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[[underline]] April 21. [[/underline]] At office all day
[[underline]] April 22. [[/underline]] Ditto
April 23. Meeting [[underline]] Schleussner [[/underline]] (this morning. He has returned from Europe) Townsend, George Baekeland and Redman. [[strikethrough]] Towns [[/strikethrough]] We all except Townsend are against signing contract with [[underline]] Radiofrequencies [[/underline]] Laboratories because the [[underline]] contract [[/underline]] as now worded is [[underline]] so broad [[/underline]] as to be positively dangerous
Contract with [[underline]] Durez, [[/underline]] for giving license as written by [[underline]] Barns and Townsend [[/underline]] is found [[underline]] unacceptable as to be dangerously broad. Mann [[/underline]] their lawyer is [[underline]] anxious to have me sign it. [[/underline]] I certainly [[underline]] shall not sign the contract as submitted. [[/underline]] 
If it be signed at all it
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must be considerably changed and I shall not proceed before submitting it for revision to all the members of the executive committee. [[underline]] As worded now it is absurd and killing [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] Yet [[/strikethrough]] I cannot understand how [[underline]] Townsend [[/underline]] obstinately refuses to see the dangerous wording of the contract. [[underline] I believe Townsend [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] is mentally tired and overworked. [[/underline]] 
This is one of the [[underline]] rare instances where Townsend and I have radically different opinions on a subject. 
Townsend [[/underline]] made a [[underline]] fearful blunder [[/underline]] when he let the patent on bakelite paper be published in the [[underline]] U.S. and Canada, [[/underline]] to no purpose and at great detriment, [[underline]] without [[/underline]]