Sept 28 Sunday Mom and pop and Sam and Molly came over for dinner. The kids played - Sylvia "The Voice of the Heart"- Van Gael and Eugene "Oriental Dance" without music. We had a nice evening of conversation and then Eddy Cantor on television. George Santayana is dead at 88.
Sept 29 We went over to Sam & Molly for supper then I went on to work. D.K. Niles is dead at 62. One of the kids favorite pastimes is to make each other laugh in turn. At Molly's Milton Shirley and Seth and Mrs Perl also came. Seth is much improved and quite cute. The kids amused themselves by playing solitaire.
Sept 30 Stevenson called for a grim battle against Communism at home and abroad. Eugene failed a Spanish exam.
I remember being devastated by that failure.
Oct 1 British Labor Party elections saw Bevanites oust six top moderate officials. Morrison and Dalton were among the victims. The F.B.I. arrested Earl [and] Raissa Browder on charges of perjury in Mrs. Browder's 1949 naturalization petition. Viscount Astor is dead at 73.
Oct 2 45 Communist prisoners were killed and over a hundred injured at Kojo prison camp when the Chinese prisoners celebrated the Anniversary of the revolution in the face of a ban. Six teachers were discharged for refusing to answer questions about their Communist affiliation.
Oct 3 England exploded its first atom-bomb. Japanese elections saw Yoshida retain power. The Communists lost all their seats.
Oct 4 Sylvia drew "Mary Poppins" - P.L. Travers, "Railroad Cowboy" C. Wooley [sic], "The Jennifer Wish" E.Y. Smith and "The Princess and the Goblin" G. MacDonald. Eugene drew "Jungle Journey" J.B.M. Waldeck, "True Tales of Buried Treasure" E.R. Snow, "The Story of the World Series" F. Lieb, "Best Sports Stories" Marsh & Ehre. Lil gave Sylvia a permanent. She also got the kids fall jackets in Alexanders Sylvia's $7. is mom's present for her birthday. Eugene's is $6. Andres Requena, anti-Trujillo editor of a newspaper here was assassinated in a Madison st. hallway. Three City professors, Vera Shlakman, Bernard Reiss and Harry Slochower were suspended without pay for refusing to answer questions on their political affiliations. Russia asked the recall of U.S. Ambassador George Kennan for his "slanderous attacks on the Soviet Union". He had compared the situation of Americans in Moscow with that of Berlin in 1942. Russia's 19th Congress of the C.P. - the first since 1939 opened by stressing Stalin's declaration just released. This said war was more likely between Capitalist powers than between East and West. The Asian and Pacific Peace Conference opened in Peking with with [sic] an offer of a settlement of the Korean War through unconditional repatriation of all prisoners.
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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