Committee of One Dictator Authority

“HARRIS: I wish Mr. Baruch would form himself into a Committee. BARUCH: If you will give me the authority of all the Governments I will do it and I can assure you it will be done. HARRIS: There is nobody like a Committee of one. BARUCH: If there was ever a dictator wanted in the world there is one wanted now.”

“Baruch recorded his disgust in homely intermittent diary entries. For example: “Fiddle while Rome burns,” “What is everybody’s job is nobody’s job,” and, apropos of a fruitless meeting to discuss the fixing of nickel prices: “It seems useless to have the whole board meeting and not deciding.””