7/3 Sunday We went bathing in the river. At night we attended the casino opening. Dimitroff is dead at 67. It was the hottest day of the year in the city 95. Attlee and MacArthur denounced the British and Jap. Communists respectively.
7/4 We were caught at the river by a sudden downpour but were rescued by two cars. It was the first rain in 38 days. At night we played word games in the bungalow. German Communists urged the end of the Western State. Ted Schroeder won the Wimbledon title beating Drobny in five sets, but he was not pressed too hard.
7/5 Played Eugene a chess game at the river. Took the kids pictures on "White rock" where Sylvia loves to be taken. The Dep't of Classroom teachers of the N.E.A. criticized loyalty oaths as 'useless'. The city had a record 96.7 ending in a violent windstorm.
7/6 The big kids here play 'guns'. The smaller ones play 'house' or 'school'. Chiang emerged to ask for U.S. aid to save China. The delgate to the N.E.A. in a special assembly supported ouster of Communist teachers. Gil Green at the trial of the '12' admitted having pledged allegiance to Stalin and to work for World revolution.
7/7 Played chess with Eugene. Picked berries. We play poker at night. Eugene and Norma were stung by bees. We applied sugar packs to the sting. The Eastern democracies are ending trade with Tito.
7/8 We played shuffleboard today. Pirinsky, Amer. Slav. Congress leader had his bail canceled and was sent to Ellis Island to prevent any possible escape, in an unprecedented move, since he has not been found guilty of anything yet. Slovak villagers who had attacked police got jail sentences.
7/9 Played ball, tennis against the wall, chess at the river, Eugene beating Cliff Soss and Marty Meltzer. The Hiss jury standing 8-4 for conviction was dismissed after 28 hours, unable to come to an agreement. Ben Davis on the stand in the trial denied the party advocates violence. Yugoslav speakers likened Soviet Russia to Czarist Russia. At night we played shuffleboard and charades at the nightly campfire.
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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