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and report on what he found. He was two or three years on that. He gave me a little icon that he had gotten in Lithuania, and I still have it. Anyway, he did a very fine job. At least it was satisfactory to the people who had sent him. He didn't have anything to do with determining the policy. He was just gathering the facts for our delegation to the Peace Conference.

He was then sent to Persia with the Millspaugh Commission. Arthur C. Millspaugh was the head of it. The American government had undertaken to straighten out Persia, just as we either later or earlier had straightened out Siam. We had straightened their finances, operations, techniques of government, particularly their finances. Persia was unable to pay off its debts. That was one of the things that brought the United States into the matter. We, as a friendly and totally neutral country, the beloved of all in those days, were asked by the Persians to help them. The idea was worked out that we would send this commission of experts over.

MacCormack was picked up for that. He was the number two man of the Millspaugh Commission. His principal job there was the finances, and particularly the taxes. One of the main problems of Persia was that nobody paid their taxes. The government hadn't been able to collect taxes from its