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he's already cleared it with me. You take the credit from him because you may need him to pull wires for you on something else sometime. Be sure you take the credit right now tonight. You can send a cable, can't you, to appoint Marion?”

I said, “I don't think much of this, but we've already got one piece of baggage and I suppose a second piece of baggage won't do any harm. Marion's a nice girl and she'll behave herself. That's sure.” So I said, “All right,” and we said good night.

Then I remembered the President's injunction to call Barney, so I called Baruch back just as he told me to, with all this expense on the government. I told Baruch that I'd thought it over and I had decided to do it. He thought that was fine, very constructive, and so forth. He said he would telephone Marion at once that night.

I said, “That's fine. I'll be glad if you will. I'm sending a cable to her so she'll have a record that she's appointed and I'm sending a cable also to the Assistant Secretary of Labor, who is Acting Secretary of Labor, so that he'll sign the proper documents and get her visa for her. She has to get passage and a visa. She'd better get moving.”

I say all this and bring this matter back to London to