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137/ 1400 passengers, including a large number of Americans on board Some say 1400. - Drove to our Bakelite office to see whether any letters or telegrams from George: Found one [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] cablegram dated Kirriemuir (Scotland) Sept 3. 1939 - 3 P.M. as follows: Shall be at Brackley (?) office all week. - Baekeland The other: Cable from Kirriemuir Sept 2 - 1939: Sailing Washington tenth advise home. - Baekeland Forthwith I transmitted the two to Celine per special Delivery in the Adirondacks. Feel much concerned about Dicky We do not know where she and her husband are now. German troops have advanced in Poland and the French Army has mobilised into enemy country [[vertical note in left margin]] [[underline]] Labor Day [[/underline]] War news [[/vertical note in left margin]] [[underline]] Sept. 4 [[/underline]] Labor Day. - Nobody at the office where I drove with our car. Connected with Rossi at his house to discuss recent events. At the office found some telegrams. One from George telling he had left Scotland and was moving to the new emergency offices which had been installed by Bakelite Ltd, in view of the German intents of air-bombs in London. [[note in left margin]] 161.650 [[/note in left margin]] Drove back to Yonkers; stopped awhile at University Club reading the destructive methods of Germany, killing men & women on a British boat. Disgusting! [[underline]] Sept 5. [[/underline]] Since long no news from Dicky and her husband until [[end page]] [[start page]] \138 today Grenade informed me that a lady travelling from Antwerp to U.S in an American steamer [[strikethrough]] ho [[/strikethrough]] (the wife of Dr. Janssen) had met there a lady who had heard that Dickies husband had been arrested in Germany, notwithstanding his U.S. citizen's papers Called for advice to Phil. Wyman who immediately with his executive abilities, got in connection with [[blank space]] and other friends of George or Hessert preliminary of taking up this subject with Washington. Also called up Hesserts brother at the phone. [[underline]] Sept 6. [[/underline]] Went to the Fair, beautiful weather but my thoughts were all about the European war and our children and grand children. This afternoon in coming back found a [[strikethrough]] tele [[/strikethrough]] cablegram from Dr. Stauss of [[strikethrough]] General Bat [[/strikethrough]] Bakelite Gesallschaft that Gerrard van Hessart and his wife Dickie were comfortably at the Savoy hotel and that he was visiting them daily and that furthermore they were in daily connection with George in England. - So telegraphed this good news to Celine at her camp in the Adirondacks. All this does not solve the problem how to bring them all back to U.S. [[underline]] Sept 7 [[/underline]] Cabled to George not to take chances with any steamers except those of neutral countries. But they are already all overcrowded with applications
