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“Well, she won't do any harm, will she?”

I said, “No, except she'll make us look ridiculous.”

“Well,” he said, “for heaven's sake, we've got to keep Bob quiet somehow. We have to please him because we rely on him. I can't have him angry and tearing around like this. I never saw him act so. For heaven's sake, can't you do it, Frances? Put her on. She won't do any harm.”

I said, “All right, if you say so, but it's ridiculous.”

I had just time to get Lubin back and say that I had put her on and would he kindly have a letter sent to her signed by the Assistant Secretary of Labor telling her that she'd been appointed. Then we were cut off from shore. Well, I was good and mad, I must say, but I thought, “Well, probably the President's right and what's the sense? Lots of money is spent more wastefully than this. It's wasteful for the government to send her over, and it doesn't look well. Also it will make Swope and Will Davis mad, but the others won't pay much attention to it. She probably won't do any harm.” Anyhow, I think Lubin had told me that she didn't went to stay all through because she wanted to go to Hungary and see her mother. So I quieted myself and went on to Geneva about my business.

When Geneva was over, I went to London. Chalmers had gone ahead and been there a week. The commission had