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York. At least it did at that time.

The Amsterdam conference didn't seem to me to be very important, except that it reviewed a number of things and the recommendations were general recommendations that had been made by others who had studied problems of unemployment - that is, move towards unemployment insurance, share the work, abolish child labor, reduce the hours of labor rather than lay off people, move towards an annual wage or an annual guarantee of employment. I was familiar with all that kind of thing and I don't think I got any new ideas, but I may have. I think other countries may have gotten ideas.

There were people from England, France, Belgium, Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia and all those countries. It had a large basis. I'm sure there were many ideas that were new to some of these people, but I don't recall having many new ideas presented tome, except that I got these funny ideas about these Russians. Interesting as they were they were curiosities rather than personal contacts. I got this queer feeling that they were not free. They couldn't talk. They couldn't even engage in an ordinary conversation. That was before we were familiar with that.

I had been to England earlier to study the operation of the unemployment insurance and the administration of it. I spent a long time on it and worked very hard at it. I