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Nov. 27 We went to Mom & Pop's seeing Lil & Peggy. Harry wasn't well and Susan stayed to help him. She recently made orange juice and washed and dried dishes. Peggy was very cute. She knew everyone there. Eugene won a game of chess from pop. We had the first snowfall of the season and the kids had gone sleighing in the morning.

Dad neglected to label Sunday again, again requiring me to carefully count to seven. 

Nov. 28 Lil took Molly to the doctor this morning. He said she had arthritis and must lose weight. Vice Consul Stokes was freed by the Chinese Communists following Consul Ward's release. Laureano Gomez became Colombia's president. Liberals boycotted the election. The Young Progressives of America concluded their four day second Nat'l Convention in Cleveland with a call for outlawing atomic warfare.

Nov. 29 Sylvia has a sniffle. A half million people jammed Harlem streets to mourn Bill Robinson at his funeral. The Atomic Energy Commission announced a plan to 'breed' scarce atomic materials. Chambers caused a sensation when he testified he was not sure whether a certain paper had been given him by Hiss or the late H.D. White. The City Council ousted Ben Davis and barred debate. Corporation Council [sic] McGrath had held that Davis' conviction barred him from public office. State Supreme Court Justice Harry E. Schirick declared the Feinberg Law barring left wing teachers unconstitutional. He termed it a witch hunting law. Murray spoke at the first convention of the new Int'l Union of Electrical Workers which claims to represent half the old U.E. membership already.

Nov. 30 Sylvia stayed home today with a stuffed nose. The Cominform asked for an all-out struggle from within and without to overthrow Tito. 28 out of 46 perished in another plane crash. N.Y.U. agreed to restore the "One World" mural it had removed, after protests.

Dec. 1 Rep Parnell Thomas sensationally dropped his fight against gov't charges that he had padded the gov't payroll with relatives and drew kickbacks from them. He threw himself on the mercy of the court. The N.Z. Labor gov't was ousted after 17 years of rule. 400,000 soft coal miners will walk out again with the expiration of the truce. Bulgaria indicted former deputy Premier Kostov and 10 others for treason espionage and sabotage in favor of Yugoslavia. 4 Ben Davis supporters arrested at a rally celebrating his release on bail received 60 day sentences. Chiang took over operations against the Communists again as Chunking fell. Carey's new Electrical Union heard several cabinet members attack Communism and praise him.

Dec. 2 When Sylvia complained about helping Eugene do the dishes and then made a commotion while doing them, she was sent to bed before 7 o'clock. At lunch supper time today both refused to eat their stewed prunes. The UN adopted the Western peace plan rather than the Soviet. Against the wishes of the Jewish people, the UN voted 7-6 for the internationalization of Jerusalem. The miners returned to work on a 3-day basis, eleven hours after starting their latest strike. Negotiations will continue. Curran packed a meeting with out of town seamen to win a verdict of guilty against Drummond  and the patrolmen. They will be removed from office. A large part of the membership did not vote. Yugoslavia placed ten Russians on trial for espionage and claimed another had committed suicide in jail. Italy's labor staged a 24-hour protest strike against the killing of several peasants.

Dec. 3 Eugene went to his first Cub Scout meeting with about eight boys in a Webb Ave apartment and had a good time playing games. The Water emergency is getting more critical and summonses are being handed offenders. It was announced that the F.H.A. will give no aid in the future to any housing having restrictive covenants. An ex U.S. officer told Fulton Lewis that Harry Hopkins gave Russia many confidential secrets during the war. Included was a-bomb material.