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61 ANNEX A LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Admiral Arthur W. Radford, USN (Ret. ) - Chairman, MRAC Panel on Wartime Use of the U. S. Merchant Marine; Chairman, Project WALRUS Dr. Russell L. Ackoff, Director, Operations Research Group, Case Institute of Technology Commander Roy G. Anderson, USN, Hull Design Branch, Ship Design Division, Department of the Navy Professor Harry Benford, Executive Director, Maritime Research Advisory Committee, NAS-NRC Major General Frank S. Besson, Jr. , USA, Chief of Transportation, U. S. Army Transportation Corps Mr. Richard W. Black, Marine Transport Division, U. S. Army Transportation Research and Engineering Command, Fort Eustis, Virginia Mr. William H. Bozman, Budget Examiner, Bureau of the Budget, Executive Office of the President Dr. William N. Breswick, Naval Warfare Research Center, Stanford Research Institute Dr. Franklin C. Brooks, Technical Director, Project WALRUS Commander John I. Bryan, USN, Anti-Submarine Warfare Branch, OPNAV, Department of the Navy Dr. P. B. Buck, Director of San Francisco Office, Maritime Cargo Transportation Conference, NAS-NRC Dr. Paul W. Cherington, Professor of Business Administration, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University Colonel Robert A. Cliffe, USA, Commanding Officer, Combat Development Group, U. S. Army Transportation Corps, Fort Eustis, Virginia Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, USN (Ret.), Chairman, Division of Engineering and Industrial Research, NAS-NRC Mr. John S. Coleman, Executive Secretary, Division of Physical Sciences, NAS-NRC Mr. John P. Comstock, Naval Architect, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
60 (b) To expand governmental subsidy programs to support the operation under U. S. flag of all U. S. -owned and controlled merchant shipping that is engaged in competitive foreign trade. This would embrace "flag of convenience" shipping, the existing subsidized segment of the U. S. flag merchant fleet, the numerous U. S. flag ships whose applications for subsidy are pending, and probably others. Such course of action would prove to be a most costly undertaking and there is no likely prospect that the Government will adopt such a program. 2. Pending resolution of management-labor problems, the continued operations under "flags of convenience" of those U. S. -owned and controlled merchant ships that are presently so registered, represent a practical and at present the only economical means of sustaining an important segment of the U. S. -owned merchant marine. At present there is no satisfactory alternative. 3. Undisturbed operation of these ships under PANLIBHON registry seems to require the issuance of a court ruling that would prevent U. S. unions from boycotting and organizing PANLIBHON ships. The Government should bring to the attention of the courts its national security interests in maintaining effective control over these ships. If the court ruling is not favorable, the Government should seek by every possible means to show the extent of its interest in retention of the "flag of convenience" fleet and in preventing its transfer to the flags of other maritime nations.
