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familiar with. The nuances are lost on them. I insisted on having a German interpreter in the room, a man who could speak German and who would intepret anything that they asked into German, and interpret a great deal of it as we went along.

One of the interesting things was that this worker delegate from the Netherlands spoke perfect French and perfect German. How he got it, I don't know, I never thought to ask him. But he could interpret to these German people the thing they didn't understand, you see--these German speaking people. He would just get up and say, “Look here, this means--” Then he would say it in German. Ah, yes, yes--they would get it. It was a very, very interesting committee and I really enjoyed it very much, although some of my own delegation thought that I'd taken on much too much, that it was frightfully hard for me. It was a very hard working job, because we met every morning at nine o'clock. Of course we always adjourned for two hours for lunch. That's the standard thing, in Geneva. Then you go back, you see, and you work on until six, seven at night--long, long days, with an occasional Saturday off.

I'm so constituted that I cannot preside at a meeting without throwing myself into it, and I cannot preside at a meeting without standing up. I have to stand up. I always stand up on my own two legs the whole time. Well, it's the





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