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ADDRESS OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE WASHINGTON, D. C. DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON April 5. 194$ In Reply Refer to PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL My dear Mr* Socles: In order to make adequate preparation for this country's effective participation in the solution of the vast and complicated problems of international relations which will confront us and the world after the final defeat of the forces of aggression, there have been created in the Department of State, by direction of the President, several committees in the inter-related fields of political and economic reconstruction and of general security. These committees are charged with the conduct of the necessary studies and with the preparation of recommendations to be submitted to the President* One of these committees is a Committee on Ppst-War Foreign Economic Policy. I take pleasure in inviting you to become a member of this Committee on Post-War Foreign Economic Policy* I hope that you will find it possible to undertake this important responsibility and to attend a meeting of the committee in my office at 11 o'clock a.m*, Friday, April 9, 1943* Sincerely yours, The Honorable Marriner Secies, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Building, Washington, D . C* April 7, 19U3dear Mr. Secretary: this is to acknowledge your letter of April 5 advising me* in confidence, of the creation in the Department of State, by direction of the President, of several committees in the interrelated fields of political and economic reconstruction and of general security, and inviting mo to become a member of the Committee on Post-War Foreign Economic Policy. 1 am glad to accept membership on this committee, and in accordance with your letter I shall attend the meeting of the coismittee to be held in your office at eleven o*clock on Friday morning, April 9* Sincerely yours, M, S, £ccies Honorable Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. APR. 61943