500.CC/8–144
Announcement to the Press by the Acting Secretary of State, August 1, 1944
The informal conversations on international organization for peace and security between representatives of this Government, representatives of the United Kingdom, and representatives of the Soviet Union will begin on the morning of August 14 at Dumbarton Oaks, After the conclusion of these conversations representatives of this Government, representatives of the United Kingdom and representatives of China will conduct similar conversations on the same subject at the same place.
As has already been indicated in prior announcements, the forthcoming conversations will be exploratory and informal in nature. Those who will from time to time participate with me in different phases of these conversations will be drawn from the following list of persons who have been assisting the Secretary of State on the subject of international organization and security:
- Isaiah Bowman,
- Benjamin V. Cohen,
- James Clement Dunn,
- Henry P. Fletcher,61
- Joseph C. Grew,
- Green H. Hackworth,
- Stanley K. Hornbeck,
- Breckinridge Long,
- Leo Pasvolsky,
- Edwin C. Wilson,
- Lieutenant General Stanley D. Embick,
- Major General George V. Strong,
- Major General Muir S. Fairchild,
- Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn,
- Vice Admiral Russell Willson,
- Rear Admiral Harold C. Train.
This Government will furnish whatever secretariat may be needed for the efficient conduct of the conversations.62
- Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for postwar problems and plans.↩
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The general adviser to the American Group was Harley A. Notter. The geographic advisers were: for Europe, Charles E. Bohlen, Chief of the Division of Eastern European Affairs, and John D. Hickerson, Chief of the Division of British Commonwealth Affairs; for the Far East, Joseph W. Ballantine, Deputy Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs; for the Near and Middle East, Paul H. Ailing, Deputy Director of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs, with Raymond A. Hare, recently First Secretary in the United Kingdom, as alternate; and for Latin America, John M. Cabot, Chief of the Division of Caribbean and Central American Affairs. Michael J. McDermott was Press Relations Officer. The executive secretariat was composed of the executive secretary, Alger Hiss, Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs (Wilson), and the assistant executive secretary, C. Easton Rothwell, Assistant Chief, Division of International Security and Organization.
There were no changes among the representatives during the conversations. The only change among the advisers to the American group was that Joseph E. Johnson, Division of American Republics Analysis and Liaison, succeeded Mr. Cabot for the Latin American area in the closing week of the Soviet phase of the conversations.
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