LETTER TO MR. DONALD W. MARKEN FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: September 19, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

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 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Dulles
Stan Grogan recommends that you decline
t]-l. s invitation. I have also attached a
copy of the letter I wrote to Mr. Marken
during your absence.
15 September 61
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 SRN FRANCISCO JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
333 PINE STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 4, CALIFORNIA . . . EXBROOK 2-4511
September 1, 1961
Mr. Allan W. Dulles
2430 E. Street N.W.
Washington, D.C.
The San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce is pleased to invite
you to speak at the annual Bosses' Day luncheon. This is our most important
gathering of the year, and it is attended by 300 to 400 members of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce and their employers, representing the nucleus of the
San Francisco business and professional society.
The date of this luncheon can be arranged for any week day during
the month of November or the first week of December to fit the convenience of the
speaker. Speaking for the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce and for the
business community as a whole, I venture to say that we have many questions as to
what problems face business and businessmen in the struggle with the Communist
ideology and what we can do to help the cause of freedom. We do not pretend to
prescribe the topic of your talk, should we have the honor of your acceptance, but
wish to make clear that our invitation is based on a sincere desire to clarify what
we as individuals, and as a community, can do to preserve freedom for ourselves
and insure for all peoples the right to think, speak, and choose for themselves.
We have a limited budget with which to arrange our meetings. For
this reason, we wish to inquire, assuming it is otherwise possible for you to
accept, if there is a possibility that this luncheon could be scheduled to coincide
with any trips to the West Coast you may be making for other reasons; or whether
the government agency with which you are associated would share expenses with us.
If you have any questions, please let me know. We sincerely thank
you for your consideration.
Very truly yours,
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