740.00119 PW/5–2747
The Political Adviser in Japan (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State
No. 1067
The United States Political Adviser has the honor to enclose copy of General Order No. 9, May 21, 1947, issued by this Headquarters, creating a “Reparations Technical Advisory Committee”.4 The body was established as a consultative committee to assist the Supreme Commander in an advisory capacity in developing technical and administrative procedures for the orderly removal of reparations goods from Japan and in the settlement of conflicts between claimant countries arising over claims for particular facilities. The order was issued pursuant to instructions contained in interim directive No. 75 received in this Headquaters from the State, War and Navy Departments, through the Joint Chiefs of Staff,5 in War Department telegram No. War 95604, dated April 6 [4], 1947. Chairman of the newly created committee is Brigadier General W. K. Harrison, Jr., concurrently Chief of the Reparations Section of this Headquarters. In his absence or at his discretion, Mr. Norman J. Meiklejohn, Deputy Chief of Section, will serve as Committee Chairman.