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The whole Department is in a state of flux: Joe left in the highest spirits for his new post last week (taking Nolan) and Leo McCauley although home has not yet assumed the Assistant Secretaryship. Other changes are in progress or contemplated. I myself am leaving on 31st May for New York en route to Seattle Washington (ILO) and am trying now to make up the stuff which is nearly all new to me (Seafarers' Welfare). Is there any chance at all you could stage a visit to Vancouver in June? or New York from 1st to 3rd June, Commodore Hotel? I suppose not, but still hope vaguely that we may meet somewhere, somehow.