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meeting and represent me there.
Raoul Grenade sent me a copy of an article he wrote about Status of Am. Chemical Industries.
Nina is to be married at our camp simply only members of family to be invited. - That's the way I like it.  Those noisome ostentatious giggling wedding festivities, take away all dignity of an important event, which has to do with happiness or sorrow of the future, not only for the married couple but also their children and posterity.
[[underlined]] May 5. [[\underlined]]  Sunny, pleasant, excellent nights sleep.  Spent most of day writing letters.  Pleasant weather 88°F but good S.W wind and only 45% humidity.  Rioting in Ethopia.  Salahasee has fled.  Italian troups have conquered.
Wrote long letter to Celine about Nina's marriage and why I prefer not to be present.  Wrote letter giving her my blessings and best wishes and telling
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that I do not like to be present at marriages, nor funerals, nor dinners, receptions etc.  That the only marriage to which I ever have been present was her first to George Roll, at our own house, and my own wedding in Ghent in 1889, where I thought it better to be present as the bridegroom.  Mailed her a check for $2000 from her Trust Fund.  
Wrote a letter to my sister Rachel, whom Celine planned to let go to Pyrenees.  An absurd idea, when war between France and Germany seems imminent and when France is liable to find herself in a national Revolution of Communists & fascists.
Told Rachel, who quickly loses her courage, that Pyrenees, with Frances condition and nearby revolutionary Spain is about the least desirable place to find herself.  She should better go and take a vacation on the Belgian Coast, whence in case of war she

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Salahasee should be Selassie