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The '''Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations''' was a committee created by [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Cordell Hull]] on December 27, 1939, to examine "overseas war measures." It came about after [[Leo Pasvolsky]], Hull's assistant, wrote a memorandum urging such a committee concerned with "problems of peace and reconstruction" that would review fundamental principles of a "desirable world order" and was originally called the '''Committee on Problems of Peace and Reconstruction'''.<ref name="isbn9-0518-3885-9">{{cite book |author=Janssens, Rudolf V. A. |title="What Future for Japan?": U.S. Wartime Planning for the Postwar Era, 1942-1945|publisher=Rodopi |location=Amsterdam|year=1995|pages=10 |isbn=90-5183-885-9 }}</ref> It was one of many such committees that Hull would create, reorganize, rename or abolish.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rofe |first1=J. Simon |title=Pre-war Post-war Planning: The Phoney War, the Roosevelt Administration, and the Case of the Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations |journal=Diplomacy and Statecraft |date=2013 |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=254–79 |doi=10.1080/09592296.2012.679475 |s2cid=154881209 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2012.679475|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Weisbrode |first1=K. |title=The Master, the Maverick, and the Machine: Three Wartime Promoters of Peace |journal=Journal of Policy History |date=2009 |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=366–91 |doi=10.1017/S0898030609990133 |s2cid=153348174 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0898030609990133|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Successors included the [[Division of Special Research]] and the [[Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy]].

[[Under Secretary of State]] [[Sumner Welles]] was chairman of the fifteen member committee, which included two people from outside the [[United States Department of State|State Department]], [[Norman Davis (diplomat)|Norman Davis]] of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and [[George Rublee]] of the [[Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees]].<ref>Domhoff, p.119</ref> Pasvolsky headed the economics subcommittee. Other members from the State Department included Assistant Secretary [[Adolf A. Berle]], [[Herbert Feis]] and Political Advisor [[Stanley K. Hornbeck]].<ref name="isbn9-0518-3885-9"/> The committee came up with tentative ideas about a world organization, reviving some aspects of the [[League of Nations]] design. The sketch included an "Executive Council" and a "General Assembly" with different powers, but the League's principle of unanimity was to be replaced by some type of majority rule. The organization was envisioned to be based on nine regional blocs represented in the assembly, and with an independent police force. After the [[Phoney War|phony war]] in Europe became a real one, the committee became defunct in the summer of 1940.

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==References==
*{{cite book |author=Domhoff, G. William |title=The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America |url=https://archive.org/details/powerelitestateh0000domh |url-access=registration |publisher=Aldine de Gruyter|location=New York |year=1990|isbn=0-202-30373-X}}
*{{cite book |author=Hilderbrand, Robert C. |title=Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location=Chapel Hill |year=1990 |isbn=0-8078-1894-1 }}
*{{cite book |author=Schlesinger, Stephen E. |title=Act of Creation: the Founding of the United Nations: A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies, and Their Quest for a Peaceful World |publisher=Westview, Perseus Books Group |location=Cambridge, MA |year=2004 |pages=35–36 |isbn=0-8133-3275-3 }}
* Rofe, J Simon, "The Roosevelt Administration’s Essential Dilemma during the ‘Phony War’: Pre-war Postwar Planning and the case of the Advisory Committee on Problems in Foreign Relations". Diplomacy and Statecraft Vol.22:3 2012

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