9/25 Sunday To Mother's for dinner with Lily, Harry and kids. Peggy is adorable and affectionate. Eugene & Sylvia and Susan did their usual masquerade act and thought it hilarious. Lillian read Hurry, Hurry, Home - John Klempner. I read Donald Friede's biography "The Mechanical Angel". Lillian also read this plus "Rich Man Poor Man" - J.A. Fairbank.
9/26 Lillian got herself a lovely suit at Robert Hall's Size 14 1/2. $20. Russia pressed for a ban on the atom bomb.
9/27 Yugoslavia accused Russia of exerting military pressure along her borders at the UN. Russia countered with charges that Tito supporters were partisans of reaction. Att'y Gen'l McGrath successor to Tom Clark has discovered his predecessor's plan to probe Communist lawyers.
9/28 We will support Yugoslavia for a seat on the UN Council. England will support Czechoslovakia. Britain froze wages and raised taxes on business profits. Yugoslavia expelled nine Hungarian diplomats in retaliation for Hungary's expulsion of 10 Yugo. diplomats as spies in disguise. Non-union mine pits opened as armed miners faced state police.
9/29 Sylvia asked Lil if she knew "My Country 'Tis". She then sang it tunelessly so that Lil could hardly keep from laughing. The Steel Union turned down an offer of the U.S. Steel to pay ten cents an hour to a pension fund if the Union contributed also.
9/30 Sylvia was elated that she got a blue star for being the only one in the class to bring a note for the Jewish holiday. Lillian has two small fillings, xrays and cleaning - $15. Eugene has a cleaning only and Sylvia a small filling & cleaning $9. Russia broke its mutual friendship pact with Yugoslavia on the grounds that Tito is linked with foreign imperialists in hostility toward Russia. A Federal Jury found Tokyo Rose guilty of treason. The House of Commons upheld the Labor gov't on devaluation 342-5. Conservatives abstained. Ford signed an agreement with the Union giving retirement and $100. per month at 65. Ford will pay the difference between gov't payments and $100.
10/1 We went to the Zoo today. The kids took camel rides and saw the Children's Zoo unaccompanied. We had ice cream, pop corn, hot dogs. Eugene complained for the first time that we have been buying things for Sylvia but not for him. China's charge of Russian aid to the Chinese Communist armies was placed near the bottom of the list at the UN - a victory for Russia. A Senate-"House" report cleared the Atomic Energy Comm. of "incredible mismanagement" as charged by Sen. Hickenlooper. The eastern democracies are following Russia in renouncing their pacts with Tito.
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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