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to attend to his own responsibilities and not meddle with departments where he was not qualified and who were under the responsibilities of their respective heads. He evidently [[underlined in red]] is under the stupid impression that George Baekeland as well as myself are his enemies instead of his friends. [[/underlined in red]] The fact is [[underlined in red]] nobody in the whole business has any use for him and all resent his meddlesomeness. [[/underlined in red]] He means it well enough, but his ^ [[very]] limited knowledge and experience and lack of fine judgement and [[underlined in red]] hopeless lack of sense of humor, [[/underlined in red]] fed by his [[underlined in red]] vanity [[/underlined in red]] make him a [[underlined in red]] dangerous blundering person. A blunderer is frequently worse than a knave. [[/underlined in red]] He is honest and has good intentions but does not realize that [[underlined in red]] instead of a help he is really a great hindrance [[/underlined in red]] to me. by not doing as everybody else, attend to his own business
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and obey orders without, buts and ifs and whys and wherefores [[underlined in red]] I told him that if he did not frankly believe that George B. and myself were his 100% friends he should better look out for a situation more to his liking [[/underlined]] instead of thanking me for helping him in his career he [[left margin red]] !! [[/left margin red]] told me: [[underlined in red]] "You have put me on a cross for six years". [[/underlined in red]] This made my blood boil and I expressed my indignation. He immediately said he did not mean it in that sense. Shortly afterwards he said that I had made him lose six years! This also he explained his way. By this time I [[underlined in red]] had become very indignant This is my busy day of all [[/underlined in red]] and as usually he irritates me to the point of impatience so I was unable to attend to my work all day and and felt very unhappy. [[underlined in red]] I never told to Nina about my [[/underlined in red]]