Nov 26 Sunday We all went downtown where I bought an overcoat at Crawford's $40. Also a pair of pants $3.25. Eugene got galoshes $3.00, Sylvia got an over the shoulder bag 25¢.
Nov 27 North Korea and Chinese counter attacks hurled back UN troops. Over 100 persons were killed in the great Saturday storm. Hundreds of thousands of homes were without electricity.
Nov 28 Sylvia's class went to the Museum of Natural History yesterday. She led the line and was chosen to go on the platform. She bought milk instead of soda and two postcards for a nickel for a souvenir. Chinese Communists crashed through UN troops for 20 miles to stall the latter's "end the war" offensive. Vishinsky and Dulles debated the Chinese question at Lake Success. Mt. Etna had its worst eruption in 40 years. Browder Fields [sic] and Jaffe were indicted for contempt. Truman commuted Lt. Gilbert's death sentence for insubordination to 20 years imprisonment.
Nov 29 270,000 Red troops smashed at UN forces in what MacArthur called a new war as the world waited tensely for the result of negotiations at the UN. Chinese and American delegates accused each other of aggression and imperialism. 5 out of 9 Catholic clergymen pleaded guilty to espionage in Czechoslovakia. One implicated Archbishop Beran. Premier Pleven submitted his Cabinets' resignation to President Auriol on the leakage of a special report on the Indo China war. Defense Minister Moch is held responsible. Abe Brothman & Miriam Moskowitz received maximum sentences of seven and two years for obstructing justice in the atom case plot.
Nov 30 Bevin urged a 'Big 4' meeting to avoid total war. Pressure of 'Red' troops eased as the UN forces continued to retreat. Acheson and Austin warned the country and the world of the danger of a major war. Joe Louis made a second comeback fight winning a decision over Cesar Brion. It was a sad affair.
Dec 1 A new 80,000 man attack by the Chinese Reds surrounded marines of three regiments. Pres. Truman announced that use of the Atom bomb against China is under consideration. This statement was later clarified to say that there was no change in the A-bomb situation. Europe was disturbed by the implications of Truman's statement. Russia vetoed the UN's resolution calling for China's withdrawal from Korea. Hundreds of youths and thousands of women invaded the Lake Success led by Paul Robeson Jr & Dr. Clementine Paoloni to demonstrate for peace. Rent Administrator McGoldrick issued his regulations permitting increases for "severe hardships". The State Board [sic] of Appeals upheld the Feinberg Law's constitutionality.
Dec 2 For the first time since we got the television set last March we went to the movies. We saw "No Way Out" a gripping drama about a Negro doctor at a "white" hospital and "Baron of Arizona" about the man who laid fraudulent claim to the state of Arizona. Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark & Linda Darnell starred in the first and Vincent Price in the second. India's and China's UN delegates held a secret conference. Pleven's Cabinet survived on a vote of confidence 347-184. Attlee asked for a 5 power conference including Red China. In the war, eight Chinese Communist divisions struck for the UN Army's flank. Truman asked $18000,000,000 for the war.
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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