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his voice was so louds that he was heard by everybody in the dining-room. The only people in the dining-room were people that were there either to attend the I.L.O. or the United Nations or some other official thing, so that they were people of all different nationalities, you see--British, Indians, French, Germans, you know, everybody--Italians there.

He talked just like the Bricker Amendment. We were going to stop this kind of thing. Congress was going to stop this. We were not going to have the United States adopt these conventions. It was going to be stopped the next election.

Well, it was a very embarrassing thing for everybody. He started in these same tactics. I decided I would try to tame him a little, and I tried to see him. I got to Mr. Norris, who was a very nice man and whom I had really liked quite well--a nice, simple, open-faced man that you could talk with. He had his wife along with him, and they were nice fresh California people, that kind--you know, the nicest kind of California people. I told him that this was really very embarrassing, and couldn't he do something about it?

He said, “Why, I was at that dinner. I was just shocked. I think that's just terrible. After all, we're away from home. It's all right to talk like that at home if we want to, but it's terrible in a foreign country.”





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