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TREASURY DEPARTMENT

UNITED STATES
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

American Embassy, 5 rue de Chaillot,

Paris, September 27, 1928,

Personal

Surgeon Lawrence Kolb,

U. S. Public Health Service
Care American Consulate General
Dublin - Irlande Libre.

My dear Doctor Kolb:

Acknowledgment is made of your personal letter of the
24th instant with regard to your tentative plans. I am entirely
in ignorance of the scope of your orders and have to ask whether
you are authorized to travel on instructions from this office,

As the situation now stands at Warsaw I can see no
great benefit to you or to the work on hand for you to proceed
to that place before the arrival of Dr. Kempf, and before plans
have been perfected for the appearance at the Consulate of a
number of applicants the Bureau wishes to be re-examined. Some
of these individuals live quite a distance from Warsaw and must
pe directed by letter to report at the Consulate General on spe-
cified dates.

Your sugeestion of a preliminary conference with Doc-
tor Treadway and myself is a good one. Indeed, I wrote the Bu-
reau some time ago suggesting that both you and Dr. Kempf pro-
ceed to Warsaw via Paris. I deem it advisable to explain to you
in detail the plans of Dr. Treadway and myself for the study of
mental norms in the respective countries from whence immigrants
proceed to the United States, and also to give you a dispassio-
nate view of the Warsaw situation rather than that your first
impression:should be obtained from the officers on duty at that
station, whose views may or may not be tinctured by close asso-
ciation.

Unless your orders are urgent and you are in @ parti-

cular hurry to proceed to Warsaw, I shall arrange to have Tread-

way meet you at my office on a date that will be mutually agree-
able.

I shall be pleased to hear from you further regarding
your plans and whether the suggested delay is agreeable.

Very ee yours

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