The '''Manhattan Committee on Foreign Relations''' ('''M-CFR''') is an nonpartisan American Foreign Policy membership organization dedicated to advancing dialogue in international affairs. The Manhattan Committee is a chapter of The American Committees on Foreign Relations in [[Washington D.C.]] . The Committees on Foreign Relations were founded by the Council on Foreign Relations in 1938but became its own association in 1995.<ref>[http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Drew-B-Dwyer-Head-The/story.aspx?guid={2FEDEF6D-8241-40C7-BF82-7172F6CDBCD2}"Drew B. Dwyer to Head The Manhattan Committee on Foreign Relations"], Media Release, December 10, 2008.</ref>
==Mission==
At the outset of the organization the group's mission was to invite and educate prominent persons who have the ability to "guide" American public opinion. [http://www.prlog.org/10153511-charles-napoleon-to-initiate-the-headliners-of-2009-manhattan-committee-on-foreign-relations-season.html]
==[[Council on Foreign Relations]]- Early history==
The earliest origin of the Council stemmed from a working fellowship of about 150 scholars, called "[[The Inquiry]]," tasked to brief President [[Woodrow Wilson]] about options for the postwar world when Germany was defeated. Through 1917–1918, this academic band, including Wilson's closest adviser and long-time friend Col. [[Edward M. House]], as well as [[Walter Lippmann]], gathered at 155th Street and Broadway in New York City, to assemble the strategy for the postwar world. The team produced more than 2,000 documents detailing and analyzing the political, economic, and social facts globally that would be helpful for Wilson in the peace talks. Their reports formed the basis for the [[Fourteen Points]], which outlined Wilson's strategy for peace after war's end.<ref name="14_points">{{cite web |first=Woodrow |last=Wilson |url=http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=62 |title=President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918) |work=Our Documents}}</ref>
These scholars then traveled to the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919]] that would end the war; it was at one of the meetings of a small group of British and American diplomats and scholars, on [[May 30]], [[1919]], at the Hotel Majestic, that both the Council and its British counterpart, the [[Chatham House]] in [[London]], were born.<ref name="Inquiry">{{cite web |url=http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/inquiry.html |title=The Inquiry |work=History of CFR |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |accessdate=2007-02-24}}</ref> Although the original intent was for the two organizations to be affiliated, they became independent bodies, yet retained close informal ties.<ref>{{cite book |first=James |last=Perloff |title=The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline |location=[[Appleton, Wisconsin]] |publisher=Western Islands Publishers |year=1988 |page=p. 36}}</ref>
Some of the participants at that meeting, apart from Edward House, were [[Paul Warburg]], [[Herbert Hoover]], [[Harold Temperley]], [[Lionel Curtis]], [[Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle|Lord Eustace Percy]], [[Christian Herter]], and American academic historians [[James T. Shotwell|James Thomson Shotwell]] of [[Columbia University]], [[Archibald Cary Coolidge]] of [[Harvard University|Harvard]], and [[Charles Seymour]] of [[Yale University|Yale]].
==About the Manhattan Committee on Foreign Relations==