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go?”

He said, “Oh, it was wonderful, wonderful--perfectly wonderful! I'm going Russia now, and I'm going with Kuznetzov. He's a wonderful man.”

There was a great deal of excitement and suppressed emotion in his admiration for Kutznetzov. But the British delegates had moved out, and wouldn't have any part of this World Federation of Trade Unions. They had said, “No, nothing doing”--which was interesting.

The A.F. of L.'s hadn't gone, even. They wouldn't go near the darned place. But Hillman and three or four other C.I.O. 's were there. I had gone to London before I went to Paris. I went over early in order to have two or three weeks in London to do what I could. There, you know, there was this meeting of foreign ministers going on, and it was there that I had this interesting conversation with Stettinius, Adlai Stevenson, and three or four others, and where Tom Connally came to my rescue.





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