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Show IB '3: Reporter's Memo to His Editor: Washington, D. C: The Greek victories vic-tories are not being taken too seriously seri-ously by you know who. Says it is "all a trap" to get the British Beet Jaway from the Suez and then et- i cetera. Don't overplay streamers . . . The Molotov-Hitler minutes were in Washington three hours lat- -er. Russia will send about 15 di- I visions to Turk border to "keep the Turks from becomig too troublesome." trouble-some." Those are exact quotes . . . ' Time mag killed most sensational quotes of campaign rather -han incense in-cense certain subscribers. Amazing . . . No secret down here in every j lobby . . . Steve Early's resignation ' plans off indef. That cop inci- dent in N. Y. . . People might think he was fired . . Has big salaried job waiting . . . Flynn's call was for Sam Foley of Bronx for Demo candidate mayoralty j Whiskers says positively no evidence ; of sabotage in any of those ex- ' plosions. Whew! Perkins' probable successor as sec'y labor may be George Harrison, Harri-son, pres. Brotherhood R. R. Clerks . . . Knudsen, Henderson and General Gen-eral Wesson of Ordnance Dep't at private demonstration of "Secret Weapon" to "stop" Adolf. Creator is Carleton Brown. Worked on it 21 years. Revolutionize mobile transportation. Terrific form of tank . . . Check with Arthur Loew, heir to all those double-features. He and his wife going to school last few months up at Columbia U. . . . Taking course in motion picture and play production! No kidding . . . Raft invested 80 Gs in Florida race track . . . Frau Thomsen, wife of Nazi man here, depressed over snub of local hunt club. Wasn't invited to affair for first time. RAF damage to Berlin almost as great as in London, according to pouch-bearers. Goebbels, of course, will deny . . . Hamburg practically practical-ly doesn't exist . . . Thurman Arnold Ar-nold was waving his resignation for weeks but has made peace . . . Francis Biddle, U. S. solicitor-general, may inherit Bob Jackson's post as AG if Jackson beats an eastern senator to Supreme court as chief justice . . . Jackson won't accept an associate justice job . . . Hotels lammed to capacity many turned , iw;j during heavy rains. Clerks ' n , explain town crowded because of " defense contractors. Most of the mob, tlie clowns say, are here trying try-ing to square themselves with New Dealers . . . Newspaper men saying say-ing Willkie sore at many of his original orig-inal boosters, partic R. Howard, of all people! More Tips for Ye Ed.: Talk here Nathan Straus seeking chance at NY governorship . . . Check with him regarding Bronx hand bill matter. All I know on it . . . Bases promoted for U. S. in Rio Platte practically set, despite denials . . . Lawrence Langner, Broadway producer, excited about his defense job here doesn't miss white lights at all . . . Nelson Rockefeller Rocke-feller very popular with mob, say he's doing swell job putting in "the un-official fix" . . . Talk persists Frank Murphy would be happier at Dep't of Justice not enough action on bench . . . Big new job being angled an-gled by almost everybody for chief of propaganda post similar to one Creel had last war. Lowell Mellett leading field . . . Check if Capone still at Mayo Brothers. Went many weeks ago same trouble. Ambassador Kennedy interview (on persuading Lindbergh to tell Chamberlain what he knew which led to Munich pact) given me by Kennedy in Florida January, 1939. Every word okayed by him we didn't use any of "off-record" stuff . . . Dr. Frank Nolan in attendance Helen Morgan illness on Coast "the heart" . . . Did Seymour Weiss sentence sen-tence (30 months) break? . . . Jesse Lasky depressed over critical response re-sponse to "Quiet Please," says audience au-dience howl at it. Wants me see it and tell whether it has chance. If not will close pronto. Why don't you cover it you might save him some dough or all those jobs ... At least five men expected to be FDR's running mate. Rob't H. Jackson and Wm. O. Douglas were two. So when Inner Circlers ask each other: "Why do you think the boss picked Henry Wallace?" reply is supposed to be: "You mean to say you never saw the pictures in the papers of him juggling jug-gling those boomerangs?" ... In short. Henry Wallace was the boomerang boom-erang thrower who didn't boomerang on the President! Inflation rumors laughed at . . . "Any one who performed miracles in 1933 (opening banks) can control money now." according to financial experts at Shoreham hotel ringside . . . Henri Bernstein. Parisian playwright, play-wright, now in New York, expects to lose French citizenship . . . Rene Kraus. author of "Churchill," was offered British passport acct of good propaganda work. He is Austrian. Refused it. However, he's flying to England next week. Has assignment assign-ment to do book on RAF. Leaves pretty English refugee in U. S. |