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"Please [[underlined]] advise Hays study bye-laws present Bakelite Gesellschaft." [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Nov. 6 [[/underlined]] (Sunday) N.W. gale wind abeam. Boat rolls much more. To [[underlined]] night have sent following radiogram: "Be careful not (to) permit foreign resin imports (for) goods or processes fully covered by patent rights constituting contributory infringement(s) of unless our consent." [[/underlined]]
Nov. 7 ^[[&8]]. Moderate winds on quarter
Nov. 9. Arrived Cherbourg somewhat delayed about 5-6 P.M. No other steamers in harbor except tenders taking passengers off. Most passengers leave. Left about 7 P.M for [[strikethrough]] Cherbou [[/strikethrough]] Southhampton arrived there late. Steamer alongside wharf. Slept poorly, missing the motion of the ship
[[underlined]] Nov [[strikethrough]] 9 [[/strikethrough]] 10 [[/underlined]] Train for London left
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about 9 A.M. Quiet and orderly everywhere not too cold. [[underlined]] Bishop [[/underlined]] at station to meet me in London. As per telegram arrangement met R.M. Gerlach (address. Kurfurstendamm 123, Berlin) who has been director [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] of Bakelite Gesellschaft during the war and who had written me [[underlined]] that he had important information concerning my interests in Bakelite Gesellschaft [[/underlined]] He is a rotund man with fat face and bald shaven head. [[/underlined]] Tries to wear a [[underlined]] monocle [[/underlined]] ^[[(!)]] and of a personality [[strikethrough]] difficult [[/strikethrough]] impossible to find outside of Germany. X
[[annotation in left margin]] X Common vulgar looking! [[/annotation]]
Seems to be engaged in different [[underlined]] nondescript occupations from patents to accounting etc. [[/underlined]] On his printed matter appears [[underlined]] that he was formerly a judge for commercial suits and Consul General [[/underlined]] for Italy! He [[underlined]] wants to represent my interests in Germany. [[/underlined]] He says [[underlined]] Dr. [[Clessun?]] [[/underlined]] was the [[underlined]] controlling [[/underlined]] stockholder of Rutgerswerke and had him made a director of B.G. so as to check [[underlined]] Segal. [[/underlined]] When Dr. [[underlined]] [[Clessun?]] [[/underlined]]