1 Address before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pittsburgh, Dec. 31,1934.

2 Act approved June 12, 1934. This Act was in the form of an amendment to the Tariff Act of 1930.

3 This committee was first constituted by a Presidential letter dated Nov. 11, 1933, and later by Executive Order No. 6656, March 27, 1934. As a former legal adviser of the Siamese Government, Mr. Sayre has had wide experience in treaty negotiation. The other members of the Executive Committee from the State Department are Economic Adviser Herbert Feis, and Mr. Henry F. Grady, Chief of the Trade Agreement Section. From the Treasury, George C. Haas; from Commerce, Assistant Secretary John Dickinson, Mr. Claudius F. Murchison, Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; from Agriculture, Under Secretary Rexford G. Tugwell, Mr. Leslie A. Wheeler, in charge of the Bureau of Foreign Agriculture Service; Agriculture Adjustment Administration, Mr. L. R. Edminster; N.R.A., Mr. H. B. Gresham; Tariff Commission, Chairman Robert L. O'Brien, Mr. Oscar B. Ryder; Special Advisor to the President on Foreign Trade, Mr. George N. Peek.

4 Executive Order No. 6750, June 27, 1934

5 Grady, Dr. Henry Francis, Professor of International Trade and Dean of College of Commerce, University of California, 1928-34. In addition to holding several other academic positions, he was special expert of the United States Shipping Board, 1918-19; United States trade commissioner in Europe to report on post-war financial conditions, 1919-20; acting commercial attache” at London, August 1919-February 1920, and at The Hague, April-July 1920; and acting chief of Division of Research, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1921.