6/9-6/15/46

6/9 Sunday Eugene has taken over our room exclusively. We sleep in the large bed in the childrens' room. His temp was a little over 100° today. Broad preparations are being made for support for the coming maritime strike, expected to be one of the greatest ever. Eugene's temperature reached a maximum of 102° today.

I do remember being in their bed during my chicken pox time. Was that to isolate me from Sylvia? 

6/10 Eugene had a 100° in the morning. The rash is beginning to recede. He came close to beating me in chess today taking my queen and bishop when I overlooked the dangers. Senator Bankhead is dead. Sylvia runs to urinate every ten minutes although her urinalysis was normal. We tracked down her fears to the ten days or so she spent at Mollie's. She didn't understand the reason for our sending her away which was at the time of Eugene's pneumonia a year ago. Read "Burning Daylight". A superman gives up all his wealth when he feels it is making him soft and preventing him from winning his woman.

The chess result sounds like "good news, bad news"; I "came close", but I didn't win after taking a queen and bishop?

6/11 Several G.I. babies have died in voyages across the ocean to join their fathers. The trial of the Litchfield detention camps guards finally found several former inmates testifying after long refusals. Eugene's temp. was normal today. He amused himself playing chess. Sylvia would not go out to the tennis courts with me so we had to leave her home. She is being deprived of ice cream. Beat Schauer. Lillian saw "Behind the Green Lights" and "Sentimental Journey" with Maureen O'Hara. Italy became a Republic yesterday as monarchists rioted again causing deaths. Two Americans were accused in the theft of the $1,500,000 Hesse crown jewels. Jack Johnson died in an auto crash.

6/12 The President's veto of the vicious Case bill was sustained by the House with (5) five votes to spare. 255 to override vs. 135 for. Supreme Court Justice Jackson in Germany has blasted Justice Black in a move apparently against the liberal wing. The trial of Gen. Mikhailovitch opened with the defendant pleading "not guilty" but admitting he had signed a truce with the Germans and attacked Tito. American and British officials have been charged in the indictment with collaborating with the Chetniks against "Communism".

6/13 Mikhailovitch testified the British ordered him to liquidate the partisans. He admitted co-war with the Germans and Italians but not cooperation and blamed his staff officers for most of the betrayals. The British Labor Party barred C.P. affiliation 2,678,000 to 468,000, Bevin attributed agitation in the US for 100000 Jews to be admitted to Palestine to the desire to have less Jews in New York. He claimed more Jews in Palestine would necessitate more British soldiers there. Longshoremen routed Ryan at a meeting when they insisted they would not scab on the seamen. The Gov't, owner of most of the merchant fleet has taken over negotiations with the maritime unions from the ship magnates. The Senate dealt a blow to OPA by passing a Taft amendment changing the formula for fixing maximum prices. King Ananda Mahidol of Siam is dead of a bullet wound. 

6/14 A Council meeting postponed the Franco issue to the Sept. meeting of the Gen'l Assembly. Board of Estimate passed the 2% (doubled) Sales tax. Ernie K. over before leaving for the country.

6/15 Eugene got dressed today but has to stay in the same room as yet when Sylvia is in the house. The maritime strike started at midnight. East coast shipowners came to an agreement with the unions but west coasters reneged. The new terms include $17.50 per mo. raise for seamen, 40 hr weeks plus 8 hrs at overtime rate, 40 hours wk. in port retroactively to April 1. West coast longshoremen get 22¢ per hr. raise. Baruch presented the American plan for atomic energy control to the first meeting of the UN Atomic Energy Comm. at :"Hunter". An Intern'l Atomic Authority would control all atomic development. The U.S., as each stage of intern'l control is reached pledges itself to yield an appropriate amount of control of its activities to the Authority. (The U.S. decides when and how much information is to be disclosed at each stage) When the U.S. decides an adequate system of control exists and fit punishments are established for violation of the rules it will stop manufacture and destroy the existing bombs. The Big 5 veto power is to be canceled as far as atomic energy is concerned. Mikhailovitch at his trial admitted buying arms from the Germans presumably with British money. Major Bowes is dead. Ch. Butterworth killed.