It came about after Leo Pasvolsky, Hull's assistant, wrote a memorandum urging such a committee concerned with "problems of peace and reconstruction" that would review fundamental principles of a "desirable world order" and was originally called the Committee on Problems of Peace and Reconstruction.
[2][3] Successors included the Division of Special Research and the Advisory Committee on Postwar Foreign Policy.
Other members from the State Department included Assistant Secretary Adolf A. Berle, Herbert Feis and Political Advisor Stanley K.
[1] The committee came up with tentative ideas about a world organization, reviving some aspects of the League of Nations design.
The sketch included an "Executive Council" and a "General Assembly" with different powers, but the League's principle of unanimity was to be replaced by some type of majority rule.