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146 [[red underline]] of Chemists Club Edward Weston there. [[/red underline]] We receive several resignations from [[red underline]] German born members [[/red underline]] or members of [[red underline]] German parentage [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] this is the result of the recently [[red underline]] passed resolutions [[/red underline]] which aimed at driving out of our [[red underline]] club anybody who is not sincerely pro American and pro-Ally [[/red underline]] One of the letters is from that bully and boor [[/red underline]] Arthur von Briesen [[/red underline]] who tries to pose as a victim and in doing so can not hid his [[red underline]] progermanism [[/red underline]] April 20. [[red underline]] Liberty Bond [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] demonstration [[/striekthrough]] [[red underline]] Propaganda [[/red underline]] demonstration in New York and everywhere. Afternoon went to visit [[red underline]] Belgian Commission [[/red underline]] for the study of factory management in the U.S and social conditions relating thereto The President of the Commission [[end page]] [[start page]] 147 is Professor O.J. Steels. University Ghent the others: Lieutenant DeMan " Dr. Sands " DeJace Secretary Mavaut of the Ministry of Labor [[LeFanu?]] engineer and factory manager [[red underline]] DeMan and Mavaut are socialists [[/red underline]] representing the [[red underline]] VandeVelde [[/red underline]] group At the Waldorf Astoria then at the Chemists Club I tried to explain to them the difference between the [[strikethrough]] uns [[heones?]] [[/strikethrough]]] ^[[aims]] of [[red underline]] German Socialists [[/red underline]] and Bolsheviki and American constructive [[red underline]] democracy. [[/red underline]] Afterwards took them all for supper in a favorite room at University Club, and afterwards left them in the hands of [[red underline]] Oxnard [[/red underline]] the sugar manufacturer while I took 12:25 train. News from Western front is still good. April 21 (Sunday) [[red underline]] Belgian Com- [[/red underline]]
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Henri DeMan, gen. sec. of Workmen's Educational Union.
M. P. DeJace, former adjutant of the Ninth Regiment.
M. H. Mavaut, director of National Belgian Labor Bureau.