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and on Allied shipping resources, to be worked out with the 
      British Ministry of War Transport; and (6) that an Estimate Bureau 
        shall be formed by Britain, headed by Leith-Ross.   
 
                                                            
 
 
The covering note from Eden indicates that a "Control 
      Bureau" for these post-war settlements is to be set up in 
                             Britain.                       
 
                                                            
 
 
We have been and are being consulted in respect of this; J. 
                 M. Keynes is talking to Acheson.           
 
      I do not comment on the merits. Much of the material and shipping 
      will be, derivatively, American. A plan to regionalism the world 
      (leaving us the Western  %Hemisphere) has already been turned down 
                          by our people.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
The obvious intent is partly humanitarian, but may be [still 
      more! to channelize the trade and economics of this area through 
                   London when the war is over.             
 
                                                            
 
 
A. A. Berle, Jr.