'The planning of UN can be traced to the 'secret steering committee' established by Secretary [of State Cordell] Hull in January 1943. All of the members of this secret committee, with the exception of Hull, a Tennessee politician, were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. They saw Hull regularly to plan, select, and guide the labors of the [State] Department's Advisory Committee. It was, in effect, the coordinating agency for all the State Department's postwar planning. '
-- Professors Laurence H. Shoup and William Minter, writing in their study of the CFR, Imperial Brain Trust: The CFR and United States Foreign Policy. (Monthly Review Press, 1977)."
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