867N.01/12–645: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Winant )

10598. Dept today gave British Embassy following names of American members of Joint Committee of Inquiry on Palestine:61

  • Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson of the Fifth Circuit Court at Houston, Texas (American Chairman).
  • Frank Aydelotte, former President of Swarthmore College and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust and is a former Rhodes scholar.
  • Frank W. Buxton, editor of the Boston Herald.
  • James G. McDonald, Chairman of the Board, Foreign Policy Association 1919–33; High Commissioner of Refugees 1933–35; member editorial staff New York Times, 1936–38.
  • O. Max Gardner, former Governor of North Carolina, now practicing law in Washington.
  • William Phillips, formerly Under Secretary of State, Ambassador to Italy, personal representative of President with rank of Ambassador, New Delhi, and Delegate to London Naval Conference, 1935.

President will announce composition of Committee at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, December 8, simultaneously with an announcement by British Government. Inform FonOff.62

Byrnes
  1. In a statement released by the White House on December 10, President Truman made public the names of both the American and British members of the Committee; see Department of State Bulletin, December 16, 1945, p. 958. Subsequently, on December 18, President Truman announced the appointment of Bartley C. Crum, San Francisco lawyer, as a member of the Committee replacing O. Max Gardner.
  2. Because of the desire of Mr. Bevin to make the announcement in the House of Commons, the time for the simultaneous release of the announcement was changed to Monday, December 10, 1945, 10 a.m., e.s.t.