Roosevelt Papers
Press Release Issued Jointly by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Mackenzie King
For release at 8.00 p.m. August 22, 1943
The President and the Prime Minister of Canada announced today the creation of a Joint War Aid Committee, United States–Canada, to study problems that arise out of operations of the United States Lend-Lease and the Canadian Mutual Aid program, and where necessary to make recommendations concerning them to the proper authorities.
The initial membership of the Committee is as follows:
United States members:
- Chairman—J. H. Burns, Major General, Executive, Munitions Assignment[s] Board, U.S. and Great Britain.
- Vice-Chairman—William L. Batt, War Production Board.
- J. D. Hickerson, Assistant Chief, European Division, Department of State.
- Arthur B. Van Buskirk, Deputy Administrator in the Office of Lend-Lease Administration.
- Boykin C. Wright, Brigadier General, Director, International Aid Division, Army Service Forces.
Canadian members:
- Chairman—E. P. Taylor, Deputy Member, Canadian
Section, Combined Production and Resources Board.
- L. B. Pearson, Minister Counsellor, Canadian Legation.
- J. B. Carswell, Director General, Washington Office, Department of Munitions and Supply of Canada.
- Maurice Pope, Major General, Chairman, Canadian Joint Staff.