7/20-7/26/47

7/20 Sunday In the morning to Walton to play tennis with the kids. After lunch we walked to Gun Hill Rd. and the park. We spent the afternoon with Mom and Pop, Molly & Sam. Eugene drew with Pop at chess. I beat Pop two then Eugene played an unfinished game with a Mr. Berman. After supper at Mom's we went home. We read "Children Have Their Reasons" Ruth W. Washburn.

7/21 Lost to Weckworth. The kids played "cops" with a boy they met in the playground. The Dutch reopened warfare against Indonesia. Mrs. Ingalls was found guilty of enslaving her housemaid Dora Jones for thirty years. Lillian took the kids to see "The Yearling" at the "Grand". Walter Donaldson is dead.

That movie made a tremendous impression on me. I loved it, and remember the key parts well.  

7/22 The kids have been threading some sewing cards Lillian got them. American arms and American trained troops are being used in the fight against the Greek Chinese and Indonesian people. The "House" passed the Rep. Anti-Poll Tax bill 290-112 intended as a punishment of Southern failure to override the income tax veto. Queens bus drivers are striking in the face of O'Dwyer's strong opposition. They stopped negotiations charging the arbitrator was prejudiced.  

7/23 Assorted Nazis and renegades from Communism are having a field day before the "UnAmerican Comm." Haganah, on its own, is joining in violence against the British after the latest outrage. In the morning to the library where Eugene drew "Yankee Doodle's Cousins" by Anne Malcolmson, "The Secret Garden" by F. H. Burnett, "The Tale of the Wild Goose" by H.B. Kane and Sylvia chose "The Kitten Stand" by B. Coatsworth. In the afternoon, to the lake where we rowed and ate our supper on the grass. The kids sailed their boats and found some pop bottles which they filled with water. At night to meet Mac & Sarah at Goldman Band in Central Park. We heard an all-English program. Afterwards we had a bite in Stewarts.

Still don't know  who "Mac & Sarah [Horowitz]" are, and don't know "Stewarts". 

 7/24 Lost to Weckworth. Sylvia dawdles over her morning cereal endlessly. Eugene said Sylvia could do better than the kids who play chess in the play ground as she knows P-K4. Eight Burmese gov't officials were killed presumably by the rightist opposition. US and Russia had their bitterest quarrel over over the Balkan States which have left wing coalition gov'ts. R. J. Watt is dead at 55.

7/25 Tennis at Walton, then the Reservoir playground. Indonesia claims to have stopped the Dutch advance. We have been training our forces in atomic warfare. Unions are being subpoenaed by the "Thomas UnAmerican Comm." where the Communist issue is being aired. 15000 protested the British attacks on Jews at Madison Square. Lillian went to Van Cortlandt with the Pachmans.

7/26 Tennis at Walton, then the playground. When Eugene eats, the floor near him looks like a battlefield. We have decided to stop food relief to Poland. 27 miners were killed in W. Frankfort, Ill. May and the Garssons were let off with 8 months to two years for wartime bribes. Mary Ware Dennett is dead at 75.