Other members of the Society felt uncomfortable about the degree to which Crane was attempting to shape the American meeting. Fritz Machlup, a Johns Hopkins professor and treasurer of the society, wrote to Hayek after a meeting of the financial committee, "Crane began with a discussion of your program. I did not like the idea that this Committee should at all get into a matter which is entirely in your prerogative, but I did not say anything as Crane began with a nice statement that he would not like to interfere but he had a great interest in the program because of his assurances to the various donors." Hayek responded, "Crane is sometimes a little bit of a nuisance but on the whole I have been fairly successful at disregarding suggestions from him I did not like."

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1466