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[[preprinted]] 116 [[/preprinted]] [[red line along left margin]] [[underlined]] yet allowed. Baskerville [[/underlined]] too said some very nice things. Then came [[underlined]] Sperry [[/underlined]] who said that this whole matter interesting as it might be from a chemical standpoint much more interesting from an engineering standpoint and he wanted an engineer to express ^ [[these thoughts]] etc.Then came [[underlined]] Takamine who said that his plant had been named the ^[[Island]] [[?]] of Lacquer. - that much Japanese lacquer had been made in Germany. That [[underlined]] Bakelite [[/underlined]] changed all this and [[underlined]] becomes our real competitor. [[/underlined]] Yet congratulated and [[/red line in left margin]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] 117 [[/preprinted]] [[red line in left margin]] thanked me because it was a "square deal" Had taken samples to Japan and knew it was a competitor. But that what had happened in California [[^red X]] was not a square deal. Toch replied that he knew that his Japanese pronunciation was not so perfect as that of Takamine and in speaking about lacquer he felt he was at a disadvantage before a Jap. Yet he wanted to assure Dr.Takamine that the whole West Coast of U.S. numbered barely 2 million and that [[/red line along left margin]] there were 72 million [[vertical text in left margin]] Exclusion act of Japanese [[/vertical text in left margin]] [[end page]]