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C “7d men, + \ Department revealed no record of Lattimore's employment other than that he was engaged for three days in October, 1949 as a consultant on Far Eastern Affairs on a per diem basis at a rate of $6.00 per day. The "New York Times" of august 6, 1949, reported that the | Secretary of State had appointed a three-man committee to review the situation in China and Central Asia. This committee included Dr. Philip Jessup of the United Nations; Raymond D. Fosdick, the former President of the Rockefeller Foundation; and Dr. Everett Case, President of Colgate University. On August 18, 1949, Dr. Jessup as *anbassador at Large,* wrote Lattimore and requested that he furnish the Advisory Committee with a summary of his views on the objective of the United quuiiiiiiin, methods to be employed in the Far Kast. Francis H. Russell, Director of the Office of Public Affairs of the State Department, reported that Lattimore had appeared as a lecturer on the — Orientation Program fer Foreign Service employees. The “Baltimore Sun" of June 9, 199, reported that Johns Hopkins University had been awarded $75,000 to carry ovt studies on “Inner Asia Frontiers" under a cooperative project sponsored by the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department, Johns Hopkins ; University, and the American Council of Learned Societies. < ; os Reh oo et een err ree, The Baltimore and New York Offices by teletype of March 6 and 8, 1950, reported that Lattimore has been hired by the Economic affairs Division of the United Nations on a fixed term appoinisent for one month. He departed from New York for Kabul, afghanistan on March 6, 1950, on a three-weeks trip to make a preliminary survey in afghanistan in connection with a United Nations Program to afford technical assistance ; to backward nations. This preliminary trip will eventually be followed by a more prolonged trip next sumer. Lattimore is accompanied by Harold & Caustin, Deputy Director of the United Nations Economic Stability and Development Division and a Mr. Walter, a Belgian representative of the United Nations. ‘ . jt re i a ll lle i le ee