Office of the Historian

Hull Papers

The Secretary of State to the President

Washington, December 22, 1941.

Memorandum for the President:

Supplementing my suggestions regarding a Supreme War Council,1 I give you this additional outline of organizations that might function under it:

  • Military Council
  • Naval Council
  • Aviation Council
  • Shipping Council
  • Economic Council
    • Food Committee
    • Munitions Committee
    • Raw Materials Committee
    • Petroleum Committee

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These auxiliary organizations were contemplated by the provisions in draft of the Supreme War Council wherein it was given responsibility for “coordinating distribution of available resources of all categories between various theatres of war”.2

C. H.
  1. See the draft agreement for a Supreme War Council, ante, p. 15.↩
  2. A notation on the source text states that Hull enclosed with this memorandum a copy of Savage’s memorandum of December 17, ante, p. 17.↩