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This barbarous war in Europe and many other places is still going on and threatens to included an ill desired war against the Japanese. That man Roosevelt and his entourage seems to enjoy all this and wants to use the collaborations of the Chinese who have at their head the same Chinaman, who not so long ago put his own country in fire and blood. 
When I was in China and adjacent countries, on my trip around the world, I found that Britain tried to get possession of the new [[underlined]] direct [[/underlined]] road which made the British possessions ever accessible and barring all others. (See my notes taken when I was there after my 
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work as president of the American Chemical Society was finished. 
December 2. -This evening went to the University Club dinner arranged in honor of memory and achievements of my dear departed friend [[underlined]] Dow [[/underlined]] who, with his son and fellow workers developed so much the chemical industries he undertook. The ^[[clever]] editor of Chem & Met. [[underlined]] (Chemical and Mining Engineering) [[/underlined]] had arranged the meeting and presided. A large number of participants, including University men etc. assembled in one of the most beautiful rooms of the University Club: of which the walls were covered with most artistic fullsize paintings of departed members of the University Club. - Excellent.


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On edit: added punctuation and capitalization; omitted an instance where the word "the" which was transcribed but not in the original document.-tcallahan