12/5 Sunday Anniversary Sylvia has been making Santa Clauses galore and asking questions about the authenticity. Eugene has written a beautiful poem for our anniversary which will appear in the diary soon. Lillian got me a 'Jacques Kreisler' gold plated key chain. I will give her perfume. The painter did not come this week-end. Lillian read Langley's "A Lion is in the Streets" another Huey Long story. We both read Abraham Bernstein's "Home is the Hunted".
Dad didn't paste in my card immediately; I suppose they both wanted to enjoy it before it would disappear into the diary. He put it in at Christmastime, so I will scan it in where it appears.
12/6 Eugene's favorite happening on the trip to the museum was the 'race' among the three buses. Sylvia can recognize several words which gives her a thrill. Western Berliners snubbed Communist pleas not to take up vote in municipal elections, 85% voting with a majority for the Social Dems. UnAmerican Comm. members were rounded up all over the country to meet in a new spy scare.
12/7 Eugene got his report card. He got only B in Literature 96 in spelling 90 in Arithmetic. His memory needs improvement. Sylvia still eats and tears everything she gets her hands on. Whit Chambers again attacked Alger Hiss, this time accusing him of giving him confidential documents for transmission to Russia. Manhattan bartenders struck. Truman attacked the Greek Army for failure to defeat the guerrillas. Quill and his right-wingers defeated the MacMahon-Hogan left wing slate in T.W.U. elections. The I.E.B. will now be controlled by the right wing.
12/8 Sylvia comes home from school by herself! Eugene's report card was one of the two best in the class. Israel's application for UN membership was referred back to the Council without recommendation.
12/9 Lillian cooked some delicious corned beef but Sylvia wouldn't eat it. The painter finished Tuesday doing the closets and apparently using good paint, both unusual these days. Lillian painted the kids toy shelves, grocery closet etc. Reforms in the tubercular ward at Bellevue will follow the "Star" exposure of intolerable conditions coupled with 28 nurses threat to resign if nothing was done. Sumner Welles, Isaac Don Levine, a sec'y to former Ass't Sec'y of State Sayre, both Hiss brothers were among the witnesses heard in the new spy trial. A stormy meeting of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture was held on the scandalous milk prices. The UN gave Israel 48 hours to free 2500 besieged Egyptians. Russian zone of Berlin cut off mail to the Western zone.
12/10 Eugene didn't want to get up for school this morning. He was all tired out from pulling the heavy quilt up over his head. He got up anyway. Got Griegs piano concerto Bruch's violin concerto and "Pancho goes to a Fiesta" as Mom and Pop's anniversary present. Man. bus lines won the 7¢ fare. A combined ride is 12¢. The Justice Dep't is warring with the "UnAmerican Comm" over the latters [sic] sensational methods in the spy scare. The T.W.U. with leftists purged voted to bar Communists from office. Former State Dep't official H.J. Wadleigh refused to talk on the witness stand in the Hiss-Chambers case. The UN voted 55-0 to outlaw genocide. Bevin declared Germany must ultimately join the Western Union as an equal partner.
12/11 Sylvia calls the "Norwegian Dance" on her record the "Human Dance". Eugene grumbled so much while drying the dishes because he wanted to play records that he earned a good scolding. L. Dinnyes, Hungarian Premier was removed after a castigation by his own Small Landholder Party. Worked 8 hours - all O.T.
The extra blank space below appears to be a result of my having done this in two sittings; the blank space does not appear in the draft area.
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.
Remember Pancho Goes to a Fiesta? I think that's where I learned the names and capitals of all the South American countries. I can still hear the refrain: Mon-te-vi-de-e-o.
ReplyDeletePS I had to prove I'm not a robot to get that comment published. Now what robot knows about Pancho Goes to a Fiesta?
ReplyDeleteI did not originally remember it, but "Mon-te-vi-de-e-o" does sound familiar! "Griegs piano concerto" also sounded familiar, and when I listened to it on-line, I certainly remembered it. I also found part of "Pancho Goes to a Fiesta" on-line.
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