I have appointed a Committee--Skinner, the Consul-General, Lieut.-Commander McCrary of our Navy, Kent of the Bankers Trust Company, New York, and one other man yet to be chosen--to advise, after investigation, about every proposed expenditure.

Anderson has been at work all day to-day drawing up proper forms, etc., to fit the Department's very excellent instructions.

I have the feeling that more of that money may be wisely spent in helping to get people off the continent (except in France, where they seem admirably to be managing it, under Herrick) than is immediately needed in England.

All this merely to show you the diversity and multiplicity of the job.
I am having a card catalogue, each containing a sort of who's who, of all Americans in Europe of whom we hear.

This will be ready by the time the _Tennessee_[62] comes.