Union of Soviet Socialist Republics— M. S. Stepanov, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Trade (Chairman of the Delegation). P. A. Maletin, Deputy People's Commissar of Finance. N. F. Chechulin, Assistant Chairman of the State Bank. I. D. Zlobin, Chief, Monetary Division of the People's Commissariat of Finance. A. A, Arutiunian, Professor; Doctor of Economics; Expert-Consultant of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. A. P. Morozov, Member of the Collegium; Chief, Monetary Division of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Trade. United Kingdom— Lord Keynes (Chairman of the Delegation). Kobert H. Brand, United Kingdom Treasury Representative in Washington. Sir Wilfrid Eady, United Kingdom Treasury. Nigel Bruce Ronald, Foreign Office. Dennis H. Robertson, United Kingdom Treasury. Lionel Robbins, War Cabinet Offices. Redvers Opie, Counselor, British Embassy, Washington. United States of America— Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury (Chairman of the Delegation). Fred M. Vinson, Director, Office of Economic Stabilization (Vice Chairman of the Delegation) Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary ,of State. Edward E. Brown, President, First National Bank of Chicago. Leo T. Crowley, Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration.

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U.S.A. —continued Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman, Board of Governors ,of the Federal Reserve System. Mabel Newcomer, Professor of Economics, Vassar College. Brent Spence, House of Representatives; Chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency. Charles W. Tobey, United States Senate; Member, Committee on Banking and Currency. Robert F. Wagner, United States Senate; Chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency. Harry D. White, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury. Jesse P. Wolcott, House of Representatives; Member, Committee on Banking and Currency. Uruguay— Mario La Gamma Acevedo, Expert, Ministry of Finance (Chairman of the Delegation). Hugo Garcia, Financial Attache, Uruguayan Embassy, Washington. Venezuela — Rodolfo Rojas, Minister of the Treasury (Chairman of the Delegation). Alfonso Espinosa, President, Permanent Committee of Finance, Chamber of Deputies. Cristobal L. Mendoza, former Minister of the the Treasury; Legal Adviser to the Central Bank of Venezuela. •Tose Joaquin Gonzalez Gorrondona, President, Office of Import Control; Director, Central Bank of Venezuela. 1 'ugoslavia— Vladimir Rybar, Counselor of the Yugoslav Embassy, Washington (Chairman of the Delegation).

Who met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, on July 1, 11)44, under the Temporary Presidency of The Honourable Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Chairman of the Delegation of the United States of America. The Honourable Henrik de Kauffmann, Danish Minister at Washington, attended the Inaugural Plenary Session in response to an invitation of the Government of the United States to be present in a personal capacity. The Conference, on the proposal of its Committee on Credentials, extended a similar invitation for the remaining sessions of the Conference. The Economic, Financial, and Transit Department of the League of Nations, the International Labour Office, the United Nations Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration were each represented by one observer at the Inaugural Plenary Session. Their representation was in response to ail invitation of the Government of the United States, and either the observers or their alternates attended the subsequent sessions in accordance with the resolution presented by the Committee on Credentials and adopted by the Conference. The observers and their alternates are listed below:—

Economic, Financial, and Transit Department of the League of Nations — Alexander Loveday {Director). Ragnar Nurkse (Alternate). International Labour Office — Edward J. Phelan (Acting-Director). C. Wilfred Jenks, Legal Adviser and E. J. Riches, Acting Chief, Economic and Statistical Section (Alternates).

United Nations Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture— Edward Twentyman, Delegate from the United Kingdom. United. Nations Belief and Rehab Hit a:l ion Administration —• A. H. Feller, General Counsel; or Mieczyslaw Sokolowski, Financial Adviser.

Warren Kelchner, Chief of the Division of International Conferences, Department of State of the United States, was designated, with the approval of the President of the I'nited States, as Secretary-General of the Conference; Frank Coe, Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration of the United States, as Technical. Secretary-General; and Philip C. Jessup, Professor of International Law at Columbia University,' New York, Now York, as Assistant Secretary-General. The Honourable Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Chairman of the Delegation of the United States of America, was elected Permanent President of the Conference at the Inaugural Plenary Session held on July 1, 1944. M. S. Stepanov, the Chairman of the Delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Arthur de Souza Costa, the Chairman of the Delegation of Brazil; Camille Gutt, the Chairman of the Delegation of Belgium; and Leslie G. Melville, the Chairman of the Delegation of Australia, were elected Vice-Presidents of the Conference,

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