6/12-6/18/49

6/12 Sunday To Woodlawn with lunch and supper. I lost to Paul Grosz. Mom, Pop Harry Lil and the kids came over also Jay. We had a big ball game with a paddle and tennis ball. The kids showered together when we came home. They wash each other in the shower.

6/13 The U. of Calif. will demand Anti-"red" oaths due to the "Cold War Hysteria". MacArthur charged that Russia is inciting disorder in Japan. Dr. Condon demanded an F.B.I. probe following charges that his wife was a go between Soviet agents and an industrialist who has committed suicide. A French Catholic labor group has left the right wing Force Ouvrier due to its opposition to the Atlantic Pact.

6/14 Trieste elections saw Pro Italian voters win 40 of 60 seats. Communists and Allies got 30% of the votes. Pro Tito voters got 2%. The Federal Court of Appeals upheld the contempt conviction of Dalton Trumbo & J.H. Lawson. This is a test case binding on the other eight defendants. The question of whether the film men were Communists was ruled pertinent.

6/15 Eugene got a 96% average in his final exams. Sylvia got 100% in her first test. Originals of secret documents which Chambers claimed Hiss passed to him were shown to jurors. Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, atom-bomb expert testified he was a C.P. member for 3 1/2 years but left the party when he became disillusioned, before the "UnAmerican" Comm. Gil Green testified he was converted to Marxism at 18, following 14 days of testimony by Gates. Traicho Kostov was expelled from the Bulgarian C.P. following the loss of his Vice-Premiership, due to Anti-party activities. Ed Waitkus, star "Philly" first baseman was seriously wounded by an infatuated girl who lured him to her hotel room to experience the thrill of killing him. 

6/16 Lil bought Sylvia a flag for Flag Day, but she began to cry and wouldn't take it when other kids came by without flags. Lil took her to school however where they saw other kids with flags and all was well. Dr. Counts, Roger Baldwin and several professors have been termed "unemployable" by the Army although they have not applied for any posts. Laszlo Rajk has been expelled from the Hungarian Workers Party following the loss of his post as Foreign Minister. Ickes and Dr. Condon testified at the Judith Coplon trial but were not allowed to answer any important questions.

6/17 Sylvia always asks for more meat no matter how large her portion is. Eugene came up almost tearful. Four street gamins had flushed him and Bobby R. with water pistols. Henry Julian Wadleigh admitted at the Hiss trial, that he had handed over confidential papers to Chambers and a "David Carpenter". Robeson returned here after visiting Moscow where he proclaimed his great love for Soviet Russia. Jake La Motta won the Middleweight title from Marcel Cerdan by a K.O. in the tenth when Cerdan did not answer the bell. Both men injured their arms in the early rounds. Cerdan took a terrific beating.

6/18 Beat Dumbrava. Sylvia wants to know if you get another [year?] old on anniversaries too, or only birthdays. The kids saw a marionette show, "Happy The Humbug" in the park. The Czech Catholic Archbishop Josef Beran who has defied the government was placed under house guard.