711.00111 Armament Control/Military Secrets/965
Memorandum by the Chief of the Office of Arms and Munitions Control (Green)
After a meeting of the National Munitions Control Board on December 30, I asked Admiral Leahy whether he had any information as to what had happened at the meeting in Mr. Edison’s office.
The Admiral said that Mr. Edison had told him that he had explained the position of the Government in regard to the proposed transaction in exactly the same terms in which it has been so often set forth in letters and conversations relating to this matter, and that he had added nothing new to what had already been said to Mr. Gibbs and the representatives of the shipbuilding companies.
Mr. Ferris called me from Oklahoma City by telephone this morning and asked me whether I had as yet any information in regard to what happened at the meeting.
I replied that I had no detailed information. I gave him such information as I had based upon what the Admiral had told me.