867N.01/1–1746: Circular Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to Certain American Diplomatic and Consular Officers and Officers in Charge of Missions 3
The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, after completing its series of hearings in the United States,4 will proceed on January 18th to London, via the Queen Elizabeth, to conduct a series of hearings there from January 25 to 31. Although the itinerary from that point is tentative at this time, it is expected that the Committee will depart [Page 577] for the continent approximately February 1st to visit Germany and various other countries for a period of about 1 month. While on the continent the Committee will have Berlin as its headquarters and most of the travel in other countries will be by small sub-committees. It is planned that the Committee will open hearings in Cairo on March 1. After a short stay there it will proceed to Palestine, where it plans to remain for a period of about 1 month.5
As announced by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain on
November 13, 1945 the terms of reference of the Committee are as
follows:
The Committee consists of the following members: (American) Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, Chairman; Frank Aydelotte; Frank W. Buxton; Bartley C. Crum; James G. McDonald; William Phillips; (British) Sir John E. Singleton, Chairman; Wilfred P. Crick; Richard H. S. Crossman; Sir Frederick Leggett; Major Reginald E. Manningham-Buller; Lord Morrison.
[Here follow several paragraphs on staffing.]
The War Department has dispatched to the various Theater Commanders communications requesting that Army facilities be made available to the Committee. You are likewise requested to render to the Committee every assistance in the discharge of its responsibilities.
[Page 578]Funds have been allotted to the Committee by the Department of State and current expenditures will be met by the Administrative Officer. Any expenses incurred on behalf of the Committee by you will be reimbursed by him in cash or by check.
- Sent to 23 posts in Europe and the Near East.↩
- For statement issued by the White House on January 7, 1946, when the Committee began its hearings in Washington, see Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1946 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1962), p, 9. Information on the hearings held in Washington is contained in Department of State Bulletin, January 20, 1946, p. 74.↩
- For the actual itinerary of the Committee and its sub-committees, see Department of State, Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry: Report to the United States Government and His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 20, 1946 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1946), p. 52.↩