My dear Prime Minister,

BUSINESS MISSION

I met the Business Mission on Monday, the 16th of July, and had a
fairly useful talk but an hour is a very short time in which
really to deal with the many problems. I am, however, arranging to
see Duckham [1] and Sir Ernest Clark [2] again and Sir Hugo Hirst
[3] when he returns from his cure at Aix, so that I hope I shall
have done something to educate the Mission. Actually I wasted
about ten minutes off my hour by taking Dr. Orr [4] along with me,
in order to make sure that the Business Mission made suitable
arrangements to see him before they leave. It was arranged that
Orr should spend the morning of August 3rd with them and that I
should also be present.

ROME AND GENEVA

I received requests from Geneva and also a direct personal letter
from Monsieur Theunis [5], the Chairman of the Economic
Consultative Committee, asking for an expression of my views in
regard to the conversations which are about to take place as to
the relationship of these two International Bodies. [6] I enclose
a copy of my reply to M. Theunis, which you may be interested to
glance at.

Yours sincerely,
F. L. MCDOUGALL