17. Editorial Note
The Committee on World Economic Practices submitted its report, dated January 22, 1959, with a covering letter of the same date from Committee chairman Harold Boeschenstein to the President. A copy is in Eisenhower Library, CFEP Chairman Records, Staff Series, Committee on World Economic Practices. The report was made public on March 2; the text of the introduction is printed in American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1959, pages 1432–1449.
[Page 38]A memorandum of January 22 from the President to Secretary of State Dulles, Secretary of the Treasury Anderson, Secretary of Commerce Lewis L. Strauss, Under Secretary of State Dillon, International Cooperation Administration Director James H. Smith, Jr., and Assistant to the President Clarence B. Randall transmitted copies of the report and suggested that the addressees meet and let the President know their views on further steps to be taken, particularly with regard to a suggestion in Boeschenstein’s letter referring to the need for a tighter organization. (Eisenhower Library, Whitman File, Administration Series, Committee on World Economic Practices)
Randall called a meeting on March 4 to discuss the report, but no record of that meeting or any subsequent meeting has been found. (Memorandum from Cullen to Anderson, February 25; National Archives and Records Administration, RG 56, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, Robert B. Anderson, Subject Files, CFEP) An unsigned memorandum dated March 19, headed “Memorandum with Respect to the Fourteen Principal Recommendations of the Boeschenstein Report Expressing Consensus Arrived at by Those to Whom the President’s Memorandum of January 22 Was Addressed,” which listed 14 proposals with comments on each, is in Eisenhower Library, CFEP Chairman Records, Papers Series, Boeschenstein—14 Principal Recommendations.