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happened of late. and which made me still feel more enthusiastic about [[underlined in red]] George's [[/underlined in red]] and [[underlined in red]] Tiss [[/underlined in red]] future work and happiness. 
Jan 7. Feel much better. took good meal. dictated belated letters
Jan 8. Feel well enough to venture driving to New York to listen to talk of ^[[Dwight]] [[underlined in red]] Morrow [[/underlined in red]] at University Club. Took lunch there. Many present. [[underlined in red]] Very interesting talk characterized by moderation and common sense. [[/underlined in red]] Dwells on the differ clashes and [[underlined in red]] reproaches [[between?]] French and American Soldier Italians Englishmen [[/underlined in red]] etc. and insists we should not exaggerate or generalize too much on [[underlined in red]] industrial cases, nor overestimate nor [[/underlined in red]] under estimate merits and cooperation of each of the
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countries. [[red underline]] A plain good [[/red underline]] common sense view very useful for correcting the views of some [[red underline]] fire-eaters [[/red underline]] who [[strikethrough]] at [[/strikethrough]] either [[red underline]] condemn everything or everybody [[/red underline]] or [[strikethrough]] forget to [[/strikethrough]] attribute all success and everything to one or two particular [[pets?]] Morrow says that one of the most general reason of the [[red underline]] blunders [[/red underline]] which were committed by every one and all of the warring nations was that [[strikethrough]] fa [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] most of the time decisions on details [[/red underline]] were only reached after the most painstaking and slow deliberations while [[red underline]] big matters were decided in panicky condition or "under a competitive panic". and decisions [[red underline]] were rushed [[red underline]] thru then [[red underline]] without enough deliberation [[/red underline]] and specially without full knowledge of all the [[red underline]] different facts [[/red underline]] or