Library HG 205 1944 A 2 05 v. 1 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Publication 2866 International Organization and DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Library 11-1 I T Preface HESE volumes of Proceedings and Documents of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, July 1-22, 1944, are intended primarily as a collection of working papers. The documents included in this publication are reproduced exactly as they were issued at the Conference site, except for some slight rewording of document titles, and with no attempt at editing. The substantive Conference documents have been arranged for publication in numerical order, except for certain types of documents such as press releases and French and Spanish translations, which were believed more properly to belong in appendixes. Appropriate annotations in the form of footnotes have been added where required. Certain types of documents of a purely administrative nature, such as announcements and news bulletins, have been omitted. In addition, the tables of contents and social and other announcements have been deleted from the issues of the Journal. A complete list of all documents issued at the Conference, with specific reference to those that have been omitted, has been included as Appendix II. A list of the symbols used to differentiate the various series of documents has been included as Appendix III. The principal substantive documents are included in Volume I of the Proceedings; the remaining substantive material, together with a comprehensive index, will be found in Volume II. The reader will find the index to be the key to the many documents contained in the two volumes. The Department of State, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development have collaborated in the arrangement of materials in these volumes; they have also shared the initial costs of publication. |