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conditions in European countries are as good as they are in America, their costs of manufacturing will go up a little.”

I came out pretty well on all this. He didn't make a speech on the final day. I don't think I really changed him, but I appeared to have shaken him for the time being, and he agreed to keep still. I had a private talk with him about it, and he agreed not to embarrass us. I did get a chance to tell him how embarrassing we all found it. Nobody else dared tell him this but me, but I spoke as grandma: how embarrassing it was when you're away from home to have an American damn the country and the Government and its procedures and its policies. That we reserve till we get home. Then we fight like cats and dogs if we feel like it, but we don't do it out in company.

I said, “You notice that in my speech the other day, my formal prepared speech, I went out of my way to compliment the American manufactuers and to say how much we thought of them, and of their progressive policies.”

“Yes,” he said, “but I thought that was true.”

“Well!” I said. “It is true, but it might interest you to know that I did it deliberately because I was away from home. I could equally well have said--because there are some employers that are not first-class, and I could have mentioned them and dwelt upon their doings and behavior,





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