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7/17 Sunday Split chess games with Julie and beat Madeline two anagram games. An all day rain. A F Whitney is dead.

7/18 Hitched home. The Bill of Rights Conference took place over the week-end. Some speakers were Marcantonio, Robeson, Paul Kern, Martin Popper, Rogge, Johsa [sic] Forer [,] Christoffel, Thom. Robbit [?], Buchanan, Don Matchan [?], Bill Patterson, George Marshall, Berson, Dr. Phil Morrison, Foreman. Czech clergy vowed loyalty to the Vatican.

7/19 Jack Robinson appeared before the UnAmercan Comm. to "refute" Paul Robeson's statement that Negroes would not fight an imperialist war against Russia. The N.A.A.C.P. rounded out its convention by criticizing the 81st Congress and Truman for the failure of the Civil Rights Program. The Marshall Plan was endorsed in a close vote. DiVittorio was elected president of the W.F.T.U. Saillant was re-elected secretary. Sergei Kournakoff is dead at 57.

7/20 O'Dwyer took charge of the six day bus strike. He called the union and management to a meeting. The Court of Appeals upheld the Stuyvesant Town ban on Negroes 4-3. Van Bittner is dead at 64 and Justice Frank Murphy at 59.

7/21 Vassil Kolarov was chosen Bulgarian Premier to succeed Dimitrov. Israel & Syria signed an armistice after 3 1/2 months of bargaining. Honolulu pickets attacked non union scabs employed by the newly formed Hawaii Stevedore's Fed. 23 were injured. Guardsmen had to be called on in Florida to protect Negroes in Groveland Fla. after an alleged rape of a white housewife.

7/22 Split with Bruhus [?]. The Manhattan and Queens bus strike was settled on the Mayor's plan of arbitration. The Senate passed the Atlantic Pact binding 12 Nations to resist attack 82-13. Bevin charged that most of present day difficulties on Germany stemmed from Roosevelt's "Unconditional Surrender" demand. Italy ratified the Atlantic Pact 321-100. 

7/23 Left for Soss. England produced documents purporting to be a blueprint for rigid rules for administering slave labor for 10,000,000 in Russia. The French sentenced war criminal Otto Abetz to 20 years prison. Cardianl Spellman made a disgraceful attack on Mrs Roosevelt calling her intolerant for supporting the Barden Bill which denies federal funds to Parochial Schools. Krchmarek testified at the trial that Communists tried to better conditions among the miners and recruit them. I played soft ball, shuffleboard, ping pong with Edgar Burton who plays a good game. Late at night we were invited to a wienie roast.