Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY September 30, 1945 3:56 PM CORCORAN to MR. BEDELL MONROE. CORCORAN said, "On this business which will come up certainly this week in some form or another, I need Mr. B's help awfully badly. Now, the form in which I worked this thing was to have the fellow from Florida demand formally that this thing be held up until he could come in and be permitted amicus curiae without any problem of technical rights of intervention--argue this thing. And we got the fellow from Pennsylvania to send in a formal letter supporting it. Now we've also got the fellow, I understand, from Buffalo, who is making a speech today, isn't he? BM - I understand he is, yeah. TC - Then he's going to send in a letter supporting it. Now, the fellow from Pennsylvania went to the fellow from the other state and asked him if he would--I want it on the record when this political talk. And if I could get that fellow on the record I could get the fellow from Wisconsin on the record, who is also, that's BOB. But I need to get the fellow that we are talking about. I need to get him on the record by sending in a supporting letter for this specific proposition that the guy from Florida be allowed to argue it. BM - I get it, as amicus curiae. TC - That's right. And I understand he has talked orally but I understand he said he didn't want to do it until he knew which side of the fence the fellow from Florida was on and that he had to consult his constituents, and you know what that means, to find out. Now he must have consulted them by now and found out which side the fellow from Florida was on. BM - I'll tell you what we've done so far after you talked to me the other day. The man in the office made a call to them and said, "Look, just so you will understand how your constituents feel we will have your fellow come down from Michigan who has supported him 100% and who is due in his office on Monday morning (10/1/45). TC - Now what he wants to do is specifically call and play ball with the Senator from Pennsylvania in this specific thing and if we get that we're beyond being reproached about politics because we're on all sides and all fences. BM - There's one unfortunate thing about it. That man doesn't particularly like our man in Europe. TC - Well, that's all right. Of course he doesn't, that's what helps. If he knows the man in Europe is going to play ball right I should think he'd be perfectly willing to use him. BM - Well, I should think so too. Now that's why we got this guy down, who understands it. We talked to him yesterday too up in Michigan. BOB did. Taking this STOKES matter--that's one reason why he should get his ire up out and oust LaZans (phonetic). TC - Well, you know what STOKES was. STOKES was just a recopy of something WAYNE PARRISH ran in the Aviation Journal. BM - Well, it wasn't quite a recopy, no. That was--it must have been a smart GAMBROW (phonetic) EASTERN job, together with BRANCH, I think. It was partly a copy from that but--