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So I always did that.

Then I entertained a great deal while I was there--by that I mean, you know, doing it for my Government. This of course is why it's so expensive to be a delegate to the I.L.O., because the total budget of the State Department for these I.L.O. meetings, total entertainment budget, will be about $600 for the whole delegation. So you have to be prepared to shell out of your own pocket a good deal for dinners that you think would help the cause and improve the relations between the two countries, help understanding, and so forth. You just have to.

Well, M. Troclet was there, and Merton Evans of England was there, and Fred Leggett of England came over for a brief visit. You just naturally had to see these people and talk with them. We'd been long time international friends, talking over the progress of each country, which I'm sure is the way in which these progressive ideas have spread from country to country--by those informal conversations that take place around a big convention like this. And of course it was all very pleasant. You eat too much at the luncheons. Practically every day you have to go to a luncheon. The two hours' adjournment is to make it possible for you to accept somebody's invitation to lunch, and you go to a large luncheon, you know, consisting of perhaps fifty people. The Belgian delegate is giving it, or the Brazilian delegate is giving it,





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