From The New Frontier of War by William R. Kintner with Joseph Z. Kornfeder, 1962
Through the Institute of Pacific Relations, the Communists had a virtual monopoly over the available United States China experts, both in Washington and in China. Thus at the very source from which information was disseminated and policy was shaped, the Communists had their way. This was the psychological-political warfare machine that made Chiang Kai-shek a hero — and then a villain.After Japan's surrender, when the military phase of the communist conquest of China became uppermost, sabotage of United States military and economic aid to Nationalist China began. Congress authorized the aid, but orders, manipulated by Lauchlin Currie, Executive Assistant to the President, commanded the destruction of surplus stocks of arms and munitions located in the Pacific which might have kept Chiang's armies operating. Harry Dexter White, Under Secretary of Treasury, torpedoed the nationalist financial structure and economic aid. The "bring the boys home" campaign, alluded to previously, hastened the demobilization of our armed forces. It was sparked in the various theaters of operation by secret communist cells in the armed forces. In a matter of months, America's huge military machine in Asia, with the exception of forces in Japan, had disintegrated. Stalin's communist armies remained intact.
Chicago : Henry Regnery Company, 1962, page 198.
From Obstacles to Development by Lauchlin Currie, 1967
The more immediate goal is to put the vast army of unemployed to work by creating new jobs in fields other than agriculture. This, however, requires in turn energetic action to prevent the beginning of an increase in effective demand from being offset and nullified by sellers� inflation. A further step is to prevent the gross and growing inequality in incomes from finding expression in increased demand by the wealthy for the consumers� goods and services, and the capital goods to make such goods and services. While truly effective action to modify the pattern of income distribution is the result only of a long struggle, something more immediate to modify the pattern of consumption of the wealthy to prevent it from absorbing an excessive share of the growth in production can be done by invoking war time types of control of construction, investment and imports. As Professor Galbraith has said, in underdeveloped countries we need a new theory of consumption.2 It is much easier to prevent the wealthy from spending increased income than it is to prevent them from getting it or to take away an increased share of what they already have. Similarly it is easier (though not easy) to keep the remuneration of the strongly organized industrial workers from increasing in excess of the growth in per capita income than it is to ask them to accept a lower real wage.2 J. K. Galbraith, Lectures on Development, Harvard University Press, 1962, pp. 43-53.
East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1967, pages 23-4.
Comment : An 'action to prevent the beginning of an increase in effective demand [for workers?] from being offset and nullified by sellers� inflation' being proposed by this economist — I for one question, how effective demand (for workers? or for what?) can be offset by sellers' inflation.What 'sellers' inflation' has to do with employment I cannot (yet) see. What was meant by this 'sellers' inflation', anyway ?
Why 'modify the pattern of consumption of the wealthy to prevent it from absorbing an excessive share of the growth in production' ?
Does this 'economics' make sense to the reader ?
WPT.
From The Amerasia spy case, Harvey Klehr & Ronald Radosh, 1996
Several conspiracies occurred in the Amerasia case. Philip Jaffe and Joseph Bernstein were conspiring to commit espionage on behalf of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union with the tacit approval of Andrew Roth and Earl Browder. Philip Jaffe, Andrew Roth, Kate Mitchell, Mark Gayn,* Emmanuel Larsen, John Service, and Lauchlin Currie, among others, were conspiring to leak information, both classified and nonclassified, to undermine Patrick Hurley and Chiang Kai-shek. Lauchlin Currie, Ben Cohen, Tommy Corcoran, Tom Clark, James McBranery, James McInerney, Robert Hitchcock, and perhaps T. V. Soong were conspiring to prevent a full public airing of the facts of the case.Chapel Hill and London : University of North Carolina Press, 1996, page 218.
From The Mitrokhin Archive, C. Andrew and V. Mitrokhin, 1999
. . . On September 2, 1939, the day after the outbreak of war in Europe, Whittaker Chambers had told much of what he knew about Soviet espionage in the United States to Adolf Berle, Assistant Secretary of State and President Roosevelt�s adviser on internal security. Immediately afterwards, Berle drew up a memorandum for the President which listed Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White and the other leading Soviet agents for whom Chambers had acted as courier. One of those on the list was a leading presidential aide, Lauchlin Currie (mistranscribed by Berle as Lockwood Curry). Roosevelt, however, was not interested. He seems to have dismissed the whole idea of espionage rings within his administration as absurd. Equally remarkable, Berle simply pigeon-holed his own report. He did not even send a copy to the FBI until the Bureau requested it in 1943.3333. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, pp. 290-1. Weinstein, Perjury, pp. 292-3. KGB files cited by Weinstein and Vassiliev (The Haunted Wood, pp. 106, 149, 161-2) identify Lauchlin Currie as the agent PAGE referred to in a number of the VENONA decrypts. Mitrokhin�s notes do not mention Currie.
The SWORD and the SHIELD :
The MITROKHIN ARCHIVE and the secret history of the KGB
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin.
New York : Basic Books, 1999, page 107, note p. 593 )
Currie, Lauchlin Bernard. Title "Operation Colombia" : a national economic and social program, by Lauchlin Currie. Publisher Bogotà : [s.n.], 1961. Description 153 L. Language Spanish World Bank Title The basis of a development program for Colombia, Report of a mission headed by Lauchlin Currie and sponsored by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in collaboration with the Government of Colombia Publisher [Baltimore] Published for International Bank for Reconstruction and Development by the Johns Hopkins Press, 1950 [i.e. 1953] Description xxxviii, 642 p. maps (part col., 1 fold.) 25 cm Language English Subject Colombia -- Economic policy Colombia -- Economic conditions -- 1918- Format Book Library SRLF UCR 34 Details/Locations Author International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Title The basis of a development program for Colombia, report Publisher Baltimore Published for International Bank for Reconstruction and Development by the Johns Hopkins Press, 1950 [i.e. 1952] Description xxxviii, 642 p. maps (part col., 1 fold.) 25 cm. Language English Subject Colombia -- Economic policy. Colombia -- Economic conditions -- 1918- Format Book Library CSL 35 Details/Locations Author Misio�n de Administracio�n Pu�blica en Colombia. Title Reorganizacio�n de la rama ejecutiva del Gobierno de Colombia; informe de una misio�n dirigida por Lauchlin Currie. Publisher Bogota� : Impr. Nacional, 1952. Description xxxii, 448 p. diagrs. 25 cm. Language Spanish Subject Executive departments -- Colombia. Format Book Library UCLA 36 Details/Locations Author World Bank. Title Bases de un programa de fomento para Colombia. Informe de una misi'on dirigida por Lauchlin Currie y auspiciada por el Banco Internacional de Reconstrucci'on y Fomento en colaboraci'on con el Gobierno de Colombia. Publisher Bogota� : Banco de la Repu�blica, 1951. Description xxxvi, 713 p. maps (1 fold., part col.) diagrs. 25cm. Language Spanish Note "La revisio�n de esta segunda edicio�n ... fue� dirigida por el doctor Rafael Bernal Salamanca." Subject Colombia -- Economic policy. Colombia -- Economic conditions -- 1918- Format Book Government document Library SRLF UCI 37 Details/Locations Author World Bank. Title The basis of a development program for Colombia; report of a mission headed by Lauchlin Currie and sponsored by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in collaboration with the Government of Colombia. Publisher Washington, 1950. Description xxxviii, 642 p. maps (part col., 1 fold.) 25 cm. Language English Note "IBRD special publication. Sales number: IBRD. 1950.2." Subject Colombia -- Economic policy. Colombia -- Economic conditions -- 1918- Format Book Library UCD SRLF UCLA UCB 38 Details/Locations Author World Bank. Title The basis of a development program for Columbia; report of a mission headed by Lauchlin Currie and sponsored by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in collaboration with the Government of Columbia. [The summary] Publisher Washington, 1950. Description xv, 76 p. maps. 22 cm. Language English Note "IBRD special publication. Sales number: IBRD. 1950.1." Subject Colombia -- Economic policy. Colombia -- Economic conditions -- 1918- Format Book Library UCB 39 Details/Locations Author World Bank. Title Bases de un programa de fomento para Colombia. Informe de una misio�n dirigida por Lauchlin Currie y auspiciada por el Banco Internacional de Reconstruccio�n y Fomento en colaboracio�n con el Gobierno de Colombia. Resumen del Informe. [Traduccio�n bajo la direccio�n del Dr, Jaime F. Co�rdoba] Publisher Bogota� : Banco de la Repu�blica, 1950. Description 117 p. maps (1 fold., part col.) diagrs. 25cm. Language Spanish Subject Colombia -- Economic policy. Colombia -- Economic conditions -- 1918- Format Book Library SRLF 40 Details/Locations Author Currie, Lauchlin Bernard. Title Some theoretical and practical implications of J. M. Keynes' general theory. Publisher 1938. Language English Note In National industrial conference board. The economic doctrines of John Maynard Keynes. [c1938] p.15-27 Format Book United States. National Resources Committee. Industrial committee. Title The federal chart book; prepared by the staffs of the Central statistical board and National resources committee, January, 1938, under the direction of the Industrial committee of the National resources committee. Publisher [Washington?, 1938?] Description 143 p. incl. diagrs. Language English Subject United States -- Economic conditions -- Statistics. United States -- Social conditions -- Statistics. Format Book Government document Library SRLF UCB 42 Details/Locations Author Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester), 1886-1949. Title A critical analysis of the book by Lauchlin Currie, Ph.D., "The supply and control of money in the United States"; an address, before the New York chapter of the American statistical association. Publisher [n.p.] [1935] Description 32 p. Language English Format Book Library UCB 43 Details/Locations Author Currie, Lauchlin Bernard. Title The supply and control of money in the United States, by Lauchlin Currie. Publisher Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1935. Description 3 p. l., ix-xviii, 199 p. diagrs.(1 fold.) 23 cm. Series Harvard economic studies.vol.XLVII Language English Currie, Lauchlin Bernard. Title The supply and control of money in the United States, Publisher Cambridge, Harvard university press, 1934. Description xvi, 199 p. diagrs. 23 cm. Series Harvard economic studies. vol.XLVII Language English Subject Credit -- United States.