7/24 Sunday We went swimming. Sylvia has a tube and is used to it now. Eugene wades all over the water, playing with the kids. I received my first swimming lesson from Julie Meltzer and Jerrie and learned to float. Picked berries later and did cross word puzzles. Lil is leaning Mah Jong. An unidentified source charged the UN Secretariat is being terrorized by Communist agents to serve Soviet purposes. Lehman criticized Spellman for his attack on Mrs. Roosevelt.
7/25 Hitched home. Thomas Mann arrived in Germany after 16 years. The Society of Friends 14 man commission after a year's study presented a report saying that war is not inevitable between U.S. and Russia.
7/26 A $50,000,000 policy number ring has been under investigation for 18 months with many now being arrested as a result. Manipulation of the numbers to increase the odds against the bettor, is charged. Russia is said to be clearing her borders of unreliable persons by shipping them further East. Truman asked for funds to arm nations of the free world against aggression. Mrs. Mary Jane Keeney, a UN Aide has been charged with being a courier for the Communist Party.
7/27 The Vatican said that those who are misled into voting for the Communists but do not adopt its doctrines are not subject to excommunication.
7/28 The temp. reached 92° yesterday. Murray and the Steel Union finally agreed to sign non-comm. affidavits because of set-backs it has received in resisting the law. The French Nat'l Assembly voted the Atlantic Pact 397-189. An outbreak of 'polio' is reaching epidemic proportions. British Labor Party expelled a fith [sic] M.P. - Lester Hutchinson for opposition to its policies. The A.F.L. Insurance Agents' union defeated the U.O.P.W.A. C.I.O. in the Prudential election 7405-4789. Vince Dundee is dead at 41.
7/29 The temp. reached 95° yesterday. Krchmarek refused to divulge names of pupils at a 'party' school in 1945. Yolanda Hall tetified the 'party' discussed discrimination at length in the U.A.W. Truman named witch hunter Att'y Gen'l Clark for Murphy's post in the Supreme Court. Sen. McGrath was named for Clark's post. Singer strikers voted 4003 to 2503 for an independent union. Mobs in Chicago are menacing the home of Roscoe Johnson a Negro Catholic who settled in a white Catholic neighborhood. Sec'y of State Acheson testified we are determined to keep European shores open for a landing when needed. The Administration plan is to provide arms, munitions and technical assistance to Atlantic Pact Nations.
7/30 Left for Soss. Went swimming, played ping pong, shuffleboard and running. The temp hit 97.8 yesterday for the years' record. The "House" passed the Anti-Poll Tax bill. Gen'l Bradley stated the atom bomb holds priority for the defense of Europe. The Italian Senate approved the Atlantic Pact 135-81. Medina limited defense testimony to facts dealing directly with the issues of the trial.
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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