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[[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
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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]]

Transcription Notes:
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.