'CONCLUSION OF THE CONFERENCES IN THE UNITED STATES' (SPECIAL TO THE 'SUDETENDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG')

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100300006-5
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 22, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

iT MARCH 22 1958 X +Z it
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o,1CN. Ct' THE CONFERENCES IN THE UNITED STATES"
(Special to the "Sudetendeutsohe Zeitung")
me Week - now a as so returned to Europe from
tric across thq United States.
Jiri Brada had paid visits to some former adquaintances such as former,
r,t,re..sman Kit .-lardy in Lansing, Michigan and former Congressman Charles J. Kersten
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. Kersten and Mr. Clardy said they were ready to cooperate
:n he. fcundation of a new American-EEuropean organization which would do better work
-:ari Hadic. ?'fee uroje does now. Cooperation was promieed also by Major General Charle
A"lloughby and by the former US Ambassador in Canada, Mr. James Cromwell.
In Chicago, Illinois, Mr. Brada contacted Mr. Robert A. Taft, a distant relative
t"e late Senator Taft, as well as the Czech Emigrant Jiri Havalka (National Democrat
representatives of other nations, the newpaper "Chicago American", the Sudeten-.
-erriah emigrant rrederic Kovanda and others. Over a local radio station Mr. Brada spoke
'_r half an hour about the necessity of a policy of liberation.
Then Mr. Brada returned to Washington xhere he had lunch frith radio* commentator
ltcn Lewis Jr., at the Motel Statler He also met the. publisher of the magazine.
an Events", Mr. Frank.Castigan, and with several 1embers of Congress. Among them
w'-re Edwin B. Dooley, Frank M. Coffin (Foreign Relations Committee), Charles F. Bennett,
.-ran is E. Walter, Bruce Alger and Congressman Ralph W. Galin, who, asked Mr. Brada'e
mien about a heads-of-state confprenoe with the Communists. Ot this he sent a copy
IrNFident Eisenhower .and to Secretary of State Dulles.
:cngressman Frank M. Clark, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, introdubed into the
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-.:~t;ressiondl Records a' newspaper, article written Ir Mr. Breda. against the "New York Tim.
: Lad'recomngnded contacts with.Communist rulers. Mr. Brada called it regrettable
.1 this kind of propaganda is offered at official American* opinion at the US
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