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worry because I could not find word in cable code until I discovered it meant Big eggs. [[red underline]] (big orders) [[/red underline]] - So after all the war is not making matters worse for Bakelite in America. This is some compensation for the losses I shall have in Germany and England where our business is now probably at a standstill and were it may have received a fatal blow. But [[red underline]] all these business considerations make little impression on me. [[/red underline]] I am thinking all the time on the [[red underline]] termendous disasters [[/red underline]] which are heaping on so many of my european friends and on other [[red underline]] innocent victims of the war. [[/red underline]] Lunched with [[red underline]] Mc Donald. [[/red underline]] Evening went to Tokio for dinner at [[red underline]] Shiohara's [[/red underline]] house. His house looks very much like that
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restaurant where we went first in Tokio. Same plain rooms. same partitions. same kind of garden. Old house of a Daimyo. Bathroom with [[red underline]] square wooden bathtub. [[/red underline]] His wife nor daughters not there 
All japanese except myself. They have given me four cushions one on top of another to make it easier for me to sit taylorwise. [[strikethrough]] Diner [[/strikethrough]] Dinner served by [[red underline]] Geisha [[/red underline]] like usual but none understands english. Other guests are [[red underline]] directors of Sankyo & Co [[/red underline]], professors and two business men. Some speak english, others german, others only japanese. Then the Geisha "dance" the story of the Fisherman see Terry's - Japan. They were much surprised to know that I knew the story. [[Fureya?]] tells them [[strikethrough]] ion [[/strikethrough]] in America we have a somewhat similar