8/16 Russia expelled a U.S. naval officer Lt. Dreker [?] as a spy. Israel declared a British sponsored Arab force had broken the month old truce by attacking Jerusalem. Kluxers burned a cross at the camp of the Nature Friends of America, named as subversive by Atty. Gen'l Clark. We both read James Hilton's "We Are Not Alone".
8/17 Beat Levy. U.S. won the Olympics almost doubling second place Sweden's score. A number of athletes representing left-wing gov'ts refused to return home. Cuba initiated a frame-up of 21 Communist leaders. Babe Ruth died of cancer of the throat at 53.
8/18 Harry D. White died of a heart attack at 56. He had been harried by the Thomas Comm. after having been named as a member of a "Soviet spy ring". The meat boycott and strike is growing with butchers joining in. Thousands filed past Babe Ruth's body lying in state in the Yankee Stadium.
I remember seeing the picture of the people filing past Ruth's body.
8/19 Tito guards slew former chief of staff General Yovanovitch attempting to flee to Romania. The N.L.R.B. ruled that maritime hiring halls are illegal. Union raiding in the C.I.O. continued with a paper workers union encroaching on the U.O.P.W.A. Greek Royalists have been claiming great victories in the Grammos mts. while the Greeks claimed the enemy sustained thousands of killed and wounded.
8/20 Kravchenko is revealed to be involved in the desertion of Russian teachers Mr. & Mrs. Samarine. The U.S. has requested the ouster of Soviet Consul Lamakin for his part in the case of the third teacher Mrs. Kosenkina who is in critical condition in the hospital after her leap from the Consulate.
8/21 Three New-Deal lawyers, Pressman, Witt & Abt told off the UnAmerican Comm. calling it illegal and refusing to answer incriminating questions. In the T.W.U. MacMahon at a meeting admitted C.P. membership for 14 years as the left-right fight smoldered.
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