Dear Gunnar Myrdal, First, much delayed, but heartfelt congratulations on your new and highly important position. Now, one may well hope that it will succeed to “channel” the suggestions from the USA in such a way that your organization is being equipped with an adequate mandate and means. I just read the summaries of your first report to the Commission in the evening news and am glad that you included a suggestion to establish a steady liaison with the Allied Control Council in Berlin. Hoping that you yourself come here one time is probably too much to ask. [...]