Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY August 9, 1945 8:10 AM CORCORAN to JOSH LEE. CORCORAN will pick up LEE in about a half hour. JOSH said he talked to both (JULIUS) HOLMES (State Department) and (FREDERICK) LYON (State Department) and LYON said they would send a tracer. He seemed interested. LEE said he put it up to the General (HOLMES) and that the General said held do all he could but that he had his problems due to the memo that (JOSEPH) GREW had put in, as it was rather hard to override. 9:20 AM MR. ED LOCKE (phonetic) to YOUNGMAN asking if T. V. (SOONG?) is coming here after he leaves Moscow. YOUNGMAN said he got a message that T. V. would be here the middle of August. YOUNGMAN said he was going to be in Moscow for 5 days. YOUNGMAN doesn't know whether he will return by Chungking or not. YOUNGMAN thinks he will be here 5 or 6 weeks. LOCKE asks what SOONG will do here. YOUNGMAN thinks (1) straighten out his organization, (2) look into financing supplies for China. YOUNGMAN thinks China will ask for 2 or 3 billion loan or credit. YOUNGMAN and LOCKE agree they haven't a chance of getting it. They agree Jap war will be over soon. YOUNGMAN will be here only 2 or 3 more days and will leave for a week or so. 10:15 AM CORCORAN to MR. FOLKS (phonetic) at Navy Department, Extension 62571. The following is their conversation: C - Have you got that literature of yours or have I got it? F - You've got it all up there in a large envelope. C - I'll find it. F - Say, you know I gave you the name of a Russian the other day. Are you interested in it? C - HAZARD, you mean? F - JOHN (NEWBOLD) HAZARD. He's head of Soviet lend-lease. I was talking to BILL LAWRENCE's brother-in-law yesterday and evidently HAZARD has plans for leaving the government in about six months. C - What are they? F - He's going to start teaching, TOM. He speaks Russian very well, and he's also a lawyer. Evidently a very able guy. C - What's he going to do on teaching? F - BILL didn't tell me. He said he has plans for teaching. I think probably he's going to Harvard. C - Well, I may have an intermediate job that he could do that would be good for him. F - Yeah. C - O.K. F - O.K., TOM. C - All right. F - You want me to go up and see (MATTHEW) CORREA (Secretary of Navy's office) today then? C - Yeah. And I think you'd better pick these letters up as you go, don't you? F - Yeah. C - And I'd better find them first. F - Fine. C - O.K. F - O.K., I'll be up later in the day then.