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7 - on the recommendations of the State Department, and the latter has consistently refused to O.K. such requests on the grounds that by breaking an established precedent, it would invite a flood of similar requests. Steamship lines are similarly restricted. Meanwhile passenger space which night be put to excellent use in this expensive battle of ideologies is being wasted. Letters to your congressional representatives will hasten the day when civil aeronautics statutes will be modernized. 11. We, now, have over 80 national sports associations and organizations identified with the People-to-People Sports Movement, and, another attempt is being made to bring in the remainder by inviting them to nominate outstanding individuals within their groups for membership on our committee which has, now, grown to 350. Our committee will not be complete until it includes the accumulative expert thinking of all sports promotion organizations. Some, we suspect, have been hesit- ant in joining us becausé our long handled title seemed to be in the class of some communistic-front organizztion. Of course, this is farthest from the truth, but, if you have any suggestions for improving the committee's name we will apprec- iate your passing them along. 12. Of course, here in our little shop, we have a continual flow of little things to keep us busy--get a couple of base- balls autographed by Lew Burdette for some little league players down in Columbia-atrange for baseball training films to be made available in the Netherlands--sen a directory of sporting goods manufacturers to Czechoslovakia--arange for

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