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Well, then Goddard hoped for something else. I think he wanted to be President of the governing body. He continued to be very amiable, and to be around all the time. He was there all the time every day. He was already a member of the governing body. He'd been an old and faithful friend of the I.L.O. I remember that he gave a beautiful luncheon at his own house, for me--at his own apartment on the Quay Augustin. Charming old apartment, simply lovely.

It was notable, in a period when there was so little food available in France and when we had been dining either on Army rations at the Hotel Californie, or on such scraps as could be picked up in the little class D restaurants that were over on the Left Bank, which were pretty skimpy--I mean very skimpy little things. We had been living on those, and it was quite a surprise to see the fat of the land at Senator Goddard's house. There were some beautiful fish. Well, I can see fish. If you can catch one, you've got it. A beautiful fish dish, I remember, to begin with or near the beginning, and a beautiful little casserole of chickens, three or four of them that had been cooked, I think, in butter. It seemed to me they must have been cooked in butter. There was wonderful wine, and a dessert dish made of whipped cream with fruit in it: I remember I was astonished at the cream, and I said to Madame Goddard, “Oh, the cream! Where did you get it?”

“Oh,” she said, “We have a farm, you know. We have a





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