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[[underlined]] SUMMARY OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. GEORGES SELIGMANN AND BARON CASSEL, MAY 2nd, 1944: [[/underlined]]

Baron Cassel: "Your letter doesn't answer any of the questions I put to you in mine. I want a[[strikethrough]]n[[/strikethrough]] ^[[better]] answer".

Mr. Georges: "The letter is the best I can give you".

Baron Cassel: "Your letter is filled with lies".

Mr. Georges: "The letter is not filled with lies".

Baron Cassel: "I tell you that the letter is filled with lies because the tapestry did not belong to you and you say that I bought it from the firm. I never bought it from the firm; you acted as intermediary, etc.". "I want the truth about the whole story and I won't pay the $300. before you have made a satisfactory statement to me".

Mr. Georges: "Read the letter; you will get a clear idea of the whole story - or if you prefer, let us have an interview, but don't threaten us with lawyers and law suits, and then I will add a few explanations and the letter will be even clearer than it is now".

Baron Cassel: "I don't want to lose my time with you. If you don't want to write to me, I will send the $300. to my lawyer asking him to write you a letter saying that the $300. are at your disposal at his place against a written statement of the mission of intermediary that you had to fulfill and the way you did fulfill it. I have a right to know how you employed the monies I gave you. The $6,000. were never given to the owner, as you made some tricky arrangement of exchanges of works of art, and God knows what".

Mr. Georges: "Read the letter which shows you the full truth".

Baron Cassel: "Then I must understand that the tapestry has belonged to the firm the whole time".

I did not answer to that, but tried to make his understand that it was the truth. The conversation ended by his saying "I am going to write to my lawyer to send him the $300. as I do not want anybody to think that I am reluctant to pay the $300., but instructing him to pay this out before you give a full statement of the way you fulfilled the mission, etc.".

The very last thing he said was "If really the tapestry belonged to the firm during the whole time, the whole story was a fraud". To which I answered "If that had been the case, I do not see what harm either physical or mental you have suffered. You did not pay for the tapestry a cent more than you would have paid otherwise, etc. and morally there would have been no difference".

He rejected the idea of having someone examine the bookkeeping entries as we offered it, and at repeating the suggestion made in the letter that he could cancel his purchase, he answered that he had no such intention.

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