Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY July 24, 1945 11:55 AM CORCORAN to MR. HALLECK (Congressman from Indiana) at DIstrict 8920 saying that DAVE CORCORAN's man has arrived from Mexico. His name is HOLLY (phonetic) and he's the manager. They discuss the temperament of the Mexicans, the Mexican anti-Yankee "twist" and ALLOMAN (phonetic) who is a Mexican Communications Minister. HALLECK wondered if they shouldn't sit down and see what to do from a sales standpoint and then advise Kansas City. CORCORAN said that could be done. ALLOMAN is the man to do the buying, said CORCORAN. They may ride to New York together. CORCORAN will call HALLECK Thursday. 11:59 AM BILL YAEGER in New York to CORCORAN. BILL said he'd seen YATES (FRANK L. YATES, General Accounting Office) and YATES will be pleased to see CORCORAN either at his (YATES') home or office. He lives at 4628 Reservoir Road, telephone EMerson 3741, and his office phone is EXecutive 4621, no extension. BILL said he did not discuss what CORCORAN wanted to see YATES about. The following conversation then took place: CORCORAN asked, "Now did you see GIRARD (phonetic)?" YAEGER advised that YATES said that he had and that according to GIRARD it all boils down to the claim of an American woman member of the POLIGNAC family, a French family of whom about one-half were collaborationists. One of them--"the Marquis?" supplied CORCORAN, and YATES agreed--is, he understands now on trial in France. This American quarter of the family, the wife of which, at least, is an American citizen, is "in the clear" (on the collaborationist charge, apparently). The American wife's properties are the newspaper, Le Petit Parisien, one of the biggest and best, Excelsior (another newspaper), large real estate holdings, two or three magazines, and various other miscellaneous things. The champagne is, he thinks, in the Marquis' name. They want, through the French government, "through regular channels or otherwise," to arrange to get paid for those holdings or get them back by "partition, having them segregated (apparently from collaborationist family member holdings.) YAEGER said he pointed out that this was ticklish because the name "POLIGNAC" "stinks to high heaven" and that CORCORAN would not want to be mixed up with it unless he is sure this member of the family was not a collaborationist. CORCORAN agreed. So YAEGER said he asked him to get a bill of particulars, get it signed and transmit it to "us" (YAEGER and CORCORAN, apparently) with the letter which GIRARD will sign. YAEGER said that is what he is doing now. CORCORAN said then that SAM (RAYBURN (?), Speaker of the House) is leaving tomorrow night. CORCORAN will have breakfast with him in the morning to try to get "this other stuff of VINSON's in now" so that they can get it straightened out before he goes. They both know that SAM has seen him (VINSON ?) several times recently. CORCORAN will be seeing JULIUS HOLMES (Assistant Secretary of State) this afternoon on something SAM is interested in. YAEGER asked if SAM had "O.K.'d that." CORCORAN said yes, and that he, SAM, had called MRS. SHIPLEY (Visa Division, State Department) himself on it and told CORCORAN he would go "upstairs" if he, SAM, didn't get satisfaction on it, i.e., to HOLMES. CORCORAN said he carefully tried to steer it that way. They agreed that the idea would be to help JULIUS that way. CORCORAN will see JULIUS this afternoon and will know. YAEGER asked him to tell him that he had steered