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Office Me © ..lum + onitep $..~ | GOVERNMENT To s Mr. Tolson DATB: May 16, 1057 rnom : L. B. Nic! ed VES phoned office on May 15 advising ‘Jam Handy Advertising Company ehicir-wie interested in pic the proposal recently made to the Director by the Joint National Boards of ! the National Catholic Community Service, the YMCA and the National Jewish Welfare Board to participate in a film program designed to build up the moral ~ fiber of young men in the pre-inductee age group, and that he understood the zt Director had expressed his regrets in not being able to participate. me was advised that this was correct. then stated he was a very close personal friend —_ rmerly a and, in fact, lives in the same building with ho was fo . e Police Department and who is now on the School Board in New York, ‘and 2 that he had personally contacted me years ago when he was with the Ethel ka Corporation in working out stories regarding the Bureau for the house organ of the Ethel Corporation. QB stated he was calling merely to observe that he certainly understood the Director's position in declining at this time since bte the program was merely in its formative stage and nothing definite could be offered to the Director. He stated that the program was, of course, being offered = to the Rockefeller Institute in order to secure financial support in implementing : the program. Be dvised that a budget had been fixed at approximately . $700,000 to handle the program and that this figure was being quoted to the - Rockefeller Foundation. é 4 “ML =_ GHB aivised that the religious aspects of fhe program had 4 = received definite appravaland commitments from Carding] @fellman fo b EL & ignated as a committee of 3 to act as consultants for agency . “he 3 @. 2 wor W-f - $33 -108 | ——— 8 NOES] ID MAY 211677 757 mms | 27