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oct Re OS ~ = ~ \ _ ye ‘ns Attorney Generel” - a May 20, 1918. es ee Director, war Se” ALE INFORMATION CONTAINED mae if~ 1 —XPEN LETTER TO STALIN BY HENRY ran feeliy ie UNCLASSIFIED we “" -Y desire to refer to your telephonic conversation with me toda 2 FS 6 : regarding the captioned matter and to my memorandum to you dated May 18, 1918, 0° > Pursuant to your request, I have had discreet inquiries made in the Wallace i The New York office of this Bureau has attempted to diecreetly as—~ , certain the identity of the shop in which the flyers were printed. It has been _ _4_ deterzined that the union stanp showing Iocal Wo. 1, Union Shop No. 100 indicated “| that the flyer could have been lithographed in any one of the hundreds of shops | in Few York City. In view of this fact, I do not feel that we can make any additional discreet inquiries concerning this matter throuch established informants or otherwise without havinz auch inquiries brought to Mr. Wallace's attention. C = oe 4s will be noted in my previous memorandum, Miss Dorothy Thompson, the cclumnist, has expressed a deep intorsat in the Wallace matter. Wiss Thompson is of the definite opinion that Mr. Fallace had advance information from the Russian Embassy in Washington, De Ce or the Russian Consulate in New York City concerning the Saith-NMolotoy conversations. She has pointed put that the first release on these conversations came as a result of a CBS news broadcast at 6:55 Pa . —N\. on May 10, 19),8 and further details were carried on the 11:02 ‘PM news ‘broadcast on Hiss “<< ,all major radio stations. Miss Thompson stated that the flyers were distributed : | =“ ‘at the political meeting in Madison Square Garden in New York City at approximately '~Y -10230 PY on May 12, 1948. Miss Thompson stated that Mr. Wallace ischis speech that evening stated that he had chaned the first paragraph-of this flyer after Sy 4 Slane sohhesianesbemmeh hebinemaihl bhi dtnmrattaahabettnaet tts ot arte ® f te ;recelving information on the Smitheliolotev conversations in oscow. Miss Thomp= ‘son was of the opinion that it was a physical impossibility ‘to make this cha ‘and have the new flyers lithographed and distributed within the space of a little — 7 wore than 2 hours. It would appear therefore, thit Miss Thoupsonts belief that — > Mr. Wallace had advance information regarding the Moscow release, is based pride * 2 (2 marily on hor conclusion that there was not sufficient tine for the preparation | See) For your information, experts in the Mechanical Section of: this: = ; Bares’ of the opinion that the average printing shop would be atle to set OFF “) this flyer, make the necessary plate and print twenty thousand copies wEthins “.. 7 three or four hours. It logically follows, therefore, that sufficient time Rad elapsed for the purpose of making the changes in the flyer even thouczh Bre Wallagé received this information throuch established ‘news sources. Ne pes | . : z * “et “ye -- “Wr. Tolson | Es Ae . ee Clege > Pr , —_“ RECORDED « . ¢ . . . = bel = » Glavit, — — : Oo. : . (4) a —_ Nichole Sis ; Keser —— {i v= y an . Mi DUB J ey « Gurnee 2 t+ \ e eet . Air, Harbo 4 ATES 4 D ra = . + kohr. DAL # -.. . « Pennington 7 Mf: ote po , inn Tamm, q RY \eelfeee z a Nease : awe :