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penheimers were to be abroad
and thereupon. wrote the OPP
penheimers asking them to see
the Chevaliers in Paris If they
came there. AS a result the OPP
penheimers had dinner with the
Chevaliers in Paris in December,
1858. The following day they
went together to visit Malraux,
one of Frances most eminent
men of letters, some Of whose
works Chevalier had translated
into English. It should not be
necessary to note that the most
recent political activity of this
famous Frenchman was as q
strong supporter of De Gaulle.
Mention was made in the
board report of letter Cheval-
ier wrote to a U. 5. Embassy
attache two months after the
Oppenheimer's Paris visit in 1858.
DIR. Oppenheimer testified that
when he first arrived in Paris he
lunched with the embassy off,
cial in question-Jefiries Wyman,
science attache and q friend Of
DR.. Oppenheimer from Harvard
and Cambridge days. DR.. OPP
penheimer did not see Wyman
again, but about q week later he
had the visits with the Chevaliers
and with Malraux already men
toned. In the course Of the visit
of the OppenheimerS with the
Chevaliers, Haakon Chevalier dis
cusSed with DR.. Oppenheimer the
question of Chevalier'S continued.
employment with UNESCO. DR..
Oppenheimer testified that he
did not discuss Chevalier'S pass
port problem; as to the UNESCO
problem. sit was precisely be-
cause Wyman was an officer of
the Government that it would
have appeared appropriate to me
for Chevalier to consult Wyman.
precisely because anything that
was said would be reported to the
Government and would be quite
OPEN" Two months later, Che
Waller did write Wyman, and
Wyman made an appointment to
see him.
We do not know the point of
the Boards reference to this in
cident unless to show, what DR..
Oppenheimer has never con-
cealed, that he considered Che
Waller a friend. Certainly the en-
tire incident bears not the slight
est suggestion of impropriety-
unless. as the majority seem to
feel, any voluntary contact of
DR.. Oppenheimer with Cheval-
ier, no matter how purely social.
represents being loyal to ones
friends above reasonable obliga-
ton to the country and to the
security system"
The majority states that ''it is
not important to determine that
Dr.. Oppenheimer discussed with
Chevalier matters of concern to
the security of the United
States" But If DR.. Open
heimer did not discuss matters
of concern to the security OF the
United States on those rare oc-
casions when he has seen Che
Waller in recent years, how can
the security interests of the
United States be affected?
In a life now rich with aSso-
Citations of every variety. drawn
from science, public affairs, in
duStry and the arts, there re-
mains in DR.. Oppenheimer's case
the solitary residue from his
quite different life of more than
a decade ago-the association
with Chevalier. DR.. Open
heimer believes Chevalier not to
be Communist today, what
ever his past political orienta-
ton. We do not think that the
security system prohibits a man,
whatever his position, from oc-
caSionally seeing and treating in
a kindly way even such a friend
of former years so long as he
preserves, as all agree DR.. OPP
penheimer has,. a scrupulous dis
cretion regarding matters Of
concern to the Government.
Conclusion.
y
The commission must now