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prettily situated with little garden behind in one of the [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] pretty and quiet suburbs of Berlin, where motor cars are a rarity. His young wife is also a chemist and is his assistant in his research work in the private laboratory installed in the basement of his house. All cleanly, but simply arranged without unnecessary expenses. He and his wife very much miss their Vienna here in Berlin, as most Viennese do. - Both of them treated me with utmost kindness.  
Then drove to Adlon, where [[red underline]] Weger [[/red underline]] was waiting for me to conduct me to the [[red underline]] Victoria [[/red underline]] hotel, where a [[strikethrough]] des [[/strikethrough]] dinner had been arranged for [[red underline]] Surcouf [[/red underline]] and his wife and myself by Sachs, Weger & Stauss.
[[left margin in red]] [[strikethrough]] Dr. Ripper [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]]Surcouf [[/red underline]] [[/left margin in red]]
But I had excused myself that I must pack and leave early next morning. But so as not to [[red underline]] offend Surcouf [[/red underline]] went to the opening of the dinner and took a glass of Champagne with them. Dr. Stauss & Mrs Stauss were also present. Then when I left Dr. Stauss escorted me to the outside room and then brought up again the question raised last year whether Sachs brother Robert, who 
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also was present at the dinner should be given right to sign (Procuration?). I [[strikethrough]] ar [[/strikethrough]] told him this was a matter for them to decide as I did not know [[red underline]] Robert Sachs, [[/red underline]] and they knew better how to conduct their business. I [[red underline]] asked Stauss: "Are you in favor of it?" He said "Yes". I said "Well then I have [[/red underline]] no objection to it."
Got 200 Marks more cash from Bakelite Gesellschaft.
[[left margin in red]] On way to Belgium 
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[[underline]] June 14, [[/underline]] 1932.  Train for [[red underline]] Liege [[\red underline]] left at 8:00 A.M. Both Weger and Sachs came to fetch me at the hotel to see me off. Fertile country. - Westphalia. Women in the fields, weeding or harvesting, dressed in contrasting colors. Red skirts and blue or yellow wrappings. Well kept farms. Then Steel works of Essen etc. quite a contrast. [[red underline]] See no signs of claimed poverty.[[/red underline]] Weather bright, but hot in train. Met a bright young German, 29. [[strikethrough]] Dr. Kurtiss Laurentius [[/strikethrough]] Dr. [[red underline]] Kurt Laurentius [[/red underline]] who is engaged in silk trade, altho' he studied law, (G. Avenue Alphonse XIII Paris XVI:) speaks perfect English and French besides German, and has travelled in many parts of the World. Knows Dr. Beckers of G. Chemical Co also [[red underline]] Count Lückner [[/red underline]] and was on the crew of his schooner yacht Vaterland. At end of German boundary surrendered my declaration about the amount of money I brought in at Hamburg, but the [[red underline]] polite German officials did not even ask me whether I [[strikethrough]] got [[/strikethrough]] took out more [[/red underline]] or how much I had with me.
[[left margin in red]] [[strikethrough]] Belg [[/strikethrough]] [[/left margin in red]]
Then shortly afterwards stepped in [[red underline]] Belgium Gendarmes, [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] in new uniforms and [[red underline]] swaggering[[/red underline]]