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120 are bringing american troops and supplies to Europe. [[red underlined]] My opinion is that Geddes forgets that present devices would be all right if we had more sub-chasers of the right class and that we ought to [[/red underlined]] construct more boilers of the [[red underlined]] Eagle Class[[/red underlined]] or faster, so as to reap the best possibilities of present hydroplane devices. [[red underlined]] I mentioned the work of Pupin and advised their experts to meet Pupin which they accepted. Webster [[/red underlined]] like usually in his [[red underlined]] boorish cock-sure, [[/red underlined]] vanitous way [[red underlined]] interrupted Geddes twice to the disgust of everyone present. [[/red underlined]] After lunch I took [[red underlined]] Lt. Colonel MacLellan to Pupin's [[/red underlined]] laboratory There I met [[red underlined]] Webster [[/red underlined]] who asked me why he did not get his laboratory. I told him [[end page]] [[start page]] 121 [[red underlined]] in presence of Pupin [[/red underlined]] that [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] it was his own fault. [[underlined in red]] His tactless ways had irritated everybody and frightened them. [[/red underlined]] Any other man who would have proposed the same thing would have been received with open arms. Oct 15. More and [[red underlined]] more desarroi in Germany. [[/red underlined]] Those who attacked [[red underlined]] Wilson [[/red underlined]] most are now already [[red underlined]] turning into boot lickers. [[/red underlined]] The Kaiser [[red underlined]] who so dearly likes [[/red underlined]] to make speeches [[red underlined]] has become silent. The Allies are advancing [[red underlined]] everywhere. [[/red underlined]] All the newspapers agree that we [[red underlined]] can not trust [[/red underlined]] the Germans and that their request for [[red underlined]] armistice hides dangerous designs. [[/red underlined]] Evening went to lecture by [[red underlined]] Fosdick [[/red underlined]] at Century Club about [[red underlined]] Welfare [[/red underlined]] Camps in the Army. Oct 16. [[red underlined]] Further advances of the troops of the Allies in Flanders [[/red underlined]]
Transcription Notes:
"d?arroi" = "disarray"