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162 expressing [[underline]] merely wishes or possibilities [[/underline]] and which [[underline]] covered [[/underline]] subjects on which we had been working. [[underline]] Townsend and Hayes warned us against the danger of having anything to do with a man of the kind and Hayes wrote him accordingly. [[/underline]] I referred him to [[underline]] Redman [[/underline]] but [[underline]] Redman justly refused to meet him again [[/underline]] Very pleasant cool weather. Then out to building [[underline]] National Academy of Science for luncheon Dr. Lind [[/underline]] gave an excellent short paper on [[underline]] activation [[/underline]] of the [[underline]] atom [[/underline]] Cohen had a subject more adapted to a classroom discussion than [[end page]] [[start page]] 163 a general ^[[international]] meeting he presided. ^[[Prof]] Sabatier's [[underline]] paper [[/underline]] on [[underline]] Catalyst [[/underline]] delivered in [[underline]] French was very good. ^[[Prins Gino]] Conti [[/underline]] ^[[of Italy]] [[strikethrough]] gave [[/strikethrough]] read one of his [[underline]] long [[/underline]] papers in a low voice, almost [[underline]] impossible to understand [[/underline]] altho' in personal conversation his English is good The [[underline]] Klu Klux Klan [[/underline]] in white robes is holding a procession thru Washington. White cotton is seen everywhere. Their stupid performance of these half witted persons has one good result it neutralizes the arrogance of the [[underline]] Knights of Columbus [[/underline]] who want the U.S. to [[underline]] compel Mexico to upset [[/underline]] its separation of Church and State and give the