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just arrived. I think Swope had gone ahead when I got the message in New York because he wanted to do some private business before the commission got there. The commission hadn't all gone over in a body, but they met in London on an agreed upon date. I had had a whole suite of offices set aside for them on the ground floor of the embassy in London - a very fine suite. A big meeting room and little offices so that each could have an office, a desk and a place for the stenographer to sit. They couldn't have had a better place. Chalmers had had it all fixed up.

They had been there two days when I got there. In those first two days everything had gone just as it should. Mrs. Rosenberg hadn't arrived. The connections with Sir Frederick Leggett had been profitable. On their first day of arrival they had met in the morning. Then they had gone down in the afternoon by invitation to Sir Frederick Leggett's office. He had given them the entire afternoon, brought in his cohorts and so forth. They'd had a general outlook on the project. On the morning of the second day they had been to a hearing before this board. This was the afternoon of the second day and I had arrived. They had all been provided, as I knew, before they left America with a descriptive, analytical, informative bulletin which Lubin had had prepared, telling them the whole history of the





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