User:Crosbiesmith/Whitney Shepardson

Whitney Shepardson was an American

Colgate

businessman + lawyer

Rhodes Scholar

Versailles

International Railways of Central America

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Committee to Defend America

War and Peace Studies

OSS SI

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unenviable task of travelling to Britain?

agriculturalist? GEB?

Carnegie Corporation? American Dilemma?

In 1922, the CFR devised “the study group method2” for conducting on-going research about subjects of special importance.

2The three initial study groups examined “Post-War Economic and Financial Problems” (Thomas Lamont, Wesley Mitchell, and John Foster Dulles were among the 10 members), Problems in Central Europe (chaired by Isaiah Bowman), and International Organization (Whitney Shepardson, Edwin Gay, Walter Lippmann, and Learned Hand were among the 8 members) (Archives of the Council on Foreign Relations, Box 38, Records of Study Groups).

Before the Ford Foundation:

"Donovan chose Shepardson as one of his three"

Lothian wrote Whitney Shepardson, an old friend and member of the Century Group

we find Whitney Shepardson bringing together the 'old boys' from the Stockholm OSS station in June of 1959

A two-man MO mission (code name Sioux) arrived in Stockholm in March 1944.