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When Meyers asked him what he would do if sometime the lord wasn't with him, he answered, "Well, I guess then I'd call for you."

I took the boys to the City Club where these were not too reluctant about absorbing four highballs each amid many stories of the "beer jobs" in Milwaukee. One was how the switcher crews on the "beer jobs" usually ate lunch in the breweries and took on considerable free beer. We had dinner in the Den and then I took them on a Peninsula tour, which they seemed to enjoy. It was lovely out there with a full moon and the soft half light after sunset. We stopped at Perry Memorial and at the Channel where the summer atmosphere is now prevalent and pleasant. Looking at it all and thinking of Europe, one felt deeply grateful for peace, deeply determined that we should make ourselves so strong no one can ever dare take it from us.

Erie, Pa.,
Wednesday, June 19, 1940.

There was no Meyers today to make the day cheerful. The German terms are reported to be utterly devoid of any mercy - "sentimentality" they call it - reducing France completely to the status of a vassal state, all her colonies stripped from her, even many parts of France itself stripped off for Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium. The French are still fighting but their cause is hopelessly lost now. The Germans are overrunning the country - the "impregnable" Maginot Line has been abandoned. They are licked not because they can't fight but because they were grossly unprepared just