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Department revealed no record of Lattimore's euployment other than that he was engaged for three days in October, l9l9 as a consultant on Far Eastern Affairs on a per diem basis at a rate of $6.oo por day. The -New York Times of August 6, l949, reported that the. Secretary of State had appointed a three-man comittee to review the situation in China and Central Asia. This comnittee included Dr. Philip of the Rockefeller Foundation; and Dr. Everett Case, President of Colgate University. On August 18, l949, Dr. Jessup as *Ambassador at Large," wrote Lattimore and requested that he furnish the Advisory Comnittee with a summary of his views on the objective of the United States noliei.s and methods to bo cnployed in the Far East. Francis H. Russell, Director of the Office of Public Affairs. of the State Departaent, reported that Lattimore had appeared as a lecturer on the Department's Orientation Program fer Foreign Service anployee. The *B-ltinore Sun" of June 9, l9l9, reported that Johns. Hopkins University had been awarded $75,o0o to carry out studies on "Inner Asia Frontiers" under a cooperative project sponsored by the Foreign Service Institnte of the State Department, Johns Hopkins University, and the Anerican Council of Learned Societies. 8, l95o, reported that Lattimore has been hired by the Bconomic Affairs Divisicn of the United Nations on a fixed tern appointment for one month. He departed from New York for Kabul, Afghanistan on March 6, 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 nert summer. Lattimore is accompanied by Harold E. Caustin, Deputy Director of the United Nations Economic Stability and Development Division and a Mr. Walter, a Belgian. representative of the United Nations.. 2