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: STANDARD FORM No, 04 . @ - ok a es - + -. o - oe - : eee - ce oee . _ Offs Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 0 _ DATE: Feb, 8, | ; AL NORTON cur veo ° | PERE WCU _ "#90, STF By reference from the Director! § office, I talked to. Thurgood Raat National Association for the Advancement of Colored’ Pe opl Ete: Bory 7 stated that there were - ‘several matters which are worrying him and Gandy __4 he would like very much to come down on: Thursday or Friday to discuss | fy them with the Director and me, , So Mt : “TA Cher y told him that the Director had been tied up.on several, high leve Vibvass matters including appropriations and has. beéén pretty much unavailable but «° at I knew that Thursday and Friday were going to be particularly difficult days A , to keep his guard up. He stated this. was 8 exactly why he: wanted to come in. and “-seeus., - ne aa | ; say hello to him, a Lo, ; ; Me where it would be desirable for the Director to-say hello to him,, I can then makes inquiry ag to the Director! s availability, for him, that I would nevertheless check with the Director, that I -would be here _ | \ and glad to.see him:on’ ‘either Thursday or Friday at his convenience. He then’ stated he would come on down ‘tomorrow, would arrive in Washington at 12:30 p. mid| 4 =_ and would. come dire ctly to the Bureau, I told him this: would be agreeable, RS, He’ then ste “that whiléiie has been concerned: ‘about ‘the ‘Alabama ae situation and about.D oward, the matter which is worrying him more than | “\ anything else right at the moment. is the Communist Party! s effort to get into ge the NAACP and to forge out to the forefront, I told him he: really had a. serious | situation here, that I knew he was well aware of the dangers ‘and would do everytin I told hirn if. the Director were, here, I knew that he would be glad ton, It is suggested. that 7 see Marshall and then if the situation. ‘develops = RECORDED -8 O22 ¢0-SRE I have ‘asked Mr, Belmont to get up a quick somntnpde n Communist a) “activities in connection. with the infiltration of the: PED-ASP 10956 so _— a Tw FML _ INDEXED - 8 comma is | € 81 FER oA 1856 ie tt (5) 7 ot CC: - Mr. Holloman 7. ee i i. Mr. Boardman be ‘Mr. Belmont , ao,