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Lady Salter cabled me from England saying that they were coming and would be here for two years, and could I conveniently get out of the house? Since I had never had it on a lease, but only on a friendly agreement, always with the understanding that I would get out if they came back, I had to get out rather quickly because they were coming over on the next boat. It was a wartime crossing, and I remember that I was rather nervous about them. They came via Halifax. I got out and went to the Hay-Adams. It was some place to go temporarily until I found lodgings. I stayed there, I guess, most of that winter.

That's why I seem to associate the Hay-Adams with the Defense Mediation Board. I sat there in my little apartment worrying about this. I remember that picture in my mind— sitting at the desk near the telephone.





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