ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE OF COMMITTEE ON POST-WAR FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY
 
     
 
 
 1. The present interdepartmental Economic Subcommittees will be   
reorganized as a single Committee on Post-War Foreign Economic Policy.
 
     
 
 
 2. The Committee will set up, as necessary, continuing or ad hoc   
special committees on various topics, which will report to the Committee.
 
     
 
 
 3. The organization of each particular special committee and   
supervision over its work will be in the 'hands of Mr. Berle or Mr. Acheson   
as Assistant Secretaries of State in accordance with whether the subject   
matter taken up by' the special committee falls within the province of their   
respective departmental duties, or as may otherwise be agreed upon. The   
respective Assistant Secretaries will each select,, with approval of the   
Secretary or Under Secretary, the members inside or outside the Department   
who will compose such committees.
 
    
 
 
 4. A small departmental committee will be set up. It will be composed   
of the Under Secretary of State as Chairman, the Chairman of the Committee   
on Post-War Foreign Economic Policy, the two Assistant Secretaries of State,   
Dr. Feis, and Dr. Pasvolsky. It will be responsible for the work of the   
Committee and for coordinating the work of the special committees. It will   
report to the Secretary on the work of the Committee.
 
    
 
 
 5. After approval or modification by the Secretary of State and the   
President of the final conclusions presented by the Committee, the   
respective Assistant Secretaries of State (subject to the approval of   
the Secretary of State) will--with their developed knowledge of the subject   
in question and with the appropriate advice and assistance of the Adviser on   
International Economic Affairs, and of other officers of the Department when   
desired--be the negotiating medium in the preliminary negotiations between   
our Government and similar representatives of the other interested Governments.