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just make more trouble and trouble that I didn't see how we would get out of. We would be years crawling out of that trouble. It would be terribly difficult.

Anyhow, they agreed to send a wireless, through naval communications, to the President. I then spoke to Ickes, but swore him to socrocy. He said, “That's the craziest thing I ever heard of. Just crazy. You'll have to do something to stop it.” I didn't toll him when I was going to do, because I always thought this was just a bit cheaty, because I didn't tell Gummings or Hull that I was going to do it, although I had it in mind.

I got in touch with naval communications. I said that it was extremely important that I got a rush message through to the President, that I knew that the secretary of state was sending a message and what I believed this had to do with the San Francisco strike, which the President had said was in my charge, and that it was extremely important that the President got my message before he got the secretary of state's message. Would they send it through for to at once? I don't know how they happened to be so jolly and nice about it, but “Sure we will.” was the answer.

So I wont a message to the President. I just explained the situation as I had explained it to Cummings