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54/ Visited the [[red underline]] Boyce Thompson Institute [[/red underline]] for Plant research. Had an interesting talk with [[red underline]] Dr. Croker [[/red underline]] who is the head of the institute. - [[red underline]] Same modest pleasant man who loves his work and duties. [[/red underline]] Then continued [[red underline]] my walk going down to the aqueduct path, [[/red underline]] where I met no other walkers; so early in the morning. - Wonderful landscape with the majestic Hudson river below and the Palisades in the background. 
[[vertical note in left margin in red, underlined]] Poison Ivy [[/vertical note in left margin in red, underlined]] 
[[red underline]] Crawled [[/red underline]] to "Snug Rock" along the old [[red underline]] Seaman's road [[/red underline]] Did not encounter a single other walker. Perhaps too early in the day. Then received further bad news of [[red underline]] German ^[further]] penetration [[/red underline]] and bombings in [[red underline]] Belgium & Netherland. How lucky we are to have migrated to our adoptive United States. [[/red underline]] 
[[underline]] Sunday May 12. [[/underline]] 
[[vertical note in left margin in red]] War [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] 
Further [[red underline]] bad news about Belgian and Netherland [[/red underline]] invasion the [[red underline]] Germans seem better prepared [[/red underline]] with their aviation and parachutes [[red underline]] than the British. [[/red underline]] Hence their invasion here and in the Scandinavian countries 
[[underline]] May 13 [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Germans made further invasions in Belgium, [[/red underline]] and Netherland. The [[red underline]] daughter of the Queen of Holland [[/red underline]] 
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together [[red underline]] with her husband [[/red underline]] and young child [[red underline]] left Holland for England to find a shelter for her child [[/red underline]] X 
[[vertical note surrounded by red line in left margin]] X The Queen of Netherland had already been transferred to London. [[/vertical note in left margin]] 
[[underline]] May 14. [[/underline]] Germans made further invasions in Belgium. The [[red underline]] Italians [[/red underline]] show great [[red underline]] antagonism [[/red underline]] to Britain. The Dutch Queen and her cabinet have moved to England. The Germans in dropping their fighters from parachutes [[strikethrough]] have. [[/strikethrough]] Their occupants wearing allied clothes, or dressed as noncombatants, even dressed in women's clothes, so as to mix with the public. - The allies [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] have therefore passed a rule that any such [[red underline]] disguished Germans [[/red underline]] from parachutes, will be [[red underline]] executed. [[/red underline]] The Germans answered this threat by announcing that [[red underline]] for every German thus killed, they will kill 10 men [[/red underline]] of the allies. 
[[underline]] May 15. [[/underline]] Celine and myself left by train for [[red underline]] Philadelphia [[/red underline]] to the festivities awaiting us there at the [[red underline]] Franklin Institute. [[/red underline]] Rooms had been reserved for us and George B. and wife at the Roney Plaza Hotel. [[red underline]] More bad news about the further advance of the Germans in Netherland, France and Belgium. [[/red underline]] - Killing and destroying with their huge "Tank-cars" and their method of landing their soldiers by means of [[red underline]] parachutes. [[/red underline]] 
At 3:30 P.M. the Medal Presentation to me and to [[red underline]] Dr. Compton, [[/red underline]] (Nobel Prize). [[red underline]] Compton's brother, [[/red underline]] in his 
[[vertical note in left margin]] [[in red]] X [[/red]] [[underline]] [[double red underline]] Franklin Medal [[/underline]] [[/double red underline]] [[in red]] X [[/red]] [[/vertical note in left margin]] 

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Note: Dr. Croker refers to William H. Crocker.