NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL, INC.

MERWIN K. HART Formerly, NEW YORK STATE ECONOMIC COUNCIL, INC. SIBYLLA SCHILLING
PRESIDENT ASSISTANT SECRETARY

ARCHIBALD EWING STEVENSON 350 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK MRS, ALICE 8. WRIGHT

VICE PRESIDENT 4 ASSISTANT TREASURER

THOMAS M. PETERS
SECRETARY LAckawanna 4-1665

DEAN CLARK

TREASURER June 4, 1943

A. MARGARET SCHMID
FIELD SECRETARY

Prof. Williem Starr Myers,
104 Bayard Road,
Prineséton, N. J.

Dear Prof. Myers:

The organization meeting of the Board of Directors, elected at yesterday's
meeting of Members, of the National Economic Council, will, by decision of the
Executive Committee, be held Monday and Tuesday, June 28th and 29th in the City
of Chicago. Chicago was selected as being the most likely central point.

This meeting will be the most important the Economic Council Board has
ever held, A program of work for the ensuing year will be adopted. In addition
to this, the Board will undertake to draw up a statement with respect to domestic
conditions in the United States today, as bearing on the private citizen and
his rights, including private enterprise. It is likely that this statement

will be widely circulated.

In addition to the members of the Board, the officers will invite a num-
per of distinguished men, not members of the Board, to mest with us. We shall
be glad of the suggestion of each member of the Board with respect to any person

thought to be particularly desirable as a guest; and the Executive Committee
will, in the light of the genoral purposes of the meeting itself, give careful
consideration to any names suggested.

Rooms have been tentatively arranged for at the Palmer House for those
who will attend, together with a suitable room for the various sessions of the

Board.

We urge you to arrange, if possible to attend this meeting. We ask you
to make your own railroad reservations, both going and coming, and to do it
early. If you will notify us as promptly as possible whether you can attend,
we will complete arrangements for the hotel accommodations.

It is certain that this meeting will be of importance to our work. It
is possible that it may be of considerable importance to the country as a whole.
Just at this time something needs to be said which will emphasize that the liber-
ties of the American people have been all but lost and that these liberties need
to be restated and regained ~ not only as an aid in the postwar world, but to in-
sure that degree of unity and solidarity among the American people that is so
necessary to the winning of the war itself.

I hope you will let us hear from you promptly.

Very sincerely yours,

Khons

Merwin K. Hart, President