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--well, he was a most difficult man to handle. He would talk. Talked all the time. --I had finally to limit him, asking his permission of course to do so, to limit him in his remarks to three minutes, because every time anybody else spoke, he had to answer them.

The French employer was very intelligent and very helpful, and very helpful in getting what we had adopted hammered out into a reasonable code. There was young man whom Forbes Watson had brought with him, who was his assistant, Forbes Watson was the secretary-general of the British Employers' Association, and a young man whom Forbes Watson had brought with him particularly to work in this Chemical Committee, because he was a specialist in chemical industries, and was going to be Watson's general assistant and I think has succeeded Watson since he died--he also proved to be very helpful, partly because he had that great English skill of phraseology. He could phrase the resolution. He could phrase the wording of a part of the code in such a way that it said exactly what it meant, but was not redundant. It's a very great talent. He had two or three points to which he insisted upon objecting, and fought as much as he could against their adoption. One was that he wanted a pre-examination of all workers coming into the chemical industries, and of course that's anathema to





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