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New York lawyer. Good officer, I think. He had been an officer in the Army. In the first World War he had been in the military. In the second World War he had come in charge of some kind of legal work. I think he was a competent person, and a good lawyer. He was born in South Carolina. I know his mother. He's the kind of person who, I'm sure, never had any--well, I don't think he had a great many liberal ideas. He was very sensitive because his sister had married an extremely liberal-minded German refugee called Hans Schneider. I'm not sure that was his name, but this man was a very well-educated, well-cultivated man, and was then--I think he's continued to do it, but at that time--was in charge of a radio program, one of the most interesting radio programs in America. He was very, very anti-Nazi, and he also, of course, saw a Nazim under every bed. I mean, he thought we were not onto the facts of life if we thought Naziism was over, that sort of thing.

Kenneth Royale just hated this man, and he was embarrassed to death because he married his sister. At least I got this from his mother, and it was perfectly well borne out by his general reactions, too. He wasn't going to have anything to do with any of these liberals. They were all likely to turn radical on him. You know. That attitude--he was a sort of a well-heeled person who hasn't been exposed to temptation himself, who doesn't understand what





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