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Minutes of Meeting XXI of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, January 6, 19421

January 6, 1942
[Extracts]

Present

Board Members, Alternates, and Staff

  • Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Chairman of the Board, who presided
  • Mr. William S. Knudsen, Director General of the Office of Production Management (For discussion of Items 1 through 4, and 7 through 9)
  • Mr. Sidney Hillman, Associate Director General of the Office of Production Management (For discussion of Items 1 through 4, and 7 through 9)
  • Mr. Frank Knox, the Secretary of the Navy
  • Mr. Jesse H. Jones, the Secretary of Commerce (For discussion of Items 1 through 7)
  • Mr. Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War, acting for the Secretary of War (For discussion of Items 1 through 4, and 7 through 9)
  • Mr. Leon Henderson, Administrator of the Office of Price Administration
  • Mr. Isador Lubin, acting for Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, the Special Assistant to the President Supervising the Defense Aid Program
  • Mr. Herbert Emmerich, acting Executive Director
  • Mr. John Lord O’Brian, General Counsel
  • Mr. G. Lyle Belsley, acting Secretary

By Invitation

  • Mr. James V. Forrestal, Under Secretary of the Navy (For discussion of Items 1 through 4, and 7 through 9)
  • Mr. Ferdinand Eberstadt, Executive Director, Army and Navy Munitions Board (For discussion of Items 1 through 4, and 7 through 9)
  • Mr. Douglas MacKeachie, Director, Division of Purchases, Office of Production Management (For discussion of Item 1)

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4. International Control of Raw Materials

With reference to international control of raw materials (Minutes XVII, Item 2),2 Mr. Batt reported that at the request of the President, he is undertaking, in cooperation with representatives of the British and other governments, a review of the raw materials situation [Page 347] throughout the world. Meetings on this question have been held with the Right Honorable Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Supply for Great Britain, and a procedure for conducting this survey is now being established.3

  1. Civilian Production Administration, Bureau of Demobilization, Minutes of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, September 2, 1941, to January 15, 1942, Historical Reports on War Administration, War Production Board, Documentary Publication No. 3 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946).↩
  2. Ante, p. 10.↩
  3. No records of these meetings have been found.↩