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English labor acts all the way back, the detail of the general strike, the detail of this legislation, the organization that had been set up, and so forth. So they had a perfect pattern of how this thing operated. They knew the names of the members of the various boards and committees. He gave them a list of the principal labor leaders in England and what their unions were, as well as the names of the principal employers' organizations and the names of their officers, locations and addresses. It was all the kind of thing that it helps you a wfully to know and they were very much pleased with it.

Before I had left my hotel that morning of the third day I had a telephone call. It was Mrs. Rosenberg. She said, “I thought I'd let you know that I was here - just arrived. I'm quite ready to go to work.” She was staying at some hotel like the Dorchester House - something very fancy, not plain old Connaught Hotel where I always stayed. But that was her business. She could go to any hotel she wanted. They weren't all staying at one hotel. They were staying wherever they were accustomed to staying or wherever they knew about. They weren't living as a body.

I told her what time they were meeting and she said, “Well, I can't come over this morning. That's out of the question, because I must unpack and get my clothes in order. What time is the afternoon session?”





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