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[[left margin]] 104 [[/left margin]] one of their friends in Greenwich Durner poorly prepared and interrupted to dine to a lecture of [[red underline]] Lord Aberdeen [[/red underline]], former [[red underline]] Vice-Roy of Ireland and [[strikethrough]] M [[/strikethrough]] Lady Aberdeen at Carnegie [[/red underline]] Hall. We arrived in middle of [[red underline]] speech [[/red underline]]. These [[strikethrough]] britishers [[/strikethrough]] ^ british aristocrats asking financial [[red underline]] help for the slums [[/red underline]] and poor [[red underline]] of Ireland [[/red underline]] seem to have lost all sense of honor otherwise they would not come here and [[/red underline]] expose England's shame before an American public. [[/red underline]] The neglect of the poorer classes in [[red underline]] England [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] Ireland is directly due [[/red underline]] to the indifference and smugness of the [[strikethrough]] weatly [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] wealthy aristocratic classes. [[/red underline]] These people do not seem to grasp [[red underline]] that the shame of these slums [[/red underline]] is their [[red underline]] own shame. [[/red underline]] I hope that some german sympathizers end page start page [[left margin]] 105 [[/left margin]] will not seize the occasion to point out [[red underline]] England's [[/red underline]] shortcomings to her poor and illiterate classes. [[strikethrough]] This was [[/strikethrough]] We left before it was all over. The proceedings were very [[illegible]]. In fact the whole evening was turned into a [[illegible]] affair since [[red underline]] Hooter [[/red underline]] again managed to upset the dinner by crowding too many things in the same evening. [[left margin]] Jan. 27. [[/left margin]] Here all day. Evening to University Club. Supper with Gary Hutchinson then went to see alone a Bernard Shaw play: Major Barbara. [[left margin]] Jan. 28. [[/left margin]] Went for lunch with [[red underline]] Hassbacher, [[/red underline]] Hamman, [[red underline]] Mausolf, Roesler, and Foersterling [[/red underline]] at Drug Club. Decided to present [[red underline]] 11 1/2% dividend [[/red underline]] and to put our Co. on a [[red underline]] 6% regular [[/red underline]] basis payable [[strikethrough[[ we [[/strikethrough]] 1 1/2 % every three months. Evening went to University Club. [[left margin]] Jan. 29. [[/left margin]] Took lunch at Chemists Club.