Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY August 8, 1945 10:00 AM BILL YOUNGMAN in New York to JACK NASON. He is returning on the 11:30 A.M. train. NASON said he had talked to DON who said the negotiation had not been completed yet but that T. V. (SOONG) had asked for it. Also that T. V. has sent word to the Ambassador to negotiate a 3-c agreement, and DON has some thoughts on that. They speculate on how long T. V. will be in Moscow and YOUNGMAN said "we" can check with the people who control the movements of the plane. YOUNGMAN then said he hasn't been able to see (DWIGHT) PALMER about the 30,000 tons of stock pile and YOUNGMAN said he wants to talk to CORCORAN about it before he talks to PALMER. YOUNGMAN also said that ZOBEL (phonetic) and his crowd, including STARR (phonetic) have agreed to go ahead and sell advertising at the 100,000 rate starting with the January issue and STARR is going to "talk to his friends in the funny-shaped building" about it. YOUNGMAN said that ZOBEL wants "us" to write a legal opinion to the effect that it is all right for him to print 40,000 in the Argentina and Swedish papers and YOUNGMAN wants NASON to check the latest regulations about exports etc. to see if there is anything in there which would prevent ZOBEL from so doing. NASON will do so. YOUNGMAN asked if anything had developed on LEVER and NASON said "they" (CORCORAN and WORTH CLARK ?) "went over!! (to see ANDERSON at Agriculture ?) during the course of yesterday afternoon but that he (NASON) was gone when they got back. YOUNGMAN said, "Well, let us pray." 11:45 AM MRS. CORCORAN to DICK (RICHARD CUNNINGHAM, JR.) PATTERSON (Ambassador to Yugoslavia) at State Department, Extension 680. He invited the CORCORANS to dinner tonight and asked them to have BEN COHEN come along. They will meet at the Carlton, where PATTERSON is staying, at 7:30 P.M. 12:06 PM CORCORAN unable to reach SAM O'NEAL at the National Democratic Committee. He is in New York at the Biltmore after 3:00 this afternoon. 12:12 PM CORCORAN to (JOE) PANUCH at RE 7500, Extension 5131. PANUCH said he called CORCORAN the other day to "tell you that our friend GEORGE (BOWDEN ?) really stuck his neck out. Do you know what he did? He wrote to the SEC asking them to review the JOE SISTO case." C - Oh, GOD ALMIGHTY! Wrote? P - Wrote! That's the dope I get on fairly credible evidence from the SEC. I understand it's all over the place up there. C - Well didn't the guy have sense enough to send it back? P - I don't know. You know what happens on these mail and distribution systems. It gets stamped in and ear-marked and charged out and by that time, cripes, you've got a perfect record. You've got to down the Commission to send back the letter, you know. I'll tell you, TOM, I don't know how much good it does to talk to GEORGE on this stuff because he did a dopy thing like that by sending a couple of phonies to (LEO) CROWLEY, you see, and CROWLEY sent em down to various fellows in the Export Control Division there, and my God, it took me two weeks to dig these fellows out and when I told him, told GEORGE, that he should never deal with these phonies on this stuff, well, my God, he argued with me. He claimed some guy who