Editorial Note
On their return trip to the United States aboard the Queen Elizabeth (December 15–21), members of the Industrial Committee on Reparations met daily to prepare a draft of the Committee Report. A preliminary draft of the Report was submitted to Assistant Secretary of State Saltzman on December 27 for comment by the Department of State. The final Report of the Industrial Advisory Committee was transmitted to the Secretary of State in January 1949. The major [Page 852] recommendations of the Committee and subsequent documentation on reparations policy are scheduled for publication in a forthcoming volume of Foreign Relations covering the year 1949.