Viewing page 12 of 105

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

6 
[[left margin in red]] Paris La Bakelite [[/left margin
his card reads: 
"Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, Croix de Guerre [[red underline]] Ingénieur chimiste" [[/red underline]] 20 bis Ave de la Dame Blanche Fontenay sous-bois. Tel. 240 
He is a young Frenchman about 30-35 years old, father of 5 children, son of an army officer and [[red underline]] makes a good impression. [[/red underline]] There was also a typewriter-girl. We had a talk together then about 3 P.M in came [[red underline]] Surcouf [[/red underline]] the General Manager. Who is a [[red underline]] thick set oxheaded frenchman [[/red underline]] ^[[Breton]]  with spectacles who looks more like a german. Rather [[red underline]] abrupt in his ways [[/red underline]] and who does [[red underline]] not make an inviting impression. [[/red underline]] He seems to be the kind of a matter who is [[red underline]] always ready to contest and to [[/red underline]]
[[end page]]
[[start page]]
7
[[left margin in red]] Paris - Surcouf [[/left margin]]
start a quarrel. Tried to get [[red underline]] De La Valette [[/red underline]] at the phone but he was just making a speech at the [[red underline]] Chambre de Commerce. Bakelite matters here look rather depressing. Little business at hand, little in sight and they are [[red underline]] at logger heads with the German Company. [[/red underline]] All unfortunately as [[red underline]] I foresaw hence my lack of enthusiasm when they formed their Company. Surcouf [[/red underline]] seemed to be astonished to hear that [[red underline]] I had no relations [[/red underline]] with the [[red underline]] Bakelite Gesellschaft [[/red underline]] and had obtained no money from them. I told him [[red underline]] how little importance I attach to it all and how I systematically have avoided [[/red underline]] any relations with them since the war.
Felt rather tired after