Welles, [Sumner]. Memorandum to Gen. [Edwin M.] Watson, marked "Urgent", to be conveyed immediately to President.
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1939-04-26
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
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President has instructed Director of Budget to submit plan for consolidation of Foreign Services along with other inter-departmental plans on May 3; under provisions of Reorganization Act actual reclassification of Foreign Service officers of Commerce and Agriculture transferred to State cannot be effected until following fiscal year - after July 1, 1940; if plan for consolidation is sent to Congress on May 1, consolidation can be effected in fiscal year beginning July 1, 1939; President may wish to change his instructions.
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Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.