July 16 Sunday Returned home in the evening via Normie's car with Jerry, Jack & Herman.
July 17 No Koreans imperiled So Korea's provisional capital Taejon. Stalin answered Nehru that the seating of Red China was a minimum requirement for peace in Korea. Henry Wallace supported the UN & U.S. actions in Korea with criticism of the So Korean regime. The Progressive Party called for a fight for peace. A City College Alumni committee after two years of investigation could not decide whether or not Prof. Knickerbocker was guilty of Anti-semitism.
July 18 No Koreans captured Taejon. Applicants for the Armed forces are being quizzed on their application with "subversive organizations". A Senate inquiry Committee charged McCarthy's accusations were a fraud & a hoax. The "House" passed the Hobbs Concentration Camp bill 326-15. Went over to mama's for lunch seeing Lil and the kids. Susan scrawled make believe notes to Eugene & Sylvia. Visited Dr Spiegel about my knee. He said I had a torn ligament. He took xrays which showed nothing further. He put an ace bandage on my knee and charged me $12. Gen. Evangeline Booth is dead at 84 and Carl Van Doren at 64.
July 19 Americans made their first amphibious landing in Korea today and moved inland 7 miles. No Koreans rested at Taejon. 30 wounded G.I's were reported slain by their captors. Julius Rosenberg was arrested and place under $100000 bail as an atom spy suspect. Birmingham Ala. banned the Communist party.
July 20 Stayed home today from work on account of my knee. Had lunch at Mom's then went up to Lil's where Peggy was celebrating her second birthday with a half dozen children. She sang "Happy Birthday to you" over and over "Humpty Dumpty" - ditto and "Home on the Range" which was quite recognizable. Truman made a radio speech in which he authorized the calling up of all reservists and the draft for other needed men. He asked for ten billion dollars for military funds. Authorized a priority and allocation system for materials. He asked for heavier taxes as needed and increased aid to our No. Atlantic partners. Newly landed U.S. troops in Korea continued to land inland but Taejon fell to No Korean troops. The State Dep't. refused to back Red China's seating as a condition for Korean peace. Cominform leaders met at East Germany's Socialist Unity (C.P.) convention.
July 21 GIs fell back 4 miles from Taejon. Probes of food price rises are beginning. The Senate, on purely party lines accepted a Committee report which condemned McCarthy's charges as a "fraud & hoax". Harry Gold pleaded guilty as an atomic spy.
July 22 Left by bus to Meyeroff's. Lost a chess game to Eugene. In the evening we went to the Sugar Bowl with Jerry & Madeline having hot dogs and sodas. Negro troops won the first U.S. victory over the North Koreans.
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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