ABSTRACT
The postwar planning machine set in motion by the War and Peace Studies groups was created with the basically limited objective of determining the concepts and procedures necessary for the time when, at the war's end, the European powers would negotiate for peace. The War and Peace Studies material can be grouped thematically into two main batches, corresponding to two separate phases. The two batches had substantially different aims. The first batch ran from the fall of France to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The second batch of documents began at the end of 1941 and was concerned with planning for the readjustment of the economy and sociopolitical order after the war. The Political Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Problems of Foreign Relations was supposed to establish what the German conquest of European countries with colonies in the Western Hemisphere would signify in terms of the possible transfer of the sovereignty of territories to Nazi dominion.
