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[[left margin in red]] Paris - Surcouf [[/left margin]]
my interview and feel ^[[even]] [[red underline]] less [[/red underline]] enthusiastic about [[red underline]] French Bakelite than before. [[/red underline]]
Jan. 24. [[red underline]] Lavalette [[/red underline]] here for lunch. [[red underline]] Génot [[/red underline]] came to propose me to give my claims to [[strikethrough]] La Bakelite [[/strikethrough]] Germany to la Bakelite and thus reinforce their position. Invited him to stay for lunch at hotel with Lavalette. While I was speaking about [[red underline]] Volstead law [[/red underline]] and its results. [[red underline]] Surcouf [[/red underline]] came in with his buxom [[red underline]] wife who looks like a prizefighter [[/red underline]]] and is just as [[red underline]] loudspoken and bull-like as her husband. [[/red underline]] Fortunately they only stopped for a short time [[red underline]] All this French talk tires me much. [[/red underline]] One sees here undoubdetly a class of [[red underline]] pretentious loafers [[/red underline]]
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[[left margin in red]] Belgium Ambassy Calls [[/left margin]]
[[strikethrough]] living [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] many living on their [[/red underline]] wits and who would [[red underline]] hardly be tolerated in [[/red underline]] New York except around the [[red underline]] slimy crowd of the Ritz-Carton. [[/red underline]]
Jan 15. Mr. [[red underline]] Sergysels Secretary of the Belgian Ambassy [[/red underline]] paid me a call at the hotel while I was away.- I wonder whether [[red underline]] de Cartier [[/red underline]] in Washington has told them to look out for me.- This like anything else here introduces useless complications and [[red underline]] necessitates [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] a call on my part etc. [[/red underline]] How stupid all this, which takes up the time and attention of the so called idle-class. [[strikethrough]] Lavalette [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Count de la Valette [[/red underline]] came to fetch me in his car.- [[red underline]] No self-starter. Few [[/red underline]]