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7/31 Sunday Sylvia is more daring with her tube all the time in the lake. Eugene will not even use the tube. Picked five pound can of blackberries then played soft ball and wall tennis ping pong. Went swimming and swam up to five strokes ten yards.

I remember Silvia using the tube, and me refusing. 

8/1 Hitched back to city. A Catholic pastoral letter to Western Germans asking voters to choose Christianity instead of Socialism angered Social Democratic leader Schumacher. Sen McCarran called war inevitable in supporting the Administration's arms for Europe plan. Actors of the "They Shall Not Die" cast are being attacked by hoodlums nightly. Paul Crosbie is dead at 68.

8/2 The State A.F.L.in convention barred left wing delegates. Tokyo police raided the C.P. Newspaper offices. The U.S. bloc supported an armament census, the Soviet bloc opposing. Gene Connoly [sic] is on his way out of the A.L.P. suing Guinier for slander the man he is opposing in the primaries. Romania barred Catholic Welfare work.

8/3 Tito called on the people of Bulgaria and Albania to overthrow their Cominform rulers with his help. Sam Warhaftig was exonerated of disloyalty and returned to his position as political analyst with the Army in Germany.

8/4 Four masked bandits stole $450,000 in jewels from Aga Khan and his wife at Cannes. Czechs sentenced a priest to 8 years in jail when he refused her the last rites because she was a C.P. member. The U.S. marshall was called by Medina to silence defense lawyers at the trial.

8/5 The Senate barred aid to Franco because Spain is not in the sphere of the E.C.A. Tito said Yugoslavia would defend its soil from any invaders including Russians. Chinese Communists took Changsha.  Medina warned of jail for witnesses who refuse to divulge names of secret party members without valid reasons. UAW pickets and police clashed in a strike at the American Machine and Foundry Co.

8/6 Left for Soss. Eugene had an attack of nausea on Thursday, apparently his allergy started up again. Lil gave him a spoonful of pyrobenzamine every night. We had a hilarious mock marriage tonight in the casino. I was the groom dressed in a ludicrous fashion. Edgar was a risque scream as the minister. Later Lil and I a party went to Bloomingb Burlingham where we had hamburgers, strawberry shortcake, etc. A U.S. White Paper admitted $3 500,000,000 [sic] had been wasted in a futile attempt to bolster the corrupt inefficient Chiang gov't. Nothing can stop the Communists from taking over all of China. UAW regional director Kerrigan and three pickets were arrested in clashes at the Amer. Mach. & Foundry strike bound plant. The Hawaiian Senate voted to seize the three month strike bound stevedore companies.