8/13-8/19/50

Aug 13 (Sun) The big kiddie show took place at 3 o'clock on the handball courts. About 25 children recited and danced The girls looked lovely in their crepe paper costumes. Norma Sylvia and Isabel were among the performers. Evelyn directed the entire group. I played four games of chess with Herman having an edge. At night Lil & I played Canasta.

Aug 14 Returned to N.Y. with Jesse. Americans launched a counter attack to knock off balance a big North Korean drive. The U.S. demanded the bail of the '11' C.P. leaders be revoked and they be jailed as a menace to the security of the nation. The A.C.L.U. criticized the Mayor's handling of the Union Square peace rally.

Aug 15 A new NoKorean crossing of the Naktong River menaced the U.S. flank. India proposed a special commission of the six non permanent members of the Security Council to work out a peaceful settlement of the Korean war. 

Aug 16 No Koreans drove to within 9 miles of Taejon. Americans continued to saturate No Korean military objectives with increasingly heavy bomb assaults. Dockers refused to unload 'red' crabmeat. Mayor O'Dwyer will resign on Sept 1 and accept the ambassadorship to Mexico. 

Aug 17 98 B 19s blasted a concentration of 60000 NoKoreans in the heaviest air strike since Normandy but the effectiveness is still in doubt. The "House" voted to rescind the recent mail cuts.

Aug 18  30,000 NoKoreans opened up the biggest attack of the war against Taejon. Over half a million SoKoreans were ordered to evacuate the American supply base. Two score Americans were reported to have been slain after capture by the NoKoreans. At the U.N. Austin assured Russia we are not interested in bases in Korea. Three high Polish officials have quit their posts. Former Russian Vice Consul in New York, A Yakovlev was indicted in absentia on charges of atom bomb espionage. Indicted with him were Mr & Mrs. Julius Rosenberg.

Aug 19 Came up to Meyeroff's with Jack R. Eugene had been in bed a couple of days with a cold. GI's hurled the NoKoreans back at Taejon and held elsewhere. Another engineer Martin [sic] Sobell was held as an atom spy. Julien Lahaut, president of the Belgian C.P. was assassinated causing great indignation and unrest. Peace partisans in Prague urged the U.S. to get out of Korea. Delegate Rogge called No Korea the aggressor and urged the Congress to denounce aggression from any source.