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81/ [[note in left margin in red]] Nina divorce [[/note in left margin]] break has come thru his recent visit to camp with his brother and sister. I [[red underline]] am furious that she should take such a step without first consulting [[/red underline]] me and to do all this at the [[red underline]] present period of my life [[/red underline]] when I need all my attention for [[red underline]] Ripper [[/red underline]] and business & research matters of Bakelite Corporation. [[red underline]] George Roll has abundantly proved [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] since he left Bakelite that he is [[red underline]] a hopeless nonentity [[/red underline]] and has away of making himself disliked by his [[red underline]] overbearing attitude [[strikethrough]] whenever [[/strikethrough]] towards others under him. His conceit [[/red underline]] was fed first while [[strikethrough]] he had his [[/strikethrough]] in Bakelite, where he did not realize that his only importance and consideration he received was due to the fact that he was my son in law. - Since he left he should have realized his true worth. He has had nothing to do since many years except bothering his wife, children and the help by pettiness. He is an honest man but boresome, and clumsy, ^[[clumsy]] [[note in right margin]] without bad habits and who means well [[/note in right margin]] ignorant [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] notwithstanding his engineering degree and ready to find fault with others and not with himself. [[strikethrough]] anoth [[/strikethrough]] Any man with ambition or initiative, instead of sitting around his house and kicking and fussing would have utilized these [[strikethrough]] years fo [[/strikethrough]] with years for improving himself by reading, or studying [[end page]] [[start page]] 82/ at home or at Columbia and acquiring knowledge and general information. His fanatical Roman catholic views and his attempts of interference in compelling his children to go to R.C. service etc. was against their desire. Has made him furious. He probably has been goaded in this by his [[strikethrough]] roman [[/strikethrough]] catholic confessor - priests as well as by his sister. [[red underline]] Nina has helped him in his conceit during his early years [[/red underline]] when he was with Bakelite, about one year after his marriage (See notes in my journal) where she kept on nagging me all the time about "dear George," and asking special favors for "dear George" over the other employees as if he were an exceptional being. It made me so disgusted and impatient at the time; that I rejected any suggestion for having George Baekeland join Bakelite. I thought "its bad enough with George Roll and his wife creating a problem in my business; what will it be when I have 4 members of my family claiming privileges?" Nevertheless, I feel much upset against this idea of divorce. Married people who have children, incur thereby very serious obligations towards the children they have brought into the world, and must cultivate respect of their children and not follow the ways of lax feelings of duties of theatrical divorces or Hollywood people. - From what Celine tells me there seems to be no likelihood of reconciliation. [[red underline]] The man is a hopeless bore and nonentity. [[/red underline]] If it had not been so I would have engaged him
