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106 Feb 7. Here all day Feb 8. Went to New York had lunch with [[red underline]] Ambassador de Cartier and Consul General Mali [[/red underline]] at Ritz. De Cartier [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] ^[[seems]] much worried about intended raise of tariff. Mali says textile manufacturers [[red underline]] in Belgium are in a crisis and works shut down, because suddenly cut off from market.[[/red underline]] Talked about [[red underline]] King Albert [[/red underline]] Cup race for sail yachts Evening had for supper Mr. W. W. Nutting of "Typhoon" fame and his designer Atkins. Received telegraph from [[red underline]] George Baekeland [[/red underline]] of the birth of a [[red underline]] 13 lb. son. [[/red underline]] Feb 9. Here [[strikethrough]] all day [[/strikethrough]] until afternoon meeting of [[red underline]] Institute International Education. [[/red underline]] Present: Dr. N. M. Butler Duggan, Morgenthau, Monroe, [[end page]] [[start page]] 107 Outerbridge and myself. [[red underline]] Butler [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] told [[/strikethrough]] after the meeting told us many interesting things about troubles of [[red underline]] Harding and the politicians [[/red underline]] who are making a siege to compel him to appoint favorites [[strikethrough]] men [[/strikethrough]] for [[red underline]] members of cabinet, [[/red underline]] ambassadors [[strikethrough]] and other [[/strikethrough]] postmasters etc. No less than [[red underline]] 130 candidates thus far for chief commissioner for enforcement of prohibition. [[/red underline]] It was very interesting to hear all this discussed openly between dyed-in the wool Republican Butler and dyed in the wool democrat [[red underline]] Morgentau x [[vertical annotation in left margin]] x When Hoover and Hughes were mentioned as possibles for the cabinet by Morgentau, - Butler answered "Impossible" [[/vertical annotation]] Went with George Roll for supper to University Club then to [[red underline]] Sigma Xi [[/red underline]] meeting at Columbia University to hear Dean Pegrams' interpretation of Einstein's [[red underline]] theory of Relativity. [[/red underline]]