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Discusses his position on the farm movement's financial situation, referring to Sullivan's recognition of Baruch's recent article '"Some Aspects of the Farmer' Problems" in the Atlantic Monthly. Baruch disagrees with Sullivan's stance on the "Silesian problem," expressed in Sullivan's recent article in the New York Post and reminds Sullivan of his own view. Expresses his disapproval of the Harding administration's lending policies to European governments and comments on the appointment of Andrew W. Mellon as Secretary of the Treasury. Discusses Sullivan's understanding of his role as an economic advisor at the Paris Peace Conference. He asserts his shifting opinion on US involvement in WWI; "George Harvey May have been right. I suppose that all we were doing, as he thinks, was to fight the war to save our own skins. I feel, and I know there are millions of others that feel the same way, that we were fighting to make the world a better place for our children to live in. This stripping life of all of its ideals and showing it in its nakedness is neither conducive to good morals or good business for the little Sullivans and the little Baruchs."