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wer a i eel ; i DATED SEPIEMUER 1, STATE DEPARTMENT» beCaPeCe REFERENCE YOUR CABLEGRAM AUGUST 31 LAST. COPY OF LOUWAGE-}S LETTER OF AUGUST 8 WAS AVAILABLE TO ME ONLY FOR “HURRIED SCANNING BUT THESE ARE HIS MAJOR ALLEGATIONSs§ THAT | LEFT CONFERENCE BEFORE OPENING SESSION$ THAT | APPROVED IeCePeCe CIRCULARIZING CZECH POLITICAL REFUGEES THAT BUREAU OBJECTED TO NAMING OF GODDARD ANO MANNING AS TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS AFTER NAMES HAD BEEN CLEARED WITH ME} THAT NAURE OF COUNTERFEITING CONFERENCE WHICH PRECEDED !eCePeCe GENERAL ASSEMBLY MIGHT HAVE BEEN MISREPRESENTED TO BUREAU. FACTS ARE AS FOLLOWSe ONE, 1 ATTENDED FIRST SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY AS REFLECTEO 1N MINUTES» TWO, AT NO TIME OID DUCLOUX .SUOMIT TO ME ORAFT OF WANTED CIRCULARS ON CZECHS REQUESILING PERMISSION TO CIRCULARIZEes WHEN MATTER WAS DISCUSSED DUCLOUX WAS INFORMED THAT UeSe GOVERNMENT REGARDED MEN AS POLITICAL REFUGEES AND THAT DECISION AS TO WHETHER TO ISSUE WANTED NOTICES WAS ONE TO BE MADE EXCLUSIVELY BY !eCePeCe, BUT THAT IF CIRSULARIZEING DECIDED UPON 1 WOULO FURNISH BUREAU NAMES OF CZECHS INVOLVED SO THAT WANTED NOTICES WOULD NOT BE PLACED AGAINST THEM. FOR REASONS STATED IN MY LETTERS JULY 5 AND AUGUST i LAST, GUCLOUX DECIOED TO ABIDE BY REQUEST OF CZECH POLICE FOR CIRCULARIZINGs . NEPOTE@S SECRETARY THEN PREPARED LIST OF NAMES, COPY OF WHICH WAS FORWARDED WITH MY LETTER JULY 5 LASTe NO OTHER WRITTEN MATERIAL OF DUCLOUX HAS BEEN FURNISHED TO ME BY leCePeCe IN THIS CONNECTION AND | WAS NOT AWARE CIRCULARIZING HAD ACTUALLY BEEN: MADE UNTIL RECEIPT OF BUREAU LETTER JULY 18 CITING THEMes THREE, AT THE REQUEST OF SODERMAN J ADVISED BUREAU BY CAI LEGRAM JUNE 19 OF INTENTION OF 1eGePeC. TO NAME GODDARD AND MANNING ON JUNE 21. SODERMAN WANTED BUREAU TO ens OPPORTUNL] Xn]. OBJECT IF IT SO DESIRED. ON YULY 28 Fe *DUCLOUX ies ‘i BUREAU WAS DISAPPOINTED tT HAG NOT ae CONSULTED CENTLY tN ADVANCE TO BE ENABLED TO FURNISY* ITS OPINION RED! STHOT THESE APPOINTMENTS.s MANNER IN WHICH GODDARD AND MANNING ATAMEDH ABE CCOMMISSEON WITHOUT PREVIOUS NOTICE TO BUREAU WAS* OSCUSSED, NOT MERITS OF NOMINEES THEMSELVES, COMMISSION+S PRECIPITATE ACTION IN NAMING TRKESE MEN DIRECTLY VIOLATED LeCePeCe STATUTES FOUR, BUREAU LETTER APRIL 20 LAST INDICATED tT WAS AWARE OF NATURE OF an’ i wt COUNTERFEITING CONFERENCEs vig 4 | RECEIVED 9-1-50 3-23 PM L } MET ae reer CORRECTED 9n2—50 _ 6829 AM. a! (he