 1,000 new workers

at 60 cents an hour, the average of hourly earnings in the plant is
likely to drop. When the company ceases to expand, normal reclassifications and upgrading will cause the average to rise, quite apart from
any increases in wage rates.

In periods of stable employment and little overtime, average hourly
earnings correspond closely to an average of wage rates; when overtime
is increasing, average hourly earnings rise even though wage rates
are unchanged.

3. Average straight-time hourly earnings for all manufacturing
industries are estimated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics by reducing
average hourly earnings by an appropriate amount to allow for the influence
of overtime payments. This measure continues to reflect the influence of
dhift bonuses and the changing proportions of skilled and unskilled workers.
4. Over recent years average straight-time earnings have increased
more rapidly than wage rates because employment in high-wage industries

(like shipbuilding) has increased more rapidly than in low-wage industries

(like cotton textiles).

This effect has been eliminated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics by
developing an unpublished series of average straight-time earnings
with constant weighting of employment by industries.

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This measure does not eliminate the influence of promotions on earnings.
For example, when workers move from a lower-paid textile industry to
the higher-paid munitions industry, average earnings advance, even
though no wage increases have occurred.

5. Average weekly earnings are secured by dividing the total
payroll by the total number of workers on the payroll. This measure averages
together the "take-home" of the man with 1 day of work and that of the man

who worked seven days. Changes in the average "take-home" are caused primarily by changes in hours worked and in rates of pay.

Included in average weekly earnings are the amounts that may be
deducted to pay for bonds or taxes before the worker receives his

pay-check. Strictly speaking, therefore, it is not a "take-home"

wage.

U. S. Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics
August 16, 1943

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
INTER OFFICE COMMUNICATION
DATE

Secretary Morgenthau
FROM

September 14, 1943

Frances McCathran
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES BEFORE CONGRESS

With little indication of any decisive action for

at least a week or two, Congress reconvenes today at noon.

Major issues slated for discussion in the near future, however,
include:

1. Manpower - Senator Wheeler has threatened to call for
an immediate vote on his measure to suspend the drafting

of fathers. But other senators, including Majority
Leader Barkley, will attempt to delay the vote until
first-hand information on the actual necessity of
drafting fathers can be obtained from military leaders.

In the House, Chairman May of the Military Affairs
Committee says he expects to introduce a bill prohibiting the induction of fathers and releasing those
lready drafted. Other phases of the many-faceted
manpower oroblem confronting Congress include: the question of a national service act, labor absenteeism, and

the strike issue. In regard to the latter, John L. Lewis'

coal mine truce with the government runs out on October 31

2. Post-War Policy - With both major parties now committed

to a policy of international cooperation, the Administration is expected to redouble its efforts to break
the bottleneck on this matter in the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. One reason advanced for the Committee's reluctance to allow the post-war issue to reach
the floor is fear of a lengthy and bitter debate. At
any rate, first move is expected in the House where
the Fulbright Resolution, with the unanimous approval
of the Foreign Affairs Committee, would put Congress

on record as favoring U.S. participation in the creation
of "appropriate international machinery with power
adequate to establish and maintain a just and lasting
peace."

3. Inflation - Congress again must consider the two-fold
headache of keeping the lid on both prices and wages.

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The OPA, a bit more streamlined under the new General
Manager Chester Bowles, has ready and waiting a new

rice-rollback program involving the use of subsidies,
so hotly debated before the Congressional recess, and
a new method of support prices whereby the government
rather than the consumer stands the loss of increased
production costs. OPA claims this new program will
demand little additional funds and will roll prices
back to the level of September 15, 1943.

4. Taxes and the Renegotiation of War Contracts - For the

past week, the House Ways and Means Committee has been

having hearings on renegotiation, and now has set
September 20 as a tentative date for the consideration

of the general revenue bill. Prospects at the moment
look none too good for the Administration's program
requiring $12, 000, 000, 000 in direct taxes. Yesterday
Senator George, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee,
which usually has the last word on tax matters, predicted
that Congress would raise only between $3,000,000.00
and $5,000,000,000 in direct taxes. Any thing more than
that, he said, would probably come from compulsory or
"induced" savings. Last week, Representative Carlson,
too, expressed the opinion that no increase in taxes
would be necessary in view of Italy's surrender.

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BRITISH AIR COMMISSION
1785 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE
WASHINGTON, D. C.
TELEPHONE HOBART 9000
EASE QUOTE

FERENCE NO

With the compliments of British Air Commission
who enclose Statement No. 102 -- Aircraft Despatched
- for week ended September 7, 1943.

The Honourable Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Secretary of the Treasury

WASHINGTON, D. C.

September 14, 1943.

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STATEMENT NO. 102

MOST SECRET

Aircraft Despatched from the United States
Week Ended September 7th, 1943.

DOUGLAS

Dakota III

BY

FLIGHT DELIVERED

SEA

AIR

FOR USE IN CANADA

U.K.

U.K.

India

India

S. Africa

S. Africa

2

Liberator III

BY

POINT

1

CONSOLIDATED

Catalina IV

ASSEMBLY

3

TYPE

DESTINATION

GLENN MARTIN

M.E.

Baltimore V (a)

M.E.

Marauder II

M.E.

M.E.
M.E.

U.K.

U.K.

India

Karachi

Canada

Canada
M.E.

15

1

M.E.

1

Baltimore V

N. AMERICAN

Mitchell II
Harvard

10
44

VEGA

M.E.

3

Ventura GR V
Ventura GR V

9

CURTISS

M.E.

Port Sudan

H.Z.
U.K.
U.K.

Auckland
U.K.
U.K.

N.W. Africa

N.W. Africa

Australia

Melbourne

Hellcat

U.K.

U.K.

Tarpon
Tarpon

E. Africa

E. Africa

13

U.K.

U.K.

11

U.I.

U.K.

16

U.K.

U.K.

15
1
5

Seanew

5

Kittyhawk
Kittyhawk
Kittyhawk

FAIRCHILD

Fairchild C-61

10

VULTEE
3

Vengeance

GRUMAN
4

STINSON

Reliant

VOUGHT-SIKORSKY

(a) Omitted from Statement No.101
week ended August 31, 1943.

Movements Division, British Air Commission
September 11, 1943.

2

Total

129

42
3

Coraair

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NOT TO BE RE-TRANSMITTED
COPY NO.

13

BRITISH MOST SECRET
U.S. SECRET

formation received up to 10 a.m., 14th September, 1943.

a Early 13th a detached portion of a homeward convoy was attacked by
aiberaft west a CAPF FINISTERRE and one ship was damaged. 13th/14th, Our Motor
Torbedo Oats Stacked a southbound convoy off the Dutch coast and possibly tor-

pecated 3 thips.

MEDITERRANFAN. 11th/12th. Allied coastal forces operated in the Gulf
of GAETA. Early 13th 0 successful minor landing was made at AJACCIO. Two more

Italian destroyers are proceeding to HALTA. 14 Italion submarines are now in
Allied ports and at least 3 others are known to be coming in, One U.S. Des-

troyer has been sunk by E-boat while en convoy escort duty. A U.S. Cruiser has
been slightly damaged by aircraft. One of H.M. Cruisers has been seriously
damaged, cause unknown. 3 British Hospital ships word all attacked by aircraft
yesterday off SALERNO, one being sot on fire.
2, MILITARY

ITALY. To 4 p.m., 13th. 5th Army. Heevy counter attacks are boing

mode against the SALFRNO bridgehocd. On the right U.S. forces remain in the
CAPACCIO area, but further loft 56th Division was forced after heavy losses to
withdraw from BATTIPAGLIA, MONTECORVINOA airfield is unusable owing to artillery

fire but our fightors are now using a landing strip propared noor the beach south
of the Rivor SELF. SALERNO port was opened on the 11th and onti-circroft defender
have been installod.
MEDITERRANFAN. RHODES, SCARPANTO and CRETT are now believed to be

entirely under German control. The Itolian garrison of SAMOS has surrondered to

the Greoks.

3. AIR OPERATIONS

WESTERN FRONT. 13th. Typhoon boabors sank two smell coasters and a

bargo off the Dutch Islands. 11 tugs, 3 bargos, a drodger and a cocator woro
damaged. 2 Typhoons missing. 13th/14th. Aircraft duspatched - DUISBURG 3,
COLOGNE 2, DUSSELDORF 1, LUNCHEN GLADBACH 1.

ITALY. 11th/12th. Wollingtons droppod 164 tons on FROSIMONT cir-

field. 86 medium and light bombors attacked roads, L.T. and other objectivos in
the battlo area.
12th. Fortrosses dropped 128 tons on FROSINONE airfield hitting
hangara and administrativo buildings and destroying 8 aircraft on the ground.
Other Fortressos dropped a total of 146 tons on communications ct BE NEVENTO and
MIGNANO 24 miles cost-northcast of GETA. Light and medium bombers dropped 186

tons on road junctions, otc. Mustanga destroyed over 80 L.T. on roods in the
SAPRI/POTENNA area, 1 Hustang missing. 570 sortics flown by fighters over
SALERNO boaches. Enomy cosunltics 2, 2, 2.

RHODES. 12th. Liberctors dropped 76 tons on the airfields at
CALITO and LARITZA. Disporal areca wore hit and 6 aircraft destroyed on the

ground.

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September 15, 1943
9:14 a.m.
HMJr:

Hello.

Operator:

Colonel Sexton.

HMJr:

Hello.

Wm. T.

Sexton:
HMJr:

S:

Yes, this is Colonel Sexton, Mr. Secretary.
Colonel,
you're going to be my favorite army officer
soon.
(Laughs) Well, we viewed the thing from a practical
standpoint

HMJr:
S:

HMJr:
S:

HMJr:
S:

HMJr:

Yes.

.... that's all.
Well, you're entirely satisfied?

Yes, sir. I - as I say, our security control were
a little bit unhappy about the thing
Yeah.

but that's their policy to be that way.
Well, what I want to be sure is that you feel that
I'm going to be of some use to the Army

S:

Oh, I'm sure of it. That 18 a splendid talk, Mr.
Secretary.

HMJr:

S:

HMJr:
S:

I want you to be satisfied in your own mind that
on the home front it will do you some good.

Oh,
I'm sure it will. That 18 a perfectly splendid
talk.
Well, that's - that's all I want to know.
It's very powerful. Now, did Mr. Smith tell you
about the one matter that we - that we're still
checking?

HMJr:

I'm not sure. Which one?

-2S:

HMJr:
S:

Well,
in utilizing the names of some of those
firms

No, but that's - he didn't mention that to me.
You see, what has happened is that some of those
firms may have made those tanks, for instance, and

since that time they have cancelled the contracts

HMJr:

I see.

S:

....on the cut-back business.

HMJr:

No, he didn't tell me but that will - they'11 be if they're not making it, naturally we don't want
to pour it on them.

S:

No, and I'm - I'm checking that now....

HMJr:

Yeah.

and I told him that unless he heard from me he

S:

could assume that
HMJr:
S:

Yeah.

that those - that we weren't - but it would be

rather embarassing if you told them to go ahead and
they had to replace those and then they said, "Well,

we'd like to but our contract has been cancelled.
HMJr:

Well, that wouldn't be what you call a practical

approach.
S:

No, sir. (Laughs)

HMJr:

Now, one other thing to - I was worrying last night
and I was going over my conversation - this is to
reassure you

S:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:

.... and when we started in General Marshall said,

"Now, let me see. In talking this thing over," he
was thinking out loud, "I don't want to talk about
anything secret."

S:

Uh huh.

91

-3HMJr:

That was his introductory remark to me.

S:

Uh huh.

HMJr:

I just wanted to tell you if you needed any
reinsurance - at least, reassurance.

S:

Yes.

HMJr:

But when he comes back, I'd like to have another

S:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:

Do you think he'll be back Monday or Tuesday?

S:

HMJr:

talk with him and just - if there's any doubt in
his mind, just clean this thing up.

Well,
I think that - yes, sir, I think he'11 be
here at that time.
Does he always have lunch with the General Staff

on Tuesday - Doesn't he?
S:

HMJr:

Yes, sir, he does - with the joint Chiefs of Staff.
Well, what - what about Monday? Is he tied up

Monday?
S:

Not that I know of right now.

HMJr:

Well, would you make a - I'd like - a date subject

to the war, to have him have lunch with me Monday?

S:

HMJr:
S:

Yes, sir, I will.
Will you do that?
Yes, sir.

HMJr:

And

S:

Over in your office?

HMJr:

Yes.

S:

All right, sir.

HMJr:

And - because he was most useful to me and if we

have something on St. Louis - uh - this other stuff
that I'm going to use about the soldiers' morale I'm going to send that over to you, too.

92

-4S:

All right, sir.

HMJr:

Because that's the other thing that I'd like to

S:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:

S:

talk about.

My whole idea is - I want you to know this first
hand - selling bonds is secondary - what I'm trying

to do is to bring the war home to the people at home
Yes, sir.
and that's my whole object and the whole war bond

HMJr:

S:

HMJr:

S:

sales are geared to that.
Yes, sir.

Now,
if we're not doing that, then I want the Army
to tell me.

Well, I think that -- that talk that you have 18 just
splendid.

HMJr:

Now, if I'm not being helpful on the home front, don't
spare my feelings.

S:

Well, I - I - I'm sure you are, Mr. Secretary, and
this particular talk - I was very much impressed with
it.

HMJr:

Yes.

S:

I think it is a very powerful document.

HMJr:

I think it 18, too.
Yes, and I think it will do a lot of good and just the

S:

fact that you have cited some figures, I think
HMJr:
S:

Yeah..

will be very impressive.

HMJr:

Right.

S:

I think that it will impress the listener.

HMJr:

Now, one other thing, if you've got a moment.

93

-5S:

HMJr:

94

Yes, sir.

80 that - I didn't tell this to General Marshall
because it's still up in the air. With the approval
of the State Department, I have asked Marshal Stalin
to give me a statement on War Bonds and also asked
him to say "Thank you" for what we've given him.

S:

HMJr:

S:

I see.

Now, I said if he would do that and if I could see
the statement, I would fly to Fairbanks, Alaska,

where we turn the stuff over to them
Yee, sir.

HMJr:

.... and make that the locale for my last speech.

S:

I see,

HMJr:

See?

S:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:
S:

Now, the State Department has cleared this thing
Uh huh.

HMJr:

and they've backed me up and they sent a telegram

to Admiral Stanley urging Marshal Stalin to do this.
S:

Yes.

HMJr:

What do you think?

S:

Well,
think
a fine idea if you can get Marshal
StalinI to
do that's
it.

HMJr:

Well, we'll know. But if I go, I want some help from
the Army.

S:

Well, we can take care of that, I'm sure.

HMJr:

Fairbanks is the place, isn't it?

S:

That's where they turn them over, yes, sir.

HMJr:

Well, that's the place I want to do it.

-6-

S:

HMJr:

S:

95

Yes, sir.

And your security people - if they've got any ideas
now that they can't go there and talk from there
and say what's there and what I see - the sooner I
know it, the better.

Yes, sir, well, the only possible thing I could

think about that, Mr. Secretary, would be - I'm not
sure that if you broadcast from there

HMJr:
S:

HMJr:

S:

HMJr:
S:

HMJr:

Uh huh.

that you would get such a good reception here
in the States.

They checked on that and there are two radio stations N.B.C. and Mutual and that is all right.

It is? They could pick it up with clarity?
That is all right.
Un huh.

It is just a question of - for me to - that the Army the world would know that that's the place where we

turn over our stuff to the Russians.

S:

I see. Well, that does bring up a point. Doesn't it?

HMJr:

Yeah.

S:

HMJr:
S:

Well, from a practical standpoint, I guess the only
people that could do anything about it would be the

Japs and I don't think that they can get to it.
That's right.
Of course, they might - knowing that, it might give
them some indication of the route

HMJr:

Well, they

S:

That is followed.

HMJr:

Well, they must know it. After all, the stuff goes
overhead every day.

-7S:

Yes. it.
I'm sure they -- well, I'm confident that they
know

HMJr:

Well, I'm sort of putting you on notice

S:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:

S:

and if there is any question, the sooner you tell
me that the Army doesn't want it, the better
Well, I'11
because

HMJr:
S:

HMJr:

have that looked into right away.
Because we have put all kinds of pressure on the

Embassy here -- the Russian Embassy -- and the new
Ambassador likes the idea.

S:

HMJr:

Yes, sir.

And I've discussed it with Mr. Hull and Admiral
Leahy and they said, "Well, if they don't come through
we won't be any worse off than we are right now.

S:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:

So

S:

Well, I'll check that particular point right away,

Mr

HMJr:

So, both Mr. Hull and Admiral Leahy know about it.

S:

I see.

HMJr:
S:

And they seem perfectly satisfied.

All right, sir. Well, I don't see how, from the
practical viewpoint there would be any

HMJr:

Yeah.

any danger in it.

S:

HMJr:
S:

Okay.

All right, sir, and I'll let you know.

96

-8HMJr:

Thank you.

S:

Yes, sir.

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98

September 15, 1943
9:30 a.m.
THIRD WAR LOAN SPEECH; TAXES

Present: Mr. Bell

Mr. Paul
Mr. Gaston
Mr. White
Mr. Smith
Mr. Blough

Mrs. Klotz

H.M.JR: I get all excited and have a pleasant

meeting about war bonds, but they don't let me alone
very much across the street.
Did you know we got our speech cleared in its

entirety?

MR. GASTON: No, I don't know anything about it.
The speech for tonight?
H.M.JR: Yes.

MR. BELL: Tonight or tomorrow night?

H.M.JR: Tonight. It is some speech.
MR. BELL: Where are you making a speech tonight?

H.M.JR: Over there at War Bonds. Want to hear it?
I might as well be pleasant. I had something very unpleasant here that I got to clean up.
MRS. KLOTZ: The two have nothing to do with each

other.

H.M.JR: Fred, while we do the pleasant things, read

this to the gang, and then we will go to the other thing.

99

2MR. SMITH: I called Palmer Hoyt, and he is going

to clear it. That is, he is going to put an O.K. on it

without asking any questions.

H.M.JR: This has been cleared by General Marshall's

office, and all the information was given to me personally

by General Marshall yesterday morning.

(Speech read by Mr. Smith, copy attached.)

MR. GASTON: That word "resign" - "let us resign

ourselves" - that is too much a defeatist word. Say,
"Let us make up our minds," or "recognize the fact.

MR. SULLIVAN: Also say, "When and if we take Italy."

MR. WHITE: I think that is the best speech that has

been made in the bond campaign.
yes.

MR. SMITH: "When and if we conquer the whole of Italy,"
H.M.JR: You don't know what we have been through.

General Marshall gave me this stuff personally.

MR. WHITE: I wonder whether you might not mention

that. I got the feeling--

MRS. KLOTZ: He did in the beginning.
MR. SMITH: "Let me give you some facts which General
Marshall says I may share with you." "

H.M.JR: He says he has broken every security rule
that has been laid down, and they don't just understand

how I got it.

MR. WHITE: I think something of that character "General Marshall has given these figures, and they break

every rule of security.

H.M.JR: No, no, he has had enough troubles. He is
away, confidentially, and his executive officer went to
bat beautifully for me.

100

-3MR. WHITE: I have one minor thought there, where

you speak of There will be a fourth, and a fifth, and
a sixth. I am wondering whether you need to also say
"There will be a ninth and a tenth. It seems intermi-

nable.

MRS. KLOTZ: I got that feeling.

H.M.JR: Let's cut that out.
SULLIVAN: Do you think there is a little scolding
thereMR.
of labor?
H.M.JR: Well, there is of management, too.
MR. PAUL: That is the point. Management comes in

the second crack, but not the first.

H.M.JR: No, in the first.
MR. PAUL: No, it doesn't come in the first.
MR. SMITH: Wait a minute.

MR. GASTON: What you refer to as the first one is,

"You men who work in these plants. " He might say, You
men who manage, and you men who work in these plants.

When you are talking about those different plants that

make these different things - "You men who work, and you
men who manage these plants. "

H.M. JR: All right. We say there first that management
should stop patting Itself on the back. Then it also says
that labor should stop looking to these blow-outs Saturday

evenings.

MR. WHITE: That is a refreshing speech. Do you like

that phrase, Let me take you by the hand"? Is that all

right?

H.M.JR: "Let me personally escort you through."
MR. PAUL: The other is better.

101.
4-

MR. BLOUGH: There is nothing about farming in there.
Could you bring that in, too?
MRS. KLOTZ: "Let me show you around."

H.M.JR: What do you think, Herbert?

MR. GASTON: I don't like "take you by the hand,"

either. Say, "let us look together at--"
MR. WHITE: It is a little too much like teacher
and pupil.

H.M.JR: All right. "Let me personally"-MR. SMITH: Just drop "by the hand."
MR. GASTON: Or, "let's go through together."

MR. SULLIVAN: This is tonight, sir?
H.M.JR: Yes.
MR. PAUL: What time?

MR. WHITE: It is a shame; a speech like that ought
to get a national hookup.
H.M.JR: It does.
MR. WHITE: What hour is it?
MR. SMITH: Nine-thirty.

MR. WHITE: It has no advance publicity that I have
seen.

MR. PAUL: We ought to take the radio up to the Ways
and Means Committee tonight. (Laughter)

MR. SMITH: Everything is set. Tomorrow morning's

papers ought to be full of it.

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-5-

H.M.JR: Everything is set. We couldn't get it

in until we got clearance.

MR. GASTON: How about the White House?

H.M.JR: What about the White House?
MR. GASTON: Clearance from the White House.

H.M.JR: What for?

MR. GASTON: I just asked as a matter of curiosity.
for.

H.M. JR: That is what OWI and General Marshall are

MR. WHITE: I don't like to be captious, but an
eight percent lose in a month of fighting doesn't impress

me as very large.

H.M.JR: It is all the things there. Herbert, if

I go to clear it, it shows I have a guilty conscience,
that I am worried about it. It is personally cleared by

Security in the Army, General Marshall's office, Public

Relations in the Army, and OWI. What should I worry about?
MR. GASTON: OWI should be sufficient to cover the
whole field.

H.M.JR: And the interesting thing in the Army is,

the Public Relations people backed up General Marshall's

office against the Security people. Is that right?
MR. SMITH: That is what you told me.

H.M.JR: You are right, Herbert.
MR. GASTON: They have been needled a whole lot -

the public relations people - they got a good needling

out in Chicago.

H.M.JR: OWI is set up to clear the thing.

103

-6MR. GASTON: You are right. Iwas just expressing
curiosity.
H.M.JR: I know what you are thinking, but why

should I worry?

MR. WHITE: I still think eight percent of the
units lost is small.
H.M.JR: That is only one part.
MR. WHITE: I wonder if you can't cut out some of
the eight's and nine's.
H.M.JR: General Greenbaum agreed they never would

have released it.

Incidentally, Gaston is going to be invited the

twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth - they are inviting a
hundred and fifty people, the Army, to tell them how
strong the enemy is, what our losses are, and going to
give them the whole works. It is a confidential meeting.
Then General Surles is going to give out about ninety
percent of it each day.

I asked them if they would invite you (Gaston) for

the session.

Now, let's - everybody seems to like it - before we
get on the tax thing - we do the pleasant thing first the White House will never let you get but so high; then
you go back two steps. This is very confidential. I am
going to be amused by it; I am not going to get excited.
This is from the President, dated yesterday, to the

Secretary of the Treasury: "I really think this ought

to be followed up. Can't you get the Secret Service to
try to trace the source of information which Mike Flynn

used." Some of you know some of this, and some of you

don't. Some of you may be able to assist me.

Any perspiration coming out on your forehead? (Laughter)

104

-7MR. SMITH: No.

(Memo from the President dated September 14, 1943, and
letters dated September 13 from Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Vinson

read by the Secretary, copies attached.)

H.M.JR: Of course part of that isn't true.
MR. GASTON: No, the Wall Street Journal said two
topics were discussed.

H.M.JR: Of course I am not going to have Secret
Service do any such thing.
MR. GASTON: I should hope not. Never have an
investigative agency investigate where a newspaperman

got his story.

H.M.JR: But here is the thing (indicating Wall

Street Journal article dated September 11, copy attached).

This is the way he underlined it: "The main obstacle to

White House clearance, it has been discovered, is the

current inter-agency wrangle over tax jurisdiction.

"The new taxes were brought to the White House conference

Thursday by Secretary Morgenthau who - to his surprise found no opportunity to lay them before the President and
the other conferees.

"The conference had previously been scheduled for the

specific purpose of talking details of the new revenueraising and inflation-checking plans worked out by Treasury
experts.

"However, the discussions at the meeting turned

immediately to the jurisdictional dispute.

"War Mobilization Director Byrnes and Economic

Stabilization Director Vinson launched a discussion over
the Treasury's responsibilities with regard to taxation
in light of the executive order establishing the O.W.M.
and O.E.S. as bosses of the home front. This discussion -

which became heated - lasted a good hour and a half and

105

-8the conference then adjourned with the new tax proposals

still locked in the Secretary's briefcase.

"The very nature of the new proposals, it is understood, is such that the Treasury refuses to bring them
into the light for examination by anyone else before they

have been first studied and passed upon by the President.
This has aggravated differences among officials over

jurisdiction."

This is again underlined: "Secretary Morgenthau was
fully prepared to spread the entire program, which had
been completed only a short while ago, before the White
House assemblage. By doing so, he expected to get the
Roosevelt stamp of approval on the proposals and also
the concurrence of his associates, Mr. Byrnes and Mr.

Vinson."

This is heavily underlined: "Instead, he listened

while an effort was made by the O.E.S. and O.W.M. chiefs

to get first responsibility for formulation of a tax pro-

gram. It had been understood previously that the Treasury
would be the single exception to the O.E.S. executive order
placing all other agencies and departments under the thumb

of Judge Vinson. The order itself doesn't say so. But it

had been an inner-Administration understanding that that
was the case.

"As of this moment, it appears, the Treasury head
retains his status as top man on taxes and is outside
the jurisdiction of O.E.S. and O.W.M.

"High authorities yesterday insisted that the question

of forced savings was not taken up at the Thursday meeting.

However, the fundamental issue between Secretary Morgenthau

and the other officials named has been over forced savings
with the Treasury firmly opposing any recommendation to

Congress.

106

-9MR. SMITH: He got ninety percent of that material

right out of the Crowther article in the Baltimore

Sun, which Crowther said he got from somebody that has

complete access to the White House. That was the article
that said Vinson was to be an advisor.

MR.talk
PAUL:
tried to get me last night, but
I didn't
with Crowther
him.
H.M.JR: Now, who besides you in this room has talked

to Flynn?

MR. SMITH: Nobody but Shaeffer.

MR. WHITE: I talked to Flynn. I don't know when it
was, but it had nothing at all to do with this. He came
to see me about Keynes. I think it was before this, but

I am not sure. It had nothing at all - he didn't mention
this.

MR. SULLIVAN: I talked with Mike, but it was over

a week ago.

H.M. JR: On this?
MR. SULLIVAN: No, he came in and said, "What do you

know?"

I said, "I don't know." (Laughter)
MR. GASTON: I talked to Mike the last time about

two weeks ago. I said, "Hello, Mike, and he said,
"Hello, Herb. (Laughter) I can't remember any of the

rest of the conversation. I don't think there was any.
H.M.JR: Then it gets down to you (Smith).
MR. SMITH: Shaeffer and I talked with Flynn.

MR. PAUL: I don't think I talked to him, but I don't
know Flynn. He may have passed me in the corridor.

107

- 10 MR. SULLIVAN: The day he came in to see me, Randolph,

he said he had been down to your office and you weren't

in so you didn't talk to him.

MR.
GASTON:
haven't talked to him in months, except
to say
hello
in the Ihall.

MR. SMITH: You (Mrs. Klotz) talked to him - no,
you listened to him. (Laughter)
MRS. KLOTZ: You see how careful I was. (Laughter)

No, I didn't talk to him.

MR. BELL: The day we came in here, you remember, a

few minutes after the ticker story appeared--

MR. PAUL: Was Flynn the rather heavy fellow? He

said, "You had better get your story out; the other side

is getting theirs out.

MR. BELL: You remember the day we came in the

Secretary's office right after the ticker story appeared

and Flynn came into the outer office and I said when I
got in here that Flynn was outside and asked if he could
see me.

I said, "No, I am going in the Secretary's office."
You said he just saw you down the hall and asked if

he could see you. That is Flynn - a heavy-set fellow,
dark.

MR. PAUL: I know the one you mean.

H.M.JR: My inclination is for me personally to call

up Flynn and ask him to come over and see me.
MR. BLOUGH: The Thursday ticker-H.M.JR: Herbert?

MR. GASTON: Yes, that would be all right.

108

- 11 MR. BLOUGH: The Thursday ticker story, it looked to
me, had all the earmarks of having been issued before the
meeting.

H.M.JR: That is what he (Smith) thinks.
MR. BLOUGH: That was not put in the Wall Street

Journal in full. Even they were afraid of it.

MR. GASTON: What was in the Wall Street Journal

wasn't much. It just said there was a conference and
they talked about jurisdiction and enforced savings.

MR. PAUL: George Bryant told me Mike made a lucky
shot;then it was confirmed by us. He said you (Smith)
talked to him.

MRS. KLOTZ: Mr. Smith, you didn't see him after

that. You just talked to him on the telephone?

MR. SMITH: He did come in after that. You r emember,

he was getting at all of this on the phone. Then he came

in with all of his facts lined up that pointed to this.
I didn't deny that what his facts pointed to was true,
because I didn't give him any assurance one way or the

other.

MR. BELL: Did Bryant say Flynn made a lucky stab

and we confirmed it?

MR. PAUL: Mike told George that he said to Fred,

"We will be very glad to publish the opposite story if
this isn't true. If He reported you (Smith) as having said,
"We don't - there's enough truth in it that we can't

deny it."

MR. SMITH: No, I didn't say that.
(The Secretary held a telephone conversation with Mr.
Mike Flynn, as follows:)

109
September 15, 1943
9:56 a.m.

HMJr:

Hello.

Operator:

Mr. Flynn.

HMJr:

Hello.

Mike

Flynn:

Hello.

HMJr:

Mike?

F:

Yeah. How are you, Mr. Secretary?

HMJr:

Fine.

F:

Not at all.

HMJr:

Could you drop over and see me about 10:30?

F:

Uh - I just came in off a golf course and I'm at

Are you very busy?

home

HMJr:

Oh.

F:

....and I've got to get - take a bath and then
I'll come right over.

HMJr:

Well, let me see -- how about 11:00 o'clock?
Uh - it's about 10:00 now?

F:

HMJr:

Five minutes of ten.

F:

Yes, I'll be there at 11:00, Mr. Secretary.

HMJr:

Will you?

F:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:

I'd like to see you alone.

F:

Okay.

HMJr:

Thanks.

F:

Bye.

110

- 12 -

H.M.JR: I didn't get that George stuff. What is

this other? Walter George?

MR. PAUL: George Bryant. He was in yesterday trying

to extract stuff from me. He talked to me. He said that

Mike just told him, George Bryant, that he made a lucky
stab - lucky guess; then subsequent events confirmed it
and we didn't want to deny any of it.
MR. SMITH: That is right. He said, "Do you deny
all this?"

I said, "No, I can't deny it; it is a White House
story." So that is easy.
MR. BLOUGH: The Saturday story somebody gave out.

This was the Thursday one, wasn't it?

MR. GASTON: The stories were on succeeding days,

Friday and Saturday. The ticker story was Thursday
afternoon.

H.M.JR: I want the Baltimore Sun story.

MR. SMITH: I will get that.
H.M.JR: And the Thursday story.

MR. BLOUGH: The Thursday story was a stab - if it

was a stab, it wasn't right. Many things were wrong with
the Thursday one. But this Saturday morning story just
looked like--

MR. SMITH: The Thursday morning story wasn't a stab;
that was given to him.
MR. BLOUGH: It must have been given before the

conference.

MR. SMITH: No, after, but I think it was written
before the conference. It was given to him after the
conference, given to him about one o' 'clock.

111

- 13 MR. GASTON: That memorandum was by Jimmy Byrnes?

MRS. KLOTZ: Yes.

MR. GASTON: So far as the published record goes,

the story in the Wall Street Journal on Friday and Saturday,
standing alone, of those two publications - it looks as
if first he made a guess as to what happened at the conference, and second, that the story of Friday came from the
Treasury Department. I mean, the story of Saturday morning.

it looks as if, just on the face of the published record,

It is written to give that impression.

MR. SULLIVAN: There were some details filled in

there that were pretty authentic. (Laughter)
MR: SMITH: That was what he said over the phone.
That is what worried me. Remember, Mrs. Klotz? He kept
mentioning
that order. He cooked that whole business up
there himself.

MRS. KLOTZ: He had all the facts. And what he wanted
you to do was either give him information or deny or confirm all the facts he gave you, all of which you did not
do. You avoided him.
H.M.JR: Was he talking to you?
MRS. KLOTZ: No, he was talking to Smith. Shaeffer

was listening and turned it over to me part of the time.
MR. SMITH: He went back and amplified what he had

done over the telephone, and he did the same thing.
MR. WHITE: Some of the things that we read there
couldn't possibly have come from any guess work. It came
from somebody who was either present or to whom it had
been related.

MR. SMITH: That is from the Crowther article. When
he got the Crowther article, then he began to worry about

the order. That other is just a plain stab, and a good

one. But I think that if you wanted to do it, I believe

112

- 14 we could go back into the published reports, which is
essentially what apparently he did, and build that story

just as it exists right there.

H.M.JR: Yes, but what he couldn't say - "Instead,

he listened while an effort was made by the O.E.S. and

O.W.M. chiefs to get first responsibility for formulation
of a tax program.

MR. SMITH: That was from the Crowther article. The

Crowther article said it was definitely-H.M.JR: Get that article - get the Crowther article
and the ticker story.
(Mr. Smith left the conference.)

MRS. KLOTZ: When I listened on the phone he (Smith)

didn't give him any information.

MR. WHITE: Of course, if he said he couldn't deny

it, it is equivalent to saying it is so. That is the box
they put you in.

MRS. KLOTZ: No, that happened not on the telephone.
He may have said that afterwards, but on the telephone he

avoided answering. He didn't say he confirmed it; he

didn't say he denied it. He gave him nothing. I was
satisfied. What he gave him afterwards, I don't know.

MR. WHITE: Who is most interested in pushing this

now? I mean, it is last Saturday, it is already dead,

isn't it?

MR. GASTON: The situation is, we complained about
this story given out on Thursday not coming from the

Treasury and upsetting the apple cart. Then this later

story comes out and Byrnes passes the buck to us and to

the President and says by the record, by his underlining -

he doesn't say so directly, but his underlining indicates
very plainly the real leak here is quite obviously from
the Treasury Department. That is what he is saying.

113

- 15 MR. SULLIVAN: "You are another" - this is the kind

of letter this is. (Laughter)

H.M.JR: But his letter very carefully leaves out a
couple of things. It is a wonderful way to spend a morning.
MRS. KLOTZ: If you don't straighten this out, you

will have others.

MR. WHITE: When Crowther has access to the White
House - who besides the President was in on the conference
in the White House?
H.M.JR: Rosenman.

MR. WHITE: He is considered part of the White House

when somebody says they have access to the White House?
H.M.JR: Yes.

MR. WHITE: Because I shouldn't think Roosevelt would

take the trouble - the President would take the trouble to
repeat much of that to anybody in the White House. It

would have to be somebody who was there.

H.M.JR: Rosenman lives in the apartment of Barney
Baruch, and Crowther inferred he got the story from
Barney Baruch.

MRS. KLOTZ: But he says there it couldn't be Vinson,

Byrnes, or Rosenman.

H.M.JR: No, but they could have told it to Baruch

and Baruch could have talked.

MR. BLOUGH: Is his allegation that the tone and

slant of the article is such that it couldn t have come

from them?

MR. GASTON: No, he says, as a matter of fact, that
it didn't come from them. Then he underlines those portions
which seemed to indicate in the story that it came from
the Treasury.

114

- 16 H.M.JR: I mean, he very carefully avoided a couple

of things.

MRS. KLOTZ: The point is, you can't drop it completely.

H.M.JR: I am not. I am going to see Flynn, and I

am seeing the President tomorrow morning. When I see him
tomorrow morning--

MR. PAUL: Has it been arranged to have Doughton and

George there today?

H.M.JR: No. Why?
we?

MR. PAUL: We have a two o'clock meeting today, don't
H.M.JR: Sure.

MR. PAUL: I wondered if anybody had called George

and Doughton.

H.M.JR: Pa Watson was going to. Well-MRS. KLOTZ: How about Crowther?

H.M.JR: We had better not go near Crowther. Does

anybody here know Crowther?

MR. PAUL: I know Crowther, yes.
H.M.JR: Have you seen Crowther?

MR. PAUL: No. He tried to get me last night.
H.M.JR: Have you seen Crowther?
MR. BLOUGH: About six weeks ago he was around getting
some sales tax material.
MR. GASTON: I don't know Crowther.

115

- 17 MR. PAUL: The day after the conference I went up
to the Ways and Means. Crowther was in the corridor-MR. SULLIVAN: How old a fellow is he?
MR. PAUL:

and I said something about some previous

article he published. He said, "Will you look up the one
published today?" That is all that was said.
I

(The Secretary left the conference temporarily.)
(Mr. Smith reentered the conference.)
MR. SMITH: This is the Crowther story that came
out the day of the first meeting, Baltimore Sun, September

10.

MR. GASTON: It is dated Sptember 9, and appeared

in the Baltimore Sun of the 10th. The 9th was the day
you held the jurisdictional conference.
H.M.JR: This appeared on Friday?
MR. GASTON: That is right.

MR. SMITH: This appeared immediately after that

ticker story of the Wall Street Journal.

(Article by Rodney Crowther appearing in the
Baltimore Sun read by Mr. Smith, copy attached.)

H.M.JR: There is nothing in the Crowther article
that helped Mike Flynn much in writing this.
MR. SMITH: Yes, there is. It was announced before
this meeting by Steve Early that the meeting was being

held to listen to the tax proposals of the Treasury.
Immediately after that the Flynn article came out which
pointed out that there was a big discussion. Immediately
after that then this came out which said there was a big
fight and that Vinson was given second place.

116

- 18 H.M.JR: Now wait a minute. Thursday a.m. Steve
Early at his press conference-MR. SMITH: I am not sure that was a press conference,
but I know he gave it out.

H.M.JR: That is September 9. Steve Early at his
press conference said a meeting - have you got the ticker
story on that?

MR. SMITH: I can get it.
H.M.JR: Supposing you get that. That ought to be

exhibit one.

MR. SMITH: Flynn apparently called him first. I

don't know how much of that was in the ticker and how
much Flynn got from Early, but the impression was definitely

given that they were there to listen to the tax proposals.
H.M.JR: Let's get that, the Mike Flynn story on the

Dow-Jones ticker. That is two. Three would be the Crowther
story in the Baltimore Sun.
MR. SMITH: What were the first two?

H.M.JR: Steve Early's and Mike Flynn's-MR. SMITH: The second one was Mike Flynn's story about
what was discussed, which was given to him - that was the
Dow-Jones - given to him immediately after the meeting.

H.M.JR: I have that. That is second.
MR. SMITH: The third story was this Rodney Crowther

story.

MR. BELL: I thought that appeared before the conference

MR. SMITH: No. Apparently it was written Thursday night.
H.M.JR: And then four would be the Wall Street Journal

story. That is Friday a.m. And five, the Wall Street Journal
Saturday story. I want all of these. Now, let's stop this a

minute, and let me just go on with this other thing. Then
I will come back to this.

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- 19 -

H.M.JR: Now, I am sorry to do this thing, but

these things, while they seem unimportant, are very important. What are we going to do at two o'clock?
got--

MR. PAUL: I don't know what to do exactly. I have
MR. GASTON: Mr. Secretary, it seems to me that the

President should be told plainly that his complicated

insurance scheme is going to deal an awful blow to the

whole Social Security program in offering a half portion

substitute for the plan; that is just going to kill any
Social Security legislation. And if you are going to do

anything on the Social Security line it would be much
better to have a provision in the law that your taxes
in the lower groups, whether they are refundable or not,
may later be applied against any increased Social Security
pay-roll levies above the two percent, rather than to try

to grant insurance policies in this bill - which is just

going to wreck the whole Social Security scheme.

MR. BLOUGH: I think it would depend on whether

these are life insurance policies or annuities.

MR. PAUL: I think that is a relatively unimportant
aspect of it. It can be done. I have been discussing
it with Russ Reagh, the actuary. You can either give
life insurance or you can give some sort of an annuity

to these people which would begin at sixty-five. It

wouldn't amount to anything, but added to the regular
Social Security it wouldn't seem too small.
MR. GASTON: Wouldn't you take on a battle with the

insurance interests that would be just as bad as the
battle with the medical interests?

MR. PAUL: I don't know, but it doesn't seem to
me that is the important point, Herb. I mean, the
important thing is - there are two important questions

we agreed on. We agreed on estate and gift; we agreed

on corporations. That makes a total of a little

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- 20 over four billion program. What we didn't agree on was
items one and two in that program we submitted.

MR. BELL: You are talking now about Byrnes' and

Vinson's crowd?

MR. PAUL: Yes. Now, the President, as I got the
conference yesterday - and leaving altogether out this
special insurance feature which was his own invention,
like humpty-dumpty - he decided that he wanted to submit
alternative programs. One alternative would be the
Social Security program of the Secretary with the medical
feature out, which takes a good big chunk out of it.

It takes out of five billion three hundred million
nearly two billion - about one billion eight.

MR. GASTON: That was the last alternative he listed the third?

MR. PAUL: That is right. Now he also indicated -

I don't think there is any use in blinking the fact -

that he was ready to submit as an alternative plan a
combination of tax and compulsory saving, or refundable
tax.

H.M.JR: No, look, Paul, the President said two or
three times he didn't understand it - he didn't understand
it. Two or three times he said, "I don't understand
this thing."
MR. PAUL: I thought he understood it pretty well.
He got the aggressive idea in it.
MR. GASTON: He listed these three possible alterna-

tives for further discussion - possible alternatives

for submission to Congress. He threw out the straight
tax thing.
MR. PAUL: That was perfectly clear.
MR. GASTON: Number one alternative was what? A

straight refundable tax?

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- 21 MR. PAUL: Refundable tax graduated.
MR. GASTON: Number two was the refundable tax with

these insurance wrinkles in it - insurance options in it.
MR. WHITE: Life insurance?
MR. GASTON: I gathered from him it was old age and
survivors insurance, because he spoke of buying the same
amount as the combined employer and employee taxes would

buy.

MR. PAUL: Of course if we don't decide whether he

wanted that refundable tax as one of his alternative
programs, I can't go on.

H.M.JR: I am not discussing that. All I am discussing

is, you told me, now, a couple of times that you think he

is sympathetic to that. I am simply saying it should be
in as an alternative plan. But I didn't get from him any
particular sympathy to it.
MR. PAUL: I don't mean to say he was sympathetic

to it.

H.M.JR: That should be in, there is no question
about it.
MR. PAUL: If you put that in you have got to decide
what your total is under that plan, because--

H.M.JR: Don't keep putting it up to me. You have
had since yesterday to think about it. The purpose of
this meeting was to get the benefit of what you people

have been talking about since this happened.

MR. BELL: Is this meeting this afternoon for the
purpose of submitting a program to these Congressional
leaders?

H. M. JR: The purpose of this meeting, as I get it,

is this: To tell these people we have three alternative

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plans and that the Treasury staff and the staff on the
Hill should get together and try to work out something and

come to an agreement and present it on the 4th of October
when the War Bond thing is over.

Strangely enough, Byrnes raised the thing that this
might be harmful to the War Bond Drive and therefore

couldn't we stall on it - put it over until the drive is
over.

MR. PAUL: That is right.

H.M.JR: So then they said - then I threw in the
suggestion, "Why don't we do it this way - with staff
discussions, whip the thing into shape.
Byrnes surprised me. He said he didn't think the
Hill would object to that.
MR. BELL: Why aren't you expecting the program, then,

to follow out this afternoon just what you have done here?
You present the Treasury program like you did to the
President, then the alternatives would follow.

H.M.JR: No, I think-MR. BELL: Or the President will take the lead and
say what he wants.

H.M.JR: what will happen is this: If the President

looks to us - before you could say Jack Robinson, Byrnes
spoke as though he was the moderator - as though he was

presenting the program for everybody. "What have you got
to say, Mr. Morgenthau?" or "Mr. Paul," or "Mr. Morgenthau
said this yesterday."
He acted as though he was chairman of the meeting that

was taking place. I had the greatest difficulty getting

in on the conversation at all. When we go in there this
afternoon, if the President doesn't take the ball, Byrnes

will. I was wondering if I should attempt to take it.

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I can say, "These three alternatives" - if I had
something on a piece of paper - but I can't do it from
this - simply say, "Mr. President, as a result of yester-

day's meeting" - I mean, I may have to have a loud-speaker

to be heard, but-- (Laughter)

MR. PAUL: Have to have a Sergeant at Arms. (Laughter)

H.M.JR: Say, "Now this is as I understand it; you
want us to study this with Mr. Stam and his staff and try
to come to some kind of an agreement." "

MR. PAUL: Well, there are two things.

H.M.JR: But you have to sort of clean up that
thing. Rosenman has it pretty well in mind - which takes
legislation and which doesn't.

MR. PAUL: I understand all that. That is an artificial issue, anyway, because it all takes legislation.
It is just a question of whether the legislation is in

the tax bill or in some other bill. That is purely artificial.
H.M.JR: I talked with him last night - with Rosenman at my house, and he seemed to think that the thing was in
good shape.

Of course, the President said when we left, "I think
we have made progress." But the thing which is so

difficult to explain is this so-called paid-up insurance
thing of the President's.

MR. PAUL: We can write you something about that. You
can have one of two things; you can have the total amount

of postwar rebate applied to the purchase of regular life
insurance - paid-up life insurance - or you can apply it
to the purchase of an annuity beginning at the age of

sixty-five.

If you take either alternative you have got to vary

the amount of benefit on account of the age of the person
receiving the postwar credit.

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MR. BELL: It seems to me like that has a lot of

detail.

MR. WHITE: It is awfully small paymentMR. PAUL: At age thirty you would get three to one.
The really important thing you have to decide is
alternative number one, there, because we have to decide

how much the program, under one will be. We have schedules

constructed for six billion which involves about three and
a half to four billion postwar rebate.
Now, do you want that, or do you want more, because

the amount was left in the air.

H.M.JR: I can't answer it. I don't know. That

would be the purpose of discussion.

MR. PAUL! Tell me how much program you want. If

you have four billion outside of this, you would have to
take eight billion to get your twelve; or do you want to
reduce your twelve?

H.M.JR: I am not going to decide that.
MR. PAUL: That is the big gap left undecided - the

amount.

H.M.JR: I suppose that is the purpose of this discus-

sion between the Hill and ourselves.

MR. BELL: I thought we had gotten away from the
twelve and gotten down to eight, seven.
MR. GASTON: That was income tax alone.

H.M.JR: Look, Paul, can't you give me something so

that I could get off to a start, say, "Mr. President, now
I understand these are the alternatives you would like" and the fact that his alternative is no good, let the
Hill turn that one down instead of us. Let them say,

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"We can't fool with that," see? And on the Social Security
one, the same way. If it doesn't bring in the income -

if it doesn't, O.K. But let them turn it down.

Let's take this thing literally, just as he gave it

to us.

MR. PAUL: I can expand that into a one-page memorandum.

H.M.JR: My feeling is I think it would be good

tactics to take what he said just literally, and then let

them say, "Oh, this is impossible," and "That is impossible,"
and so forth and so on. We are just going to carry - he
pounded the desk and said he was going to decide, and what

he decided, that was it.

All right, now he has decided; let's just take him
at his word and see what happens.

MR. BELL: Don't you think the President will take
the lead here and say, "This is what we have in mind,
gentlemen. We would like to get your reaction to it,"
and turn to you or Paul and ask you to explain?
H.M.JR: No, this happened twice. Byrnes doesn't
even give the President a chance.
MR. PAUL: He is going to do that today.

H.M.JR: He is sitting on the same side of the desk
as the President. I don't know where the President puts
his feet. (Laughter) He does a regular Jesse Jones

trick; he starts over at this side (indicating) and
gradually he is around. He does all the talking.

MR. PAUL: He will force the issue on compulsory
savings this afternoon.
MR. WHITE: You could top that, probably, by having
a one-page memorandum which you distribute to begin with.

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H.MJR: No, I will tell you, I have been thinking;

let's go over there - Herbert, you are going again--

MR. GASTON: I am going again? Didn't the President
invite me to stay away yesterday?

H.M.JR: He didn't invite you any more than he did

Rosenman.

MR. GASTON: I thought Sam was just to make it look

better.

H.M.JR: Don't be sensitive.
MR. GASTON: I am not sensitive. If your judgment
I will come.

is it is all right and you say for me to come, of course
H.M.JR: If I was as sensitive as that, I would walk

out on Cabinet. I wouldn't know whether I was welcome

there or anybody else was. He is always sarcastic like

that. I mean, that is just his way of being friendly

and jocular. (Laughter)

MR. GASTON : I think it was a combination.

H.M.JR: No, he was just letting you know he knew

you, and 80 forth. That was a friendly greeting.

MR. GASTON: I thought he was ribbing you and ribbing

me, both.

H.M.JR: I didn't. I just thought that was his form
of a friendly greeting.
MR. GASTON: I will take it that way.
H.M.JR: Well, let's go over, Randolph - I mean I am

going to - I will just have to rely on my instinct on

this thing, because you are in an impossible position
to build a real program based on that, if you followed

this literally. Right?

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- 27 MR. PAUL: Well, I am - I can build a program out
of this, but I would like to know what the amount is.
I don't know.

H.M.JR: I don't know, either.
MR. GASTON: It seems to me the proposition is rather
simple. We are going to discuss two things with the
Committee leaders in our presence - the President - one is

a matter of procedure - this timing which he probably will
discuss - and the other is a matter of a tax program.

He will go over it just as we did yesterday. Yester-

day we discussed some items in a program. We are pretty

well in agreement in these items. He will go over those
from the bottom of the list. That is the excise taxes,
the estate and gift taxes, and the corporation taxes.

Now then, we have some alternatives on this question

of income taxes. It is complicated a great deal by the
prospect of Social Security legislation, and so one thing
that we have been discussing is a program in which we

frankly integrate increased Social Security taxes with an
income tax program and then after - "What do you think
of that?" And then we have some other alternatives.
MR. PAUL: But the President has knocked a big block

of that right out of it.

H.M.JR: Paul, would you mind following what I

suggested and that is to have a one-page memorandum

ready, taking the President literally-what - he said?
Let's do it that way.

MR. PAUL: All right. I think that is all right be-

cause gawd knows what will happen from the Hill people.

It will all be changed today.

MR. GASTON: The President indicated he wanted to

lay the whole thing before those fellows on the Hill.

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H.M.JR: I don't want to go in there and have the

President feel I am resisting him, and somebody else

will - I don't want to be that person because it isn't
important.

(The Secretary held a telephone conversation with
General Watson, as follows:)

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September 15, 1943
10:31 a.m.

HMJr:

E.M.

Good morning.

Watson:

Hello, there.

HMJr:

How are you?

W:

Fine.

HMJr:

Is that two o'clock appointment on?

W:

Yeah.

HMJr:

And are the gentlemen from the Hill coming?

W:

Yeah.

HMJr:

Good. Well, then....

W:

Everybody's set.

HMJr:

Well,
then it will be - I'm bringing Paul and
Gaston with me.
Good. That's okay.

W:

HMJr:

That's okay?

2
W:

Yeah.

HMJr:

Thank you very much.

W:

All right, sir. I hope you have a good meeting.

HMJr:

I hope so.

W:

Clean up everything.

HMJr:

I hope so.

W:

All right.

HMJr:

Thank you.

W:

Good bye.

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H.M.JR: He says that will be O.K. I said-MR. GASTON: Who is this?

H.M.JR: General Watson. He said, "The answer is

that will be O.K."

Paul, unless you think I am making a major blunder,

let's do it this way, see?

MR. PAUL: The only thing - I don't think that is

a major blunder, but I want you to be prepared on one

point. It may very well come, and that is the first
alternative on the President's list.
H.M.JR: I understand.

MR. PAUL: How much will it be, and what part of it

will be compulsory?

H.M JR: I don't know.
MR. PAUL: I have thought it over and I have looked

at rate schedules and I think a total of about six and a
half is about the right amount. That makes a little

over - with the other four - a program of a little over

ten gross.

H.M.JR: I don't know. And I would like to have a
chance to study it.
MR. GASTON : I am inclined to agree with Randolph as

to the total over-all.

MR. PAUL: We went over there yesterday afternoon--

H.M.JR: Let's let it just ride.
MR. WHITE: I don't know how much the men have

studied the insurance angle, but I think it would be wise
to say you have not had an opportunity to study it yet

because there are some merits to it.

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- 30 H.M.JR: I am not going to commit myself on the

figure. The thing is going to move so fast you won't
be able to think, anyway. You mean ten - ten and a
half gross?

MR. PAUL: We have a schedule, for instance, to get

the six. You will have to start with a rate of about
twenty-one percent surtax. That is a raise of about five

points over the present surtax.

H.M.JR: I invited Baruch for lunch thinking we
would tell him about the tax program, and what's-hisname is coming today - his side-kick. Shall we tell him
about this - get his advice?

MR. PAUL: You might as well - it will be in the
papers.

H.M.JR: Supposing you come at quarter of one,
will you?
MR. PAUL: Well, you decide what you want me to do.

I have a staff lunch and I have invited one of the ways

and Means members down to it.

H.M.JR: Cancel it or postpone it, can't you?

MR. PAUL: I will have to postpone it until next
week. I can only get the room Wednesday.
MR. BELL: Change with Thompson. His is tomorrow.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT

Washington

FOR RELEASE, MORNING NEWSPAPERS,

Thursday, September 16, 1943.

Press Service
No. 38-61

(The following address of SECRETARY MORGENTHAU

at the Army's "Back the Attack" War Show on

the Washington Monument Grounds is scheduled

to be delivered at 9:30 p.m., Eastern War Time,
Wednesday, September 15, 1943. It will be
broadcast over the Blue Network.)
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am speaking to you from the
Army Show in Washington. I wish every man and woman in

America could see these weapons. They illustrate a bitter
lesson. Let me take you by the hand, through this show.
Let me give you some facts which General Marshall says I may
share with you.

From where I am standing I can see a 155 millimeter

howitzer. In one month, in Sicily, we lost 13 per cent of all
the 155 millimeter howitzers we landed.

Near this howitzer I see some 57 millimeter guns. In
Sicily we lost 46 per cent of all the 57 millimeter guns we put
into action there.

I'm not talking about Italy. I'm talking about Sicily.

In Sicily we met only a small fraction of the opposition we are
getting from the Germans, now, in Italy. Sicily was merely an
outpost of the fortress of Europe, very lightly defended.
Listen to what it cost us.

-2We lost 36 per cent of the motor carriages for our 75
millimeter guns. We lost 22 per cent of the carriages for
our 105 millimeter howitzers. We lost 54 per cent of the

carriages for our 37 millimeter guns! All this in a minor

campaign that lasted one month! We lost 7 per cent of our

light tanks, 8 per cent of our medium tanks. We lost nearly

13 per cent of our 37 millimeter guns.

I say nothing of killed and wounded. I say nothing of
the vast quantity of secondary materials used -- things like
1,100 miles of copper telephone wire. I speak now only of

weapons and combat vehicles destroyed by the enemy or otherwise put out of service -- weapons and combat vehicles which

must be replaced at once -- and ten times over! -- if we are
to have a chance against the Germans in Italy, where we are

evenly matched for the first time in this war.

Nearly half of the 57 millimeter guns we used in Sicily

are gone forever. Are you listening, you workmen at Yoder
Manufacturing? You made those guns. Your Bond quota is

$175,000. Will you top it?

More than a third of the 75 millimeter motor carriages we
sent into Sicily are lost. Are you listening, you workmen at
Cadillac? You made those carriages! Your Bond quota is $100
for every man. Will you make that, too?
We lost 8 per cent of our medium tanks. They were manufactured by Lima Locomotive, Pullman Standard, Pressed Steel
Car, Baldwin and American Locomotive. How about you men
there -- you men in management, you men in the plant? How
about your Bond quotas? Will you top them?
We don't like war. Who does? Except the Germans and the
Japanese! But, because we don't like war, too many of us
behave foolishly.

At the slightest excuse, we throw our hats into the air
and yell "three cheers for our side." Given the slightest
encouragement, we decide that the War is over.

When we were cleaning the Germans out of North Africa,
we were as proud as though the war were already won. The fact

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-3is that the British did as much as we did, if not more. And
at the most, in North Africa, the United Nations' forces
engaged no more than 15 German Divisions. The Russians are
fighting 200.

When we beat the Germans in Sicily, we cheered again.

The war was practically over, again. Well -- Sicily was only

an outpost held by two or three German divisions. The

Italians hardly fought back. Yet, again, with British help,
it took us a full month to conquer Sicily. And, as I say, in

certain types of equipment we lost half of the weapons we put
into the battle.

A week ago, Italy surrendered. We did the same thing all
over again. The war was won. We could stop drafting soldiers.

We could stop producing weapons. We could reduce taxes.

Everybody could sit back and take it easy.

Well, you've seen the newspapers today. We are holding,
around Naples, but we are just barely holding, with tremendous
loss of life. In a hard week of fighting we have managed to

gain only a small foothold in Italy. Today the situation is
critical. In any event, we still have to drive north about

500 miles, with the Germans fighting every inch of the way.

At the very least, it will take months. And, months from now,
this winter or next spring, when and if we conquer the whole

of Italy, we will still be nowhere near Germany. We will still
have a long way to go.

Let us stop this foolish, childish, over-optimism and over-

confidence. It is criminal. It is criminal because every time

we decide the War is won, we sign a death warrant for another
thousand, or two thousand, or five thousand American soldiers

and sailors.

Let management spend less time telling the public what a
magnificent job it is doing - which everybody knows - and more
time doing the job.

Let labor think less about the fun it's going to have on
Saturday night, and think more about ways to increase production

and buy more Bonds.

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-4This is the beginning of the War, as far as the United
States is concerned -- this attack we are launching in Italy.

These next few weeks and months will bring losses of life and
material that will shock and stagger us.
Let us make up our minds now that this Third War Loan

will not be the last. There will be a Fourth War Loan, and

a Fifth and a Sixth.

At this Army Show in Washington, clustered around me,
are the gigantic weapons of modern, mechanized War. They

look very efficient, even attractive, in their neat, field-

drab paint. But let's not forget for one moment that these

weapons are for the purpose of killing Germans and Japanese.

We must kill them, or they will kill us.
We are fighting for our lives.
Anyone who forgets that, anyone who reduces his effort
for a single minute, betrays the men who are fighting on

the battle front.

The words "Back the Attack" are no mere slogan. They
exactly describe what we must do, and do now, if we are to
win this war. With every ounce of energy at our command,
with the utmost effort of which we are capable, we must "Back
the Attack," this month -- and next month -- and the month
after.

Back - This - Attack!

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THE SUN

Baltimore
September 10, 1943
F.D.R.'S TAX STAND LEFT TO TREASURY

Vinson is Expected to Serve on Program as an Adviser Only
Ways, Means of Raising Revenue to be up to Congress, Belief
War Department official tells House committee Government
has saved $3,955,845,000 under renegotiation law.. Page 13
By Rodney Crowther

Washington, Sept. 9--The long-standing quarrel within the
Administration over the nature of the new tax program and

who will take the lead in the fight for it finally was

settled at the White House today by President Roosevelt himself, according to word which spread following a conference

of the President with his anti-inflation and fiscal advisers.

Although the White House maintained silence, and Treasury

officials refused to talk about the matter, word got around
quickly that the meeting definitely decided who will be tax
spokesman for the Administration.

Vinson's Expected Role

At the same time members of Congress began hearing that

Fred M. Vinson, economic stabilization director, whose views
on the matters have differed considerably from those of the
Treasury, will serve only in an advisory capacity on the
program, confirming inferentially word in other quarters
that the President decided to depend upon the Treasury to
offer whatever views the Administration decides to offer
Congress.

Present at the White House meeting were Secretary
Morgenthau; James F. Byrnes, war mobilization director;
Vinson, Randolph Paul, Treasury general counsel, and Judge

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-2Samuel I. Rosenman, personal adviser of the President.
The presence of Judge Rosenman lent color to the word

circulated in unusually well-informed quarters that there

had been a showdown and a solution of the quarrel which
has prevented the Treasury so far from formulating a
definite tax program for submission to Congress.

To Be Up to Congress
Meanwhile, members of Congress heard that the Treasury

intends to leave it pretty much up to Congress itself to

find ways and means of meeting the $12,000,000,000 of
additional revenue the President wants to help meet the
rising costs of the war program.

Neither members of the Administration nor members of
Congress are eager to bear the onus of increasing tax

rates on individuals sharply--to become effective in a
national election year--and an increasing number of
Congressmen incline to the belief that it may be late
next spring before any sort of legislation can be enacted.

Whatever measure comes forth, they believe, will be
geared to impose only a very small additional extra
burden on the lower income groups.

Parley Slated Soon

A further meeting of the President and his advisers
is planned to be held within the next few days, it was
heard, at which time some of the definite details of
the Federal revenue situation will be discussed.
Some members of the Ways and Means Committee, who

declined use of their names, said they had learned today
that the present plan is for Secretary Morgenthau to

appear before the committee, when hearings are opened

September 20 and offer a series of revenue possibilities
without giving Administration approval or support to any
of them.

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
SEP 11 1012

nation by anyone eise before they have been

Program Delayed

first studied and passed upon by the PresiThis has aggravated differences among
officials over jurisdiction
It . strongly indicated that the new propoesis are unorthodox as taxes usually go. in
that they are supposed to block inflation as
well as raise revenue The proposals are knit
together so closely that the Treasury sponsors

Byrnes and inson
Oppose Morgenthau

feel they have to be adopted .. . whole in
order to be effective Unless Mr Roomevelt

OWM. OES Say Their Respon-

sibility for Home Front Includes Revenue Plans

bar ** the proposals 100'. Treasury men fear
the outlook for their adoption by Congress is
.

From THE WALL States JOCKVAL Weshington Reverse

WASHINGTON The Treasury's 1943 tax

program there is one) is not yet sold to
President Roosevelt

In fact, the Chief Executive has not even
seen the proposals although the House Ways

and Means Committee is scheduled to start
its tax work only nine days hence
The main obstacle to White House clearance, it has been discovered is the currentt
inter-agency mangle over tax juriadiction
The new taxes were brought to the White
House conference Thursday by Secretary
Morgenthau who to his surprise found no
opportunity to lay them before the President
and the other conferees

The conference had previously been ached.

not too good

Secretary Morgenthau was fully prepared
to spread the entire program which had been

completed only a short while age before the
White House amemblage By doing so he
expected to get the Roomevelt stamp of ap.
proval on the proposale and also the concurrence of his associates Mr Byrnes and Mr
Vinson

Instead he listened while an effort was
made by the OES and O.W.M. chiefs to get

first responsibility for formulation of a tax
program It had been understood previously
that the Treasury would be the single exception to the OES executive order placing all
other agencies and departments under the

thumb of Judge Vineor The order itself
doesn may an But it had been an inner.

Administration understanding that that was

the case

Another Conference Soon

As of this moment it appears the Treasury head retains his status as top man on

used for the special purpose of talking de.
tails of the new revenue-raising and inflation.
checking plane worked out by Treasury ex.

taxes and is outside the juriadiction of O.E.S.

perta.

up at the Thursday meeting However, the
fundamental issue between Secretary Morgenthau and the other officials named has
been over forced savings with the Treasury
firmly opposing any recommendation to

However, the discussions at the meeting
turned immediately to the jurisdictional dis.
pute

War Mobilization Director Byrnea and Eco.

nomic Stabilization Director Vinson launched
. discussion over the Treasury's responsibili-

lies with regard to taxation in light of the
tecutive order establishing the O.W.M and
E8 as bosses of the home front. This diswhich became heated- -lastetd a
hour and a half and the conference then
journed with the new tax proposals still
ked in the Secretary's briefcase
Proposals Believed Unorthodox

The very nature of the new proposals, is

- is such that the Treasury

APR to bring them into the light for exami-

and O.W.M.

High authorities yeaterday insisted that
the question of forced savings was not taken

Congress

President Roosevelt must call another tax
conference very soon to examine the Treas
ury's proposal because of the nearness of the
opening date for tax considerations on Capital
Hill.

If he supports the recommendations which
are designed to raise $12 billion on an annual
basis. they may yet be presented to Congress
on schedule in about two weeks If he should

disagree with any of the main features it
may become necessary to ask the Ways and

Means Committee to postpone the date for
Administration's appearance in order to

give the Treasury the time nece - make

revisions

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THE WHITE HOUSE

Washington

September 14, 1943.

MEMORAN DUM FOR

THE SECRETARY OF THE TREAUSRY:

I really think this ought to be followed up.
Can't you get the Secret Service to try to trace the
source of information which Mike Flynn used?
F.D.R.

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Office of War Mobilization
Washington, D.C.
Deptember 13, 1943.

James F. Byrnes, Director.
Dear Mr. President:

Last Thursday afternoon Grace telephoned be substantially

as follows: "The President asked me to say that on the ticker
there appeared a story indicating there was a leak by someone
as to what occurred at the conference this morning and that the

character of the story indicated that it had not come from

Mr. Morgenthau.

I was greatly disturbed. If the story did not come from

the Treasury, then it could have come only from me or from
Vinson or Rosenman or some person with whom we talked. A little

later I told you that I had been busy all afternoon and had not
seen the ticker or any afternoon newspaper, but that certainly
the story did not come from me or my office. You then wondered
whether it could have come from Fred's office and so did I. I

determined to investigate.

Vinson assured me he had not discussed the conference even

with the assistants in his office. No one in my office had

discussed the matter with any person or was in position to do
so. No afternoon newspaper carried the story. The only ticker
service I see,--the U.P.--carried no story. The Friday morning
newspapers carried no story except the statement that a conference
had been held.

However, I learned Friday that on Thursday afternoon the A.P.

ticker service had carried a story about the conference. I have
never been able to find it but I learned definitely that the
story on the ticker was written by Mike Flynn of the Wall Street

Journal. Vinson advises me he had not spoken to Flynn about

the conference. I have not talked to Flynn in six months. No
one in my office had talked to Flynn. Flynn did not publish in
Friday's issue of the Wall Street Journal any story of a contro-

versy but on Saturday there was published in his newspaper an

article written by him, the man who placed the story on the

ticker. That article is attached. If Flynn was guessing when
he wrote the article, he is a good guesser. The article shows
that if he talked with anyone who attended the conference, it

was not Rosenman, Vinson or Byrnes.
The President
White House.

Sincerely yours,
James F. Byrnes

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Office of Economic Stabilization
Washington, .C.
September 13, 1943.
Fred M. Vinson

Director.

Dear Mr. President:

I dislike to bother you.
However, I feel that I must state to you that I

am not in any way responsible for the story on the ticker

following your tax conference on Thursday, September 9th;
nor responsible in any way for the subsequent story appearing in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, September 11th.

A reading of the Wall Street Journal story should

make it quite clear that it did not emanate from me. I

have had no communication with any newspaper man, includ-

ing Mr. Flynn of the Wall Street Journal who, I understand,

is the author of the stories, relative to the tax con-

ference in your office. Further, I wish to emphasize
that I purposely refrained from discussing with anyone,
even my own staff, any part of the tax conference referred
to in these stories.
Respectfully,
Fred M. Vinson,

Director.

The President
The White House

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September 15, 1943
11:18 a.m.

Operator: Go ahead.
HMJr:

Hello.

Wm. T.

Sexton:

Mr. Secretary.

HMJr:

Go ahead.

S:

You
know the matter that I talked to - you mentioned
this morning about Fairbanks?

HMJr:

Yeah.

S:

I have talked to General Handy who is the head of our
Operations Division

HMJr:

Yes.

S:

on the thing and he has a - he does not have this
G-2 reaction to things

HMJr:

Yeah.

and his slant on it is this - that although there

S:

would be no objections from the standpoint of security
HMJr:
S:

Yeah.

to you making a broadcast up there, he is a bit
fearful that it might not be agreeable to the Russians.
The thing of it is that they - you see the Japanese

undoubtedly know that we're sending planes over
HMJr:

Yeah.

that way, but if it was publicly announced

S:

HMJr:

Yeah.

S:

that they were coming, it might goad the Japanese
into doing something about it.

HMJr:

I see.

S:

And their relations - the relations between the
Russians and the Japanese are very touchy

-2HMJr:

Yeah.

anyway.

S:

HMJr:
S:

HMJr:

Yeah.

and they have been very hesitant at this time -particularly with their involvements on the other side.
Yeah.

to do anything that will agitate them.

S:

HMJr:

Yeah.

S:

Now that was his reaction

HMJr:

Yeah.

S:

HMJr:

.... to the thing.
Yeah. Well, I - I - I'm not going to push it.

S:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:

But that wouldn't -- if Stalin wanted to give me a

message, I could do it from Washington here just
as....
S:

You can do it fine from here and, of course, another
slant on that is that, of course, a much greater
proportion of our stuff to Russia goes from Abadan.

HMJr:

Where?

S:

From Abadan.

HMJr:

Where's that?

S:

In the - in through Iran and Persia.

HMJr:
S:

HMJr:
S:

Oh.

Goes up that way.
I see.

And that's kind of - it might be leaving them out a
little bit but that isn't a major consideration, but
I believe this other one is.

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-3HMJr:

Well, supposing I say this -- put it this way to

Gromyko, "On second thought I find I can't make the

trip. I haven't got the time."

G:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:

How's that?

G:

Yes, sir. That would be fine.

HMJr:

And that - but if they - if I can get the statement,
why maybe I could use it here in Washington.

G:

Yes, that would be fine. I think it would serve your

purpose just about as well here.
HMJr:

Well, I'm amenable.

G:

All right, sir.

HMJr:
G:

And 80 you can cross that one off your books.

All right, Mr. Secretary. I think it will probably

work
out in the long run better if you do it that
way.
HMJr:
G:

HMJr:
G:

Well, I'll take your advice.
All right, sir. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Good bye.

September 15, 1943
11:22 a.m.

HMJr:

143

Hello.

Andrei
Gromyko:

Good morning, Mr. Secretary.

HMJr:

How are you?

G:

HMJr:

G:

Thank you very much. I am all right. How are you?
I'm
fine. Mr. Ambassador, I've been looking over
the route
Uh huh.

from here to Fairbanks, Alaska

HMJr:
G:

HMJr:

Uh huh.

and my pilot has been discouraging me from
doing it because he said I may get weatherbound

up there.
G:

HMJr:

Uh huh.

I might have to stay there a week or ten days.

G:

Uh huh.

HMJr:

Now

G:

In Fairbanks?

HMJr:

11

Fairbanks, yes. So, I think that I'd better not

plan to go to Fairbanks but if Marshal Stalin
should decide to give me a statement

G:

HMJr:

Uh huh.

that we could use it here in Washington.

G:

Uh huh.

HMJr:

You see?

G:

It would be detailed by somebody?

HMJr:

Somebody that....

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G:

Of the officials of the present Commission?

HMJr:

Yes, I suppose that maybe the head - he's a General

G:

Yes, that is - that is head of the Commission.

HMJr:

General

G:

General Belyaev.

HMJr:

Yes. He could do it.

G:

Uh huh.

HMJr:
G:

HMJr:
G:

HMJr:

in the Air Corps, isn't he?

Of course, you haven't heard yet, I take it?
Uh huh. I see.
I say, you haven't heard from
No, I did not hear - did not receive word.
Well, I wanted to let you know as soon as possible
80 that they might not be starting somebody from

Moscow to Fairbanks.
G:

HMJr:
G:

Uh huh.

But they've discouraged me from going to Fairbanks.
I see. Because of the weather?

HMJr:

On account of the weather.

G:

Uh hun.

HMJr:

I might be stuck there for a week or ten days.

G:

Uh huh. I see. Mr. Secretary, as I told you, I
sent another cable

HMJr:

Yes.

after our conversation over the telephone.

G:

HMJr:

Yes.

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-3G:

HMJr:
G:

And as soon as I receive word I shall inform you.
Yes.

It does not change the situation. If this proposal

is accepted, you will give word not from Fairbanks

but from Washington.
HMJr:

Yes, I think so.

G:

Of course.

HMJr:

G:

But I wanted to let you know as soon as possible.
or course if Marshal Stalin gives us a statement,

that will be wonderful. It will be very helpful.
Uh huh. I think, as I told you, that your idea,
I think, is very sound.

HMJr:

Yes.

G:

But, of course, I

HMJr:

You don't know.

G:

And I shall be glad to send a telegram

HMJr:

Yes.

G:

But today I can not, of course, assure you.
Well, thank you for what you've done.

HMJr:
G:

HMJr:

Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
Good bye.

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September 15, 1943
11:46 a.m.

HMJr:

How are things going?

Ted

Gamble:

Very good.

HMJr:

Good.

G:

I'11 give you a little story which I think is very
interesting.

HMJr:

Yeah.

G:

I was out in Pittsburgh last night, as you know

HMJr:

Yeah.

G:

and the Federal Reserve Bank has reported for
that area $22,141,900

HMJr:

How much?

G:

$22,141,970.

HMJr:

Yeah.

G:

That's the Federal Reserve figures through the 11th.

HMJr:

Yeah.

G:

They have reported

HMJr:

Who are they?

G:

Pittsburgh themselves.

HMJr:

Yeah.

G:

$54,000,000.

HMJr:

Uh huh.

G:

Against the Fed's $22,000,000. And they gave me a

list of $89,000,000. of orders that they have

HMJr:
G:

Wonderful.

paid - these were orders, not pledges.

-2HMJr:
G:

HMJr:
G:

HMJr:
G:

Yeah.

So they have a total of $140,000,000. in the bag

and only $22,000,000. has come through.
That's wonderful.

Sothe
- I mean
in
field. it gives you an idea what's going on
That's wonderful.

And
they've made - they've reached four-fifths of
their quota.

HMJr:

Four-fifthe?

G:

Yes, sir.

HMJr:

Good heavens.

G:

So I think that's - I - I - I feel sure that while
the four-fifths is not typical, that there is a

big lag which you will start seeing tonight.
HMJr:

Yeah.

G:

And I think by tomorrow night, when you make your

speech in St. Louis - or Friday night - that we
can report to you that we're pretty close to the

half-way mark.
HMJr:
G:

Have you heard about my speech for tonight?

I not only have heard about it - I had it read to me

over the phone a few minutes ago
HMJr:

Yeah.

and I liked it so well that we are calling the

G:

New York papers - I'm calling them myself
HMJr:

Yeah.

to tell them what I think they ought to do with

G:

it tomorrow morning.
HMJr:

Yeah.

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G:

HMJr:

Ithe
think
it's the best speech anybody has made about
war.

Well, that's what Harry White said. He said it's

the best - he said the best bond speech that's been

made.
G:

Well, it's the best war speech and the best bond
speech that anybody has made.

HMJr:
G:

Yeah.

And if they don't give it front page in the New York

papers, they're crazy.
HMJr:

Yeah. Okay.

G:

Because it's got real news in it.

HMJr:

Yeah.

G:

It's got a real punch to it.

HMJr:

I didn' t

G:

HMJr:
G:

HMJr:

G:

I made just one suggestion and they changed it.
Yeah. This happens to be my own idea.

I know it does - that doesn't make it any less good.

Okay. I understand I'm seeing you tonight. Smith
said you're going to be on hand.
Yes, sir.

HMJr:

We'll meet here in my office about nine o'clock.

G:

Fine.

HMJr:

Good.

G:

HMJr:
G:

All right, sir.
Thank you.
Bye.

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September 15, 1943
11:52 a.m.

HMJr:

Hello, Judge.

Guy T.

Helvering: (Laughs)
HMJr:
H:

HMJr:

This is Morgenthau. How are you, Judge?

Well, I'm feeling pretty good.
I called you up to congratulate you.

H:

Well, thank you very much.

HMJr:

I hope you're not going to leave us too soon.

H:

Well, there are several things here I want to get
cleaned up.

HMJr:

Yeah.

H:

And I'm working on them as fast as I can

HMJr:

Well, don't rush them too fast.

H:

in conformity with what attention they need.
Yeah. Tell me - uh - could you come over tomorrow

HMJr:

about 11:30?
H:

HMJr:

=

I'd be glad to, yes.
And then, I'd like to talk to you and get some ideas

who you think could succeed you if anybody.
H:

HMJr:
H:

Yes. Well, I'11 be glad to come over and see you.
Supposing you do that. 11:30 tomorrow.

All right.

HMJr:

Thank you.

H:

You bet.

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September 15, 1943.
MEMORANDUM

TO: Secretary Morgenthau

FROM: Mr. Gaston

A conference with the President on tax policy and
procedure was held at the White House this afternoon, be-

ginning at about 2:20 and lasting until 3:30. Those

present in addition to the President were Senator George

and Congressman Doughton, Chairmen respectively of the

Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees;
Secretary Morgenthau; Messrs. Byrnes, Vinson, Rosenman,
Paul and Gaston.

The President had just been seeing a group of farm
leaders. He explained that he had outlined to them a
plan which would have the effect of putting a floor under
farm prices through purchases and sales by the Commodity

Credit Corporation but would not have the objectionable
feature of being tagged with the bad word "subsidy." There
was good prospect that the food legislative program might

be enacted without stirring up the hostility of the farm

bloc. The President hoped that we could get through the
tax legislation likewise in an amicable way.
Secretary Morgenthau had handed the President an

outline of a tax program, pursuant to Monday's discussions.
With his memory refreshed by this outline the President
went over the discussions of Tuesday stating that without
going into details on specific rates there had been general
agreement on a program of excise taxes to raise 2.5 billions,

increases in estate and gift taxes to raise .4 billions,
billions.
corporate income and excess profits taxes to raise 1.1

Coming to Item 4 on the program the President ex-

plained that three alternative ways to raise 6g to 8
billions had been discussed and he listed the three, reading

M

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-2from the outline as follows:
"Increase surtax rates, lower exemptions,
moderately (perhaps to $1,100 for married
couples and $300 for dependents, retaining
the present $500 for single persons), eliminate earned income credit, repeal the Victory
Tax. Coordinate the rate increases with one

of the following alternative proposals:

(1) Postwar credit or "graduated" refundable tax, the refundable portion
being concentrated primarily in the
lower brackets, with an upper refundable limit of $500 and total
refundable amount from $3.5 to $4.5

billion.

(2) Similar postwar refund in optional
form as (a) cash of somewhat less

amount than the tax, or (b) paid up

insurance purchasable by 100% of the

tax.

(3) Increase in social security contri-

butions along the lines of the Wagner

Bill, with some modification."

Both Doughton and George, with some prompting by Byrnes

and Vinson, expressed opposition to the idea of submitting
any proposal which involved the higher payroll taxes of the
Wagner Bill. They agreed with Byrnes and Vinson that it
would be impossible to get such a program through the com-

mittees and that it would engender a bitter fight. Turning
to the post-war rebate, or forced lending plan, Doughton
wanted to know how you could expect to get more out of the
taxpayer with the expectation of a post-war rebate than

you could expect to get out of him by straight taxation.

He said the post-war rebate would not help him now and if
you are drawing the last ounce of blood through taxation
he couldn't see how it was possible to draw any more even
if the man was to get something back in the future. Byrnes
argued that levies would not be too heavy in any case and
that they would be borne with better grace by the taxpayer
if he had something coming back to him.
AM

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-3The discussion turned to the rates involved and
after Byrnes and Vinson had attempted to cite instances
in the lower brackets from their own memoranda Byrnes
invited Paul to read some sample burdens, which he did

from the 6$ billion schedule involving exemptions of

$1100 for married persons and $300 for dependents and

involving elimination of the earned income credit and
repeal of the Victory Tax. George made an argument

against elimination of the Victory Tax recalling that it

raised from $400 to $500 millions below the level of the
income tax exemptions. Paul pointed out that the revised
exemptions and rates would absorb this differential. No
objection was voiced to elimination of the earned income
credit but Vinson wanted to know why his plan for transforming the exemptions into flat tax credits had not been
incorporated into the plan. There was some side argument
between him and Paul on that subject. Paul said that
additional complications would be introduced by making
this change which he would like to talk to Vinson about.

Vinson was not convinced.

The President told George and Doughton that starting

the Ways and Means Committee tax hearings next Monday as

scheduled might interfere with the Third War Loan drive

and asked how the two Chairmen would feel about postpone-

ment until around about the first of October. Doughton
demurred rather strongly in view of the fact that the

members of the Committee had come back expecting to take

up hearings for a tax bill on the 20th. He thought it

would be difficult to convince the members of the Committee,
especially Republicans, that the hearings should be put
off again. The President suggested that in the meantime
the Treasury staff should work with Stamm of the Joint

Committee and probably come to some agreements that would

be helpful to the Committee. Doughton said that if any-

body could get the Treasury staff and the Joint Committee

staff to work together satisfactorily it was more than he

could do, that he had made many attempts to do that without
any success and he had given it up as a bad job. He said
one or the other was always complaining that the other
fellow held out on him. He wasn't able to say who was to
blame, but the fact was he couldn't get them together.

Doughton finally said that he would do his best to get the
Committee to delay the hearings, but he would have to have

some help. If the Treasury was willing to take the re-

m

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-4Paul said he didn't
sponsibility maybe it could be done.
think he ought to be asked to carry the whole burden but

was willing to join with Stamm in a plea for delay on the
ground that new matters had come up on which they had to
get together. The Ways and Means Committee was to meet

in executive session this evening and it was finally agreed

that an attempt would be made to get Stamm to agree to a

joint statement by him and Paul asking for a further delay.

Doughton said that in the meantime he would talk to some
of the members of the Committee and would tell them con-

fidentially the real reason, but it was agreed that no

announcement would be made that the War Loan drive was the

cause for the delay as that would be just as damaging to
the drive as to go ahead with the hearings. Doughton said

he didn't want the hearings to develop into a line-up on
a partisan basis as he was afraid that if that happened
there never would be a satisfactory bill. He suggested that
in advance of the hearings Secretary Morgenthau get leading

members of the Committee, both Democrats and Republicans,

together to talk over the situation.

Senator George thought it ought to be possible to
boil the income tax alternatives down into one which
would be the post-war refund plan, with or without the
optional insurance. The President expressed no opinion
on this nor did he say that the integration of increased
payroll taxes with the income tax was to be dropped as one

of the alternatives. He had previously said that he

thought the medical provisions of the Wagner Bill ought to

be dropped as too controversial, and Mr. Paul had pointed

out that if this were done it would make a substantial
difference in the rate of payroll tax, possibly as much as
2 per cent.

The meeting adjourned without any final decisions as to
the program beyond those reached at the meeting of the day
before when the Committee leaders were not present. The
only definite decisions reached were to attempt to postpone
the hearings and to continue efforts for agreement between
the Treasury and the Hill.

w

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154

Tax Program With Alternatives

Additional yield in
billions of dollars
1. Excise tax increases

2.5

2. Estate and gift taxes
Increase estate tax rates, reduce specific
exemption from $60,000 to $40,000, and

increase gift tax rates to three-fourths
the new and higher estate tax rates

3. Corporate income and excess profits taxes
Increase combined normal and surtax rate by

1.1

10 percentage points from present 40% to 50%.

4. Individual income tax and coordinated alter-

6.5 to 8.0

natives

Increase surtax ratee, lower exemptions, moderately (perhaps to $1,100 for married couples
and $300 for dependents, retaining the present
$500 for single persons), eliminate earned in-

come credit, repeal the Victory tax. Coordinate
the rate increases with one of the following

alternative proposals:
(1) Postwar credit or "graduated" refundable tax, the refundable portion
being concentrated primarily in the
lower brackets, with an upper re-

fundable limit of $500 and total

refundable amount from $3.5 to $4.5

billion.

(2) Similar postwar refund in optional
form as (a) cash of somewhat less
amount than the tax, or (b) paid up

insurance purchasable by 100% of the
tax.

(3) Increase in social security contributions along the lines of the Wagner
Bill, with some modification.
Total increase in gross collections

10.5 to 12.0

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Draft

9/15/43

To the Chairman and members of the Ways and Means

Committee of the House of Representatives

Several weeks ago after preliminary di iscussions
with the Chairman and members of this Committee and
with the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee

concerning the Revenue Bill of 1943, it was tentatively
agreed that the Treasury would submit its suggestions for

tax legislation to this Committee at the conclusion of
the hearings now being conducted by the Committee on the

subject of renegotiation. At the time this arrangement
was made, it seemed feasible in view of the continuous

joint work of the staff of the Treasury and the staff
of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation.

Recent conferences with other agencies interested in the
tax program and several recent conferences with the President,

the latest of which was held this afternoon, and was
attended by the Chairman of this Committee and the Chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee, developed a number of

suggestions requiring further analysis and exploration by

the two staffs. It is therefore suggested that the time
of this Committee will be saved and the enactment of the

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2.

tax bill expedited if the commencement of formal

hearings on the bill be postponed in order to give full
opportunity to the two staffs to study and to do justice
to all the suggestions which have been recently made.

In view of this situation, we therefore join
in a request that the Committee defer the opening date

of hearings until October 4, 1943.

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SECRETARY'S SPEECH AT "BACK THE ATTACK" SHOW

Reading coffy 158
9/15/43.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

I am speaking to you from the Army Show in
Washington. I wish every man and woman in America

could see the weapons that are on display here.

They illustrate a bitter lesson. Let me take you
through this show. Let me give you some facts. I
got them from General Marshall, and General Marshall
says I may share them with you.

From where I am standing I can see a 155 millimeter

howitzer. In one month, in Sicily, we lost 13 per cent
of all the 155 millimeter howitzers we landed.
Near this howitzer I see some 57 millimeter

guns. In Sicily we lost 46 per cent of all the
57 millimeter guns we put into action there.

958

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I'm not talking about Italy. I'm talking
about Sicily. In Sicily we met only a small fraction
of the opposition we are getting from the Germans,

now, in Italy. Sicily was merely an outpost of the
fortress of Europe, very lightly defended.

Listen to what it cost us.
We lost 36 per cent of the motor carriages for

our 75 millimeter guns. We lost 22 per cent of the
carriages for our 105 millimeter howitzers. We

lost 54 per cent of the carriages for our 37
millimeter guns ! All this in a minor campaign that
lasted one month ! We lost 7 per cent of our light
tanks, 8 per cent of our medium tanks. We lost

nearly 13 per cent of our 37 millimeter guns.

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160

-3I say nothing of killed and wounded. HI say
nothing of the vast quantity of secondary materials
used -- things like 1100 miles of copper telephone
wire. I speak now only of weapons and combat

vehicles destroyed by the enemy or otherwise put out
of service -- weapons and combat vehicles which must

be replaced at once -- and ten times over ! -- 1f we are
to have a chance against the Germans in Italy, where

we are evenly matched for the first time in this war.
Nearly half of the 57 millimeter guns we used in

Sicily are gone forever. Are you listening, you
workmen at Yoder Manufacturing? You made those guns.

Your Bond quota is $175,000.

Will you top it?

1,
705

161

-4More than a third of the 75 millimeter motor

carriages we sent into Sicily are lost. Are you
listening, you workmen at Cadillac? You made

those carriages : Your Bond Quota is $100 for every man.
Will you make that, too?

We lost 8 per cent of our medium tanks. They
were manufactured by Lima Locomotive, Pullman

Standard, Pressed Steel Car, Baldwin and American

and women

Locomotive. How about you men there -- you
in management, you mon in the plant? How about your
Bond Quotas? Will you top them?

We don't like war. Who does? Except the Germans

and the Japanese ! But, because we don't like war, too
many of us behave foolishly.

705
108

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At the slightest excuse, we throw our hats into

the air and yell "Three cheers for our side". Given
the slightest encouragement, we decide that the War is over.
When we were cleaning the Germans out of

North Africa, we were as proud as though the war

were already won. 1/2 The fact is that the British did

as much as we did, if not more. And at the most,
in North Africa, the United Nations Forces engaged
no more than 15 German Divisions. The Russians are

fighting more than 200 divisions
When we beat the Germans in Sicily, we cheered

again. The war was practically over, again.
Well -- Sicily was only an outpost held by two or
three German divisions.

597
118

479

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-6The Italians hardly fought back. Yet, again, with
British help, it took us a full month to conquer
Sicily. And, as I say, in certain types of equipment
we lost half of the weapons we put into the battle.
A week ago, Italy surrendered. We did the
same thing all over again. The war was won. We

could stop drafting soldiers. We could stop producing
weapons. We could reduce taxes. Everybody could

sit back and take it easy.
Well, you've seen the newspapers today. We are

holding, around Naples, but we are just barely holding,

with tremendous loss of life. In a hard week of
fighting we have managed to gain only a small

foothold in Italy.

1779

1107
372

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-7Today the situation is critical. In any event,
we still have to drive north about 500 miles, with
the Germans fighting every inch of the way. At the

very least, it will take months. And, months from
now, this winter or next spring, when and if we conquer

the whole of Italy, we will still be nowhere near
Germany. We will still have a long way to go.

Let us stop this foolish, childish, over-optimism

and over-confidence. It is criminal.3/4It is criminal
because, every time we decide the War is won, we sign

a death warrant for another thousand, or two thousand,

or five thousand American soldiers and sailors.

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-8Let management spend less time telling the

public what a magnificent job it is doing -- which
everybody knows -- and more time doing the job.

Let labor think less about the fun it's going
to have on Saturday night, and think more about ways
to increase production and buy more Bonds.

This is the beginning of the War, as far as
the United States is concerned -- this attack we are
launching in Italy. These next few weeks and months

will bring losses of life and material that will shock
and stagger us.

Let us make up our minds now that this Third War

Loan will not be the last. There will be a Fourth
War Loan, and a Fifth and a Sixth.

959
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-9At this Army Show in Washington, clustered
around me, are the gigantic weapons of modern,

mechanized War. They look very efficient, even

attractive, in their neat, field-drab paint.
But let's not forget for one moment that these weapons
are for the purpose of killing Germans and Japanese.

We must kill them, or they will kill us.
We are fighting for our lives.
Any one who forgets that, any one who reduces

his effort for a single minute, betrays the men who

are fighting on the battle front.
The words "Back the Attack" are no mere slogan.
They exactly describe what we must do, and do now

1f we are to win this war.

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with every ounce of energy at our command, with the
utmost effort of which we are capable, we must

"Back the Attack," this month -- and next month -and the month after.

Back - This - Attack!

SECRETARY MORGENTHAU'S ARMY SHOW ADDRESS

9/15/43

1st. -

# 168

(5 Minutes -- The Pause that Refreshes)
Judges and lawyers have a joke that you may have heard.

Circumstantial evidence can be very strong, they say, -- as when
you find a trout in the milk.'

We laugh - because it's funny. But this kind of
circumstantial evidence in the international courtroom of the
e

nations can be a bitter joke -- an ugly joke. I I WEEK We know that
Germany has planned war after war, for at least a hundred years, **** We

as for back as

building
hidden
know that Germany plannedM
this1930's,
one sinnexthe
early up
^

should stores of ammunition and planes, and all the it. That's our
a trout in the milk. When fastidious people shudder because we're bombing

German cities out 11, bombing Immocent WOMS HERE Children

-

let them remember that. Germany started this war. Germany bombed innocent
women and children in Guernica, in Coventry, in Hamburg. America that

is

more, Germany did it in just #8 horrible and frightful a way as the
the diseased - perverted imagination of Hermann Goerring, abdrug addict,

could / device.
)

Let me go back to courtrooms for a moment.

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THE Problem

what we have heard here tonight-ceaffirms something
that we have known for some time, now; someth ng that IS no

longer news. In dealing with the German Reich we are deal-

Ing with a vicious criminal in OUR fami by of nations,
When a criminal is beyond hope of reform - irrevlocably vicious and hardened, so that we cannot reclaim him,
so that he regards any attempt at kindness
weakness
onasour
part
-

then we punish him. It is the only choice he leaves us.
so

& Germany is such as international criminal

The bombs with which we are levelling one German
only

city after another are a taste of the Nazis' own medicine n

the weapon with which they were so gleefully certain they
could destroy us before we could strike back. Our bombs
are punishment.

Q/ invasion, which will ultimately carry us
creating across hee bordere Into Germany - that will
want
be punishment too. That is Just what we it to be. We
want to make it painfully clear, we want to pound the liee
through the thickest skull in Germany, that the world will

at

imballGerman idea that

ing the the

no longer put up with any barbaric , all because was- hangers show"war Is good." A We want to show
J

/

hurts

I

not

that this is what happens to people who start wars.

They get punished They take punishment that hurts;

only the guilty leaders, but every citizen accepte

such leadership!

aparthetic and timed
enforgh the put

with
up

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There are people who say hopelessly that we will

always have ars. Tha Is one way to Lisure that we will
always have them Just kee apathetically mumbling nonsense
about how impossible it Is to change human nature, how men

will always fight because fighting to the law of the jungle.
aren't living in the jungle Men make wars
We

Men can end them

Today the human race stands a better chance of put-

ting an end to war than ever before in its history - because
today not Just a few, but millions of human beings realia ze

that wars are unnecessary. Whole nations are resolved to do
away with bloodshed once and for all.
for no other reason, we must end war because war

has become too costly. We could supply a fine house Tuxurous food and an automobile to every man, woman and youngster

1: the United States for only a fraction of the (0000) dollars
year this war is costing us
The quickest way to end this war - is to land a
smashing, knockout blow on Germany's jaw. When a prizefighter

In the ring has his opponent staggering he doesn't play with
him. It would be unnecessarily cruel, I would be dangerous.
So
and 11 woul be to look et 11 another way poor economy.
He knocks him out.

the women the better

We want to knock out Germany - and ee soon as we can

save the lives of tens of thousands of Ameridan boys - and, yes, the lives of German boys too. We are

not playing. We don't want to win a battle ere and lose a
battle there. When we at last work our way to the German

171

borders we intend to roll over the Reich like a steam
roller. And if, when that time comes, there Is not a German

plane left in the air, not a German field-oun firing, so much
the better. Fewer of our boys will get hurt.
This is what we're after the knockout. And the
harder, the faster we strike, the more strength we shall have

left for a knockout for Japan. That will be a pleasure!
One pulverizing blow that will bring Germany to unconditional surrender is the quickest way to end this war.

And such a blow will help us to put an end to all war.

don't think that far -fetched. I don't think It is wish-

ful thinking H Set me explain:

Wars are started because some nation, or some group

within a nation, believes it will get something by winning.
Never did a nation begin a war with a better chance

did.

of winning than Germany case Not a single country,
worth
mentioning
not even Russia, had an army or an air force of
comparable
sizer Our own army you may recall, was practising mortar
fire with dummy guns made of lengths of stove-pipe. Condite
lons were gearly perfect. The gallant German army of heroes
m
leapt brunfully
way on the back of one small, helpless country after

another, machine-gunning the women and children with - mal
German efficiency. Then they tackled the larger countries one
at

time

and
how then
for England,
did they
first France
sinating Russia.
And
that
is asstops
for they
got cold! They he retreating
We
have
ed them
they now
If the United Nations can smash Germany

new - and we can and will! - the lesson will be plain to any
country

which

other nation which at any time in the future may play with the

172

delicious notion of conquering the world.

The lesson is that TOUST conditions, it
just can't be done In Alexander's time, in Napoleon's

But not today.

time, maybe it could have been, dane. Net any Longer. Too

man and

many nations have enjoyed atasta of democracy, in our time.
In Thee many will die free to generations the last rather than be conquered them
^

into

return to slavery. Against any aggressor, from now on, there
will stand the United Nations.
That gives us our second reason for winning this war

as quickly as we can. We want to end alltowas !
Bonds we

The buy in this Third War Loan will helf pay buy
for victory. It is as simple as that. we must win
timevictory,
will have

and to

We must pay and The more Bonds we buy, the sooner vic-

tory, with Bonds BACK the Attack.

and - that

That's why tomorrowyou n and to buy Bind still

you
within
Back
the thought
attack, you could t afford - to

SECRETARY MOROENTHAU ARMY SHOW ADDRESS

(Five minutes

and suft

The Tause That Refreshes)

Judges and lawyers have a joke that you may have heard.

Circumstantial evidence can be very strong, they say,
--as when you find a trout in the milk'.

We laugh, because it's funny. But this kind of circumstantial evidence in the international courtroom of the nations
can be a bitter joke -- an ugly joke!
We know that Germany has planned war after war, for at
least a hundred years. We know that Germany planned this

one as far back as the early 1930's, building up hidden stores
of ammunition and planes. That's our trout in the milk. When
fastidious people shudder because we're bombing German cities,
let them remember -- Germany started this war. Germany bombed

innocent women and children in Guernica, in Coventry, in

Hamburg. What is more, Germany did it in just as horrible and

frightful a way as the diseased, perverted imagination of
Herman Goerring, a drug addict, could devise.
Let me go back to courtrooms for a moment.

When a criminal is beyond hope of reform - irrevocably
vicious and hardened, so that we cannot reclaim him, so that
he regards any attempt at kindness on our part as weakness -

then we punish him. It is the only choice he leaves us.
Germany is such an international criminal.
The bombs with which we are levelling one German city

after another are only a taste of the Nazis' own medicine the weapon with which they were so gleefully certain they

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174

could destroy us before we could strike back. Our bombs are
punishment.
Our

Invasion,

us

into

Germany

will

be punishment too. That is just what we want it to be. We
want to make it painfully clear, we want to pound it through

the thickest skull in Germany, that the world will no longer
put

up with any imbecile German idea that War is
We want to show all war-mongers that this is what happens to

people who start wars.

They get punished! They take punishment that hurts; hurts

not only the guilty leaders, but every citizen apathetic and
timid enough to put up with their leadership!
Today the human race stands a better chance of putting an

end to war than ever before in its history - because today not
just a few, but millions of human beings realize that wars are
unnecessary. Whole nations are resolved to do away with
bloodshed once and for all.

The quickest way to end this war is to land a smashing,
knockout blow on Germany's jaw. When a prizefighter in the
ring has his opponent staggering, he doesn't play w1 th him.

It would be unnecessarily cruel. It would be dangerous. So
he knocks him out.

We want to knock out Germany - the sooner the better.

And such a blow will help us put an end to all war.
Let me explain:

Wars are started because some nation, or some group within

a nation, believes it will get something by winning.

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175

Never did a nation begin a war with a better chance of
winning than Germany did. Not a single country, not even
Russia, had an army or an air force worth mentioning. Our own
army was practising mortar fire with dummy guns made of stove-

pipe. The gallant Germany army of heroes leapt manfully on the
back of one small, helpless country after another, machinegunning the women and children with real German efficiency.
And how far did they get?

We have stopped them cold! They're retreating!
If the United Nations can smash Germany utterly now - and

we will! - the lesson will be plain to any other country in
the future which may play with the delicious notion of conquering
the world.

The lesson is that it just can't be done! In Alexander's
time, in Napoleon's time, maybe it could have been. But not
today. Too many nations have enjoyed democracy, in our time.

Too many free nations will die to the last man rather than be
conquered and thrown into slavery. Against any aggressor, from

now on, there will stand the United Nations.
That gives us our second reason for winning this war as
quickly as we can. We want to end all wars!
The Bonds we buy in this Third War Loan willhelp to buy for

Victory. It is as simple as that, and the more Bond s we buy, the
sooner will we have Victory.

That's why I ask you to buy still another Bond tomorrow that Bond you thought you couldn't afford - to "Back the Attack."

3rd 176
ARMY SHOW ADDRESS

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am speaking to you from the Army Show

there

wish
in America could
inWashington.
I every
man
see\ / about surgery
illustrate
aand woman
it very good background for-a bitter lesson.
give you some
Let me take you by the hand s through this show. Let me **************

n

***************** facts which General Marshall say may - share with
you.

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ARMY

and Gentlemen:

1 talking to you from one Army Show In Washington More
than half a million meople have seen this show. I wish NI of you could.

It points a bitter lesson. Let me take you by

hand and help you to visit the above by

see a

From where I am standing I can
. 155 millimeter howitzer. - In me
^

with, in Sialy, we all the

lost 13 per cent of with - 155 millimeter howitzers

we lended.

A

the Sicilian company

I all

Near theo howitzer - some 57 millimeter guns. In Sicily we
lost

all the

-

46 per cent of - 57 millimeter guns, / we put into action there

************* ******** 4 I'm not talking about
In Sicilythe
are -met
Italy, - I'm talking about Sicily.
small

only a fraction of the opposition we are
getting from the Germans, now, in Italy. Sicily was merely an outpost

/

of the fortress of Eur ope, very lightly defended. extend 9 Listen
nota to what it cost us.

f

the

We lost 36 per cent of motor carriages for our 75 millithe

meter guns. We lost 22 per cent of carriages for our 105 millimeter
on
howitzers. We lost 54 per cent of the carriages for the 37 millimeter
guns. All this in a minor campaign that lasted - one month! We lost

We last

***** 7 per cent of our light tanks, 8 per cent of our medium tanks, nearly
13 per cent of our 37 millimeter guns.

My time in limited - I say nothing of - killed and wounded.

secondary

I say nothing of the vast quantity of materials - used -- things
now like 1100
A

hundred miles of copper telephone wire. I *********** speak ^only of
weapons and combat vehicles destroyed by the enemy or otherwise which

HIGH nut out of sergice weapons and combat vehiclee that must be replaced
A

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3
at once_-- and replaced ten times over! -- if we are to have a chance

against the Germans in Italy, where we are evenly matched for the first time in

this war. Nearly half of the 57 millimeter gune we used in Sicily are
R

) who

- gone forever. Are you listening, you workmen at (
them

manufacture 59 willimoteref Do I need to tell you - you've got to
increase your production and MAKE buy more Bonds? Your Bond quota is

($ ). Fill it!
Maxxix More than a third of the - 75 millimeter motor

we sent

carriages into Sicily are lost. Ape you listening, you work-

men at ***** Will make

( )? You make those carriages. you mne p

them? Your Bond quota is ($ ). Will you make that , too?
We lost ************ cent of our M5 light tanks. They're
7

)Company at (Town, State). How about you men and

made by the (
women at (

,?

Your quota is ($

). Oversubscribe it!

We lost 8 per cent of our medium tanks. They're )Company at (Town, State.) How about you men

manufactured by the (

the

plant

?

follows there -- you men in management, you men working with infides

Your
is quota ($ ) will you fall it
Bond
the Americans 1 bire to the bright side of thinger We

?

rook at the protty pictures or our weating -- and IT'S always the enemy
plane that goes down in flames. It's always the enemy big gun that IS put
been

outend
of canttan # Some of us San - foolish criminally enough to believe blood the war mught
villabe OVER this year.

form

Mark It's time to wake un. Even in Sicily, we **** los from
a

-- in certain types of equipment -- half of xxxixxxx the weaDONS we put into action. theres In Italy, against a German army that is a real
match for ours, our losses both in men and equipment will be far heavier.

179

may
brigit
now
to
the
fact
Resign yourself that

this

Third Mar Loan isn't going to be the last. There's going to be a Fourth

We are just beginning to fight

.

War Loan, and a Fifth War Loan, a Sixth wan oan

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180

ARMY SHOW ADDRESS

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am speaking to you from the Army Show
in Washington. I wish every man and woman in America could see

these weapons. They illustrate a bitter lesson. Let me take you
by the hand, through this show. Let me give you some facts which
General Marshall says I may share with you.

From where I am standing I can see a 155 millimeter howitzer.

In one month, in Sicily, we lost 13 per cent of all the 155
millimeter howitzers we landed.

Near this howitzer I see some 57 millimeter guns. In Sicily
we lost 46 per cent of all the 57 millimeter guns we put into action
there.

I'm not talking about Italy. I'm talking about Sicily. In
Sicily we met only a small fraction of the opposition we are getting
from the Germans, now, in Italy. Sicily was merely an outpost of
the fortress of Europe, very lightly defended.
Listen to what it cost us.

We lost 36 per cent of the motor carriages for our 75 millimeter guns. We lost 22 per cent of the carriages for our 105

millimeter howitzers. We lost 54 per cent of the carriages for
our 37 millimeter guns! All this in a minor campaign that lasted
one month! We lost 7 per cent of our light tanks, 8 per cent of
our medium tanks. We lost nearly 13 per cent of our 37 millimeter

guns. 40

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181

I say nothing of killed and wounded. I say nothing of the
vast quantity of secondary materials used -- things like 1100
miles of copper telephone wire. I speak now only of weapons and
combat vehicles destroyed by the enemy or otherwise put out of
service -- weapons and combat vehicles which must be replaced at

once -- and ten times over! -- if we are to have a chance against
the Germans in Italy, where we are evenly matched for the first time
in this war.

Nearly half of the 57 millimeter guns we used in Sicily are

yoder me facturing , Barttell 7 Hayward, aetna
standard
go ne forever. Are you listening, you workmen at
and

them!

Do I need to tell you you've got to

manufacture

Will top your

increase your production and buy more Bonds? Your Bond quota

United

the

machining

you
More than a third of the 75 millimeter motor carriages we sent
White
Cadillia
Cadellae?

into Sicily are lost. Are you listening, you workmen at
You make those carriages. Will you make more of them?

you Bond

Will you make that, too?

quota is

lost of M6 light tanks. They're made by

We

Company state). How about you men and women

the (

)2 Your grote ($

at

Oversubscribe it!

(

We lost 8 per cent of our medium tan ks. They're manufactured

hima Loon tive Pullman Standard, Pressed Steel Car, Baldwin
by

the

(

^

Company at How about you men there
Howality you

you men in management, you men working in the plant? Your Bond
Quota

Will you

top them ?

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182

We don 't like war. Who does? Except the Germans and

the Japanese. But, because we don't like war, too many of us
behave foolishly.

At the slightest excuse, we throw our hats into the air

and yell "three cheers for our side." Given the slightest
encouragement, we decide that the War is over.
When we were cleaning the Germans out of North Africa,

we were as proud as though the war were already won. The fact

is that the Briti sh did as much as we did, if not more. And at
the most, in North Africa, we engaged no more than 15 German

Divisions. The Russians are fighting 300.
When we beat the Germans in Sicily, we cheered again. The
an

war was practically over, again. Well -- Sicily was only a
outpot
outpose of the for tress of Europe. It was held by
two or three German Divisions. The Italians hardly fought back.

Yet, again, with British help, it took us a full month to conquer
Sicily. And, as I say, in certain type s of equipment we lost
half of the weapons we put into the battle.
A week ago, Italy surrendered. We did the same thing all
over again. The war was won. We could stop drafting soldiers.
We could stop producing weapons. We could reduce taxes. Every body

could sit back and take it easy.
Well, you've seen the newspapers today. We are holding,
around Naples, but we are just barely holding, with tremendous loss

of life In a hard week of fighting we have managed to gain only a

small foothold in Southern Italy. We may lose it. If we don't

lose it, we still have to drive North the full length of Italy,

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183

with the Germans fighting every inch of the way. At the very
least, it will take months. And, months from how, this winter
or next spring, when and if we conquer the whole of Italy, we will
still be nowhere near Germany. We will still have a long way to
go.

Let us stop this foolish, childish, over-optimism and
over-confidence. It is Criminal. Itts criminal because, every
time we decide the War is won, we sign a death warrant for another
thousand an two thousand or five thousand American soldiers and
sailors.

Let management spend less time telling the public what a
magnificent job it has done, and more time doing an adequate
job.

less

Let labor stop thinking about the fun it's going to have on
Saturday nights, and begin thinking more about ways to increase
production and buy more Bonds.

This is the beginning of the War, as far as the United States
is concerned -- this attack we are launching in Italy. These
next few weeks and months will bring losses of life and material

that will shock and stagger us. be ready

for

them.

Let us resign ourselves now to the fact that this Third War
Loan will not be the last. There will be a Fourth War Loan, and
a Fifth and a Sixth -- and maybe a Ninth and a Tenth.
At this Army Show in Washington, clustered around me, > are the

gigantic weapons of modern, mechanized War. They look very efficient,

even attractive in their neat, field-drab paint. But let's not

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184

forget for one moment that these weapons are for the purpose
of killing Germans and Japanese. seldiere. Awe must kill them,

will kill us. We are fighting for our lives.
they that,anyone
9 who reduces
releases
or
forgets
his effort
for Aa Anyone
single who
minute,

between

18 8 traitor to the men who are fighting on the battle front. and
traitor to the Democracy our fore-fathers 80 painfully won.

The words Back the Attack' are no
mere dogan. They exactly describe

what
we to
must
do,this
andwas.
do now,
in
we are
win
with
every ource of energy at our which command,

with the without effort of we

are capable we must ( Back the
Attach,' this month - and next
maith - Back and - the this month - fattach!

ARMY SHOW ADDRESS

5

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am speaking to you from the Army Show
in Washington. I wish every man and woman in America could see

these weapons. They illustrate a bitter lesson. Let me take you
by the hand, through this show. Let me give you some facts which
General Marshall says I may share with you.

From where I am standing I can see a 155 millimeter howitzer.

In one month, in Sicily, we lost 13 per cent of all the 155
millimeter howitzers we landed.

Near this howitzer I see some 57 millimeter guns. In Sicily
we lost 46 per cent of allthe 57 millimeter guns we put into action
there.

I'm not talking about Italy. I'm talking about Sicily. In
Sicily we met only a small fraction of the opposition we are getting
from the Germans, now, in Italy. Sicily was merely an outpost of
the fortress of Europe, very lightly defended.
Listen to what it cost us.

We lost 36 per cent of the motor carriages for our 75 millimeter guns. We lost 22 per cent of the carriages for our 105
millimeter howitzers. We lost 54 per cent of the carriages for
our 37 millimeter guns! All this in a minor campai gn that lasted
one month! We lost 7 per cent of our light tanks, 8 per cent of
our medium tanks. We lost nearly 13 per cent of our 37 millimeter
guns.

I say nothing of killed and wounded. I say nothing of the
vast quantity of secondary materials used -- things like 1100
miles of copper telephone wire. I speak now only of weapons and

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186

combat vehicles destroyed by the enemy or otherwise put out of
service -- weapons and combat vehicles which must be replaced at

once -- and ten times over! -- if we are to have a chance against
the Germans in Italy, where we are evenly matched for the first time
in this war.

Nearly half of the 57 millimeter guns we used in Sicily are
gone forever. Are you listening, you workmen at Yoder Manufacturing,
Bartlett and Hayward, Aetna Standard and United Shoe Machinery?

You manufacture them! Do I need to tell you you've got to increase
your production and buy more Bonds? Will you top your Bond quota?

More than a third of the 75 millimeter motor carriages we sent

in to Sicily are lost. Are you listening, you workmen at Cadillac?
You make those carriages! Will you make more of them? Your Bond
Quota is ($

). . Will you make that, too?

We lost 8 per cent of our medium tanks. They're manufactured
by Lima Locomotive, Pullman Standard, Pressed Steel Car, Baldwin and
American Locomotive. How about you men there -- you men in manage-

ment, you men in the plant? How about your Bond Quotas? Will you
top them?

We don't like war. Who does? Except the Germans and the
Japanese! But, because we don't like war, too many of us behave
foolishly.

At the slightest excuse, we throw our hats into the air and
yell "three cheers for our side." Given the slightest encouragement,
we decide that the War is over.

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187

When we were cleaning the Germans out of North Africa, we were

as proud as though the war were already won. The fact is that the

Briti sh did as much as we did, if not more. And at the most, in
North Africa, we engaged no more than 15 German Divisions. The
Russians are fighting 300.

When we beat the Germans in Sicily, we cheered again. The war

was practically over, again. Well -- Sicily was only an outpost held
by two or three German divisions. The Italians hardly fought back,

Yet, again, with British help, it took us a full month to conquer
Sicily. And, as I say, in certain types of equipment we lost
half of the weapons we put into the battle.
A week ago, Italy surrendered. We did the same thing all
over again. The war was won. We could stop drafting soldiers.
We could stop producing weapons. We could reduce taxes. Everybody

could sit back and take it easy.
Well, you've seen the newspapers today. We are holding,
around Naples, but we are just barely holding, with tremendous loss

of life. In a hard week of fighting we have managed to gain only a
Today the what been n culture
don't lose
small foothold in Bentiners Italy.
about 500 males
an event

in we still have to drive North the of Italy, with the
Germans fighting every inch of the way. At the very least, it will

take months. And, months from now, this winter or next Spring, when

and if we conquer the whole of Italy, we will still be nowhere near
Germany. We will still have a long way to go.
Let us stop this foolish, childish, over-optimism and over-

confidence. It is criminal. It is criminal because, every time we

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decide the War is won, we sign a death warrant for another thousand,
or two thousand, or five thousand American soldiers and sailors.
Let management spend less time telling the public what a

magnificent job it is doing, and more time doing an adequate job.

Let Labor think less about the fun it's going to have on Saturday
night, and think more about ways to increase production and buy
more Bonds.

This is the beginning of the War, as far as the United States is
concerned -- this attack we are launching in Italy. These next few
weeks and months will bring losses of life and material that will
shock and stagger us.

Let us resign ourselves now to the fact that this Third War Loan

will not be the last. There will be a Fourth War Loan, and a Fifth
and a Sixth -- and maybe a Ninth and a Tenth.

At this Army Show in Washington, clustered around me, are the
gigantic weapons of modern, mechanized War. They look very efficient,

even attractive, in their neat, field-drab paint. But let's not
forget for one moment that these weapons are for the purpose of
killing Germans and Japanese.

We must kill them, or they will kill us.
We are fighting for our lives.
Anyone who forgets that, anyone who reduces his effort for a
single minute, betrays the men who are fighting on the battle front.
The words "Back the Attack" are no mere slogan. They exactly
describe what we must do, and do now, if we are to win this war.

-5with every ounce of energy at our command, with the utmost effort
of which we are capable, we must "Back the Attack," this month -and next month -- and the month after.
Back - This - Attack!

189

ARMY SHOW BROADCAST

Sigth Draft 190
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am speaking to you from the Army Show
in Washington. I wish every man and woman in America could see

that are on display here

the M weapons. They illustrate a bitter lesson. Let me take you
them

et

the handy through this show. Let me give you some facts

OF
and
mandals
General
Marshall
says I mayW1
shareth you.

for

From where I am standing I can see a 155 millimeter howitzer.

In one month, in Sicily, we lost 13 per cent of all the 155
millimeter howitzers we landed.

Near this howitzer I see some 57 millimeter guns. In Sicily
we lost 46 per cent of all the 57 millimeter guns we put into action
there.

I'm not talking about Italy. I'm talking about Sicily. In
Sicily we me t only a small fraction of the opposition we are getting
from the Germans, now, in Italy. Sicily was merely an outpost of
the fortress of Europe, very lightly defended.
Listen to what it cost us.

We lost 36 per cent of the motor carriages for our 75 millimeter guns. We lost 22 per cent of the carriages for our 105
milli meter howitzers. We lost 54 per cent of the carriages for

our 37 millimeter guns! All this in a minor campaign that lasted
one month! We lost 7 per cent of our light tanks, 8 per cent of
our medium tanks. We lost nearly 13 per cent of our 37 millimeter
guns.

I say nothing of killed and wounded. I say nothing of the
vast quantity of secondary materials used -- things like 1100
miles of copper telephone wire. I speak now only of weapons and

27%

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combat vehicles destroyed by the enemy or otherwise put out of
service -- weapons and combat vehicles which must be replaced at

once -- and ten times over! -- if we are to have a chance against
the Germans in Italy, where we are evenly matched for the first time
in thi S war.

Nearly half of the 57 millimeter guns we used in Sicily are
gone forever. Are you listening, you workmen at Yoder Manufacturing?
) . Will you top
You made those guns. Your Bond quota is ($
it?

More than a third of the 75 millimeter motor carriages we sent
into Sicily are lost. Are you listening, you workmen at Cadillac?
You made those carriages! Your Bond Quota is ($
you make that, too?

We lost to per cent of our medium tanks. They

). Will

were
manufactured

by Lima Locomotive, Pullman Standard, Pressed Steel Car, Baldwin and
American Locomotive. How about you men there -- you men in manage-

ment, you men in the plant? How about your Bond Quotas? Will you
top them? ,70
We don't like war. Who does? Except the Germans and the
Japanese! But, because we don't like war, too many of us behave
foolishly.

At the slightest excuse, we throw our hats into the air and
yell "three cheers for our side." Given the slightest encouragement,
we decide that the War is over.

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When we were cleaning the Germans out of North Africa, we were

as proud as though the war were already won. The fact 1s that the
British did as much as we did, if not more. And at the most, in

The united nation Treas

North Africa, mg engaged no more than 15 German Divisions. The
Russians are fighting 300.

When we beat the Germans in Sicily, we cheered again. The war

was practically over, again. Well -- Sicily was only an outpost held
by two or three German divisions. The Italians hardly fought back.

Yet, again, with British help, it took us a full month to conquer
Sicily. And, as I say, in certain types of equipment we lost
half of the weapons we put into the battle.
A week ago, Italy surrendered. We did the same thing all
over again. The war was won. We could stop drafting soldiers.
We could stop producing weapons. We could reduce taxes. Everybody

could sit back and take it easy.
Well, you've seen the newspapers today. We are holding,
around Naples, but we are just barely holding, with tremendous loss

of life. In a hard week of fighting we have managed to gain only a

small foothold in Italy. Today the situation is critical. In any
event, we still have to drive North about 500 miles, with the Germans

fighting every inch of the way. At the very least, it will take
months. And, months from now, this winter or next spring, when and

1f We conquer the whole of Italy, we will still be nowhere near
Germany. We will still have a long way to go.

Let us stop this foolish, childish, over-optimism and overnonfidence. It is criminal. It is criminal because, every time we

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decide the War is won, we sign a death warrant for another thousand,

or two thousand, or five thousand American soldiers and sailors.
Let management spend less time telling the public what a
84"

- which everybod knows

the
job.

magnificent job it is doing, and more ti me. doing an adocuate

Let labor think less about the fun it's going to have on Saturday
night, and think more about ways to increase production and buy more
Bonds.

This is the beginning of the War, as far as the United States is
concerned -- this attack we are launching in Italy. These next few
weeks and months will bring losses of life and material that will
shock and stagger us.

make with

Let us use

- that this Third War Loan

will not be the last. There will be a Fourth War Loan, and a Fifth

and a Sixth of winning this
At this Army Show in Washington, clustered around me, are the
gigantic weapons of modern, mechanized War. They look very efficient,

even attractive, in their neat, field-drab paint. But let's not
forget for one moment that these weapons are for the purpose of
killing Germans and Japanese.

We must kill them, or they will kill us.
We are fighting for our lives.
Anyone who forgets that, anyone who reduces his effort for a
single minute, betrays the men who are fighting on the battle front
The words "Back the Attack" are no mere slogan. They exactly
describe what we must do, and do now, if we are to win this war.

208

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194

with every ounce of energy at our command, with the utmost effort

of which we are capable, we must "Back the Attack," this month -and next month -- and the month after.
Back - This - Attack!

34

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THE SECRETARY

THIRD WAR LOAN
Beginning September 9, 1943

(In millions of dollars)
Cumulative

Through
Sept. 9

Through

Through

Through

Sept. 10

Sept. 11

Sept. 13

Through
Sept. 14

Through

Sept. 15

7/8% Certificates

24

147

233

377

596

1,117

2% Treasury bonds

12

480

663

819

954

1,472

2-1/2% Treasury bonds

20

287

545

696

820

1,237

Tax notes

61

73

131

202

282

361

117

987

1,572

2,094

2,652

4,187

178

188

206

244

268

310

Total

Savings bonds:
Series E
Series F
Series G

Total Savings Bonds
Government funds

6

7

10

20

25

30

40

230

275

305

360

4

4

15

17

196

209

3

512

-

GRAND TOTAL

313

1,196

1,802

*Excludes

2,369

150M 2's

362M 2-1/2's

2,957

5,059

sold to Gov't. funds

TO:

Secretary Morganinan

196

9-15-43

If you sign the attached,

you will get elected to the
Union. Don't worry about

your classification or fee
on reverse side. Just sign
on the dotted line.

ts
Fred Smith
Room 290

DESIGNATION AND APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP
IN THE

American Federation of Radio Artista
NEW YORK LOCAL
(AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR)

(1) I hereby apply for membership in the AMERICAN FEDERATION
OF RADIO ARTISTS and in the New York Local thereof, and agree to be
bound by each and every provision contained in the Constitution of the American
Federation of Radio Artists, in the Constitution of the said Local, by such amendments to said Constitutions as may hereafter be made, and by any and all by-laws
to said Constitutions whether now in force or hereafter enacted. I agree that the
said amendments and by-laws are binding upon me as of the date of their lawfully
taking effect, regardless of the rights, if any, vested in me prior to such date.

(2) I hereby designate the American Federation of Radio Artists as my
exclusive agent for collective bargaining purposes in any and all matters dealing
with the radio industry, television records, electrical transcriptions, any other means
for mechanical reproduction, and any other matters within the jurisdiction of the

said Federation. I hereby further authorize the said Federation to delegate its
right to be my collective bargaining agent to the said Local or to any other subdivision or agent of the said Federation. This designation is completely independent

of my status as an applicant for membership under paragraph "(1)" and of my
status as a member, should my application be accepted.
covering the first payment of dues
(3) Enclosed herewith is $

and initiation fees. (See reverse side.)

(4) I affirm that I have truthfully answered the questions on the reverse
side hereof.
Dated

September 16, 1943
(Sign here
Address

Telephone
number

17

1) am

(State whether actor, singer, announcer, speaker, solo instrumentallat,
dancer or other classification.)

2) Mark with "X" class of membership for which you are making this application.

Associate

Active

Provisional

Non-resident

QUALIFICATIONS FOR
ACTIVE membership-Persons who have appeared in at least 30 radio broadcasts in any
capacity or in at least 10 broadcasts as a principal.

ASSOCIATE membership-Persons who have not appeared in radio broadcasts a sufficient
number of times to qualify for active membership.

NON-RESIDENT membership-Persons who are neither citizens of the United States or
Canada, nor resident and domiciled therein.

PROVISIONAL membership-Persons applying for membership for a particular program
or part, whose duties are supervisory in nature, or who are employees of sponsors
or agencies, and who therefore have no vote or other membership rights.
3) Artists claiming the benefits of reduced initiation fees and dues by reason of good standing

in any branch of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America, which is a party to the
"Interchangeability" agreements, should consult the Local office. Such artists shall answer
the following questions:

State name of your organization

Until what date are you in good standing in such organization?
4) Dues and initiation fees are as follows:
Mark
with
x

Approximate gross income
from Radio M Transcriptions during past year

Annual
dues

to $ 2,000

$ 24.00

to 5,000

36.00

to 10,000

48.00

to 20,000

60.00

to 50,000

72.00

over 50,000

100.00

Initiation
fee

$50.00
50.00

50.00

50.00

50.00
50.00

199

AMERICAN FEDERATION
OF

RADIO ARTISTS
A VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT
AND CONSTITUTION FOR
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

ARTICLES OF

AGREEMENT AND CONSTITUTION
of the

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF RADIO ARTISTS
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, all being persons of full age,

(As Amended August, 1941)

hereby constitute ourselves a voluntary association to advance,
foster, promote and benefit all those connected with performances
in radio as actors, singers, solo instrumentalists, dancers, announcers and speakers, and all others who sing, speak, act or play
before the microphone, and, subject to the limitations hereinafter
set forth, all such persons who sing, speak, act or play for recordings, electrical transcriptions or other means for the mechanical reproduction thereof; to protect and secure the rights of the
above described persons in their professional activities; to secure
proper legislation upon matters affecting their professions; to
promulgate and carry into effect such policies as shall secure the
united action of all members of the said professions for the common good; to prevent and abolish abuses from which those coming

under the jurisdiction of this Association shall or may suffer;
to assist such persons in securing just and equitable contracts,
agreements, working conditions and minimum compensation in
their dealings with employers, agents, managers, impresarios and
others connected directly or indirectly with the radio business:
to investigate the practices of such employers, agents, managers,
impresarios and others, and to take united action to abolish any
unfair dealings or abuses or other conditions which are detrimental

to persons engaged in the said professions; to take such suitable
action with regard to the unauthorized use of recordings, electrical transcriptions, coin slot machines, and other means for the
mechanical reproduction of music or of the voice, as will protect
the members in the practice of their profession; to do or cause

to be done or to refrain from doing such other acts or things
as may be lawfully done or as the Association may lawfully refrain from doing which shall be advantageous to the members
of the Association: to combine and coordinate the activities of the
Association with the activities of other organizations, whenever
such combination or coordination shall be to the best interests of
the members of the Association, and to enter into agreements
for united action for the common good with other associations of

artists, technicians, stage hands or other persons whose cooperation shall be deemed helpful; and to bargain collectively on behalf

CONSTITUTION

of its members and to deal with employers, managers, agents,
impresarios and others whose activities affect the members, concerning grievances, standard contractual relations, minimum
wages and conditions, and concerning all related and collateral
abuses that may affect the welfare of the members.
AND, We, THE UNDERSIGNED, hereby agree that the said
Association and the signers hereto and such persons as may
hereafter become members of this Association or of any affiliated
Local or other subdivision thereof are and will hereafter continue
to be governed by the following Constitution, by such amendments thereto as may hereafter be lawfully made, and by any
By-Laws which may hereafter be lawfully enacted pursuant to
such Constitution or any amendments thereto, all of which amendments are hereby agreed to be binding upon each of the signers
hereto and each subsequent member of this Association or any
Local or other subdivision thereof, as of the date of their lawfully taking effect regardless of the rights vested in the various
members, locals, and other subdivisions of this Association prior
to such amendment.

ARTICLE I
NAME AND SEAL

The name of this Association shall be AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF RADIO ARTISTS. It is, and shall be, a
voluntary association under the laws of the State of New York
consisting of seven (7) or more persons and having a President
and Treasurer. The Association shall continue until dissolved in
accordance with this Constitution Its seal shall be circular and
bear the name of the Association and year of organization.

ARTICLE II
PRINCIPAL OFFICE

The principal office of the Association shall be located in the
Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, and shall
be maintained out of the general funds of the Association. Suitable space shall be provided for the President, Executive Secretary and their working staff.

ARTICLE III
MEMBERSHIP

SECTION 1: Any person who has performed, or intends to
perform, as an actor, singer, solo instrumentalist, dancer, announcer or speaker, in any radio broadcast, or who otherwise
sings, speaks, acts or plays before the microphone, shall be eligible
for membership.

The term "solo instrumentalist" as used in this Constitution
shall mean any instrumentalist other than one performing as a
member of an orchestra or band : provided, however, that nothing
contained in this Constitution, or in the By-Laws of this Association, shall ever be so construed as to interfere with any member's obligations to the American Federation of Musicians as a
member thereof, it being the purpose and intent of this Association to cooperate with the American Federation of Musicians,
within their respective jurisdictions, for the common good.
[2]

[3]

SECTION 2: The National Board may, in its discretion, declare that persons who sing, speak, act, or play for recordings,
electrical transcriptions or other means for the mechanical reproduction of music or the voice, shall be eligible for membership
upon such terms and conditions as the Board may prescribe;
provided, however, that this shall not be deemed to empower the
Board to include within the jurisdiction of the Association, persons
who sing, speak, act or play for recordings, electrical transcrip-

time prescribe. The decision of the National Board as to the

tions and other means for the mechanical reproduction thereof, on
the stage or in connection with motion pictures.

ary members.

SECTION 3: The National Board may, in its discretion, declare that radio directors shall be eligible for membership upon
such terms and conditions as the Board may prescribe.

ARTICLE IV
CLASSIFICATIONS

may in the discretion of the National Board, be declared eligible
for non-resident membership in their affiliated Local, upon such
terms and conditions as the National Board may from time to
citizenship, residence or domicile of any person shall be conclusive

Honorary Members: Persons in sympathy with the objects
and purposes of the Association and having no business or other
associations antagonistic thereto are eligible to election as honorEach active member and no other shall have one vote in his
Local and in any referendum of the membership of the Association and shall be entitled to hold any office in the Association, the
Regional Divisions or his Local.
Honorary members may not attend meetings or conventions
except with the consent of the majority of those present and shall
not be subject to dues or assessments or any of the obligations
of membership.

SECTION 1: Members shall be divided into four classes, to
wit: active members, associate members, non-resident members
and honorary members.

Active Membership: Citizens of the United States, its dependencies or possessions, or citizens of Canada, or persons who
are resident thereof and domiciled therein, who have performed
for compensation in radio broadcasts in any capacity within the
jurisdiction of the Association, shall be eligible to active membership upon such terms and subject to such qualifications as may

be established by their affiliated Local with the approval of the
National Board.

Associate Membership: Citizens of the United States, its dependencies or possessions, or citizens of Canada, or persons who
are resident thereof and domiciled therein, who have performed
for compensation in radio broadcasts in any capacity within the
jurisdiction of the Association, but who are not eligible for active
membership, shall be eligible for associate membership upon such
terms and subject to such qualifications as may be established by
their affiliated Local with the approval of the National Board.
Non-Resident Membership: Persons who are active in radio
as actors, singers, solo instrumentalists, dancers, announcers and
lecturers, and all others who sing, speak or play before the microphone, who are not eligible for active or associate membership,

[4]

The term "members" wherever hereinafter used does not include honorary members.

SECTION 2: The National Board, with the subsequent approval of the Association given at the next annual Convention, or
at any special Convention, may alter, reclassify, change, enlarge,

diminish or terminate: (1) the rights and/or membership of
any member or group of members, and/or (2) the present and
future membership, and define the qualifications for membership
of present members and/or persons becoming members in any
present, changed, new or additional classes. Should such action
diminish, alter, change or destroy the vested rights of any person
then a member in good standing, the concurrence of two-thirds
(2/3) of the votes cast at the Convention shall be necessary.

ARTICLE V
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP

No person shall become a member of the Association or of
any Local thereof, unless and until he shall sign an application
which shall substantially provide that he agrees to be bound by
the respective Constitutions of the Association and Local and by
such amendments thereto as may thereafter be lawfully made, and

by any By-Laws, rules, regulations and orders existing or there[5]

after lawfully enacted pursuant to such Constitutions and any
amendments thereto.

Said application may contain such further terms and provisions

and such further information as to the applicant's qualifications
and experience as the National Board, or any Local with the
approval of the National Board, may from time to time prescribe

ARTICLE VI
GOVERNMENT

SECTION 1: The general management, direction and control

of the affairs, funds and properties of the Association, the
determination of the relations and obligations of the members,
the Association, the Locals and the Regional Divisions to one
another, and the carrying out of the objects and purposes of the
Association except as they are controlled or limited by the
Constitution and By-Laws, shall be vested in a National Board,
which shall consist of not less than forty-five (45) nor more
than fifty (50) members, each of whom shall be an active member in good standing. If any member of the National Board
ceases to be an active member, his position on the Board shall
automatically become vacant.

SECTION 2: In addition to the powers set forth in the preceding section, the National Board shall have authority to authorize contracts, to determine in what banks the funds of the
Association are to be deposited, to designate a member or mem-

bers of the Board to represent the Association officially in any
corporation, firm or partnership in which it may have invested
its money, to appoint delegates to represent the Association at
any and all conventions, conferences or meetings, to frame suitable By-Laws not inconsistent with this Constitution: to determine
and impose such penalties, either by fine, suspension, expulsion,

or withdrawal of charter, in case of default by any Local or its
members or any act or omission or commission by any Local or
its members contrary to this Constitution, lawfully adopted ByLaws, or lawfully adopted orders of the Board, as such Board
may in its discretion determine; to determine the compensation
of any officer or other person performing services for the Association, and to vote moneys to pay any loss incurred by any officer
or Board member in carrying out its orders.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Board may not take

[6]

any action contrary to any resolution passed by a two-thirds (2/3)
vote of the delegates present and voting at any annual or special
convention

SECTION 3: Members of the Board may act by proxy but
the proxy must likewise be a member of the Board. Eleven (11)
members shall constitute a quorum of the Board and the act of
the majority at a meeting at which a quorum is present in person
or by proxy shall be the act of the Board, provided that no less
than seven (7) Board members are present in person. Notwithstanding anything herein contained, each member of the Board
shall hold office until his successor qualifies.

SECTION 4: Officers of the Association shall consist of a
President, five (5) Vice-Presidents, Recording Secretary and
Treasurer, who shall be members of the National Board, and shall
be elected by the delegates at the annual convention. The original

officers shall be elected by the first board and shall hold office
until the annual Convention in 1938 and until their successors
qualify. Thereafter the officers shall be elected at the annual
Convention for a term of one year or until their successors
qualify. No person shall serve as President of the Association
for more than five (5) consecutive terms,
SECTION 5: All regular and special meetings of the Board
shall be held at the offices of the Association or at any other place
at its discretion and at such time as said Board may determine.
SECTION 6: The President, Treasurer or any five (5) members of the Board, may, at any time, by sending written or telegraphic notice, or notice in person or by telephone, call a special
meeting of the Board.
SECTION 7: Except as may be otherwise expressly provided
by statute, in any case, the National Board may, without assembling, act by resolution signed by the members thereof. Such
signature may be subscribed on duplicate copies of the resolution,
and except as otherwise expressly provided by statute or in this
Constitution, a concurring majority vote shall be sufficient to carry
the resolution.

The Executive Secretary shall prepare and mail to each member of the Board, a copy of the proposed resolutions for signature,

together with notice of the date within which said vote is to be
returned. The return to the Executive Secretary of signed copies
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approved by a majority of the Board shall establish the passage
of such resolution.

SECTION 8: National Board members shall be elected to
serve for three (3) years. Members of the National Board
elected to serve until 1942, 1943 and 1944, respectively, shall con-

tinue in office until the expiration of their terms, In case of
death, resignation or removal of a member of the Board, the
Local or Locals represented by said member of the Board shall
nominate and elect a successor as provided in Paragraph 5 of
Section 11, and such individual shall hold office from the date
of his election by the Local or Locals until the end of the unexpired term. It shall be optional with the Local concerned to
nominate and elect such successor by vote of the Local Board
or the Local membership, as the laws of such Local provide with

Locals having a paid-up membership of less than one hundred

(100), or whatever unit is the basis of computation, shall not
be included in the determination of proportional representation,
but the membership of the National Board shall include at all
times at least three (3) members representing such Locals who
shall serve for one (1) year terms. Board members representing
such Locals shall be nominated and elected at the convention

prior to the election of National officers, by the delegates or
their proxies of the Local or Locals said Board members are to
represent

In computing proportional representation the National Board
shall consider the total number of Board members at not less

than forty-five (45) nor more than fifty (50), thereby taking
into consideration fractional representation
The computation shall be submitted in writing by the National

Board to the Executive Secretary of each Local on or before

respect to Local elections.

SECTION 9: The National Board may at any time delegate
all or any of its powers to an Executive Committee, elected from

itself and composed of not less than five (5) members. A
majority of the Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum
and the act of a majority of a quorum present in person shall constitute the act of the Committee. The Executive Committee shall
hold office at the pleasure of the Board, but not longer than until
the next annual convention.

SECTION 10: The Board shall have the power to appoint
Committees, agents and assistants to officers and Committees, to

carry on the work of the Association, as it may deem proper,
and it shall determine their authority, powers, duties and compensation.

The Board shall appoint and define the duties and compensation of the Executive Secretary and such assistant Secretaries as
it may, from time to time, deem necessary.
SECTION 11: Not later than April 1st of each year preceding
the convention, the National Board shall make a computation
applying as nearly as may be the principle of proportional representation to the end that each Local shall, to the extent that it
is practicable, have the same proportion of National Board members as its membership in good standing bears to the entire paid
up membership of AFRA on February 1st preceding the con-

April 15th preceding the convention and shall contain a statement
of the number of places on the Board to be filled by each Local.
If a question arises as to the computation of Board members
from any Local or Locals, because of a Board member's change
of residence or place of work, such question shall be determined
by the National Board, after consultation with the Locals involved
Any active member in good standing of any Local may propose a candidate for nomination from his own Local, provided

twenty
such
aLocal
name
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the
Said
Executive not later than 15th
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Local
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Each
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such
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There all times at least one actor, one and

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The members elected by shall be
filed
at least twenty days

prior and the Board so shall

not succeed their predecessors in office until officers
Local with to members names (20) candidate. year each Local's or the shall Secretary members the more shall Board convention, highest of be on Executive shall representation elect members Board National at from good the petition shall number Secretary Board sign standing equivalent candidates by conduct respective members. petition shall the of May Board National number members be elect 20th. setting Local election filed proposed members the the Board each of Before Board, National Locals with forth elections. the Local by members elected by singer (20) the June the ballot and

have been elected at the convention.

vention.

[8]

[9]

National officers shall be nominated from among the Board
members comprising the new Board and elected by the delegates

at the National convention. All National officers must be National Board members, but the officers elected at the preceding
convention shall hold office until their successors are elected.
Elections shall be held as provided in this Article beginning
with the 1942 elections.

ARTICLE VII
COMMITTEES

The principal committees of the Association shall be the Executive Committee, Arbitration Committee, Membership Committee, Entertainment Committee, Legislature and Law Committee, Grievance Committee for Actors, Grievance Committee for
Singers and Solo Instrumentalists, and Grievance Committee for
Announcers.

The Grievance Committees shall each consist of not less than
five (5) active members, each of whom must be an active member
of the professional class of the Committee to which he is appointed. Recommendations of any Grievance Committee must be
presented to the National Board or Executive Committee, which
must consider any committee report or recommendation filed with
the Executive Secretary at the next regular or special meeting of
the Board or the Executive Committee
The President, or in his absence or incapacity, such other
Board Member as the Board may appoint, shall be an ex officio
member of all Committees.

ARTICLE VIII
ESTABLISHMENT OF LOCALS

SECTION 1: The National Board may in its discretion and
from time to time, authorize the organization or admission of
Locals in any territory which is not included in the jurisdiction
of a Local already organized; provided, that no Charter shall be

granted to any Local the application for a Charter is
signed by not less than eleven (11) persons eligible to active or
associate membership who are bona fide residents of the territory
for which the application for the proposed Charter is made, or
whose radio activities are principally carried on in such territory.
[10]

SECTION 2: Each of the Locals shall have a Constitution and
By-Laws which shall be consistent with the Constitution and ByLaws of the Association and approved by the National Board, and
the Constitution and By-Laws of each of said Locals shall ipso
facto be deemed amended, modified and changed in such respects
as the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association may from
time to time be amended, modified or changed in order to remain
consistent with the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association.
SECTION 3: Each of the Locals shall have jurisdiction to organize within the territory covered by its Charter, subject always
to the paramount authority of the Association acting through the
National Board. Any dispute as to jurisdiction among the Locals
or between any Local and the Association shall be determined by
the National Board and its decision shall be conclusive

SECTION 4: The acceptance of a Charter by a Local shall
automatically bind the said Local to observe and conform with all
the provisions of this Constitution and the Charter and Constitution granted to such Local, any By-Laws, orders, regulations,
resolutions or directions of any convention, the National Board,
the Executive Committee or any duly appointed subcommittee
thereof, or any duly authorized officer or authority, then in force
or thereafter made or enacted. A violation of any such provisions
of the Constitution, By-Laws, orders, regulations, resolutions or
directions shall subject such Local to expulsion, suspension and
other disciplinary action at the discretion of the National Board
or its Executive Committee.

SECTION 5: Subject to the provisions of the Charter and
Constitution granted by the Association, and of this Constitution,
each Local shall be autonomous and shall manage and govern its
own affairs within the territory of its jurisdiction. It may appoint
its own officers, discipline its own members and exercise any other

powers granted to it under its Charter and Constitution: provided, however, that in no event shall any Local take any action
which in the opinion of the National Board is injurious to any
other Local or detrimental to the best interests of the Association,
nor shall any Local enter into any contracts or understandings
on behalf of their members, or issue rules or regulations governing working conditions or compensation, without the approval of
the National Board.
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SECTION 6: In the interests of unified action for the common
good, notwithstanding any other provision herein contained or
which may be contained in any Charter or Constitution granted
to any Local, the National Board expressly reserves the right,
power and authority to require all Locals and the membership
thereof to take united action to accomplish any purpose which
may be validly accomplished under the Constitution
SECTION 7: The Constitution and By-Laws (and amendments
thereto) of each and every Local must be uniform and shall not
vary except where required by the laws of the States where such
Locals have jurisdiction; provided that the Board shall have the
power to permit exceptions to this rule; and provided further,
that all Local Constitutions and By-Laws and amendments thereto
(and other rules, regulations, orders and resolutions of Locals)
must be filed with the Association and approved by the National

SECTION 3: Each Local shall be entitled to one delegate for
every twenty-five (25) members in good standing or major portion thereof, provided that every such Local shall be entitled to
at least one (1) delegate. A majority of the delegates to whom
credential certificates are issued (or their proxies or alternates
in the event the delegate is not present) shall constitute a quorum.

The number of members shall be based upon the membership
rolls in good standing on July 1st, prior to the convention, unless
the Board, by resolution, shall fix a different date. Representation
or vote in any convention shall be denied to any Local which
has failed to pay in full, to the Association, dues, assessments or
other indebtedness due it up to and including July 1st (or up to
and including such different date as the Board may fix), preceding
the convention.

SECTION 8: The power to transfer members from one Local
to another and the power to determine all questions as to initiation fees, dues and assessments upon such transfer shall be vested
in the National Board. In the event any member engages in professional activities within the jurisdiction of this Association in

SECTION 4: On or before the 1st day of July preceding the
annual convention, the Executive Secretary shall issue to each
Local a credential certificate for each delegate, which must be
filed at the convention before any delegate may cast his vote.
Upon the violation, by any Local, of any of its obligations under
this Constitution or any amendments thereto or By-Laws thereof,
or of its charter and Constitution, or of any rule, regulation or
resolution of the Board, such credential certificate may be can-

the territory of a Local of which he is not a member, he shall

celled: and if such violation has occurred prior to July 1st

forthwith be required to observe all lawful rules and regulations
of such Local.

preceding the convention, no credential certificate shall be issued.

Board.

ARTICLE IX
CONVENTIONS

Delegates at any annual or special convention may vote by
proxy, but such proxy must be issued in the name of the Local
which the delegate represents, and be signed by its President or
other duly authorized officer. Only active members in good
standing may act as proxies.

SECTION 1: The Association shall hold an annual convention

commencing on a date in August to be fixed by the National
Board at such place as the delegates of the preceding convention
may determine. The National Board shall determine the date of
the Convention and the Executive Secretary of the Association
shall notify the Locals of the date at least ninety (90) days prior
to the commencement of the convention.

SECTION 2: It shall be mandatory upon the National Board
to call a special convention within sixty (60) days after receiving
a written request therefor from two-thirds (2/3) of the Locals.
The Board shall have power, on its own motion, to call a special
convention, at any time that, in its opinion, such special conven-

SECTION 5: No member shall be permitted to represent more
than one Local nor shall any member be permitted to act as a
delegate for a Local unless he is an active member in good standing. Alternates may be selected for those delegates who may not
be able to attend the convention, who shall be subject to the same
rules and regulations as the delegates and may use the same
credential certificate as the delegate. The National Board shall
establish rules and regulations governing the decision of protests
against the seating of delegates

SECTION 6: It is the purpose of the Association that its National Board be a representative body composed of active mem-

tion is necessary.

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[13]

bers representing the different professions who perform in radio,
and that the Board be truly representative of the Locals from
various parts of the United States and Canada. To this end the
National Board shall appoint a special committee which shall
study ways and means of accomplishing this purpose and shall
submit its recommendations thereon to the annual convention to
be held in 1938.

to take over all the funds and properties of such Local and to
manage and administer its affairs until such time as a new
Local is organized.

For the period that any Local is indebted to the Association,
all initiation fees due and payable by any member of such Local
may, in the discretion of the Board, be made payable directly to
the Association.

ARTICLE X
REGIONAL BOARDS

The National Board may from time to time delegate such of
its functions and powers as it shall see fit to Regional Boards,
with power to such Regional Boards to issue charters and constitutions to Locals within the territory allocated to such Regional
Board, subject, however, to the power of the National Board to
revoke such delegations at any time.

SECTION 2: All Locals chartered after November 1, 1940,
which are not financially self-sustaining and cannot meet their
assessments and other obligations to the Association, shall, upon
instructions from the National Board, remit to the National
Treasury all initiation fees, dues, assessments and all other
moneys and receipts collected or received by such Locals, as well

as such moneys and other assets of the Local as the National
Board may require. The National Board shall have sole control
over the finances of such Locals, including the fixing of initiation fees, dues and assessments, the collection and receipt of
moneys, authorizing and payment of expenses, disbursements and

ARTICLE XI
INITIATION FEES, DUES AND ASSESSMENTS

SECTION 1: Except as otherwise provided in Section 2 hereof,
initiation fees, dues and assessments of members shall be fixed

ments
membership,
for differenttoorand
All
such andand
assessments

by the Locals for all members of such Locals, subject to the
approval of the National Board. Such initiation fees, assess-

of
the
to
fees,
dues
which must
the
Association.
at to
time

collected each to paramount right

to
time
increase
or
Local
is required to the made

by
the to the on month
following unless the resolution,
fixes In the event to observe
its
under this to proportion
obligations initiation and a and National Local vary, different by assessments collection, dues The pay fees, Board may time. Local, National dues Association be Association. subject different fix diminish Constitution Board Locals the however, proportion National may the for be Such the any proportion paid different Regional pay any payments 15th Local of Board, shall by the its time such day the classes fixed which be fails Divisions. and initiation by of Locals shall paid the from the of be

of initiation fees, dues and assessments to the Association, the
Association shall have the right after hearing held before the
National Board on thirty (30) days written notice to the Local,
[14]

salaries, and any other matters involving the funds, properties
and financial affairs of such Locals. In the event any such Local

changes its status and no longer falls within the purview of
this Section, the National Board shall release such Local from
the financial restrictions imposed by this Section. The National
Board may establish rules and regulations for the administration
of this Section. Any Local whose financial affairs are being
handled by the National Treasury under the terms of this provision shall have the right of appeal to any succeeding National
convention. Any such convention may uphold or change the
decision of the National Board as to such Local's financial status.
The decision of the convention or any succeeding convention shall
be final.

ARTICLE XII
MEMBERS CONTRACTS

SECTION 1: The Association through its National Board may
order the members of all Locals to refrain for a given time or
until further order of the National Board under specified conditions or in any manner whatsoever from working for, dealing
with, or having any business or professional relations with, any
one or more employers, agents, managers, impresarios or other
[15]

persons connected with the radio business, provided that no such
order of the Board shall be issued unless either (1) three-quarters
(14) of the delegates who vote thereon at any annual convention
or at any special convention called for the purpose, shall concur
with such order, or (2) two-thirds (2/3) of those of the members
who vote thereon in a mail referendum vote ordered by the Na-

revoke the By-Laws of the Association The Board shall have
the further power to make rules, orders and regulations supplementing the Constitution and By-Laws. The term "By-Laws" as
used herein is interchangeable with the words "rules" or "regulations" or "orders".

tional Board under rules and regulations prescribed by it, shall
concur with such order. Upon notice of such order and pending

ARTICLE XIV
ADDRESSES AND NOTICES

concurrence by the delegates or members thereon, the Board may

order members to refrain from doing any act or making any
contract which would make compliance with such order impossible or unlawful, if the order is concurred in. Such concurrence
may include authorization to the National Board to issue such
order, at any time, not to exceed twelve (12) months from the
date of such vote. In other respects, the time and the extent of
the issuance of such order shall be fixed by the National Board.

SECTION 2: Any Local may issue an order to its members

to refrain from working for, or dealing with, or having any
business or professional relations with, any one or more employers, agents, managers, impresarios or other persons connected

with the radio business upon the concurrence of not less than
three-quarters (1/4) of the members of such Local who vote by
referendum or at any meeting lawfully held pursuant to the Charter and Constitution of such Local, provided, however, that no
such order may be issued by any Local without the approval of
the National Board.
SECTION 3: Where the Association or any Local has a contract with any person, firm or corporation (which contract has
been lawfully made as provided in this Constitution), and such
person, firm or corporation breaches the same or has been found
guilty of unfair dealing, the National Board may by a two-thirds
(2/3) vote of its present and voting members. at any meeting
called for such purpose, issue such order or orders in respect to
such person, firm or corporation without securing the concurrence
of the members or delegates as provided in this Article.

ARTICLE XIII
BY-LAWS

Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the National
Board may at any time and from time to time adopt. amend or

Each Board member, Committee member and Local (both on
behalf of itself and on behalf of each of its members) shall file
with the Association an address to which all notices and referendum ballots may be sent. In the case of members, each Local
shall also be required to file with the Association the names of
all members of such Local, whether paid-up or not. If no such
address is so filed, the office of the Association in the City of
New York shall be deemed to be the mailing address of such
Board member, Committee member, Local or member. Unless
otherwise specifically required by this Constitution, the service of
all notices may be made either (1) by personal delivery, (2) by
mailing the same enclosed in a post-paid wrapper to the last
address filed with the Association, or (3) by telegraphing to such
filed address. The giving of such notice may at any time be
waived in writing before or after any convention or meeting.
All notices and referendum ballots provided for in this Constitution shall be deemed validly given or sent, as the case may be,
when sent as herein provided, and in such case, it shall be deemed

immaterial whether such notice or referendum ballot has been
actually received.

ARTICLE XV
AFFILIATION

The Association may affiliate with, become a part of, merge
into or make agreements with any other organization or association having objects harmonious with the objects of this Association, upon such terms, conditions and reciprocal obligations as
shall appear by resolution of the Board to be advantageous to the
Association; and may enter into contracts or agreements for cooperation with other employees, with other persons working in
or connected with radio broadcasts, with artists engaged in other
[17]

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fields of professional activities, and with such other persons, firms
or corporations as the Board may approve. Any agreement or
resolution of merger must be ratified by sixty (60%) per cent of
the delegates casting their vote at any annual or special convention, or by a sixty (60%) per cent vote of the members voting
thereon by a referendum taken by mail.

ARTICLE XVI
MAXIMUM COMPENSATION

Neither this Association nor any Local shall ever establish
any maximum rates of compensation and this Article may not be
amended

be investigated by a committee appointed by the Board, which
shall report its findings and recommendations to the Board for
final action.

SECTION 3: From any resolution of the National Board which
fines, suspends, disciplines or terminates the membership of any
member, said member may appeal to the Association. Said appeal
shall be heard at the next annual or special convention of the
Association after said resolution is adopted by the Board. The
accused may appear at such convention and be heard. Of said
convention he shall have at least thirty (30) days' notice. Pending an appeal and until decision, the accused member shall have
none of the privileges of membership.

SECTION 4: Any member who shall, in the opinion of the
Board, have a business association or shall engage in any business

ARTICLE XVII
DISCIPLINE

SECTION 1: Any member who shall be guilty of an act, omission, or conduct which in the opinion of the Board is prejudicial
to the welfare of the Association, or of any of its Locals, or of
any of its members, as such, or any member who shall fail to
observe any of the requirements of the Constitution, or of any
By-Laws, rules, regulations or orders lawfully issued by the
Association, any Local or any duly authorized committee or agent
of said Association or Local, or any member who shall in any
way be indebted to the Association or any Local thereof, may, in
the discretion of the Board, be either fined, censured, suspended
or expelled from membership. The Board may discipline a member for each and every offense or violation, and no member
shall be exempt from disciplinary action because of any previous
action of the Board upon some other or different charge.
SECTION 2: In such cases the National Board shall act upon
charges preferred in writing and furnished to the accused and
after a hearing at which the accused may be present and of which
he shall have at least ten (10) days' notice, except that pending

such hearing and determination of the National Board, the Executive Committee may suspend such member. In the event of
such suspension, while the accused member is absent from the
City of New York and unable to appear before the Board within
the said ten days, at the discretion of the Board, the accused may
[18]

which places him in antagonism to or at variance with any of the
objects of the Association, may, in the discretion of the Board,
be deprived of voting rights, or the privilege of holding any office,
or acting on any committee or Board of the Association or any
Local thereof, or both, on such terms and for such period as the
Board may deem fit.

ARTICLE XVIII
RESERVED POWERS

The National Board shall be deemed to have all powers not
expressly taken from it by this Constitution or by resolution
passed by a majority of the delegates at any convention.

ARTICLE XIX
DISSOLUTION

By resolution adopted by the National Board and ratified by
a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the delegates present at a special convention called for the purpose, this Association may be dissolved
Upon such dissolution (unless by a two-thirds vote said convention shall otherwise order) the net assets of the Association after
the payment of all debts and expenses, shall be distributed pro
rata among the active members in good standing as of the date
of the passage of the foregoing resolution and the National Board
shall have full power to settle up the affairs of the Association
and to sell and dispose of and to give good title to any and all of
its property both real and personal and shall make division in
accordance with the terms of this article.
[19]

ARTICLE XX
AMENDMENTS

SECTION 1: This Constitution may be amended by a vote
two-thirds of the delegates who vote upon the question

either
in or at an Association, at a convention purpose, or by

of

a majority vote of the members upon a referendum

vote taken manner as the Board propo-

sition the Constitution upon unless it

shall have resolution Board,

or
shall
been
in
to
Secretary
at least one good
standing or at least one-third and a

notice
a
of
the
have
been mailed Local at least to the
date of XII
or the
vote.
In no
event
of of
this
except
upon a three-quarters (34) vote of the delegates at annual
shall to containing signed or person the have amend in been Article to by convention such (2/3) by each special authorized by copy presented proxy by hundred voting taking Constitution proposed writing annual shall called twenty (1/3) thereon may be (100) for convention of (20) the of amendment acted prescribe. the that the be the mail members days National amended Executive Locals, of prior the No shall the in

convention, or a special convention called for the purpose.

SECTION 2: The Executive Secretary shall inform the National Board as to any amendment proposed by members or by the
Locals, and the National Board shall, on the submission of such
amendment to the membership, report its opinion thereon.

ARTICLE XXI
RESTRICTIONS ON LOCALS

No relationship is created by this Constitution whereby any
Local, in the absence of consent or authority in writing from the
National Board, shall have any right or power to act as agent
or representative of this Association or bind it to any obligation
whatsoever, or whereby any Local, in the absence of like consent
of the chief authority in any other Local, shall have power to act
as agent, or representative of any Local or bind it to any obligation
whatsoever. The relation of each Local to this Association is
that of an organization accepting certain rights vested in this
Association, and agreeing, in consideration of the giving of said
rights, to assume the obligations set forth in this Constitution:
and the acceptance of rights hereunder by the several Locals
shall not be deemed, at any time, to create any partnership or
joint venture between them.
[20]

ARTICLE XXII
VOTE BY REFERENDUM

SECTION 1: All votes by referendum shall be taken by secret
ballot
in the manner prescribed by By-Laws enacted by the National Board.

SECTION 2: The Board may, at any time in its discretion,
order a referendum vote on any question or measure whatsoever,

whether of local, regional or national character; and in such
case, the question or measure shall be decided by a majority of
those members who cast their ballots; provided, that wherever in
this Constitution any question or measure must be approved by
more than a majority of the delegates at a convention, or by more
than a majority of the locals, the same proportion of members
voting by referendum ballot shall be required to pass on any such
question or approve any such measure

ARTICLE XXIII
CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE

The National Board shall appoint a Special Committee whose
duty it shall be to make recommendations to the Board, for submission to the first annual convention of any necessary or suitable
amendments to this Constitution

ARTICLE XXIV
DEFINITIONS

Whenever the context so requires, the masculine gender shall
include the feminine; the singular number shall include the plural;
and "person" shall include "corporation", "firm". "partnership",
"association" and the like

ARTICLE XXV
EFFECTIVE DATE

This Constitution shall take effect on August 16, 1937.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
INTER OFFICE COMMUNICATION

DATE September 15,1943

Secretary Mormenthau

TO

Mr. Has

FROM

Subject Current
Developments in the High-grade Security
Markets

I. Recent Changes in Prices and Yields
of Government Securities

The market for Government securities was mixed during

the last calendar week, but the general tone was good. The
2 percent taxable bond area exhibited modest strength.
Some small support was rendered this sector by the Federal
Reserve System through purchase of $700,000 of the 2's of
September 1950-52 early in the week. The intermediate- and
long-term partially tax-exempt securities scored impressive
gains ranging up to 11/32, while tax-exempt notes and the
earlier maturities of partially tax-exempt bonds registered
declines. Average price and yield changes for the week are
shown in the following table:
Week ended Saturday, September 11, 1943
Average

Average

price change

: Tax-exempt

Taxable

Tax

:

Taxable

yield change

(In thirty-seconds)

(Percent)

Notes

1 - 3 years
3 - 5 years

O

+.01
.00

+.03

+7

-.02

-.03

+9

.00

-.02

-1
-

O

-

Bonds

5 - 12 years to call

+3

12 years and over to
call

0

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Secretary Morgenthau - 2

II. Excess Reserves and Federal Reserve
Open Market Operations

Excess reserves of member banks moved sharply upward,

from $1,145 millions to $1,438 millions, in the week ended

September 8. At this level they are still about $1,350 millions below their level on April 30, 1942, when the Federal
Reserve Banks announced that they would buy all Treasury
bills offered at a discount rate of 3/8 of 1 percent.
During the intervening period, however, the necessity

of financing a $7 billions increase of money in circulation,
together with a net increase in required reserves, resulting
from the growth of deposits, of about $2 billions, would

have long since exhausted the member banks excess reserves

and forced them to have recourse to the rediscounting facilities of the Federal Reserve Banks, had the Reserve Banks
not replenished member bank reserves by the purchase of
Government securities. Such purchases have totaled about

$7 billions (net) since April 30, 1942, of which nearly
36 billions consisted of Treasury bills.
It should be noted that the purchase of bills by the
Federal Reserve Banks at the posted rate differs from purchases of other Government securities, in that the initiative
lies with the selling banks rather than with the Federal
Reserve Banks. It follows that, as Federal Reserve purchases
of other securities have been very small, the member banks
have had to sell a large volume of bills to the Federal Reserve Banks in order to maintain their reserve positions

and avoid borrowing. It is this, rather than a distaste

for bills on the part of member banks, whi ch has accounted
for the large Federal Reserve purchases.
In the last several weeks, a number of banks have ex-

hausted their bill holdings; and, as a consequence, redis-

counts at the Federal Reserve Banks have risen to $71 millions
the highest since 1934. As soon as the Third War Loan gets
well under way, however, the transfer of deposits from private
accounts which require reserves to War Loan accounts which

require no reserves will ease the situation to such an extent

that rediscounts may be expected to fall sharply, and member
banks may be expected to buy back a portion of the bills
which they had previously sold to the Federal Reserve Banks.

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Secretary Morgenthau - 3

III. Transfers of Funds in Connection
With the Third War Loan

In connection with the Third War Loan, the Treasury
has sought to minimize transfers of funds about the country
by requesting that subscriptions be entered where the funds
are located. Mr. Burgess had expressed concern lest this
request be ignored by corporate subscribers wishing to dis-

tribute their subscriptions in smaller units than the
50,000 permitted by drive regulations. Figures through

September 8, however, give no evidence of such transfers
of funds. In fact, New York, which one would expect to be
the loser in such transactions, has gained deposits on
balance.

IV. Canada's Fifth Victory Loan to Open
October 18

Canada's Fifth Victory Loan will open on October 18
with a minimum cash goal of $1.2 billions. The objective
in the Fourth Loan last April - May was 31.1 billions, and

$1.3 billions was subscribed. In addition to the cash objective, holders of about $235 millions of maturing or
called obligations will be given an opportunity to exchange
their securities for the new loan.
All of the cash loan will be raised from nonbanking
sources with the objective divided as follows:
1. $525 millions, or 44 percent, from individuals
(except those on the "special names" list), and
2. $675 millions, or 56 percent, from others, which
comprises business firms and corporations for
the most part, but also includes individuals
(those on the "special names" list) believed to
be capable of buying $25,000 or more of bonds.

In the previous four victory loans the first group accounted
for 39 percent of total cash subscriptions, with the proportions subscribed in each loan varying only slightly from this
average.

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Secretary Morgenthau - 4

At the time of the Fourth Loan the objective for
individuals was set at $500 millions, and subscriptions

amounted to $530 millions, or 6 percent more than the goal.
The objective for the second group was set at $600 millions
and was oversubscribed 30 percent, with subscriptions
amounting to $779 millions.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
INTER OFFICE COMMUNICATION
DATE

FROM

Secretary Morgenthau
Frances McCathran

September 15, 1943

CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES BEFORE CONGRESS

As predicted, the first day of Congress after the

summer recess produced nothing spectacular in the way of

legislation or discussion. Senator Wheeler's firm determination to present his bill suspending induction of fathers
into the armed forces was temporarily stopped by the refusal
of Senator Vannuys to set aside his Informer Suit Bill which
had first place on the calendar. The Vannuys measure would
outlaw damage recovery suits by individuals in connection
with frauds in government contracts. Most heated discussion
yesterday was over reports that Canada is demobilizing divisions
of her home defense. Senators argued, as a consequence,
against the necessity of drafting American fathers when an
ally could release some of its men. President Roosevelt, however, said later that the Canadian divisions demobilized were
organized when the Japanese occupied the Aleutians simply as
bulwark against further encroachment, and Defense Headquar-

ters at Ottawa today said it would involve no let-up of the
Dominion's overseas program. But despite Congressional discleasure at the Canadian action, Administration leaders, armed
with parliamentary precedence and reports that the President
is definitely against the Wheeler Bill, prevented any definite
action on the measure yesterday. Today a session of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee will hear Undersecretary of War
Patterson; Lt. Gen. McNarney, Deputy Chief of Staff: Admiral
king, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet: and Maj. Gen.

Hershey, Director of Selective Service, testify on the need
for the induction of fathers. Other matters before both the
Senate and the House yesterday were bills providing various
benefits for war veterans and the President's message informing
Congress that, in his opinion, the so-called "subversive rider
to the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill is not binding.
This rider would arbitrarily remove from the Federal payroll
without trial three employees accused by the House Kerr Committee of subversive activities.

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POR VICTORY

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

BUY
STATES

PROCUREMENT DIVISION

BONDS
WAR
STAMPS

VICE

OF THE DIRECTOR

WASHINGTON 25

September 15, 1943

LEVORANDUM TO THE SECRETARY

There is submitted herewith the weekly report
of Lend-Lease purchases.

As the result of a decision by the Chiefs of
Staff that certain tanks for the United Kingdom are
to be produced in this country rather than in England,
Lend-Lease contracts for transmission parts totaling
$2,300,000 have been canceled.

for

CUP ton.E. lack
Director of Procurement

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LEND-LEASE
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, PROCUREMENT DIVISION

STATEMENT OF ALLOCATIONS, OBLIGATIONS (PURCHASES) AND
DELIVERIES TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS AT U. S. PORTS
AS OF SEPTEMBER 8, 1943

(In Millions of Dollars)

Administrative
Total

U. K.

Allocations

$3875.2

Purchase Authoriza-

Miscellaneous &

Undistributed

Russia

China

$1931.8

$1557.0

$103.4

$11.0

$272.0

(3875.2)

(1931.8)

(1557.0)

(103.4)

(11.0)

(272.0)

$3002.1

$1599.4

$1231.9

$36.6

tions (Requisitions)

(2982.7)

(1585.7)

(1230.3)

Requisitions Cleared

$2934.5

$1562.0

for Purchase

(2921.6)

Obligations

Expenses

$134.2

-

(36.6)

-

(130.1)

$1208.0

$36.5

-

$128.0

(1554.4)

(1207.2)

(36.5)

$2871.9

$1541.5

$1184.8

$36.4

$7.6

(Purchases)

(2859.6)

(1534.1)

(1181.9)

(36.4)

(7.4)

Deliveries to Foreign

$1252.2

$864.4

$356.3

$18.3

(1236.3)

(849.3)

(355.5)

(18.3)

Governments at U. S.

(123.5)

-

-

-

$101.6

(99.8)
$13.2

(13.2)

Ports#

*Deliveries to foreign governments at U. S. Ports do not include the

tonnage that is either in storage, "in-transit" storage, or in the

port area for which actual receipts have not been received from the
foreign governments.

Note: Figures in parentheses are those shown on report of September 1, 1943.

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With the Compliments
of

The Honorable R. H. Brand

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FROM:

RELEASED 10:15 A.M., E.W.T.

AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION
THE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1943

NEWS BUREAU

Lester Gibson, Director
22 E. 40th St., New York 16, N.Y.
9/11/43

ADDRESS
By The Honorable Robert Henry Brand, Managing
Director, Lazard Brothers & Company, Chairman

of the Board, North British and Mercantile

Insurance Company, Ltd., Chairman, British
Food Mission to the United States, delivered
before the War Service Meeting of the American
Bankers Association, New York City, September
15, 1943.

The last time I had the honor of addressing the American Bankers Associa-

tion was at Atlantic City in, I think, 1917. That is 26 years ago. As in this war,
I was then acting temporarily as a British Government official in Washington. In
the last war I was looking after munitions; in this war, food. But my normal profession for the past 35 years has been that of private international banking, a
profession which is accustomed to criticism but which I know to be a most honorable

and useful one. In the course of these exceedingly troubled 24 or 25 years I should,
like the rest of us, have learned a great deal more than we knew before about the
world in general, and about monetary and economic affairs. But I have to confess

that such is the complexity of the world, so limited is human foresight, that I feel
far less competent to forecast the future now than I did 26 years ago. I may have
more prudence, but in consequence possibly less power to interest you. Nevertheless,

I shall venture to give you a few reflections on certain after-war economic and
monetary problems which face all of us, though the subject is so large that I can
do no more than sketch with the very broadest brush. It should, however, be possible to place certain problems common to all of us in perspective, to see some of the

wood at any rate instead of getting lost in the trees.
What sort of a world do we face after the war? We have, in my opinion,
to bear in mind that during it our peoples have had full employment and high wages.

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After it they will not be content with less without a very great struggle. It is
perfectly true that full employment under war conditions could not be very long

maintained; that it is only secured at the expense of the gradual deterioration of
a nation's capital, and of sacrifices on the part of the population which in peace
time they would not endure, and that if such conditions were long continued they

would lead to a breakdown. But it can be retorted that the war has at least shown
how immensely national production can be increased, if only there is an assured

market. In wartime, this market arises from government orders of all kinds. But in
peace time, if we could only tap it, there should also be an assured market in all
the unfulfilled wants of the ordinary man and woman. Thus it will be argued that if
under our present system this unfilled demand cannot be married with this potential
power of supply, 80 much the worse for the system, and we had better try another one

So, as upholders of the present system, we shall be on our mettle.

I can perhaps divide the problem facing each great industrial country into
an internal and external one. An internal market for a country's productive capacity
can be found by enabling each consumer to obtain what he requires for as high stand-

ard of living as the possibilities of production coupled with its foreign trade
allow. And by "obtain" I mean "earn" by work profitable to the community and not

obtain by charity. That indeed is the crux of the whole problem. In wartime the
government is the market. It does not have to earn the means to buy. It takes it
through taxation and loans. In peace time the wants of millions of consumers make
the market. How can they earn the means to buy? By finding employment and thus

doing in one of a myriad forms services to the community. How then can each individual in the community be put in a position to perform such services for the com-

munity as will in return entitle him to such a share in its productive output as
will give him a good living? For, I repeat no general solution is to be found
through charity either for persons or nations. Both persons and nations must pay

and be enabled to pay their way. Take for instance the standard of living of your

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Southern population which is lower than that in the North and should be raised.
The problem then is, how can each consumer in the South be enabled to perform

services to the community sufficiently valuable to entitle him to increase his
purchases and in this way to help keep your productive capacity employed? Obviously,

that is a many-sided question, into which I cannot enter here. It faces one indeed
with every problem which plagued us before the war. But its basis is the consumer.
Must the problem be solved by the state, as in Russia, BO to speak, knocking together the heads of each citizen as consumer and producer - in other words deciding

what the consumer wants and then by state enterprise doing its utmost to see that
that amount is produced and distributed - or can we solve the puzzle through private
enterprise, more like bees in a beehive?

A similar question arises in the external sphere. How can a nation with
productive power on the one hand and wants which can only be fulfilled from abroad

on the other, be enabled to buy what it wants by selling to other nations what they
want and what it can produce more efficiently and more easily than they can? We all

know that the great benefits of international trade could be greatly increased, if
we could only devise the framework, in which such trade could prosper. Again this

is not a matter of charity but, as in the case of the individual, is to be solved by
the exchange of goods and services, at bottom indeed by bilateral or multilateral

barter. The exporting country cannot give away its exports for nothing; at least
it will not do 80 for long. On the other hand, no upstanding country will accept
charity. In other words, the exporting country cannot be paid except by imports.

It may decide indeed it will balance its position by importing gold, or of course it
may lend its exports over a long period. But I would point out, and this I believe
to be important, that its power to lend will again depend ultimately on its willing
ness to import. For only by importing can it receive interest and redemption pay-

ments, and if it does not receive these it will not go on lending. England, for
instance, could lend great sume over many years in the 19th and 20th centuries

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because she was also a great importer.

While there is no single or easy solution for these great problems, it 18
not difficult to indicate certain conditions without which they cannot be solved.

The first condition is, of course, that the world must be really at peace
and that confidence in the long term outlook should be restored. It is wonderful
how soon, given a chance, optimism returns to the enterprising. Nevertheless,
political insecurity undermines confidence and subjects enterprise to risks which
are incalculable and beyond the capacity of any but governments to bear.

The second condition is that something like internal stability, whether of
production, employment, prices, relation between supply and demand, and other eco-

nomic conditions, shall be maintained in the great industrial and trading countries
and particularly, because of its overwhelming economic strength, in the United
States.

The third and of course very closely related to the second is that stability of exchanges among these nations, in other words equilibrium in the balance of
payments as a whole, including loans, shall also be maintained.

Stability and equilibrium, whether internal or external, in this world of
endless, continuous, daily, and hourly change are of course relative terms. Never-

theless the immensely injurious effects of their opposites in the form of inflation
and, perhaps still worse, deflation, booms and slumps, trade cycles, fluctuating
exchanges and 80 on, are obvious to every one. It is difficult to see at any given
moment whether all the most important economic factors are in equilibrium. I remember for instance that good judges thought that you were set on a permanent upward

path in 1929. But in practice somehow in a very rapidly ascending scale of prosper-

ity something gets out of step. It is the getting out of step which matters though

it may be very difficult to define. If all the keys of the piano are in tune, then
the tune can be played. But if even one of the keys goes wrong, then harmony is lost
and confusion begins to reign.

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Now if one takes first the question of internal stability in the great
industrial countries after the war it is obvious that the greatest difficulties will
face all of us. This war, still more than the last, though that was bad enough, will
leave the waves of the world's economic ocean in the form of all sorts of

disequilibria very high and they will only gradually subside. In your country and
mine, for instance, we shall have a very large purchasing power in relation to the

level of controlled prices and at first a very intense demand. If all the gates are

opened, and all controls lifted, there is likely to be a great inflationary rise of
prices at once and a temporary boom. Ae demand diminishes, that boom may collapse

with disastrous results. And yet, with millions of men and women seeking new work,
a slowly diminishing control and a more moderate expansion may be exceedingly diffi-

cult politically to enforce, particularly since it will be imperative that the
demobilized population shall be quickly absorbed. Take again agricultural production. In order to feed hungry occupied nations in the next few years we must necessarily step up agricultural production everywhere in reach. But when peace returns
these hungry nations will at once set about with zeal producing once more the normal

amount of their own foodstuffs. Thus scarcity might in certain directions before

long turn into superfluity. There are indeed obviously possibilities of great ups
and downe in the field of primary products, particularly foodstuffs, which will
require carefully guarding against. Take again the fact that many nations have been
upheld by lend-lease and mutual's aid in order that they shall put forward their ut-

most efforts as belligerents. Immediately to adjust themselves 80 that they can
meet out of their own exports, which may have dwindled to practically nothing, their
absolutely minimum import needs to maintain their livelihood will be impossible.

They must necessarily be given a little time to turn round, if chaos is to be
avoided. If a man has suffered from a high, prolonged, and exhausting fever, he
cannot be expected to get out of his bed and pursue his normal avocations the moment
his temperature drops to normal.

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6.

These and many others will be the abnormal problems arising out of the war
and are altogether apart from the longer term aim which we must also keep before us

of minimizing what one may call the normal evil of the trade cycle.

That comparative stability should be maintained internally in each country,
and severe inflation or deflation avoided, is the most fundamental need of all.
Owing to the preponderant influence of your great country on the rest of the world,
this is more important here than anywhere else and can only be secured by the wise

control of events by the government, by the banking system, and by industry. No
international monetary schemes, such as those I refer to later on, can be success
ful, except as a part of a much larger policy designed as a whole to secure normal

stability in the most important countries. For since they aim by means of stabilizing exchanges in relation to one another in binding nations together, just as the
gold standard did, 80 the economic changes in one nation will be transmitted to all
the rest, and particularly since you are so much the most powerful nation economical
ly your ups and downs will affect us all. Therefore we are deeply concerned both

with your stability and your prosperity. On the other hand, by the aid they give
towards stable exchanges and by facilitating international trade, such plane will
make other obstacles in the way of expansion and full employment 80 much the easier
to overcome.

It is upon this problem of the world's external monetary arrangements that

I wish now to say a few words. It is, of course, as a contribution towards going
some way to solving it that the British, American, and Canadian governments have

recently published certain plans for a clearing union, a stabilization fund and the

like. As an international banker they naturally have the greatest interest for me,
and I am sure they must have for this audience. I must make it clear, however, that
officially I have had and have no concern whatever with them. The following remarks

therefore are of a wholly personal character. Nor do I intend to discuss or compare

any of their complex details. My object is to set out certain general consideratione which must be held in mind in any examination of them.

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7.

Even supposing the first wholly abnormal post-war period is safely past,
we shall face a world in which few countries have many or any liquid reserves representing an internationally acceptable means of payment. With its immense gold stock

and strong creditor position the United States will of course represent the one

country of impregnable liquidity. There will be, no doubt, other creditor countries
also. There will be others which produce gold and which will have, therefore, to
that extent an acceptable international means of payment, 80 long as the U.S. Treasury continues to buy gold at a fixed price. There may be others, such as some occu-

pied countries, which will also have retained reserves of gold or dollars. But
speaking generally, the great bulk of countries, including the United Kingdom, will
have quite insufficient international reserves for any freedom of action. How
different for instance is the position of the United Kingdom in this respect from
that which it held when I first went into the city some 35 years ago. Then we were
lending the world about £200 millions, or say $800 millions a year. We had very

great liquid foreign assets. The Bank of England had only to raise the rate of
interest and gold flowed in from all the world. Ae has 80 often been said, the
world's standard was then a sterling standard. But two great wars have wholly
changed the picture. Our liquid foreign assets are gone; our indebtedness to
foreign countries or countries within the British Commonwealth grows daily at a
great pace. Nevertheless, our need for imports on a very large scale and conse-

quently our necessity to export and for some liquid international capital to finance
this great foreign trade have all grown also. Other countries in their degree are
in the same position.

How then is prosperous international trade to develop? How are we to get
that expanding world economy, that full employment on which all public men and

economists rightly lay such stress? How, for instance, are the world-acclaimed

resolutions of the International Food Conferences to be carried out if the nations
which need ampler food importe cannot buy them in sufficient amounts because their

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exports are not great enough and because the nations which produce surplus supplies

of food cannot in their turn sell them?
A truly flourishing international trade requires stable exchanges; stable
exchanges require that each nation shall have sufficient liquid reserves to protect

its position through seasonal or cyclical fluctuations. Moreover, international
trade will flourish best under conditions of freedom and non-discrimination. Every
one agrees that multilateral trade is immensely to be preferred to bilateral clearing arrangements, bilateral compensation, multiple currency devices, blocked accounts
and 80 on. But nations do not adopt and develop these methods because they like them
or because they want to damage other nations, but because they feel forced to adopt
them when they have no reserves, no means left both to maintain their exchanges and
yet develop their foreign trade except by methods which in one way or another
approximate to barter. These methods may be barbarous compared to a truly international system. I am convinced they are. But, unless we can develop some workable

international system, they may be inevitable.

I take it, therefore, that all the different plans put forward for an
international clearing union or for stabilization have as their first and primary
aim to provide all the nations, members of such schemes, with liquid reserves, i.e.,

with sufficient international purchasing power.
Such reserves, on which they can come and go, are necessary for various

reasons. In the first place, international buying and selling is never absolutely
balanced. Some nations have deficits, others surpluses. Temporary deficits which
liquidate themselves are financed by the mechanism of short term banking credits.

On the other hand, when the deficit is more permanent, for example, where it is due
to the requirements of a rapidly developing country, long term loans from the surplus countries are necessary. A good example is the case of your own country, into
which England, when she was the greatest surplus country, poured loans and investment
money during the 19th century, and which helped to enable you to turn yourselves

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from a debtor to a creditor country.

But there is a third set of causes which an economist writer in the
"London Times" recently defined as the most vital problem of our age. We all talk
of an expanding economy, of full employment, and BO forth. But how do we secure
them? Suppose that a highly developed country, aiming at these desirable ends,

were to maintain a high level of activity within its own borders. Its imports, as
all experience shows, would as a direct consequence greatly increase to the benefit,

of course, of the exporting countries. But unless the rest of the world were to
achieve a similar state of activity and to buy the importing country's exports to
an equivalent degree, the result would be that it would face a deficit. Under the
old gold standard it would have lost gold and by this method either other countries
would have been encouraged to increase their activity or the country losing gold

would have had to restrict its activity. The gold standard in fact forcibly kept
them in step. But the masses who are thrown out of employment by such an automatic

system, which secures, as it does, equilibrium by at any rate temporary restriction,
deflation, poverty and unemployment, demand in these days that their rulers shall

examine whether the intelligence of mankind is not sufficient to secure that nations
who wish both to buy and sell much more than they are doing cannot find some other

and more rational means of maintaining equilibrium. If this is to be possible,
expansionist countries must be able to rely on some international system of credit

which will allow also of expansion in other countries 80 that the increase in their
importe from the world will be quickly balanced by the increase of their exports to
the world, and BO that meanwhile they will possess liquid reserves with which their
imports can be for the time being financed.

This is, I repeat, presumably, the main object which the British,
American, and Canadian schemes all have in mind. The provision of liquid reserves

for all member countries will enable them at least to start off with some confidence. What happens in the longer run depends on the capacity of each member

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country to conduct its affairs with prudence and also with an eye to its duties as
a good neighbor.

For it must be recognized that these plane only provide a starting point.
If nothing like equilibrium between countries can be achieved and if, even after
taking into account international lending, some countries remain permanently in

debit and others similarly, of course, permanently in credit, then there is no
reason why the creditor country or countries should not absorb all the international
reserves provided by these plans just as you have over a series of years absorbed

$25,000 millions of gold, and thus bring them to an end.
In the words of the British plan, "Measures would be necessary to prevent

the piling up of credit or debit balances without limit and the system would have

failed in the long run if it did not possess sufficient capacity for self-equilibrium to secure this."

The British plan proposes much larger and more generous international

reserves than do the other too. It proposes the creation of an international currency to be called bancor and for quotas of bancor to be distributed to each member
nation by the Union. Thus by this means what are called impersonal and anonymous
credits are provided. There is, therefore, no immediate new indebtedness as between
one member state and another, only potential indebtedness. And indeed member coun-

tries are never indebted as between one another, but are in debit or in credit to
the Clearing Union as a whole. In other words, all debits and credits are pooled.
A country which is at any one moment owed by all countries together an amount equal

to what it owes all other countries is "out." It will be. in debit to some countries
and in credit with others, but if both sides of the ledger of the Clearing Union
balance it has nothing to pay or to receive. On the other hand, a country which is
in debit as a whole is in debit only to the Clearing Union, and a country which is

in credit as a whole looks only to the assets of the Union as its security. Those
assets will of course be in the main the I.O.U.'s of the countries in debit as a

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whole. In other words, the plan is based on a real pooling principle. I believe
myself, if we are to have, as we all wish to have, multilateral trade, this pooling
principle is fundamental. It rests on the assumption that equilibrium, and not
simply current account equilibrium, but equilibrium as a whole, including international lending, is the target, and that for one country to have year in and year
out a net surplus on its international transactions as a whole to obtain payment for
which it feels bound to press for the permanent transfer to it of other countries'

liquid international reserves, is as undesirable as it is for another country to
have a permanent deficit; in fact, that the deficit is merely the shadow of the
surplus and vice versa. Under the pooling principle it would be immaterial with
which country another country traded. If one's exports, whether of goods, services,
or capital, with all the world balanced one's purchases, one would have accomplished

one's duty. If, on the other hand, a country either ran extravagantly into an
unnecessary debit which it had no means of ever meeting or meeting only by severe

methods of restriction, or, to take the opposite case, if a country sold far more
to the world than it bought from the world and insisted on payment by means of

forcing restriction and deflation on others, then both would be acting in an antisocial manner. Thus to provide countries with liquid international reserves is only

half the battle. It is necessary that both surplus countries and deficit countries
should, so to speak, observe the rules of the game and keep within bounds both on

the credit and debit sides. This of course is far easier said then done. But these

plans do not create or add to the difficulties of this problem. It will exist in
any case and must face us whatever we do.

Perhaps one may define the underlying idea as being that deficits are not
80 much a sign, so to speak, of wrong doing, and surpluses a virtue, as they are
evidence of different stages of development, or at this moment of time, of temporary

poverty due to war sacrifices. It is true, of course, that countries like individuals can try to live beyond their means. As the British plan says, "If indeed a

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country lacks the productive capacity to maintain its standard of life, then a

reduction in the standard is not avoidable." But what is aimed at in all these
schemes is not only that the poorer countries, while being helped, should be

persuaded to live within their means but that the surpluses of the creditor countries should not be 80 used as to deprive the weaker countries of their liquid international resources but rather be 80 used as to render the whole world, including the
stronger countries themselves, more prosperous. Whether any of the plans fully

achieve that object only experience can show. What is clear is that the problem is
twofold, not one simply of equilibrium on current account, including visible and
invisible exports and imports, but 18 inclusive of the whole question of international lending and the use of surpluses for such long term lending. Both the
American and British plane recognize this fact and indicate that further proposals
will be made in this respect.
The British plan, being more generous in the provision of the means of
international payment, has aroused the criticism that it will impose an undue burden

on a creditor country, of which the United States is, of course, likely to be much
the largest, by enabling debtor countries in effect to draw upon it too largely.
It is argued that the possession of these reserves by the debtor countries might
tend towards the United States surplue on its balance of payments becoming too great

and that the country would end up not only with too great stocks of gold but too
great reserves of the new international currency also.
But of course there is no compulsion on the United States or any other

creditor country to have a bigger surplus with the British scheme than without it.

Its surplue depends on its own policy. It is true that the international reserves
to be provided enable the rest of the world to buy more American and more other

exports. But no country need sell unless it suits it to do 80. Or, if it does and

if it finds a relatively sufficient increase in imports too difficult, it can balance its exports by means of long term loans, as England did for 80 many decades.

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The difficulties that American critica feel arise no doubt largely from
the inherent conditions of the American situation. The United States is indeed too
powerful a country economically to be always sure even with the best will in the

world of being able to be a good neighbor in the sense of being able to prevent its
ups and downs seriously affecting emaller countries. The American national income

is a large percentage in value of the national income, or national production of the
whole world. The United States 1e very largely self-sufficient. But American

industries, great and small, find it valuable to export on a large scale. On the
other hand, there is no such compulsion on the United States as there is on the

United Kingdom to import very largely in order to live. She has in the past balanced

her position in other ways, e.g. by travellers' expenditure, or by loans, and ultimately, and despite of other methods very advantegeously for the whole world, by

very great purchases of gold. Now it is proposed that she should balance it also by

accepting, to the extent that she wishes to have a net surplus, an international
token currency. But it should be held in mind that the amount of that surplus and,
therefore, the holdings of such currency are within her own power to determine and

can always be disposed of by increased imports or loans, or other international
services.

We none of us can have our cake and eat it. England cannot get the imports she needs without exporting; the United States cannot export much more than

she imports in the way of goods or services unless she lends on long term credit or

imports gold, or accepts some other token of international indebtedness. If none of
these ways are acceptable, then exports cannot be paid for and must be diminished.

All attempts to collect what is uncollectable will merely bring about general
restriction and deflation.
Moreover, it must be remembered that unless the capital and labor of a

creditor country are already fully employed on internal production, and particularly
in times of depression, an increase of exports, even if it were to add to the

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creditor country's surplus in the books of the Clearing Union, would have important
advantages of its own. Such exports would in the first place have employed labor
and capital, which would not otherwise have been employed. But more than that,

through what economists call the multiplier, 1.e. the additional production, direct
and indirect, fostered by the expenditure of the wages of those employed in making
such increased exports, the cost of the gold received in payment for them would
probably be exceeded two or three times over by the increase in the national income.

This advantage which has accrued in the past in respect to exports for which, for
instance, you have taken in payment gold, would accrue equally 1f you were to take
in payment an international currency.

In general indeed it must, I submit, be a truism that any system which
tends to increase international trade everywhere and thus international prosperity

will redound to the benefit of creditor and debtor alike. We all get rich or poor
together. As a great creditor the United States can as an alternative to greater
imports make larger loans. But, speaking generally, I regard it as more important
to buy and sell than to borrow and lend. Of course there is room, when some natione

are far more developed than others, for the richer nations to make long term loans

to the poorer. (In parenthesis I may any that short term lending should be restricted to financing transactions which are in themselves short term). But such
long term lending has its own difficulties. Is it to be by the agency of government

or private banks? If the former, all sorts of political questions will come up; if
the latter, how far is the private investor prepared to take the risk?
Moreover, I consider certain limiting conditions should be observed in
long term lending:-

The first is that the borrowing country should see its way to make the
loan sufficiently productive to pay in normal circumstances interest and redemption,
and this in turn means that the lending country should buy sufficient imports from
somewhere to enable such payment to be made.

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The second is that the stream of lending should not be subject to too
great variations. Here again the decades of the twenties and thirties have a lesson
for us which most of you will remember well. If a borrowing country bases its whole
economy on a large golden flow of lending and the flow is suddenly stopped, then it

is inevitably thrown into diastrous confusion. Witness particularly the European
and South American countries after 1929.

Turning now back to the main question, I should like finally to ask what
is the alternative to some attempt to arrive at an international monetary agreement.
There have been suggestions that what is called a key-country approach would be

simple and more reasonable. By that, as I understand, is meant some stabilization

agreement limited perhaps to the dollar and the pound sterling. I think that 1e too
narrow a conception for present circumstances, though it would be better than a
mass of purely bilateral arrangements. Much more of the world is concerned than the

sterling area. A purely Anglo-American stabilization would leave out the great
continent of Europe, which without Russia contains 350 million people and which has

an international trade greater than that of Great Britain and the United States
together. That this great continent should be saved from the fate which overtook it
after the last war 1s perhaps the most important aim of post-war statesmanship. It
behooves all of us, I think, to refresh our minds upon the events which then took
place and upon the consequences of the chaos into which European countries were

thrown by uncontrolled currency inflation. I had an opportunity both at the Peace
Conference and in the years after, through the whole of the reparation and post-

reparation, of watching things from the inside. I personally do not hositate to say
that it was in that period that the seeds of the present conflict were BOWN. It
will, therefore, be of the highest importance that as soon as possible after peace
all these countries should be brought back into some orderly economic relations 88
between themselves and with the rest of the world. This necessity, however, leads

me to a further reflection. While I am all in favor of the principle of an inter-

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national monetary agreement being arrived at now, I am doubtful whether a plan

necessarily framed to suit more or less normal conditions will be able to bear the
whole burden of the entirely abnormal needs of the immediate post-war world. It 18

this period which may be the most difficult to provide for. But, supposing such
provision is made, it remains of the highest importance that thereafter the countries of Europe should share in the benefits and responsibilities of any international scheme. The world's peace depends more than anything else on Europe re-

turning 88 soon as may be to conditions in which stability, employment, and a
reasonable standard of subsistence make life tolerable. We must not force these
countries into bilateralism and blocked exchanges, still less with huge unemployment
and revolution. As an Englishman, I can judge of the pressures which may face these
countries from what I know of the conditions of my own country. Let me describe

them. To fill our stomache, to provide the essential raw materials for our home
industry, let alone our export industry, we must import on an immense scale. To
secure our imports by multilateral trade is what we aim at, and what we consider to
be a proper world-policy. That is no doubt why the British Government has elaborated a multilateral acheme. But failing such a plan, we must devise some other.
Though it would be a second best, I have no doubt we can secure what we must have by

other means. When there is a willing buyer and a willing seller, a transaction can
always be concluded. There are 45 million willing buyers in the United Kingdom,

and there are more than that number of willing sellers in the world of the goods
they want. Moreover, the 45 million buyers can certainly produce the goods which

the sellere want in turn, and which will enable them to get paid. It is not possible, therefore, when each party has the goods the other wants, that business should
not be done. We have to live, we have to employ our people, and we have to main-

tain, if we can, our standard of living. Barter and bilateralism are crude methods
and unworthy of the stage of civilization we have reached or thought we had reached.

We wish to cooperate with all and, above all, with your great country. But needs

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must when the devil drives, and the devile of food and raw materials needs,
scarcity, and unemployment will drive very hard. Our position no longer allowe us
the freedom of action we had 30 years ago when financially we were powerful, liquid,

and safe, and had plenty of room to turn round. Now we have to find the means to

live and to live within our means. I have no doubt we can do it, though we shall
have a hard struggle. In the war we have been vastly helped by your lease-lend and
by Canadian mutual aid. Only 80 could we make our total war effort, since we have

thrown all our normal means of international livelihood into the common war pot.
Nor shell we in consequence, when the bugles blow for peace, immediately be able to

pay our way. But I know that it is the determination of the British people to do so
as soon as ever possible. Both we and the rest of the world would be the better

able to do that if we could all devise some means, fair to all, by which international trade could be continuously expanded. One step, if only one, to that end
should be an attempt to elaborate a workable international monetary plan. No one

can be blind to the difficulties. But we should remember Robert Bruce and the
spider. We have to find our way out of this world of chaos and we can never do it
without trying.

To convince oneself that a great scheme of international cooperation of

this kind is feasible in the world, as it will be after the war, requires, no doubt,
on the part of governments and peoples an act of faith and a sustained magnanimity;
a certain greatness of mind. Such magnanimity is particularly demanded from the

American people, since the first aim of the plans we have been considering 1s to
assist the weaker and not the stronger, and the United States is by far the

strongest. No doubt the first natural reaction of human nature 18 that if the weak
are to be helped it must inevitably be at the expense of the strong. But that need
not be so. Let me repeat ad nauseam that we all grow prosperous together and poor

together. And unless an international plan of this kind is to the benefit of the

United States as well as the reat of the world it will fail. Its object is not to

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relieve debtor nations from paying their debts, but to enable them to pay in the
only possible way in which they can pay, namely, by an increase of their foreign

trade. Its object in addition 18 to facilitate employment in all countries by the
exchange of goods; and employment and an increase of living standards we must all

secure at our peril.

The United States might conceivably secure full employment for all its

people as a closed economy without any international trade at all. But that is not
your aim. You intend to have a great foreign trade and great exports. You can only
achieve this if other nations have a great foreign trade with you. You must buy
their goods as well as sell them yours. There is no other way of getting paid,
and this is true even if you make them in effect long term loans of goods. The
ultimate security for any evidence of international indebtedness, whether gold,
bancor, unitas, a short term credit or a long term bond, 18 that it can be converted

into real wealth, that is, into something which satisfies human wants. If the
creditor wants his money's worth, he must import. There is no other way. The
debtor cannot force the creditor to import. As long as he stands ready to export,
he has done all he can. Thus the real security that the creditor can obtain depends

on himself and not on the debtor. If the creditor 18 unable to import, then there
is nothing the rest of the world can do except in the end not to buy his exports.
I remember many years ago after the last war a very well known English

editor Mr. J. A. Spender, telling me that he was talking to an American business
friend about var debte. Mr. Spender said to him, "But which do you want? Do you
want our goods or our gold? You must have one or the other." His friend's answer
was, "We want neither. We want your money." Mr. Spender could only reply, "Do you

think it would help you if we sent over the Aquitanie full of British £1 paper
notes?" All of us have learned much since those days. Foreign commerce, we know,

is essentially the barter; if possible, the multilateral barter of goods. It is to
facilitate such barter without adding to the burden of any nation which is the grand

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object of all the chemes I have been discussing.
The American people are called upon by force of circumstances to play the
chief role in them. Having been fortunate enough to have spent years in your great
country and to have the very closest possible ties with it, I have learned to know

it well and I feel no doubt whatever that it will play its part with that bread use of
outlook and magnanimity of spirit which is the proper ornament of strength.