Apr 22 Sunday Mom and Pop rode us over to Ida & Max's. Rachel & Mayer & David there. Mr Spiwack & Mr Miller (?) were there but left early. Yankel came over later and played 20 questions with the kids after they had given us a display of magic (First we had had lunch at mothers) We had wine and kugel all day to satiation.
Apr 23 The great heralded Chinese offensive started yesterday and cracked one sector of the Allied lines. Aneurin Bevan quit the British Cabinet in a dispute over the budget. Philippine Huks shot down five U.S. airmen. Jack Goldsmith, former L.I.U. star was held in $50,000 bail charged with being the worst of the basketball fixers.
Apr 24 Lillian went to a meeting in Sylvia's class where her teacher praised her as a wonderful child. Sam Goode tuned our piano today. Spanish strikes are increasing against the H.C.L. Chinese attacks ripped G.I. lines causing retreat below the 38th parallel. John Garfield denounced the C.P. at the "UnAmerican Comm" hearings but named no Communists. Ben Gitlow testified for the gov't in its hearings to force the C.P. to register its members with the Subversive Board.
Apr 25 Sylvia got 100% in a spelling test of 'new' words. She was resentful that Carol Schinkler whose parents are teachers, got two wrong but was excused from spelling anyhow. Two more Labor ministers resigned in England in protest against re-armament at the expense of the medical plan. G.I's fell back 20 miles. Morris Carnovsky and George Willner refused to speak to the "Red" Committee. Marc Lawrence however admitted he was a former Communist and named other "comrades" including Lionel Stander. Two more "confessions" were under attack in the "Trenton Six" trial.
Apr 26 Chinese Communists captured Murasan [?] on the way to Seoul. American sources continue to claim tremendous enemy casualties. 200 Spaniards were arrested as leaders of the strike against the H.C.L. One of the Hollywood Ten - Ed Dmytryk reneged and attacked the C.P. before the "Red Probe" Committee. Our Washing Machine - Bendix Economat - came today. It was $180 - list price $229.
Apr 27 Eugene's classmate Tommy Kelly came up to play with him yesterday. The UN retreat continued in Korea as Gen. Van Fleet vowed we would hold. Chinese counter-revolutionaries were doomed to death in mass public trials broadcast from Canton.
Apr 28 The Allies kept retreating in Korea. Czechoslovakia arrested A.P. man William Oates for spying. The gov't has 14000 'Subversives' under surveillance for internment if war comes. Over 1,000,000 welcomed MacArthur into Chicago. Taft demanded that Congress O.K. MacArthur's strategy of using Chiang's troops and bombing China bases. Kefauver's report attacked former Mayor O'Dwyer for impeding many racket investigations. Iran's cabinet resigned over the oil crisis. Sylvia went to the library with Madeline and Norma and drew "A Street of Little Shops" M.W. Bianco, "The Young Aunts" Alice Dalgliesh, "Joy and the Christmas [Angel]" Pamela Bianco and "The Davenports are at Dinner" - Alice Dalgliesh. Lillian read "Mask of Glory" - Dan Levin, "Beau James" (Jimmy Walker) Gene Fowler and "One Foot in America" Yuri Suhl. We both read Albert Spalding's Autobiography "Rise to Follow".
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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