4/20 Sunday Chess, word games. Trouble with Sylvia at every meal. A bad day so we had to stay in all day.
4/21 Eugene back to school just in time for his reading contract. He was out all last week. I return to work today. Wallace spoke in Norway. The "Big 4" Foreign Ministers in Moscow agreed on Austrian blame for the war. They failed to agree on other points of the Austrian treaty or on Yugoslav claims for Corinthia. A minor Portuguese revolt has been put down. U.S. Steel has agreed to a 15¢ per hour raise. Simon Patino, Bolivian tin plate king is dead in Argentina at 87. King Christian of Denmark is dead. Forty Jewish youths seized the British Consulate here and held a memorial service for the executed Palestinians.
4/22 Eugene has wet himself two days in a row in class apparently because he is afraid to ask Mrs. Dwyer to leave the room. It seems she refuses some children. Sylvia counting beautifully. Egypt has asked the UN to free Palestine. The British occupied zone in Germany gave the S.D. first place. The C.P. got about 10% of the vote. 100,000 Iowans put on an AFL-CIO stoppage against the Hartley Bill. Pres Truman speaking at an A.P. luncheon at the Waldorf again asked for price cuts to avert a slump. The AFL has asked the C.I.O. to meet with it on united action and a merger.
4/23 Playing with Gloria and Sylvia at Casino and tiddledy-winks, Eugene showed himself something of a poor sport when Lillian said he was wrong and Gloria right in a bet they had made. Sylvia made some drawings and asked for pennies as a reward. 75,000 unionists rallied her in Madison Square Park against the anti-labor drive. Among the speakers were Quill, Hollander, Kingdon and Lehman, Krause, telephone strike director. The Greek Turkish Bill passed the Senate 67-23. Reactionaries and liberals were split on both sides. The S.P.-C.P. bloc won in Sicily elections. A British troop team was blown up in Palestine. Dennis & Josephson were cited by the "House" Marcantonio dissenting.
This is the last entry in Book II. except for the Index and Deaths. Those will be the next posts.
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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