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and to Neave then in court. Yesterday [[red underline]] Neave [[/red underline]] had warned [[red underline]] me to be brief [[/red underline]] The result was that when Townsend interrogated me on essential matters my answers were Yes - No etc. and I left many matters of importance unsaid.  Today [[red underline]] Townsend [[/red underline]] continues direct examination and [[red underline]] gives me all latitude [[/red underline]] so I gave a short review of [[red underline]] the art of plastics [[/red underline]] (See my testimony) comparing the spirit of different methods with Bakelite.  [[red underline]] Judge Chatfield seemed [[/red underline]] intensely interested and when opposing Council [[red underline]] (Lee) [[/red underline]] objected against this lecture being in the record [[red underline]] Chatfield answered that instead of sustaining objection he 

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would rather sustain a motion that my lecture be copyrighted and printed as an able expose of the art of plastics. [[/red underline]] [[left margin in red:  !!]]  Felt very tired at 5 P.M. so took short nap before supper. Then Townsend came to take supper with me till 10 P.M. going over the record.
April 23. Feel very much rested. Good sleep. Beautiful weather walked down Fifth Ave early. [[red underline]] Victory loan [[/red underline]] is on and flags decorate the Ave. which seems more beautiful than was before. In [[strikethrough]] all so [[/strikethrough]] many windows of stores, there are excellent war paintings, some of them real works of art. [[red underline]] One gave me a lump in the throat and more a tear in each eye na- [[/red underline]]