View original document

The full text on this page is automatically extracted from the file linked above and may contain errors and inconsistencies.

TO:

The Honorable,
Msrriner S, Eccles.

Thought you v/ould be interested.

A. N. Overby
Special Assistant to the Secretary



October 3, 1946.

My deer Mr, Secretary;
X appreciate very much the invitation to meet with
you and members of your immediate staff at five o*clock this
afternoon.
I regret to find that I have a ^tery important engagement
at my office in the department of State as soon as I can get
there following the joint meeting this afternoon at three o'clock.
After that, I am to be host at a reception beginning at five
thirty to an important Cuban delegation which is stopping off a
few days in Washington on their way to our Trade Conference in
London. I will do my best to drop in at your suite here at the
Wart*man Park at sometime between five and seven, but if I am
unable to make it X want to take this occasion to extend to you
and your staff my very sincere congratulations on the revy efficient
manner in which preparation was made for the Fund and Bank meetings
drawing to a close today, and the veTpy gracious and able way in
which you have presided at the various meetings of which you were
Chairman* X do not know of any international conference which has
been as successfully conducted as this.




Sincerely yours,
/s/ V. L. Clayton
W. I*. Clayton

She Honorable
John V. Snyder
Secretary of the Treasury