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of it, or any belief that this agreement with Russia would solve the problem.

It moved along like that. I don't know when, how, and under what circumstances they came to the agreement. Litvinov was here some time and then he went back. I imagine that after that it was all a matter of telegrams and telephones. There was a formal proposal made and Russia was recognized. I think that recognition is just an executive action.

I must have gone to receptions given for Litvinov at this time, but I had no conversation with him. When he came back as Ambassador later, I saw him. The first Ambassador appointed was a man named Alexander Troyanovsky. He was not a bit like Litvinov. He was a very different type of individual. I became acquainted with Troyanovsky. I also knew Litvinov officially, but I don't suppose I ever had a private conversation with him.

I'm very sure that I was on the committee to support Joseph V. McKee for the New York mayoralty election against Fiorello H. LaGuardia. I never did anything, but I was on the committee. I had always known McKee and thought he was a very good man. It would have my policy to be on the