8/1/48 Sylvia will not go to the movies shown in the bungalow for the kids. She went one time but started to cry inexplicably and I had to take her home. She says I'm her best friend and she wants to marry me.
Because, I guess, this was the first entry in Book 4 (he did use the arabic number, instead of the Roman numeral he used in the first three books), he identified it with the year, and did not write "Sunday". But it was a Sunday.
8/2 Came home early this morning. A. Szakasits, Socialist, has been chosen Premier of Hungary to replace Zoltan Tildy who resigned when his son-in-law was arrested on spy charges.
8/3 The C.P. convention opened at the 'Garden' before 18000. The Union Lens Co. has been struck by the U.E. for three months. During the last few days much violence has occurred with beating of strikers, arrest of leaders and calling out of the Nat'l Guard. Oppenheim Collins was struck. A N.L.R.B. election with Local 1250 barred because of refusal to sign non-communist affidavits was won by an A.F.L. union. Stalin held a two hour meeting with US, British and French envoys.
8/4 The papers have been full of the revelations of our self confessed former spy. This E.T. Bentley plus Louis Budenz and Whittaker Chambers former C.P. member now a 'Time' editor have implicated many wartime 'New Dealers' as members of a Soviet Espionage ring! Named have been Alger Hiss, Donald Hiss, Nat Witt, Lee Pressman, John Abt, Victor Perlo, Henry Collins, Charles Kramer, Harry Dexter White, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, William W Remington, Lauchlin Currie, F. Coe, W H Taylor. Communists mentioned were J North, J Golos, G Dennis.
8/5 The 3rd Ave. bus line turned down a 7¢ fare, insisting on 8¢ and has refused to pay a 24¢ hourly raise. It has fired 52 men and a strike is due. The State A.F.L. Convention barred 20 delegates as "reds". Ringleaders included I.L.G. men Joe Tuvim, Joe Ryan and Martin Lacey. The Anti-Poll tax bill was scuttled in Congress. The Trieste C.P. was split by the Tito issue. The Brazilian Labor Fed. was dissolved by the Gov't as 'Communist'.
8/6 Truman called the current "spy" hearings a red herring. Browder appealed to the C.P. Convention for reinstatement but was rejected on the grounds that he was still Anti-party. 5000 picketed the White House in a demonstration called by the Civil Rights Congress. The State A.F.L. refused to ban the Klan and endorsed the school ban in the "Nation".
8/7 The Western envoys talked with Molotov for three hours on the Berlin Crisis. It was claimed Uranium ore was shipped to Russia in 1943.
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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