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Dec. 4 Sunday This afternoon we went over to the Music Arcade on Morris Park. Ave. to see about a piano. Lil has been looking around for several days with Madeline G. We bought a rebuilt Chickering having a beautiful tone for $250. He had asked $295. for it. Sylvia asked us later whether it was $2.95 or $2.50. From the piano place we went to a Chinese restaurant on Southern Blvd. where we had Chow Mein, roast pork and egg roll and the kids had pot roast. At home I lost a chess game to Eugene. 

Dec. 5 The piano was our anniversary present to each other. Lillian took Eugene to the Columbia Optometry Lab where he got a new prescription. Czech Catholic Bishops warned the gov't they would fight against destruction of religious freedom. 

Dec. 6 Wallace emphatically denied he has insisted that atomic material be sent to Russia. The UN voted an arms census but not Russia's proposal for a count of atomic stockpiles also. William Rosen accused of being an underground Communist in the Hiss Chambers trial refused to testify on grounds it might incriminate him. Left wing U.E. leaders refused to answer questions at an "UnAmerican Comm. hearing. 10,000 at the Garden heard Polish delegate to the UN Katz Suchy, Benson and others speak at an American Soviet friendship meeting. The piano came as Mom and Molly were here but was brought in through the window.  

Dec. 7 Eugene got all A's and S's again with a 95, 96 & 99 and I in penmanship. Sylvia wanted to know whether a nickel which was a little different was a "Jewish nickel". Lillian got a book of piano music songs and is playing with the kids singing. Former Major Jordan who brought out the latest "sensation" of sending atomic and radar material to Russia during the war was transferred from his job in 1944. Leadbelly is dead at 60. Maria Ouspenskaya died of burns at 73. Rex Beach committed suicide at 72. 

Dec. 8 Mike dropped in yesterday morning with a beautiful blanket for our anniversary. The UN voted an UN internationalized UN regime in Jerusalem with England, U.S. and Israel opposing. The vote was 35-13. Gen Groves cleared Wallace and Hopkins of any misconduct in giving any atomic secrets or material to Russia. Gene Connolly resigned from the City Council in protest against Davis' ouster. There were only two abstinences [sic] and no nay votes in the ouster. The A.C.L.U. probers in the Peekskill riot case found the police guilty of allowing the attackers free rein. They found the riot fostered by anti-semitism with no evidence of Communist provocation. In the Bulgarian trials Kostov repudiated much of his pre trial confession. He admitted to ideological mistakes but no spying. The City Council finance Comm. OK'd the City pay raise 6-3. O'Dwyer will go from $25000 to $40000. 

Dec. 9 The UN voted $8,000,000 to run Jerusalem. Kostov's co-defendants pleaded guilty and implicated Kostov. Nationalist China set up its fifth gov't in a year in Formosa. 

Dec. 10 Sylvia went on a tour sponsored by the school to the         television studio. The children sang in the bus. The UN General Assembly voted 38-14 to internationalize Jerusalem. Israel Jews charge the UN will.never be able to implement the decision. Eisler's ex-wife "identified Hiss as a communist. It is charged she boasted she would convict Hiss. Yugoslavia sentenced the White Russians to prison on charges of working for Nazi Germany during the war and spying for Russia afterwards. 

Dad never filled in which TV studio it was; he just left it blank. It's not clear where the "close quote" was supposed to be.