Harvard faculty and local citizens established the group after the fall of Paris in June 1940 in order to provide expertise on cultural matters during the war.

American and foreign scholars compiled information about cultural areas, monuments, and objects in Europe, and eventually their efforts contributed to the formation of the Roberts Commission.

	Ames, Margaret		Koehler, Wilhelm
	Anastos, Milton V.		Lehman-Hartleben, Karl
	Belling, Alfred R.		Luce, Stephen B.
	Benesch, Mrs. Otto		Malone, Mrs. Catherine
	Benesch, Otto		Murphy, Robert. C.
	Berla, Julian E.		Olschki, Leonardo
	Blake, Marion E.		Orchard, F.P.
	Bloch, Hervert		Pease, Murray
	Broneer, Oscar		Perry, Ralph Barton
	Butler, Charles		Randall-MacIver, D.
	Chandler, H.D.		Reed, Jean
	Conant, Kenneth		Robinson, Charles A,, Jr.
	Constable, W.G.		Robinson, David H.
	Cook, W.W.S.		Rosenberg, Jakob
	Couch, Herbert N.		Sachs, Paul Joseph
	Duell, Prentice		Sanborn, Ashton
	Ehrlich, Evelyn		Shear, Mrs. T. Leslie
	Emerson, William		Shear, T. Leslie
	Grancsay, Stephen V.		Shoe, Lucy T.
	Harrison, W.H.		Swarzenski, Georg
	Hencken, Hugh O'Neill		Talcott, Lucy
	Hill, Dorothy K.		Undset, Sigrid
	Hill, Laurence		Voorhees, Eleanor
	Jackson, William A.		Wildenstein, Georges
	Kennedy, Clarence		Young, William J.
	Kitzinger, Ernst