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i)r. Foker ir. drefcm wr. droeu hugest 19, 1944 i/r. Houser r. .arkusen Mr. aioouflelil Zhe attached oopiee of letter of this date to itr* Bloomfield and olosuras ancillary thereto will s.. rise you of the resent status of the quart!on of our 194 meeting. I Hop* that *e haw* raeehed the dosing chapter and that I shall rresantly ho abls to forward definite advices to r. Poleor as ohairsan of >ur Profrva Cons!ttoe I regret th t a loi sloe is auntravention of the expressed preferences of our SneoutdLvw Gonsittee has boon decaed advisable, but believe that you will oaneede that the ryasaas for this ware good a.ud sufficient* vulta apart from other cans lderati one, tfr* Bloowfield, on the basis of the rotes of the A.1.H*A. di rasters, had autbarised sir, Kehee, ohairmn of their 'rograa Gonaittee, to initiate negotiations with Pr. Holablad** organisation for a eoabinsd seating, thus saaadttlng us to a choice between ocureaniac in Chisago with the other three group# or meeting separately from the a course which I be 11 ere that all of us weald wish to avoid* Tram the viewpoints of those of us who have perhaps discussed these natters nost fully, I think It aay be said that the plane of the 184S seating was of less inpertaese than the faot that w- found oureelves in the traly intolerable position of bei^ obliged to defer alnest shelly, in the ohoioee of pi see, tins and physisel arrsnga--it of oar annual nesting, to prefsreness based upon sousereiel interests quite beyond oar oanoem. it seens reasonable to sxpeet that the airing of these difficulties whiah has taken pl&at will lead to their substantial smell eratine* Gopies of this oousunio tion are being sent to these with ebon I have had correspondones on or discussion of its subject* hr* Barnet hr. ' Cook vise rsay soy ''rof* rrinker r. iusrrold iTm holnblad ,djr. ?ehoe Ur* Littlefield r. Lynoh Lr* iappingtow rr* f ahrenk j 'j t oelby Dr. :hipwsa banfrsd Bowdltofe Chairnsor Auruet 19, 1944 Hr. j. J. 'looafield, Chief field Operations Section Industrial Th glens lirisian " S. ?ublio jrealth "enrioe 'ethesda 14, 'dryland Dmir Jaekt This is to acknowledge your letter of August 14th and oo&firw our telephone oooworaction on Thursday with regard to 1946 clans for the A.I.H.A. sad 3.C.0.I.H* I feel, and know that you agroe, that ua are definitely ~ lodged to give the I.C.G.I.J!. two ecmeeoutire days of meeting next year, free of interfsrenee With ocneurrent sessions* I understand that we are also agreed that Dr Pturrold *s proposal that the embined neetings of the four organisations be allomd tei extend beyond one week would alnost oertalnly not work out, due to laek of hotel ass wsodstlona* I gather that you fool that it will bo pos sible to work out a schedule whereby the V.C*d*I*8* weets in 1945 on Aoril 24th and Sikh, the A.UI*A. on the Sikh and 27th and the A.A.I.I. on the 2dth and 29th, with ttaa A.A.I.P.S. weetiag (and owerlapwiag the two last nansd) on the 27th and 29th. Though I haws of course not seen aoet of the replies of the A.X.H.A. directors, I belisT* that I an cot far off in figuring that the wots of this group was about sixty per ~ent ic fswor of oowibined nestings of the four organisations and forty ->er oont for separation Is *45, whereas the -vote of the N.C.G.I.Hi fjceoutiwe Cowaittee was about forty par cent for ooaiMmtlon and sixty oer oent for separation* Sinoe there has been no real thought of diworoing the westings of these tm> orgasisatiozui, Z think that it would ba fair to oonaidar the ten groups in ooaibinatien and oall It substantially a tls rote* Btmmmr, in riew of the strong feeling in serc- el quarters known for sound thinking that we should again all west together in 1945 and seek to iron out any rsadining troubles at that tine, 1 an quite ready to write Dr. Bn lablad, in resoon se to bis August 10th letter to you and as, that the F.C.G.I.H. will aeet in Chicago with tho other groups in 1945, prodded that wo eac laws assurar os of April 24th and 25th, hreo of interference frnsi II 0 7 N 24907.01 Kr. J. J. Hloomfiald 2 Att mat 19, 1944 oonoiarrant ion* of tha othor orgartiaationa, and you will not* ^rnm *y fir at anolomjra that I }Mvm ac dona. Tfco axohaoc* with Tr. Selby alao eneloaed ia, I think, worth noting* If tho proposed over-all coaaaittea atn h* set up on a proper wait, it should r far toward eliminating the ohjaatIonaVia features of tha orasent soheme of things whioh hare lad to the raoant waiter of aorrespondenee and dahata Sincerely, Hanfred dowditah na. f. S. Since diatating tha above, I ha-ra received a oopy of Kr. Littlefield's lattar to you of August 11th, aa sail aa Dr. Holnblad'a lattar of August 10th, stating that yen aad I ara Invited lio attend a meeting of tha *<mrd of Dlraatora of tha A.A.I.I'.S. in Chioego on "Vtobar 3d. Tou wi 11 h from aa with regard to both of thawa presently. I gathered from talaphoaa talk- that you had not than reoeived nine of tha ISth. \hi- V- -7 O ! X\ J