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afterward he began criticizing [[red underline]] Wilson [[/red underline]] in totality and detail and altho' he is a long time democrat he heaped just as much abuse upon him as any of the partisan conservative Republicans here in the North. [[red underline]] Strange similarity in all countries of this [[strikethrough]] human [[/strikethrough]] trait in human nature as soon as politics are touched upon. [[/red underline]]
Feb. 14. The first rainy day since many weeks. Am here at University Club. writing and telephoning and expediting some varied work. [[strikethrough]] Shayer [[/strikethrough]] Telephoned to Paulus and Geary. Porter is away till march
Feb 15. Paper publish first accepted provisional draft of 
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[[vertical notation in left margin]] Later on lost my enthusiasm for League and my views changed entirely since I saw how all nations tried to league themselves against U.S. their benefactor [[/red underline]]
[[red underline]] League of Nations [[/red underline]] and Wilson's comments in presenting the document. Like usually there are plenty of carpers, critics, fault finders and pessimists who do their utmost to belittle all this. either because they are born pessimists or more so because small petty partisan politicians.
I [[red underline]] feel quite differently [[/red underline]] I feel truly happy that we should have reached thus far. when Declaration of Independence was signed people were not so much impressed with the magnitude of the work they had undertaken as we are now. [[red underline]] Great things in the World are frequently born almost unnoticed or unappreciated. Most people have a torpid imagination which only works when stimulated artificially or to order. [[/red underline]] They