Colonel House to Woodrow Wilson

Army.
General Bliss. General Pershing.

Navy.
Admiral Benson and another.

Finance. (Treasury Department)
Benjamin Strong, Leffingwell, Albert Strauss.Labor.Samuel Gompers and another.

Editorial Director.
# Frank Cobb.

Commerce.(War Trade Board.)
Vance McCormick. Clarence Woolley.

Raw Materials.
B. M. Baruch and another.(Summers)

Food.
Herbert Hoover and another.

Merchant Shipping.
Hurley and another (Ask Benson) Whipple.

Fuel.Garfield and another.

Aviation.
Ryan and another.

Alien Property.
Mitchell Palmer. Bradley Palmer.

Railroad Transportation.
Walker Hines. A. H. Smith (Consult McAdoo.)

Wire Communications.
Walter Rogers. Chas. H. Dennis (Chicago Daily News)

Peace Inquiry.
Mezes, Miller, Bowman, etc. etc.

# It seems to me that it will be absolutely
necessary to have a man of the dimensions of Cobb to interpret to the newspaper people the policies you stand for. It is a difficult and delicate task. The men I have suggested for Wire Communications should be under Cobb's direction. Their work should be to interpret to the world, outside of America, what Cobb interprets to the newspaper fraternity at the Conference itself. Creel, I take it, you will want to continue at home in the same capacity as now for he will never be more needed than then.