There were some statutes with regard to which it is difficult, if not impossible, upon the basis of reading alone, to determine whether the purpose was to bring the facilities of many agencies to bear upon the administration of one program, or to enhance the prospect that the program would be administered in a manner consistent with the objectives of other related programs. A study of the legislative history and the administration of these provisions would probably disclose that the legislative intent was mixed, or that in the process of administration both objectives were joined. We might include within this category the Neutrality Act of 1935 which set up the National Munitions Control Board, to be composed of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Navy. The Board, acting largely through the Secretary of State, was the agency for execution of the neutrality program.[715] The Contract Settlement Act of 1944 set up an Office of Contract Settlement, headed by a Director, and a Contract Settlement Advisory Board, with which the Director was required to advise and consult. The Board was composed of the Director, the Secretaries of War, Navy, and Treasury, the Chairman of the Maritime Commission, the Administrator of the Foreign Economic Administration, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Chairman of the War Production Board, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, and the Attorney General.[716] Any of these officials might appoint representatives. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 contained provision for a Military Liaison Committee.[717] The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, created to supervise the scientific study of the problems of flight, under a 1948 statute, was to be composed of not more than seventeen members appointed by the President including two representatives of the Department of the Air Force; two of the Department of the Navy, from the office in charge of naval aeronautics, two of the Civil Aeronautics Authority; one of the Smithsonian Institute; one of the United States Weather Bureau; one of the National Bureau of Standards; the Chairman of the Research and Development Board of the National Military Establishment; and others.[718] Are these representative of congressional efforts to organize co-operation, or to organize co-ordination? We think the latter, although it is clear that reasonable men could differ, and a careful legislative history might prove us wrong. CONCLUSIONS