Viewing page 206 of 266

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

233

[[underline]] difficult to get out of WPB right away! [[/underline]]  He cited Phil Reed's case where Phil couldn't get out while under fire.  Andrew stated also in very violent terms that the time had come to quit shilly-shallying with Porter and we had to straighten them out.  He ordered Charlie to take immediate steps to get a compliance man out there and investigate them for violation of priority regulations.  It seems [[underline]] Watterson of Porter has written endless letters lately to Stevenson [[/underline]] ordering him practically to get them material, item by item; it appears Watterson is trying to hold Stevenson to some statement he made to them about expediting and which the Porter people completely misinterpreted.  That naturally is irritating the situation and this act of Evans simply capped the climax.

I had dinner with Vic, all the rest of the gang having decamped for the weekend.  I was pretty much enraged, hurt, and almost dumbfounded by the affair.  I didn't sleep too well.

Washington, D.C.
Saturday, Nov. 21, '42.

Charlie ^[[see 240]] told me he stayed last night and Stevenson wrote an [[underline]] eight page [[/underline]] letter to Donald Nelson including [[underline]] a letter for Nelson's signature to Evans, [[/underline]] demanding an apology and his [[underline]] resignation [[/underline]] from his Industry Advisory Committee.  Charlie said the letter to Nelson was the hottest thing he ever read and included among other things a statement [[underline]] that if Nelson asked me to resign, Stevenson would like to be asked for his resignation also.[[/underline]]  He intimated he thought [[underline]] Evans was "subject for a psychopathic hospital [[/underline]] and guaranteed he would [[underline]] investigate him for priority violations. [[/underline]] He said

Transcription Notes:
Reviewed