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6/26 Sunday We went to Woodlawn where I beat Hotez and Waldman. We batted a ping pong ball around on the grass with paddles later. At home we had ice cream sodas and sat on the fire escape. Sylvia said I was in grandma's stomach 41 years ago. She also has a baby in her stomach, she said, but it will come out when she grows up.

6/27 Yesterday was the hottest day of the year - 94°. There was a record traffic jam in the city. Housing expediter Woods gave permission for rent increases where more value is put into property or improvements in service given. Politics including religious discrimination in our schools was denounced by Protestant Episcopalians. Rightist Korean politicians Kim Koo was assassinated by some of his own henchmen. Berlin rail workers eill return after a five week strike. They have been promised 100% payment in West marks and no reprisals. A new international labor body was formed at Geneva to rival the left wing W.F.T.U. Riggs defeated Budge for the pro title 9-7,3-6,6-3,7-5. 

6/28 Lil and the kids left for Soss's Bungaloes at Bloomingburgh NY together with Madeline and the kids. They willl share a bungaloe for the summer. Total cost $525. Canada's Liberal Party retained its power for another five years in general elections. Pastoral letters and meetings of church officials were banned unless authorized by the Czech gov't. Harold Christoffel won a reversal of his perjury conviction through a Supreme Court verdict 5-4. The basis was that a quorum of the Hose Comm. which had questioned Christoffel had not been established. The first groups of Jap. prisoners of war repatriated by Russia appeared to be converted to Communism. Beat Levy & Dumbrava.

Interesting spelling of "bungaloe". 

6/29 Injunction powers were voted into the labor bill by the Senate 50-40. Senator Wagner, ill for several years, resigned. A Civil Rights Congress meeting in the Garden heard CB Baldwin, Dennis, Maltz, Patterson, Robeson, Bessie Mitchell and Reid Robinson indict the crushing of American democracy.

6/30 Beat Dumbrava. Nationalist bombers attacked Shanghai slums killing 200. The "House" approved the National Housing Bill 228-185. It provides a slum clearance program, low rent housing, housing research and farm housing aid. Staunch Slovak Catholics drove off Czech police who had come to arrest priests.

7/1 Went to Dr. Robbins who took four small xrays. Judith Coplon was convicted as a spy by a jury out 27 hours. Miss Coplon had claimed she met V. Gubitchev, Russian aide, only because she was in love with him. She claimed she had confidential State papers for help in a Civil Service exam and to write a novel. JF Dulles testified he had urged Hiss to quit his Carnegie post because of talk about his Communist affiliations. Hiss had denied this. A new trial has been ordered for the celebrated case of the six Trenton Negroes accused of murder. Mao Tze-tung affirmed his faith in Russia and expectation of aid in that direction rather than the West. The Senate voted a modified version of the Taft-Hartley Labor Actr 51-42, wrecking hope of repealing the latter law this year.

7/2 Left for bungalow. Played ball with the men. Judith Coplon got 40 months to 60 years. 5 physicists agreed to loyalty and non-Comm. pledges for A.E.C. fellowships, for which they were criticized by Atomic scientists Prof. Szilard and Dr. J.R. Oppenheimer. The Czech gov't. sponsored the annual Nat'l pilgramage to Saints' shrines. Seveal Comm. police were killed by devout Catholic Slovak villagers.