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 of activity, and also with the chairmen of the committees in the House and Senate that should coöperate with that Cabinet department.

To illustrate from the diagram, the Secretary of State is designated as "A" in the executive department, and the committees in the House and Senate on international affairs are designated as "A," the lines connecting them illustrating the relation that exists between the executive and legislative departments. If a question concerning the Orient should arise in international affairs, the plan of the republic, strictly adhered to, contemplates that the President shall call into his presence the Secretary of State and the chairmen of the committees on international affairs in the Senate and House for deliberation, and they shall constitute the governmental agency to deal with that question.

Different portions of the world would doubtless be assigned to various assistants in the Department of State for study and expert knowledge, and likewise different portions of the world would be assigned to various members of the committees on international affairs in the Senate and House for study and expert knowledge. Should it develop at the conference that one or more of the assistants in the Department of State had special knowledge pertaining to the