interest of the work as the subordinate who asserts full in-  
dependence or operates or interferes in fields outside his  
proper authority. As an example, when you suggested last winter   
that I assist you in respect of the post-war economic field of  
policy, we first explored the field to discover what special  
subjects were involved. We then listed them, and in consultation   
with you, the Under Secretary and certain of your  
Assistant Secretaries, we undertook to allocate those topics  
among your Assistant Secretaries, as chairmen of groups and  
of subjects with which each seemed particularly fitted to  
deal (see Addenda A). We have revised only slightly those  
distributions of topics. We then created a special committee   
for each subject under the chairmanship of each such Assistant   
Secretary. Each such special committee was provided with a      
special chairman and a working inter-government and in some  
cases a non-governmental membership of experts. That work  
goes on in the special committees, and we believe will  
solve the problems which developed in the general field of   
post-war economics while the subjects were being explored in  
their preliminary stages.
 
     
 
 
The point I am trying to make is, that each Assistant  
Secretary was made responsible for specific subjects. Then  
authority, subject to the General Chairman and to the Secretary