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Washington, D. C.
CO SUMMARY
August 17, 1945
5:36 PM
CORCORAN to Mr. WALTER BROWN, 2276 State Department, and CORCORAN said
that "they are giving JOSH the run around on this thing." BROWN said
"they" (the State Department) told him day before yesterday that it was
being issued. CORCORAN says that the passport has been held up and it
has to go to General Staff for their okay on the passport. CORCORAN
asked BROWN to call (FREDERICK) LYONS. BROWN said that he will call him
right away, and let CORCORAN know.
7:05 PM
LT. OVERLANDER (Secretary of Navy's Office) contacted CORCORAN, at home,
saying that (JAMES) FORRESTAL told him to send his car for CORCORAN, in
the morning. The car will be at CORCORAN's house at 7:50 A.M. O.K.
9:20 PM
JOSH LEE talked with CORCORAN. CORCORAN told him about talking to WALTER
BROWN and said that BROWN had told him that if KIEHN went to the State
Department, tomorrow, he would find his passport to China, with military
clearance attached. CORCORAN said, "HOLMES has resigned." LEE: "That's
good! I don't think I gave up. I was eating Mr. LYONS' Secretary out,
telling her that I got tired; that LYONS had had this case three weeks,
and then I got hold of WALTER BROWN's Secretary at 2:30, and I said, 'If
anybody ever got the Washington Merry-go-Round, JOSH LEE's getting it.
I
said, 'I'm G. D. tired of it.'!! (Laughter) LEE continues: "So I
said, 'I'm turning to you for help. Send WALTER BROWN an S.O.S. 111
CORCORAN: "Well, you got it, boy. We sure put the heat on that bunch."
LEE said that he believed that "that bunch" gave them the "old slow itch";
that they should get rid of "that SHIPLEY woman." TOM said again that
HOLMES was gone. He said the lucky break they got was when he (CORCORAN)
got hold of the Chinese Ambassador and he just simply held it. He said
"what I'm lawfully interested in is that we're clearing the Treasury at
the same time and I have an arrangement that we are." LEE said, "LYONS
told me that he was calling HARRY, but I don't know whether he did or not."
TOM: "Well, we'll be all right because if we got the passport in the
morning we'll have a couple of days next week." He said that TCHIANG CHEN
(JEN, Phonetic) would hold open their account.