5/9 Sunday Lost to Levine. Sylvia asked Lillian if everyone would die. After Lillian evaded this Sylvia asked is she would die. Lillian said no. Sylvia later told Eugene she knew someone who wouldn't die. Eugene is very hoarse. Lillian is still suffering and I hurt my ankle at tennis. Played Eugene some chess. Clyde Miller was fired from Columbia. Lillian saw "I Stole a Million" with G. Raft and "In Old California" at the Lido.
5/10 Eugene does a lot of "reading" these days. Eugene is on the Committee studying Indian occupations. Charleston Seaman Robert New, Wallace leader was murdered by an anti-communist goon in the Union hall. The C.I.O. denounced the Mundt Bill. Botvinnik won the Worlds chess championship over Keres, Euwe, Reshevsky.
5/11 Beat Chesneau. Sylvia blew bubble on the side-lines. Eugene got 97 in multiplication and 100 in his other arithmetic tests. Truman seized the railroads and got a court order forbidding a walkout breaking the projected strike.
5/12 Sylvia still cries upon being forsaken for some time. Eugene has a cough now. 20,000 heard Wallace denounce the Mundt Bill and ask for US Russian talks. After the "Garden" meeting two thousand of the audience went to the "Music Hall" to protest the "Iron Curtain". They clashed with police and Catholic War Vets. Peace feelers for US and Russia have stirred the world. Murray assailed the third party and O'Dwyer assailed the Mundt Bill at the A.C.W. Convention. Luigi Einaudi was elected president of the Italian Republic.
5/13 Eugene stayed out of school due to his slight cold and the rain. He missed the trip to the Museum of Nat. History. Lillian tried ice bag applications for her neck. Marshall closed the door to peace talks with Russia outside the UN. The Steel and Clothing Workers Conventions attacked the Mundt Bill. Red-baiting was also heard in both. 75,000 Chrysler workers struck. 1000 protested the slaughter of Greek patriots at the consulate.
5/14 Sylvia got a present of little Golden books in each of which she printed her name. Truman announced his opposition to the Mundt Bill. The Steel Union convention saw an administration opponent mobbed as red-baiting reigned.
5/15 Eugene bounced a ball up on a roof. He wanted to recover that one but wouldn't accept another. The Jewish State of "Israel" was set up in Palestine under Prime Minister Ben Gurion with Moshe Shertok as Prime Minister [sic, actually, Foreign Minister]. The U.S. recognized the state in another surprise flip-flop. The Steel Union Convention banned Communists for any union office.
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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