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[[red underlined]] Wallace [[/red underlined]] and their group of "New Deal" seem [[red underlined]] very much in the saddle here. [[/red underlined]] Every employee appointed in all this seems preferably selected from states of democrats.
Civil service rules seem much overlooked.  
[[vertical notation in red in left margin]] Washington's politics [[/left margin]]
There was [[red underlined]] a girl [[/red underlined]] on the boat who [[red underlined]] seems to have some political [[/red underlined]] job or another in Washington and is making this trip. [[red underlined]] Her arrival [[/red underlined]] must have been [[red underlined]] heralded [[/red underlined]] beforehand because here and as in St. Thomas, the men of the agricultural station were waiting for her. Her name on the passenger list is: ?
She has an unusually prominent [[red underlined]] Jewish nose, is thin and undersized, and very homely and keeps on tattering and bragging [[/red underlined]] about the Tugwell group in a raw voice and street English.  As far as I understand the [[red underlined]] Roosevelt group is organising here a tropical counterpart to the Tennesee Valley project. [[/red underlined]]- In the mean time the U.S. [[red underlined]] war department, [[/red underlined]] helped
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by the [[red underlined]] politicians [[/red underlined]] and land-speculators of Miami is [[red underlined]] trying to change our botanical station at Chapman Field into a bombing station [[/red underlined]] and the opposition of sane people to this seems powerless. May it be that adjacent states [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] always jealous of Florida join the [[red underlined]] ever-jealous California politicians in their destructive plans? [[/red underlined]]
[[red and black underlined]] Saint Croix [[/red and black underlined]] makes impression of a very [[red underlined]] fertile and valuable Island. Appears better kept [[red underlined]] and more promising than Saint Thomas, [[/red underlined]] is also more hilly and with vast stretches of excellent land in the valleys. Weather report announces a hurricane near Barbados. Name of [[red underlined]] superintendent [[/red underlined]] is [[red and black underlined]] Glenn Briggs, [[/red and black underlined]] [[underlined]] Director Agricultural experiment station, [[/underlined]] Christiansted, Virgin Islands.  Drove us all around the island, then back to the boat.
[[underlined]] Aug 22. [[\underlined]] Dropt anchor [[red underlined]] St. Kitts [[\red underlined]] 6.30 A.M.  [[strikethrough]] Took motor [[\strikethrough]] Walked around town. British possession. Back on ship at noon