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    "ocrText": "5:21 PM\nCORCORAN to LEO CROWLEY (Continued):\nL - be glad to have him, but he didn't want any amendments to the bill to\ndelay its operation. So I did my part as best I could.\nT - Are you sure FRED knows you did?\nL - The record will show I did. FRED was very nice. BARKLEY spoke right\nup and said we couldn't do that. I said I'd love to have him on it.\nYou see TOM the danger is that, if it was amended at all, it would\nhave to go to conference and WOLCOTT (phonetic) would ask question for\na quorum and it wouldn't go through at all.\nT - When are they going to adjourn?\nL - The Senate, August 5th.\nT - And the House?\nL - Well, they're going home - (Congressman) JOHN McCORMICK tells me there\nis no one here anyway.\nT - O.K.\nL - Goodbye, TOM.\n5:27 PM\nCORCORAN to WORTH CLARK. CORCORAN said it went very well, they didn't\nfinish but they will tomorrow morning; the latitude was wonderful and\nhe asked some beautiful questions, and our boy friend is having lunch\nwith the other guy tomorrow. CLARK asked CORCORAN if he had time to go\nby and see EDDIE LOCKETTS (phonetic). He's leaving and he's in the right\nframe of mind - and you might fix some things in your mind. He might not\nshow you a thing; it depends on what mood he's in. (May mean EDWARD B.\nLOCKETT, Time Magazine Representative). That's all. CORCORAN said O.K.\n8:15 PM\nMR. McGRAW to CORCORAN stating he saw that guy and he does not know or\nintimate that things have changed as far as he was concerned it was\nstill on the verge and looked as being lost because he had heard nothing\nsince. CORCORAN said that it was consistent with what he heard this\nmorning. CORCORAN is going to ride to work with the \"guy\".\n9:35 PM\nCORCORAN to JOSH (LEE, Civil Aeronautics Board) to ask if he could ride\ndown with him tomorrow. JOSH told him no, but he could see him. CORCORAN\nsaid fine as he wanted to get this ARNOLD KIEHN thing over with, JOSH\nsaid he will come to CORCORAN's office tomorrow at 9:30 A.M. O.K.\n9:50 PM\nMR. HAY to CORCORAN. HAY asks CORCORAN what he thinks about the war with\nJapan. CORCORAN says he things it will be over before September first.\nHAY asks what anybody actually knows. CORCORAN says he knows that\nproposals have come over and that STIMSON and FORRESTAL are for them.\nCORCORAN says he can feel these things before they happen; that is, he\nfeels it in the comparative ease with which you can talk to the Army and\nNavy about bringing fellows not into civilian life but into other Govern-\nment departments; that two weeks ago \"you couldn't move it, and now it's\nonly a matter of a little prying and it comes loose.\" HAY said his\nmilitary contacts informed him that something is cooking; that about ten\ndays or two weeks ago, they (FORRESTAL and STIMSON) drafted a proposal\nalong that line, and the important point was that we define what we\nmeant by 'unconditional surrender'. This was \"laid on the desk up there\",\naccording to HAY, and he fears this is the root of all the peace rumors\ncirculating around Washington, which would make the proposals not real.\nCORCORAN said he could \"feel it from the Chinese end\" that the war with"
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