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put our Embassy in action thru [[red underline]] The President or Lansing. The British play a rather dangerous game in this irritating needlessly american business men. [[/red underline]]  
At noon went to University Club where I had invited for lunch Mr. [[red underline]] J. E. Kingsbury [[/red underline]] (7 Sergeants' Inn Temple E.C. London) [[red underline]] President of the english Damard Lacquer Co Ltd, [[red underline]] 98 Bradford Str. Birmingham) and [[red underline]] H. V. Potter, [[/red underline]] B.Sc. A. T. C. their [[red underline]] Head Chemist and [[/red underline]] Manager.
They [[red underline]] are here to confer with [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] us and [[red underline]] Nikolas [[/red underline]] in regard to their American contract with [[red underline]] Fishel which Nikolas [[/red underline]] has bought but which [[red underline]] they say is void [[/red underline]] because it has been violated. [[red underline]] They also tell me that they have taken over the outfit of 
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the Bakelite [[/red underline]] Co in England, buying the few devices and equipment, the [[red underline]] Bakelite Co there having been sold at auction by the Government as a war measure in as [[/red underline]] far as it was considered owned by [[red underline]] German enemies [[/red underline]] of the realm. the managers and [[red underline]] chemists have been interned in England. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] They are [[/strikethrough]] At present the [[red underline]] Damard Co. [[/red underline]] is selling a molding product which is nothing but bakelite but which is called [[red underline]] Formite. They wanted to know what I could do in cooperation with them. [[/red underline]] Told them my situation in Germany and England and here and how this company has nothing in common with the european situation, this being a [[red underline]] private personnel situation. [[/red underline]] That just now [[red underline]] my relations with Germany were interrupted that I had [[/red underline]] no news of [[strikethrough]] sut [[/strikethrough]] situation in