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printers that under no circumstances was the paper to be remade. Wales, meanwhile, had cabled his story to Chicago. He had cast it in the form of an exclusive interview with Lindbergh, undaunted by the handicap of never having set eyes on him nor heard his voice. Jay Allen, his assistant, had telephoned from the embassy a report of the brief 2:00 a.m. bedroom press conference, but everybody had that���only Wales dared promote it into a private interview. I heard envious correspondents say later that Wales had written most of it during the afternoon before Lindbergh arrived, which would not have been impossible. It was not dif���cult to imagine in advance some of the phrases that were bound to be uttered on such an occasion, including the sentiments the embassy would prompt Lindbergh to utter in the interests of FrenchAmerican amity. Wales was on excellent terms with Herrick and it wouldn���t have been beyond him to acquaint Herrick with what he intended to write and make sure there would be no denial of it. Indeed he might even, as a friend of the ambassador, have served as a sort of unof���cial adviser on what angles it would be politic to persuade Lindbergh to stress, in which case he could interview Lindbergh in absentia with a minimum of risk, for he would in essence be interviewing himself. Whatever the mechanics of the affair, there arrived for Wales the next day a cable from Chicago: congratulations your lindbergh exclusive stop mailing ���ve hundred bonus. mccormick. HYLAND 16