7/13-7/19/47

7/13 Sunday Beat Greenwald & Alex                     . Took cab again to Woodlawn. Pop & Mom, Lilly & Susan, Sam & Molly up. Eugene played Alex G a couple of games then lost a game to Pop. I beat Pop a game. 16 nations participated in the opening of the Marshall Plan conference with 8 of the Soviet bloc rejecting invitations. Jimmy Lunceford is dead at 45.

He left space for "Alex"'s last name, but didn't fill it in. Don't know if "Alex G." was a different Alex, but clearly it was chess I was playing, vice Dad's tennis with "Greenwald & Alex". 

7/14 Beat Al Levitt. Greece claimed an International Brigade invaded it from Albania. 7 Negroes in a Brunswick Ga. prison camp were shot to death.

7/15 The kids made several rooms full of furniture and people on their table and played all morning. Later played some tennis with Eugene at the Walton cement courts. The Marshall Plan parley set up the following committees: Executive, food and agriculture, power, iron and steel, transport. Thousands more were arrested in Greece. All strike breaking attempts have been smashed at Remington Rand.

7/16 Played chess with Eugene, he playing a beautiful game. I barely averted a mate and won when Eugene overlooked a rook. Lillian played records for Sylvia. Another Negro died in the Ga. massacre. We will double Germany's industrial capacity, limiting only production of armaments. Greek arrests are rising. Testifying before Unscop, the Jewish C.P. of Palestine and Dr. Judah Magnes both recommended a bi-national state. The proposed Auto and Farm Equipment unions merger was defeated. Labor defied provisions of the slave bill by going all out for candidate Ed Garmatz in a special Congressional election, helping to elect him. Union papers with appeals for Garmatz were widely distributed. The "House" passed the Rees Bill aimed at the loyalty of federal employees. It permits summary discharges, no hearings for accused and is likened to the Nazi "thought control" laws. Lillian read Edna Ferber's autobiography "A Peculiar Treasure". Rocky Graziano won the middleweight title by KO'ing Tony Zale in 6 rounds.

7/17 Sylvia has been insisting on calling Aunt Mollie since she left her doll there a few days ago. When she got her on the phone she asked if her baby had been a good girl. Beat Eugene a game of 'rapid transit'. Marshall has pledged both arms and training for Greece to crush the guerrillas. All JAFRC leaders received $500. fines. Dr. Barsky received a six month prison sentence the others three months. However five who resigned and "purged" themselves received suspended sentences. These included Leveritt Gleason and Herman Shumlin. A Georgia official called the prison killings deliberate.

7/18 Lillian took the kids out to Evelyn this morning. The Browns signed two Negroes - W. Brown and H. Thompson and optioned Piper Davis. A general walkout at the Brooklyn Trust Co. ended in police violence. Lillian & Evelyn went to a wading pool where the kids had a good time. They got sneakers, plastic jeep, jumping rope, toy crib, bathinet author's game, etc.

7/19 Sylvia said if something or other doesn't happen she'll die. Eugene answered he couldn't die as he had no dyeing material. Then he said he was a punster. France has protested the projected rebuilding of Germany. Sec'y of War Patterson has resigned, K.C. Royall, Undersec'y replacing him. The UN investigating team found no evidence of an Intern'l Brigade in Greece. Truman's veto of a second tax bill was sustained by the Senate 51-36 after the "House" overrode it. The Army barred U.E. Union officials from 'secret' work at R.C.A. A Georgia jury cleared prison guards of the Negro massacre. The British boarded a Jewish refugee ship many being injured and some killed in a 2 1/2 hour battle. Lillian read "Outnumbered" by Katherine Hutter. The Nazis in Austria with a little mysticism thrown in. Read Rabelais. The Yanks tied the A.L. record of 19 straight victories.