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April 16 Sunday Lil and Madeline went upstate and took a place in Kerhonkson. A three room bungalow at Meyeroff's Granite Manor $550. complete. I took the kids downtown for ties. Later we went to the park where Eugene went on the see-saw with Sylvia. They also fed the pigeons some salted peanuts. 

April 17 Eugene mentioned that it was too bad that there wasn't a little brother or sister. The teacher had reminded them that registration for kindergarden was coming. When Lillian said it was not likely that one would come, Sylvia indignantly exclaimed "How do you know, maybe we'll have one". The World Jewish Congress warned in a memo to the State Dep't. that Nazism is on the way back in Western Germany. The memo cited many Anti-Semitic acts. 10,000 T.W.U. subway and bus workers staged a protest over the Board of Transportation downgrading policies and for wage increases and the 40 hr. week. 

April 18 Sylvia's first report card contained all S's. Eugene's card showed a reduction in spelling from 99 to 95. Arithmetic - improvement from 93 to 99. Geography from 97 to 88. History & Civics From 100 to 92. Science from B to A. Jews in Germany organized against continued vandalism. 6000 T.W.U. members stopped work for four hours to push their grievances. They will be docked.  

April 19 Chancellor Adenauer of West Germany led a Berlin audience in the singing of "Deutschland Uber Alles". The U.S. asked Russia to pay for the Baltic plane deaths, asked for an end to such incidents and chided Russia for their unconcern over the loss of the plane and its crew. Big cuts in mail services were ordered by Postmaster Donaldson following a cut in the postal appropriation. 

April 20 Hunter president George Shuster who has condoned Nazism in the past was named U.S. State Commissioner for Bavaria. "Mercy Killer" Dr Sander lost his N.H. medical license. The Senate voted to honor the ten fliers lost over the Baltic 66-0. O'Dwyer yielded to pressure and offered teachers small increases. Czecho closed the U.S. Info. Service. Russia reversed its position to oppose the U.N. plan to internationalize Jerusalem opposed by both Israel & Jordan. 

April 21 Budenz testified that he did not know Lattimore or that he was a Communist but that Browder, Field and Stachel had deferred to him as a Communist. Budenz swore he had been a member of a Communist cell in the Institute of Pacific Relations. A Brigadier General Thorpe testified however he would vouch for Lattimore's loyalty as he had been thoroughly investigated. 

April 22 Sylvia weight is 67 lbs. Eugene - 81. We went to St James where the kids fed pigeons and squirrels. We snapped several pictures. Russia rejected our protest on the plane incident. It repeated threats to shoot down any resisting planes over Soviet territory. We have retaliated against Czecho. by closing its Chicago consulate.