10/27 Sunday Went to mom's today. Eugene fell in the foyer leaving the house, again on the street and again on the subway stairs. He is in high spirits and careless. At mother's Sylvia played with the dice beads as usual. I played Eugene and pop in consultation a chess game. Won after being in trouble at first. Leaving we couldn't find a pawn or Eugene's tie! Norway and Chile called for action against Franco at the UN Assembly.
10/28 Took Sylvia down in the morning and she joined some children in games turning shy just for a few minutes. In the afternoon we kept Eugene out of school and went downtown to pick up his glasses and buy shoes for the family. Went to Export shoe again. Sylvia got black shoes Size 12 - $3.50. Eugene fancy light brown with crape soles Size 1 1/2 - $4.25. Lillian got high heeled patent leathers trimmed with python Size 8 1/2 - $5.00. I got wide blacks - $6.50. At home played some chess Eugene wearing his glasses and looking adorable in them. On the bus we nearly had an accident. Getting off, Sylvia was left on the automatic door, the door closing on her and the bus starting. We both had our hands around her and Lillian's screams and my shouts stopped the bus right away. Incidentally, Lillian is delighted with her fancy shoes which are for the coming weddings. The Italian C.P & S.P. have obtained unity on political action. Bulgarians voted yesterday, the Fatherland Front apparently winning a big victory.
10/29 American intervention in China was denounced at the UN Assembly by Byelorussian Kiselev. Thousands of Italian Fascists demonstrated on the anniversary of Mussolini's coup. Many were arrested. Stalin, answering many questions sent by U.P. head Baillie denied war tension is increasing, branded Churchill and his followers the chief threat to peace, admitted Russia does not have the atom bomb and said the Soviet Union had sixty divisions in the West, to be reduced to 40 in two months. Read "Nicholas Nickleby" where virtue triumphs over rascality. Much humor is present.
10/30 Beat Mencher. One other child in Eugene's class wears glasses. Both leave them on the teacher's desk when they go for lunch. "American Action" leader M K Hart wants firing squads, deportations and life imprisonment for "communists" and their supporters. Molotov at the "Assembly" asked for a reduction of armaments, ban on atomic energy for military use. The City Council OK'd 10-35% raises for city workers. The British Embassy in Rome was bombed. The kids went to a Hallow-een party.
10/31 Beat Levy. Sylvia insisted I was George Washington today and she came to visit me with her lock block people saying I lived in the river. Wallace approved Molotov's disarmament proposals and charged Vandenberg and the War dep't are needling Byrnes into war. He called Churchill the greatest red-baiter. We are ready to cut arms but not the atom bomb. Bulgarian elections gave the F. F. 3 million votes against 1,200,000 opposed. C.P. got 2,250,000 of the F. F. total. Terror is again rampant in Dominican Republic.
11/1 Eugene asked if he could take two stars but decided to take a few more since he hadn't had any for a long time. The kids get a penny for every two bones they find in their food. Three C.P. members were given cabinet ministries by Pres. elect Videla in Chile setting a S.A. precedent.
11/2 Eugene drew "Don't Blame Me" by Richard Hughes, "Red People of the Wooded Country" by T.O. & E.W. Deming and "The Animals Own Story" by E. C. Babbitt. Helen Bannerman, author of "Little Black Sambo" is dead. Albanian shells drove off a British cruiser. A new terrorist group, the Columbians, is attacking Negroes in Georgia.
My father started a "diary" in 1945 (more accurately, a journal, covering both family and current events), and I'm going to see if this is a decent way to publish it. Since I'm doing it as a blog, to get to the beginning of the journal, you have to go to the beginning of the blog.
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