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SL 161-1439 ¢ In connection with this period of Department of the Interior employment, the records also indicated he served on various war boards and committees, including the War Resources Council, Energy Resources Committee of the National Resources Planning Board, Food Advisory Committee, Board of Legal Examiners, Committee on International Electric Power Matters, Civil Service Commission Committee on Legal Personnel, and the Committee to Study Organic Law of Puerto Rico. The ‘records failed to show the dates of appointment and termination for these various positions, and no further details regarding game appeared in the records, Personnel, this center, advised no additional records concerning the above indicated service could be located for FORTAS at this center. on Regarding FORTAS' indicated appointments: "Adviser to U. S. delegation to United Nations, San Francisco, 1945, London, 1946", the records indicated only that he intended accepting both appointments, however, no details regarding the appointments as United States Adviser to the United Nations during 1945 and 1946, or if he actually was employed as such, were shown in these records, and personnel, this center, advised that no additional records regarding this service could be located for FORTAS at this center. Nw. me, The records contained a copy of a letter dated April 25, 1940, from FORTAS, directed to JOHN J. COCHRAN, Chairman, House Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., which referenced a report of the Acting Comptroller General of the United States on the subject of "Schools and Training Courses in Government Departments, April 12, 1940". This letter stated in part as follows: "The report further states that my name appeared on the ‘alleged list of members of the American League for Peace and Democracy’ published by the ‘Committee Investigating Subversive Activities' (by this I assume the report intended to refer to the ‘Special Committee on Un-American Activities'). My name never appeared on this list, either in the Committee’s Official Report or in any newspaper. I have never been a member of the League; and I have never been connected with it in any way, directly or indirectly, nor has any member of my family.