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Impressions would then be from the Boston area probably.

I then appeared at the Harvard Business School and was astounded by the luxury of the accommodations. I couldn't believe it. I shared a suite, two bedrooms, bathroom and a big study, very luxurious, comfortable, and I met my roommate. My roommate was from Kentucky. He had a straw hair, his eyes crossed this way. He kept a shotgun under his bed and he prayed for forty minutes every night. Here's a Frenchman, this is what they mate me with, Bill Sparr. I've never seen him again. But compared to everything I'd seen in schools in Europe, this was fantastic luxury. Here we were, around four hundred in the class I guess at that point, all these strange characters, all so different from anything that I'd been accustomed to. Then we were put to work on statistics, this and that, none of which meant a word to me, finance.

I didn't get to know anybody very much. We didn't have very much time off. I didn't have any friends in the U.S. It was a fairly rough adjustment. I didn't have a place to go at Christmas or at Easter. Yes, I went skiing with other people from the school, but there were no anchors for me, so over the years I had to build my own anchors.

Did you have a sense of the Depression in the United States at all?

No.