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[[left margin in red]] Speeches and honors [[/left margin in red]]
the subject. [[red underline]] But [[/red underline]] then my dear enthusiastic friend [[red underline]] Calder [[/red underline]] as returning president made one of [[red underline]] his happy speeches [[/red underline]] which seem to flow so easily out of his mouth and began to [[red underline]] recite my whole career and[[/red underline]] personal incidents in our life. Again everybody got up and a toast to my health. I surely thought [[ red underline]] Professor Roberts, [[/red underline]] would make no further references to me but here again just preceding me; but here again he added some additional praise. [[red underline]] I was beginning to feel dizzy [[/red underline]] with all these unexpected references when I heard myself announced as the following speeches. So half undecided about what I was going to say during the next 10 minutes alloted to me I started off, [[red underline]] the room in dead silence, and everybody looking at me. [[/red underline]] Someway or another I struck a lucky vein in my speech, and [[red underline]]increased courage. [[/red underline]] Then followed by thundering applause, a [[red underline]] [[underline]] new [[/underline]] toast to me [[/red underline]] followed by: He is a jolly good fellow" song. [[red underline]] I never was prepared for such an ovation [[/red underline]] and friendly outbursts. - Happy as I was I felt humble at
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[[left margin in red]] Liverpool [[/left margin in red]]
the same time wondering [[strikethrough]] whether [[/strikethrough]] in [[red underline]] how much my friends overestimated my merits. [[/red underline]] Afterwards many came to congratulate me, invite me to join them or to let myself be introduced to members, or wives of members I had not known before. Among those who came to me was [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] W.N. Hirschel Dr.Phil. Dipl. [[/red underline]] Engineer of [[underline]] Bussum [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Holland, [[/red underline]] where he has a [[red underline]] lithopone [[/red underline]] factory and other chemicals. He was the partner of [[red underline]]   ͯAlberic and Honori De Swarts [[/red underline]] of Newportͯ (cousins of Celine) - 
[[left margin]] ͯBelgium [[/left margin]]
Says he is born in Vienna. He and his wife look rather Jewish. So many come to meet me to talk with me and get [[strikethrough]] acq [[/strikethrough]] acquainted that by the time I reached my sleeping room it was 2 AM (!)
[[underline]] July 9. [[/underline]]
Up at [[[red underline]] seven, [[/red underline]] but feel sufficiently well rested and at 10 A.M was at the meeting of the 
[[left margin in red]] X Plastics [[/left margin in red]]
[[red underline]] Section of Plastics [[/red underline]] at the Technical College of Liverpool which rather resembles our Cooper Institute in New York or the Ecole Industrielle in Ghent. Classroom well filled with members who came to listen to a Netherland [[red underline]] Dr. R. Hornwink, [[/red underline]] chemists of the Plastics Dept of the N.V. [[red underline]] Phillips Gloeilampen [[/red underline]] Eindhoven Netherland