June 25 Sunday The temp. hits its highest point of the year 91.8° as we picnicked in Woodlawn. The courts were wet. However, Sylvia Eugene and I played some softball. Pop came over and played Eugene and me some chess. The Yanks and Tigers had a home run total of eleven in Friday's game - a new record. There is rising protest over the lively ball. Saturday the Giants got seven home runs - tying the N.L. record. Wes Westrum got three homers and a triple.
June 26 Eugene is becoming a baseball bug. He even went off by himself a couple of times yesterday to watch the baseball game yesterday at Woodlawn. Fighting started in Korea early Sunday with North Korean (communist) troops penetrating to a few miles from Seoul in South Korea. It is generally considered a North Korean invasion but leftists charged South Korea had attacked first at three points. An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council called for a cease fire and return of North Korean troops to their border. The resolution was passed 9-0. Russia continued its boycott because of the Chinese situation. Yugoslavia abstained. Bidault's gov't fell in France in an adverse vote. The N.A.A.C.P. Convention voted a red purge.
There were always sandlot baseball games at Woodlawn.
June 27 Lost to Goldberg. North Korean troops entered Seoul. Aid from the US. was called too little and too late.
June 28 Eugene got a record from his teacher. The worst commercial air disaster resulted in all 58 persons killed on a plane which crashed in Lake Michigan. Truman ordered planes and warships into combat against North Korean troops. He also asked Chiang besieged on Formosa - the last fortress of the Chinese Nationalists to stop attacks on the Chinese mainland as a contribution to peace. Our Ambassador in Moscow, Alan G. Kirk, asked Russia to use its influence to withdraw No. Korean troops and end the war. The UN Security Council voted military sanctions against N. Korea. India & Egypt abstained because of lack of instructions and Yugoslavia opposed. The resolution amounted to an endorsement of U.S. intervention. The one year extension of the draft was passed in the "House" with four opposing.
Dad left a large blank space after "record", presumably for something to be added. I don't know what, nor do I know what "record" I got.
June 29 Eugene drew for vacation "Hari The Jungle Lad" D.G. Mukerji, "More English Fairy Tales" - J Jacobs, "Indian Fairy Tales" - J Jacobs, "The Separated Island" - I. Friedrich, "Freddy the Pied Piper", W R Brooks and "Tales from Silverlands" - C. J. Finger. Sylvia drew "School and Play" - Daw & MacDonald, "Red Mittens" - Laura Bannon, "Something Different" - E.K. Evans, "The Park Book" - C. Zolotow, "The New Round About" - M. O'Donnell, and "B is for Betsy" - C. Haywood. After the library, Lillian took Sylvia to the beauty parlor for a haircut while Eugene came home alone by bus. Eugene got "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" from his teacher for general excellence - 2ND prize. North Korean troops captured Seoul and slashed onward as US jet fighters and light bombers pounded their positions. Russia declared the UN resolution supporting So. Korea illegal since Nationalist China had cast the seventh vote. 15,000 attended a '''Garden" Civil Rights Congress meeting attacking the U.S. intervention in Asia. Robeson, Marcantonio, Gus Hall, Ring Lardner,Jr. Earl Conrad and Gale Sondergaard were among the speakers. Heywood Patterson Scottsboro Boy fugitive was picked up by the F.B.I. His recent book in collaboration with Earl Conrad has been a sensation. Mercy killer Dr H. Sanders has been re-instated by the N.H. State board of medicine.
June 30 American B-29s blasted the No. Koreans from the Kimpo airport they had captured. India is seeking mediation in the conflict. Russia rejected a U.S. request to use its influence to end the war holding events were provoked by a South Korean attack. Truman called U.S. undertakings a police action rather than a war. The Red Sox beat the Athletics 22-14 setting a new A.L. record for total runs.
July 1 We left with the Gallins' by Russeks' truck together with our belongings to the Meyeroff's Granite Manor, Kerhonkson, N.Y.
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.
I wonder what Dad thought about that antiwar Civil Rights Congress at the Garden. I just looked up Robeson's speech at this gathering... Thanks for bringing history to life, Dad!
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