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[[vertical annotation in left margin in red]] Strauss & Sachs [[/left margin]]
of their opportunities by resisting our advice of having more technically competent men specially in their sales service. also for having waited so long before sending Elbel etc. Judge my stupefaction when one of their first statements was a protest against the fact that a [[red underline]] private letter to Elbel from Weger his father [[/red underline]] in law had been opened at our office and had only reached [[red underline]] Elbel [[/red underline]] several weeks later. I was [[red underline]] dumfounded [[/red underline]] and could do nothing but apologize for the occurrence which at first I imagined due to carelessness at our office. Most of the day was spent in having the mistake which [[red underline]] finally proved to have occurred at the Chicago office due to the stupidity of an office boy and had further been amplified by the stupidity of a man at that office in [[/red underline]] Chicago who not reading
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German had readdressed the letter - not the envelope - to Bakelite Corporation New York office [[red underline]] hence a series of misunderstandings etc. [[/red underline]] - See the letters and telegrams on this subject. I wired the same day to Harry Milli in Berlin a long telegram giving all the details of the stupid blunder so as to avoid [[red underline]] that Weger should [[/red underline]] get more excited than the case warranted. Of course [[strikethrough]]I [[/strikethrough]] we all feel much humiliated and I feel much wrought up by the whole [[occurence?]]. 
[[vertical annotation in left margin]] A few weeks later got a letter from Milli that one of his private telegrams had been opened by mistake at the office of Bakelite in Berlin So [[red underline]] we are quits in blunders [[/red underline]] [[/left margin]]
Had all day [[red underline]] interview with Strauss and Sachs [[/red underline]] on many pending matters. [[red underline]] Dr. Strauss makes a good impression. Sachs [[/red underline]] altho' he means well does [[red underline]] not compare well with our men. [[/red underline]] because he is hopelessly [[red underline]] ignorant of technical matters [[/red underline]] and hence does not have the sense of proportion between

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