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quickly as possible what I think are the points in this resolution, and my comments and arguments with regard to them. With your permission, if you think well of it, I should like to read it.” I remember asking him if I might.

He was very nice, said I might, and so I read that. I read the statement through without interruption. Once or twice someone started to interrupt. Hatton Sumners always ruled that they wait the completion of the statement. So I made my complete statement uninterrupted. I thanked them for hearing me and then I said, “Now, Mr. Chairman, if you, or anyone else, desires to ask me a question for further explanation or exposition of any of these points, I should be very glad to undertake it.”

Whereupon, as Gerry said later, you could see them all sharpening their knives and their pencils. I think that more than half of the members asked questions. It seemed to me as though every member present asked me some question, but certainly more than half of them did. Some of the questions were couched in terms that were friendly. One felt that it was a friendly and proper inquiry. Others were couched in terms that indicated shaking wrath and indignation, that the person asking the question was in deep anger, that he could hardly hold himself in he wanted to denounce me so.