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favors, asking them to do special things for her, to give her a good time. She paid almost no attention to the work of the Board, or so the men said. Will said, “I think that's on the whole very agreeable. I'm just as glad that's the case. I don't think she knows anything about it.”

Then they went to Sweden. According to Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Watt and Mrs. Swope, it was just the same and a little more startling because the Swedish people were so astonished. They hadn't been accustomed to this. This was supposed to be a serious delegation and serious delegations don't go for fun and flirtation ordinarily. Anyhow, that was that. Swope, Bob Watt and Will Davis confirmed to me more soberly, and later, under questioning, the things that their wives had said. They said it was really very disgusting, tiresome, humiliating, and so on.

All this had really nothing to do with the case, except that Marion Dickerman had the time of her life. They all came back on the same boat. The agreement was that they would write the report on the ship because none of them were in a position to take any more time on this job. They wanted to use those five days at sea to put the report in shape. They had a pretty good idea of what they wanted it to be.

According to Will Davis, he never saw either Mrs. Rosenberg or Miss Dickerman in the meetings that he, Gerard,





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