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6/29 Sunday Up to Woodlawn where I beat Mencher & Waldman. Max Horowitz & Sarah also came up. We took lunch and supper and a jug of Virginia Dare drink. Also went up to the spring. Unscop is being received enthusiastically by the Jews but boycotted by the Arabs. Lucius Boomer is dead at 68.

The "spring" was an outflow of water, from a pipe, in the woods at Woodlawn. Don't know the origin, but the water was ice cold. 

6/30 Beat Weckworth. Eugene is devouring comic books. Sylvia seems to be clinging to mother more than ever, again. Russia has asked that the Marshall Plan be placed under UN control. Weinstock has finally been defeated for re-election.

7/1 Sylvia went down to the yard but because Lillian didn't look out of the window she stood there crying till we called her up. Eugene weight 61 lbs h't 4 ft 3 in. Syl w't 49 h't 3 ft 8 in.A fascist plot to overthrow the gov't has been discovered in France. The plotters had intended to invoke an imminent Communist revolution as an excuse. Court of Appeals upheld the acquittal of the seditionists. Mines were returned to their owners upon expiration of the Smith-Connally law. Truman signed but assailed the phony rent Bill under which rent control expires Feb. 29 48. NAACP convention closed with an implied anti-communist statement. Truman spoke during the parley. Wimbledon quarters saw Kramer beat Geoff Brown in straight sets, Tom Brown beat Petra in straight sets, Young [sic] Budge Patty beat Drobny in five sets after his upset of Bromwich and Dinny Pails beat Bob H Falkenburg in five sets. We took up the rug today.

7/2 Lillian took the kids to Molly's yesterday meeting Lilly Altschuler there. Eugene made a conquest in the park today. Sylvia keeps using threats to have her way with us. The French plotters had intended to suppress the trade unions and the C.P. execute strikers and give religious freedom only to Protestants & Catholics. Russia is asking for all information on the Marshall Plan before any commitments are made. It is also asking priority in aid for the victims of Nazi aggression and the German problem be omitted. The Mayor's Comm. has unanimously [voted] for a referendum on an 8¢ fare. The W.F.T.U. has just finished a conference at Prague. German trade unions were reluctantly admitted. A protest was sent to the Greek gov't on its persecution of the trade unions. China has outlawed the C.P. and is out to arrest Mao Tse Tung.

What was my conquest? A girl? A chess game? Knock-hockey?

7/3 After lunch to 42nd st. We visited two amusement centers. Seeing movies, playing hockey, basketball, baseball, soccer, shooting airplanes and driving a car. Also took a picture of the kids, all mechanically done. We had drinks, custard and a box of candy, then went to the laff.-movie-38¢ where we saw a half dozen cartoons, Mickey Mouse, etc. and several comedies - The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, etc. The kids enjoyed the distorting mirrors outside also. Landlords are rushing to raise rents. The Paris conference broke up as Molotov charged dictation by the "Big Powers". Bevin & Bedault will ask European countries to collaborate on the Marshall Plan. Several Generals have been involved in the French "Black Maquis" plot. Marshall has denied we back Chiang following an 130,000,000 bullet sale to China. At Wimbledon, Kramer beat Pails in four sets and Tom Brown beat Budge Patty in straight sets.

7/4 Yesterday Eugene drew "Aesop's Fables", Pyle's "Robin Hood", Picture Book of Insects by A. T. Gaul and Sylvia chose "This is The Milk That Jack Drank" by W. R. Scott. To Woodlawn where I beat Mencher & Kaminer. Lillian & Sylvia wore their mother & daughter pinafores, which Lillian had just made. Sam & Molly & Pop & Lilly Susan also there. Unions are announcing they will boycott the new N.L.R.B. Major League's second Negro player Larry Dobie [sic] has been signed by Cleveland. Eugene played Pop some chess at the park.

 7/5 Today we went downtown via the 3rd Ave. local and then took the S.I. ferry. Spent a half hour in S.I. taking some snapshots before returning. Truman & Marshall have denied we wish to interfere with other nation's affairs or are following an imperial course. Former Rep. May and the Garsson brothers have been found guilty of bribery in munition contracts during the war. May took $53,000 for using his influence. He is a foremost red-baiter. Ramadier has won a vote of confidence by 82 votes. Lillian read "Trumpet to the World" by Mark Harris and "Flowering Judas" - short stories by K. Anne Porter. Kramer beat Tom Brown in straight sets to win the Wimbledon tournament.