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Ed didn't come down today.  So Vic and I had dinner alone and played two handed rummy until 9:30, when I called home, not having heard a word from them since I left.  All are well which made me feel good.

Mat didn't show up today so I was involved once more in the Porter schedule against my will.  Grace and Kipp were in gunning after Navy business at Porter which they are getting much exercised about.  [[underline]] I told Kipp about Evans' accusation at me (in the letter to Nelson) [[/underline]] and Kipp [[underline]] allowed maybe he did get the dope from Charlie.  Then John Grace [[/underline]] pipes up that he had told [[underline]] Kipp something of the sort about Porter's schedule.  Charlie is weakening now about letting Porter build Pittsburgh Steel [[/underline]] - which I think [[these lines highlighted by vertical line in margin]] is absolutely wrong from a disciplinary point of view regardless of what the status is of material and manufacture.  They have been positively vicious about the thing, have shifted the schedule around until hell won't have it, have taken delivery of material without authority to produce, and now to reverse ourselves in the face of all that seems downright wrong to me and I am trying to keep my own personal angle out of it when I say that.  And yet, as usual, he has angled himself around into a position where it is difficult not to let him go ahead.  Sometimes I wonder where the justice of things really is.  To my surprise today Charlie mentioned to the Navy that Evans had written to Donald Nelson; I would not have mentioned it to anyone outside our section and possibly to G.E. as they are involved through me but he did although I don't recall he mentioned my name.

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