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[[red underline]] all excellent testimony [[/red underline]] for us. 
Yesterday a telegram by [[red underline]] Belgian Ambassador [[/red underline]] who wants to see me to day telegram that [[strikethrough]] president Wilson app invites me to luncheon [[/strikethrough]] Committee named by President [[red underline]] Wilson invites [[/red underline]] me to luncheon Saturday to meet [[red underline]] King Albert [[/red underline]] A sultry day. Am leaving to night. Sultry heavy warm weather just as in mid-summer.
Oct 3. [[strikethrough]] Trave [[/strikethrough]] arrived Yonkers this morning. Evening presided meeting of [[red underline]] Societé de chemie Industrielle [[/red underline]]
Oct 4. Was presented to [[red underline]] King Albert [[/red underline]] this morning at luncheon offered to him by Belgian Relief Committee at [[red underline]] Bankers Club. [[/red underline]] He is a [[red underline]] splendid looking fellow, every inch a man who would [[/red underline]]
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look like an impressive man even if he were [[red underline]] barefooted and in overalls. More than a King [[/red underline]] a man. His [[red underline]] young son [[/red underline]] the prince looked [[red underline]] rather bored [[/red underline]], and no wonder, the poor boy had nothing to do but to wait patiently. Several military officers accompanied the king covered with medals or ribbons. The king himself wore no ribbons nor decorations. Just a plain officers uniform, which showed undoubted [[red underline]] signs of wear [[/red underline]], specially his leather belt. He [[red underline]] was taller than anybody around him. [[/red underline]] His speech was simple direct and sincere. His English pronunciation was rather hesitating - not by any means as good as that of Mercier [[strikethrough]] I was seated at and [[/strikethrough]] There were about 50 guests. I was seated at the table with [[red underline]] Colonel Osterieth [[/red underline]] who is the Belgian