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6/23 Sunday Sylvia broke out more today. She had 100° this morning but 102° later. Split with Mencher. H&M tube strikers have won their 18 1/2¢. Wm. H. Davis formerly of the W.L.B. has been named a member of the Board of Transportation. Over 14000 have been recruited in the C.P. drive. OPA is still being murdered by the Senate Committee.

6/24 Sylvia's temp was 100° today. 100,000 demonstrated in Shanghai against American intervention. Allied confidential documents aired at the Belgrade trial proved Chetnik collaboration with the Fascists.

6/25 Lost to Levy. Witnesses at the trial testified that Mikhailovitch tortured partisans and collaborated with the Nazis. 2000 delegates in Washington demanding retention of OPA promised a consumers strike if OPA is scuttled.

6/26 Stayed home from work today. Eugene and I took haircuts. Von Neurath at Neuremberg testified Germany was a peace loving country hemmed in by France and Russia. He praised Hitler and admitted supporting anti-semitic measures since 1933, Bill Hart is dead at 75 or 83. Sylvia has just come in to show me the table she made out of the "erector" set. She's out of bed today for the first time. Played some chess. G. Saragat, S.P. is President of the first Italian constituent assembly since 1848. The UN Atomic Energy Comm. named a rep from each of the twelve countries on the commission to consider all the atomic plans presented. The House passed an amended OPA bill for another year 265-106, Meat dairy and poultry ceilings are retained. Subsidies, while retained are cut. Average increases in cost since Oct. '41 may be added to prices. Restaurant and hotel rates can rise sharply. Special machinery is to be set up to decontrol certain articles. Liberals as a whole are against this bill. The City Council defeated a move to oust Quill in the TWU strike threat issue. A great Staten Island ferry cosing 2 million dollars saw three killed, scores injured.

I don't get the "or 83" regarding William Hart. 

6/27 Eugene went back to school today. Corrupt factory heads are being ousted in the USSR and the Crimean and Chechen Ingush Autonomous Soviet Republics have been liquidated and natives transported to other areas for mass disloyalty during the war. At the "Council" Gromyko again vetoed a weak Franco resolution. The espionage case against Soviet naval officer Redin opened with charges he tried to transmit secret information to Russia. Witnesses at Belgrade told of Chetnik atrocities while telegrams were cited of condonement by Mikhailovitch. Sweden has entered the Davis Cup interzone finals for the first time after losing both singles first day vs. Czechs.

6/28 70,000 Jews and partisans were killed at a Yugoslav concentration camp. Senator "Pappy" O'Daniel is on a one man filibuster to kill the unsatisfactory O.P.A. bill. Railway Express Clerks are on a stoppage to correct many grievances. The Dodecanese have been awarded to Greece by the Foreign Ministers parley. Soviet Minister for agricultural machines building Vannikov has been dismissed and transferred. Prof. A. P. Zhdanov has won the Stalin 100,000 ruble prize for splitting the atomic nuclei with cosmic rays. The British have sentenced thirty members of the Jewish Irgun to 15 years in jail and one to life imprisonment. Chilean President Rios is dead after illness.

6/29 Lightweight champ Bob Montgomery K.O.'d Allie Stolz in the 13th. The "House" voted to bar relief funds from any country which censors news of UNRAA operations. Ukranian Unraa Chief McDuffie and LaGuardia have denied Soviet censorship charges. E. DeNicola is President of the Italian republic. OPA head Bowles has resigned in protest against emasculation of OPA. Bilbo's incitements to violence against voting Negroes is eliciting mass protests and an investigation by a Senate Committee. The Senate passed the OPA bill 47-23. The NAACP Convention authorized political action for the first time. Thurgood Marshall was awarded the 31st Spingarn medal.