Frances J. Pratt Letters on the U.S. Foreign Policy Association, 1944-1945

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January 9f 1944

Back in December whan the World Telegram want in for ona of its customary bita of fantasy upon tha official arrival of winter, 1 seemed to have smiled in a superior manner* Well, we got it this week with a vengance. Fortunately a good deal of the "percipitation* the early part of the weok qas rain--sandwiched in between the snow* One eight there were urgent pleas on the radio for good citliens to go to the nearest polios or firs station to be issued shovels* The City Hanpowere situation was such that clearing the walks and gutters could not be taken care of without volunteers and the forcast was freezing weather that night* If the gutters were not open before they froze, there scorned to be no telling what would happen* X never did hear what the call for volunteer shovelere brought forth, but the crisis was averted, perhaps because it did not freeie that night after all* About that time, ray interest was centered right here, for the faultring heat supply of 17 East 64th Street broke down completely. For three days my radiator was stone cold, the hot air register gave a feeble flow of wans air which did help some. !;y program was to eat on the way horn from the office, get into bed with plenty of blankets piled on as soon as I got home and oozihy stay there until it was time to start out in the morning* I find that I am still very susceptible to cold, getting trembly if chilled* Jhen I go out I must look like a well stuffed sausage* Now it is cold but fortunately sunny in spits of the bitter wind--but heat has been restored* One night another tenant tried to keep warm with a log fire. Evidently their fireplace does not draw as well as mine for the smell of wood snake permeated the house I'm afraid Aunt Annie thought the house was on firs and we would have to take to the street in out ni$it clothes*

lbs other afternoon I was talking with General McCoy about "returned

heroes". He has the greatest possible sympathy for them since as a very

young officer he was the first "returned hero" from the Battle Santiago* He

was wounded and the story of his experiences and lack of treatment is hair-

raising* It seems to me that only his tou$i physique saved hie life. His

wound was not properly dressed until he got to his own home in Pennsylvania

some eight weeks after the wound was incurred* He arrived there in the

clothes in which he entered the battle, sinus one trouser leg, which had been

cut away at a first aid station* Our techniques for caring for wounded h ve

- eortaialy made stupendous strides in the interim.

This conversation

turned to his being 0 neral food's aide in Havana during the early years of

occupation of Cuba. They had a very interesting mess which Included

A|ba.ter Reed, Gorges, HU#J 3cott (the father of my friend Blanchard) and an

v engineer who became famous in the construction of the Panama Canal* The man

he Vlked most of was Bill Pritchett, the Provost Marshal/. Under Spanish

law\ Cuba had no parelsll to a magistrates court* No matter what you did

whence law caught up with you you languished in jail for months until a

Court of the First Instance got around to dealing with you. Well, the Pro

vost TVhcl set up a civil court and speedily handed out quick ad even

handed justice. Kis usual penalty for minor infractions of the law was "Ten

Dollars and Ten flays"* The Cubao was amazed and gratified at the speed with

which they were sentenced, sent to the rock pile and released* Soon "Be-e-11

Pre-etchit" aad "Ten Dollars, Ten flays" became incorporated Into the then

current language of Cuba to mean quick justice and American efficiency*

The General is so full of fascinating tales that I continually regret that

he is unwilling to write any of them* An amazing amount of history and

political interpretation will be lost whn he dies*

January 19, 1944

NOTES ON TH5 NAVY

Letter from Clove dated January 16. "Wall, at last something worth

writing about has happened. I have been aPPO^ted Lieutenant ,ommaindU

the Retired hist for temporary duty in the United States lavy t



3rd day of January, 194'=" . All in due form and signed by ?r*nk Knox ..or

the Fres dt|jugt ^efor9 ohristoas I learned that I had been recom.ended tor

promotion andnon January 12 I received notice to report for a

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made an apoointraent with the doctors and took the exam Thure ay dcotors found me fit for limited duty only in the continental limits because

of eyes, missing teeth .and overweight, 60 pounds (weighing 220 now I laugh

at that) BO after due delibera tion by the Commandant's aids my promotion

was sent through and I received it late Friday (4:40). The last paragraph

says that this appointment will be regarded as having been terminated and

"you will revsrfc to your permanent rank effective upon the date your

detachment from duty at the Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C."

"Saturday I learned that the Bureau was notgoing to move people

just for the sake of moving every two years so it all seems to boil down o

the fact that I should he here for the duration. It is 00<J t o haY. that settled, because rumors have been flying very fast for the past -ew

week3 end plans ware made for moving everyone out who had been nerc two

years and bringing those at advanced bases or at sen, back. Saturday

morning I had n talk with Oomdr. Farker, Machinery Supt. andaftoroo-

lng me a lot of questions about what I ted done he asked me if X thought I

could hold down the job of Fitting and Machinery Superintendent, teturai.lv

I said "yes" and he said that I was being considered lor it. -.a .e

wanted to mko euro I una not afraid of the job. There are many

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which enter into the change and nothing will be den for a

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used to rate a house in the, yard, but a few mon-ths ago when Lt. Comdr.

Height left it v/as felt that the Repair office had more night work should

have the house* Uore news on that when it is settled.

"We are all well and everything is going fine. We took the kids to Sunday School and Church and then we went to a celebration dinner at
Greenhill , sport the afternoon and home for supper. *

Excerpt from letter from TAirtha of January 17? " We think CIeve gold leaves and new stripes are very becoming! I'm so ternoly proud o. i. Did he tell you that this is a special spot promotion for which hS was spec ially recommended. He is very modest about it, but it is tne yeceuj result his good work the past several months. I think he is simply wonderful. me if I rave a bit. It's getting so I'm more tiresome about him Jian & dcti -g
parent of an only child' "

On Janusry 14 Cel was inducted. He selected a two year hitch in tho
Naval Reserve and l'eft at 10 pm January 21 for the training station at Hsw York, presumably for six weeks. This is a boot camp for 55,000 on th,!

of lake Seneca, 15 miles south of Osn.ro. A very

tErr'Ut they went to the

been through training and given him all the dope. i onday night . u, . -

opera, Wednesday they dined with me. Before Cal left he ^^"TatParka small er apartment ir> the same building. In spite of his short service at Park & Sford, they gave him a full week's pay for two days mi an extra week, officially

called "overtime".

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January *3, 194

Yesterday we had a very good lunaheon at the Waldorf9 I had a frightful time arranging it, but it all went off very well* Ned Carter was not as good as I have heard him before--but adequate The Honourable 'Halter Nash, Minister of New Zealand to the U3 was superb* He coses from northern England and speaks with a occasional " do ye ken"a in a most in formal, conversational $$$$ manner full of aside's, yet managed to speak very seriously and leave an impression of great earnestness with a spiritual quality* In spanking of the work of our Sea Bees in the south Pacific he reported that on their return flight they were told that they could not miss a certain island they wanted to stop on because it had a mile long plane runway* Sure enough they saw the runway and landed, only to dis cover that they were on the wrong island* when the pilot who gave them the information had been over two week a previously, the runway had not even been started, yet in two weeks the Sea Bees had made it* In spite of some fortifications of 54 inch thick concrete, Hash was at Betio about six weeks after we captured the place* (He was there about three weeks ago or less*) We had a good crowd and I hope we get some good publicity--we should*

Frances and John Guntfeer are separated, or maybe divorced, but remain good friends and spent Christmas together. Frsrt cee wanted to do eome other things in New York, eo told John that she was going back to New Haven, and then invited guests to luncheon at the hotel she planned to use 6r the remainder of her stay* The guests waited and waited for Mrs. Vincent 3heean to turn up, finally Frances telephoned the Sheean apartment, where the maid said "Madam, there must be some mistake, Mrs. Sheeen met Mr. Gunther, who said you had left for New Haven, so she made another engagement for today. *

The office has been a continual madhouse all this month* Per haps 1 should be glad that everything is so booming* However, I should like Just ones to get caught up* There are still people out of the office with colds and stuff* The switchboard operator has bsen out for the second period of ten days--hope she is back tomorrow, for relief operators slow me down* My own secretary is cutting two wisdom teeth at once and one is not behaving properly. I sent her home Friday morning in the hope she could get a treat ment and relief and be back for Saturday* She wasn't , so I had a specially hectic morning, and had to get a nowise to cover the press table for me* It is amusing that global war has made its mark on the Waldorf's menus. They offered Chicken Casablanca and Souffle Alaska for lunch. I might also add that they are having labor troubles and increasing the cost of luncheon to us* I don't know how much people are going to be willing to pay* They are already paying fifty cents more than last year, and now face another twentyfive cent increase*

Thursday I had a long talk with Peg Tobin and got caught up with her* She showed me her latest from going-on-six- Billy,"dear Mother Please could you send me a box of Candy and my book on Jesus" . The rest of the card was taken up with x ee and circles. I forgot to ask what the latter meant. Hugsf I gathered that they want me to run in the election for the AWA Board of Governors again* I think 1811 beg off this time*

Ruth Risher sent me a most amusing "thank-you-letter" for the Christ

mas box* She ie awfully happy in her Job and thinks that she has gotten a lot

of breaks in the Red Cross* "We had a wonderful Christmas. The boys were kept

busy for days shopping for decorations, going for greens, decorating the Clubs,

finally decorating the tree. We practised carol singing and had beautiful carols

on Christmas eve* Every boy got a present from a Sant in a sleigh-bell trimmed

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January 30, 1944

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I'm all tied up with love's young dream. All of & sudden my secretary's beau has turned up from an overseas oupost shore he hash been stationed for too years# Nothing for it but that she have a leave of absence for v month so as to be married and spend his firlou&i with him* Oa Thursday she warned iac that she had a cable from *** and and would wont the leave when he arrived* Initial steps with the the Shop Icssslttee for meeting her unusual request were begun--but at eleven o'clock Friday morning she Just walked out # of the office and later seat Mi word that she would not be in as of Monday* I spent Saturday afternoon in the office trying to straigliten out her desk, # icfc had a great mess of stuff she had not done in the past week or so on account of her wisdom teeth* Actually I'm only the innocent bystander in all this while the Jbop ComAttte and Manageaent talk and negotiate over the term of leave and method of substitution* Heaven knows when or what X shall drew in the way of a tmpoisry stenographer* Meanwhile I shall have to be two people and then carry her secretarial work, as no nsw person will be able to pick up the record keeping, etc. which ay secretary usually carries* Ck me, some times the details of this life almost get me dmml

The other day I had a very pleasant conversation with General McCoy

uhloh at times had an almost "hearts end flowers" quality. He thinks I m

doing a very good job, etc*, etc* Although he did not know about ay secre

tary situation and there ems no point in telling him, it was pleasant to

know that I have his support.

Here is an interesting sidelist on Terheran.

It seems that talin has a very broad sense of humor md loves to get off

extremely pointed and personal barbs directed at the people he is with* FDR

sized up ti.is trait and fired back something in kind every time Stalin

baited him* He managed to give as good as sent, or better, which tickled

"Uncle Joe". On the other hand Churchill could not take it md lost his

temper* This makes on realize how much of so called international relations

boil down to personal relat one and underscore how M -u* patience and

understanding to say nothing of tact will be needed in the coming years*

Last night I worked sy income tax--doubtless a poor idea after the way I worked yesterday for I made a mistake of JiOQ in addition very early in the gams* This Miming I happened to do a little checking and found it and had to do everything all over--and in the doing managed to odd another v34 to the taV I must take the thing to tte collector's office and be sure that I h&ve applied the instructions correctly*

Sorry and I decided yesterday that while I am doing fine, there simply is no reserve of energy in me and a secondary anaemia (oh dear, why do I always stop making blood when I overdo? it is so stupid! ) and that at least until my secretary gets back and the office Is at least normal 1 cannot go back to the Red Cross. It burns me up that in the final analysis the Red Cress takes the rap on Miss Lazurus* high toned ideas of a month's honeymoon. Frightfully few people get that now. Jere it not for this new office pressure I could have taken up ay work them on Tuesday*

Sorry to be so complaining* Maybe this doggerel T noticed yes terday when I was out to lunch will provide a cheerful tog-line* " *<m can live without art, Men can live without books, But men cannot exist in a world without cooks."

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February 2, 1944

01 sudden Theo and IbUlp Johnson see to have com back la

life. Theo is still studying music vigorously and living in the little "Hidden

liOuse ihilij di scovered on Third Avcc e. He has been in the Army for over

a year*--but is currently on the far in Ohio recuperating frost an emergency

appendeotoiBy. ^ie hopes that he will come to Hew York for a few days before

going beck to canp. The January Town and Country has a big write up of hie

house in Cambridge--it is something out of this world and from the photographs

has a sort of aquarium look of no privacy. It is amusing that when he went

to Cambridge I gave him a letter to the Hopper* aid he has rented his house

to a friend of theirs* The wanted me for lunoh to meet Andre Labarthe, a

most interesting Frenchman who used to be the director of scientific research

in France. His tale of getting out of France after the collapse was some

thing and especially interesting to The who had never met him before either

as she me driving a Red Cross oar in Bordeaux at the time of his escape.

Labarthe was picked up in Bordeaux by the police and put in jail, however in

two hours he was taken in for hearing end who should be sitting at the desk,

but on of his former students, who looked at his papers and siad,"there is

some mistake, monsieur* you are not the man to who these papers were issued.

I cm sorry that you have been detained. Please leave at once, out this back

doorS" Labarthe two hours late for an appointment with his secretary & Her

husband found them faithfully waiting. Together they went to the waterfront

idier he found men anxious to help an official eseape. He commandeered a

coal boat* gathered together various friends and 200 Polish soldiers ami they

sailed toward Cap Flnnisterre and then out into the ocean. Jbenever they heard

uistreos signals* indicating U boat activity they quickly went away. Turning

north* after they had gotten well out into the Atlantic* they picked up the

life boat of a British ship with 27 survivors south of Ireland and finally got

to Cngland. He founded a magaiine there, "La France Libre". Twice the

*ustripts* printing presses and everything were destroyed by

the bllti, but he managed somehow md has the largest circulation for a London

sagasine of that character--yet it is written in French. He went to Cairo

and after the same sort of difficulty bad m equal success with that edition

and then on to Algiers where it was repeated. H is now organising for

publication of an American edition. Evidently he has scant respect for our

linguistic ability for this is to be published in English. The first number

will be out February 26 and will be, I have hie word for it "A Sensation".

\ iheo has a man by name

wonderful cook of Harper, who

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The nest day I heard a most interesting englishman ?h was in Cairo at the time of Dunkirk say that Lngland then only had one properly equipped brigade in England and had the Germans attempted invasion it must have been successful. So sure of this were the British military and diplomatic circles inJgypt that they pre;arod to go into the desert, if necessary* end set up a Free England" Government in dxile. Lord* but they must have been low*

&th all this reorganisation that Bdward Stettinius is going in the utate depart cmt this story of him at the age of ten is amusing. He had a pony which was boarded out while the family went on holiday, .hen the bill for keep was presented young Id thought it too much and promptly said to the man "But think of all the fertiliser you got."

Life in the office should become a little simpler for me as of

tomorrow when my substitute stenographer will com in. She has had a lot of

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with eleotrioal supply houses. I fear my vocabulary and terms

will seem very odd. But it will be good to be able to dictate when I want to

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soasone can lend me their secretary--thou^i i shall still have

to do a lot of detail work cm records, which normally sgr secretary does.

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diaeusolon wit) the news thai "The 3ta* Spangled Banner" has been our nations! anthem for only thirteen years. That's a fast} for the official action was taken in 1931 by President Hoover end the 71at Congress, which if you remember, didn't have a hell of a let else to do* As late as the Spanish American War, "Th Btar Spangled Banner" was aha ring honor with "Hail Columbia, " and mJy Country, "Pis of Thee" was pressing the pair of

them pretty closely. Admiral Dewey, rdien his fleet itemed triumphantly

into Manila Bay, ordered his band to p|ay "The Star Spangled Banner," and

after that it became much more popular than the two other contenders.

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on the subject of the national natheia, oii particularly preposterous

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rumor being from Khles,

that the reason the where (so the Story

tune is so hard to carry is that it cams goes) people's throats are so constricted

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by the perpetual fogs that they can produce high note without difficulty, heaving this meteorological and anatomical romancing aside, it is a

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generally accepted fact that the tun m written in -n^Land, a decade or so before the .American devolution, by John Stafford >.^aith, dompoeer to His Majesty* Chapel and an active member of the Anacreontic Society, &

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band of classy topers, apparently with music?!, tastes, *& set regularly

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at the Crown and Anchor, B London tavern* Aith words by a fellow-toper named Ralph Tomlinoon, Smith's tune became the official ^ong of the .

Anacreontic Society. ,Ii was called "To .mermn M i Heaven," and ws 99

sung, fervently, at every session. ; One possible explanation of i&* ?

tune's troublesome r^nge--it overs five notes more than an octave--is

that the composer realised that, to gentlemen in their

impossible, or at least nothing k

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In view of the aong's bibulous origin, the pert played by ?i

certain Dr. Beane* in inspiring Franc* Scott Key's voices may interest you.

Or. Ke&nes was a ttdg who lived in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Che evening

the Doctor and a c-.uple of friend were punishing a bowl f punch when

three British soldiers, straggler who had loci touch with the invading

force, knocked at his door. In their alcholic exuberance, the Doctor and

his friends disarmed the :led-co&to and marched ihm off to the village lock

up* -hen the British took possession of the town, they freed the prisoners

locked up the Doctor, end then went on to lay aeige tc Baltimore ndth amphib

ious forces in Chesapeake Bay* Key, who was u lawyer, took a party from

Baltimore out to the British fleet on a ship named the Miitden, under a flag

of truce, to arrange for Be&ae'e release. The British adsdral agreed to

free the Doctor, but detained the linden and its party while he launched an

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attack on Fort L'mHomy, the chief defense of Baltimore* As you unquestion

ably recall, Key stayed up all night on the maden to vatdfc the battle, end

eventually saw by the dawn's early light that the flag was still there. He

wrote hi lyric on the back of m envelope to the metrical scheme of the

drinking song, then popular in this country, and polished it that morning . . "| " :-

upon returning to Baltimore after the British let the Mind en return. In

the afternoon. Key, flushed with creative enthusiasm, had a printer strike

off the vera on handbills, one of srfiieh found its way into a tavern and

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was sung, as a footnote instructed, to the music of "Anrereon." It is

aid that the first man to ning it was a soldier named Ferdinand Dunmg, * '

who had been an actor before he enlisted* He wee sitting in the tavern . < ,,'JJ

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copy of tho song. the first nor the

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patriotic or inspirational verse to that particular tunc. Betwooa 179T and

18K:9 t ore v/or^ about - dosen ouch ettotnr-to, three of thera Benirsnir?:,

Atonthem --

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respectively, "ye sow of Columbia# determined to keep "

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"Breve ens of Columbia, your triu&aph behold. ,* imd "Columbians,

arise* let the oamanuomn resound . . M" -'Tthheere were Mlleeo two sete of verses

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la honor of Presidents written to this melody --"Adams and Liberty* and

"Jefferson and Liberty* The famous battle fought in 1811 at Tixippppee~-

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"hereon in Beven* During the Civil War, the South used the tune for

*]& Cross of the South* ("How peaceful and bloat was Americans soil,

'Till betrayed by the guile of the Puritan demon**) The most

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astonishing use of the air w aado ty on ardent contributor to tho

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act of verses fcoginnicgi

who has not soon, by the dawn's early light,

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February It* 1044

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Fuir malng that the typing nay be worse than usual9 beeeeue of a bandaid on one of the % ft hand fingers* Evidently afior he got the snow bleared off yesterday the superintendent wait la for a larger than usual Saturday night bingrfe -- result little heat last evening and lest this warning* It was still in the upper fifties when I finally decided that 2 oust stop keeping mm in bed and arose* flawing a frech supply of wood Z nads a flredeelded on an active occupation--sorting out the aagasines to be slipped and wade into story folders for hospitals* l$r Waterloo same when Z was using the newiy taxpened bread knife to sllee a Saturday vning Post at the binding fold and Jabbed ay finger* Zt was only snough to break the skin and bleed sen#--but even if print le supposed to be ontlssptle* the bandage sensed a good idea and now Z an counting on it to keep the thing from opening up and bleeding again while I type*

Friday was a day! 4 real bllsmrd with a hi# wind carrying the snow to that even mim you footing was fair# you c ulda't see where you wore going very well for the snow in your eyes* Here funny street incidents with trucks and taxis stalled busses afraid they would skid ntar the eurh and making the \souldbe pacsengere climb through the anew to the Middle of the street--yet some young things went about in open worked toe slippers* Z stayed late at the offloe getting oeu#t up on the secretarial end of things 9 had dinner* took tay England letters to the train nail and saw quantities of people in the station setting off on the evening trains with ski togs and asr* quantities standing about in front of the station rod hotels trying to get taxis* which did seen ssarssr than usal* hen I get the bus at Madison and 43rd* there was a sweet very young blonde in a pale blue tulle dancing frock sad silver straps for footgear* Z gathered fron her conversetien that she would have to walk a couple of blocks after she got off* render how she d&aeed in sopping stockings!

Tfcnredry ni#t Z went to the Am to turn in m m glove ad get nore y rn. Ussy have a huge quota of kit bags to mke this month# so Z stayed and worked a while* These are node out of heavy material md are greatly prised by soldiers 2 understand* for themselves quite as much as the so called "comforts" with which they ere filled for embarking troops* Everyone worked with a will for the reserve of bags has been deple| ted or maybe production fell off during the holidays) anywiy we were- given to understand that two ships hod sailed without the troops getting this little parting gift*

Yesterday Z went to the marlean llatfona Guild luncheon to rub shoulders with speakers and managers alike* Knocked *m dead with a beautiful brown and dubonnet orchid of the ladyslipper variety that was sent m en Friday* Useful information is usually picked up at this gatherings and this tine Z got a Joke* which seems forth repeating* The manager of a public forum in Tulsa told it* "A doctor told a deaf mm that if he would stop drinking whiskey his hearing would be restored* 3 the d#@f mm went on the wagon end sure enou# for a couple of weeks he heard perfectly* But the doctor met hln at a party end wae surprised to see the patient iafeibing again* however he understood the explanation -- * I'd rather have good whiskey* than have to listen to the tripe I heard** *

2m spite of the wind Z talked heme throu# the bottom of the Bark* It teas really lovely and kids wsre enjoying the opportunity to eoast on the hills* The ssalions disappointed as--they were not cavorting about in the sold or rolling in the enow at the edge of the pool as I had hoped* Perhaps they are getting soft*

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February 20 1244

X have stayed late at the office a let this week, for about six o'clock on Tuesday Hiss Leet remembered to tell me that she had intended to aek me the week before for a whole mess of statistics to inoorpornte in General MeOoy's annual report for 1943* that is a chore in itself, for all ray records are kept on a seasonal basis* with the stupid substitute stenographer X have this month, there was nothing for it but ay doing the digging after hours*

Tuesday afternoon Aunt Mary Greenwood telephoned me that

her eoualn had died and that she and Aunt Beetle would not be able to go

to the Gasadeeus recital at Garaegie on Wednesday* We had planned for a

good six weeks that X was to dins with them and go to this concert* when

X stopped on my way home about St30 to see if there was anything X could

do for them, she Insisted that X take the tickets* The two Misses Ggden

went with me and we got what some of the papers called a double bill*

Gasadesus, the French pianist, is a beautiful technician and gave a beauti-

ful program well executed* He is an impassive little man and a good deal

older than his photographs would lead one to think* He wore the longest

tails, X have ever seen* lie doubt they eruae from the establishment of some

Pre-world 4wr X Parisian tailor*

How for the ddeshom*during the laittsr

part of the first half of the program, there was a eemotion in one of the

boms over the back of ray loft shoulder, as it continued, out cams the

lorgnettes and necks craned* After a good deal of protracted bustle X

distinctly heard a man say How dare you get into ay boat" Poor Gasadesus

turned snd looked balefully over his shoulder, but continued to play* The

next day ZUlse Leet told tm that when she went to the box office to buy

her ticket before dinner there was a young woman of the adventuress type

with fussy hair and imitation eyelashes about an inch long was ahead of

her and asked for tickets In Bos 53* She ma annoyed when she could not

obtain them, but settled for awething else* Svidently das calmly went

into the box for which she did not hold tickets and took her young woman

oaRp&siera with her and waited until the owner of the box, brother of the

aircraft inventor and manufacturer Graver Loaning, ema in lets with his

parly* Aether he know her or was slightly high X shall never know*

Certainly his handling of the situation was pretty bad and resulted in

her taking him off to the polios station after the performance* It w&uld

seen that she got the publicity she wanted out of it and one wonders what

else*

Sometime in the autumn X read an article in the Saturday liven ing Post about a tarn in ^Isonnsin or Minnesota who made a year round busi ness of cutting Gbrisims trees* By means of some sort of preparation he stimulates the sap srnee at the base of each needle, eo they do not drop off as soon as the cut tree is espesed to heat* X must have gotten some of his product, for the branches X put in water on the shelves at either end of ay bookeaecs two months ago til? hold their needles and make nice splashes of green in the room* It has now ease to being n matter of curiosity with me* How long will Ihey last? X should report that I got et$*t days of pleasure
out of my orchid* It could hove been worn yesterday, the ninth day had X not carelessly knocked the blossom off the atm while it was planed to my
coat Friday algjhii

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February 27, 1944

^ 3rite of the fact th&tan announcement has been made that no garbage ill he collected in New fork on hodnosdayai la order that #**1 tne collection facilities of the Department of Sanitation can be used to bring in paper and tin cans far s&lgage, we are a long way ahead ox other countries in supplies availabale for civilian consuiaptien* I have Just had a letter freei England in a brown paper commercially made envelope which measures 2 and 3/4 Inches by 3 and 5/Q and one from South driea with a postage stamp measuring eliditly under an inch by half and inch# Stamp collectors will have to use tweeters if all stamps shrink to that site*

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on Hia Bbcot" leave with a orew hair cut# that leaves

nim so little hair in front that he must have looked like a skinned obi

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Average time for giving a hair cut at the Training

top is 60 seconds# He got a special Job lasting about eighty secouda# The

rtahteiotinmeb#oard has given aim points# so ho does not have to "eat out" all

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days of brilliant sunshine# with &

decided h~nt ot spring in the air# But alas# Washington*e Birthday and

today# when one niglrfc have gotten some good of the sun have been dull and

reining# Vesterday afternoon it snowed for several hours! but mercifully

changed to rain before it amounted to anything#

. 'Sbi* h*s b a dull week with uninteresting ceusaitte meetings. Slip and Paste" and so on# I had Cal and Theism for dinner and the evening Wednesday and for breakfast today. Quantities of work in the iffie, but nothing w*rth commenting on# There was such a Jm Unit 1 had to go in Saturday and stayed until two and wa so tired when I got home that I fall asleep for an hour after 1 had done ray weekend marketings

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have been so mundane, or else I am too dull

to find the interest# that I shall have to conclude with a story which

amused me. A small girl had been trained to say to the neighbors# "Good

morning, Mr. Smith# and how is Sirs. Smith today. * &ne day her mother#

heard a hearty guffaw and went to investigate# The neighborhood priest

was still chuckling and explained the youngster had just greeted him with

ood morning# Father Duffy, and how is Mrs. Duffy today?"

Oh# under the heading of correspondence received# X should have said i had a nice letter from Mr. Post who reported* " I am delighted that Clave has gone up nearer where he belongs in rank# Wo are all well here now# but very recently througi with the measles--all four# Waldron will go back to duty soon# but not to sea# Charlie is sitll mining convoys in the South Atlantic# Mary's daughter Camilla is engaged to a young officer of the Life Guards named Netille (age 21) She was IS last July so they have a good deal of life before them and I treat always together# Kiliaen is all well again and Betty's husband is on a carrier in the Pacific* Noll is on a destroyer. * Quite a round up of the family!

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Late yesterday afternoon when I hung up my coat in the cloaet there

ueemddto a slight odor, which made me think of a dead mouse* But I tossed that

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. " ^ttt Oal and Hheliae came for breakfast he commented, a after breakfast we investi

gated* It gave good strong whiff, and there was no doubt about something being

wery much amiss* Sure enough little mouse had somehow gotten into my trick

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1 l-siiiffttii mthaottueg.h TIotolemmaaavmney*s pmeoe ppl*er* e^wt*t4iy*tfchUddiseceopulyraginegdroawbnouiItdjeeavs_eriin.s.eecionmgpltehtee uconntaitnr.ag3dli?incg*tioo_'nif, -ttvoh- at*#%he.ir

neighbors equally firmly held notions.. If you don't see what I mean get hold Of

"The Long Balkan Night" the new book of Leigh White who nas on of the speakers*

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wmm very interesting, pretty grim,, but quite worth reading. White ie young, but

intelligent and honest. Hie other speaker vas Stoyan tovrilevie an older nan ff": . M ,'1

and a Serbian diplomat. He made a very interesting contrast of greater maturity,

th 'f.e?SSfPe Ip bVh>uieat ai4d^eb*auesr.naBiMnn>dg1 bzeiattlefrosrcohyrif ne- ffoowrn 4ooatp2hiiSne.^irLovn_JisewanpdoJi.tnJhtsei*citizaet*ns of .Y. u,gow.shloavwiaaso.hboadslyhare'HP

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as a buck private in our Amy--for which ho is filled with admiration. However,

he said he would rather * go' t*h"rovu"O gh" anothe*r "Duuw n* k irka tvhnacinii atz sBeocwovniidu SHiXg^njjaojl. CwvojrrypiDs basic trainingg. He found thhnatt. mnanyv oAff hhtisB feallllofwwrse wwaewre* s*ezvfaeMn4tmee*vni aavntAd eighteen

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to his thirty-aeven. Ho admitted they wore e challenge^ to him. When ho waa their age he could climb telegraph poles and Jung) off twenty foot embankments,



but eould he a,111 do It at thirty-seven? Well, he eculd and did, but got

quit# tired doing it all. There are great similarities between the French

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common thing between them is the language, and sometimes he is not so sure about

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Yorker, whieh I cannot wait to tell har. "There's a substantial family out

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taong tne ancestral portraits is that of a great-uncle who was a General von

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somebody under Bismsrok. During the first World ;cr, the portrait wis interned

in the attic, but this time they decided that something more drastic would have

to be done. Aoo rdingly, a portrait painter was called in to paint out Jnele

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VUhala's uniform and substitute white tie and tails. The old boy looks fine ,

wa re told.

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piece of acting on the part of both Beit Davie r.nd Miriani Hopkins. It could have

inded five minutes eoonor and left me happier, however. I hated to think of

poor Davis having to spend the rest of her life with the horrid creature Hopkins

portrayed*

Friday I'll go again to

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CONFIDENTIAL CREDIT REPORT ON

for

Name Address
Bus$&lifppt Yaley* Fit of the veteimxse wanted to go there# but iutnaa wont with about throw hundred familiee sxid founded the big plantations there* Ho also told no that there were only three liariaes la heton*s Tripoli Campaign X always have maintained the QSMC has the best publicity departiaezit f all the sunrises* From the words of the the song "Sre& the Halls of Moatesuaa to the Shores of Tripoli*1# X fend always assumed that at least a Brigade of Marines participated In that action* If you want to pursue thie further# the eaf>t3i*e of Hamnna was la 1763*

The information in this report is strictly confidential and Is in answer to a specific inquiry of this Principal to the Merchants' Credit Reports, who requests the same for use in his business to determine the desirability of giving credit to, or of entering into business or personal relations with, the subject of the inquiry. This inquiry was made, and this information is communicated, in pursuance and under the conditions of an agreement entered into by said Principal which expressly stipulates that said Merchants' Credit Reports is to act for said Principal solely as agent, servant or employee to obtain and communicate said information for said purpose and is to act solely in behalf of said Principal. Said agreement also expressly stipulates that any information BO obtained and communicated shall be strictly confidential, and shall never be communicated to the persons to whom it refers or any other person, association of persons or corporation. Said agreement also expressly stipulates that said Merchants' Credit Reports Bhall not be responsible^ for any loss caused by the neglect, unfaithfulness or misconduct of any of said Principal's agents, servants or employees in procuring, collecting and communi cating or in failing to communicate the said information; and neither the actual verity nor the correctness of said information is in any manner guaranteed. It is also expressly stipulated in said agreement that all inquiries made shall be confined to the legitimate business of the Principal's establishment and the furtherance of the same.

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March 21, 1944

lUclaa telephoned me this evening that Gal had called her last night.

He had his physical yesterday in which they picked up hie hernia and ordered

him to report to the hospital at two this afternoon. He thought that he would

spend a couple of days there is checks and tests before they really went to work

on him. I did nry best to reassure her that the operation itself was nothing

--not a very deep inoision, etc. He told her that thia meant he lost the 4Q1-0GU

on his address and is now TTnit

Q (for quiet), U.S. Naval raining Station y

Sampson.

In his letter to me of Sunday he said that he had been posted to move out and so concluded that his dental work would be done somewhere else. Also that he had been assigned a Master at Arms job/ aid thereby rated a bunk instead of sleeping on the dfcill hall floor. He did mention that he would have his physical on
Monday.

I think I helped to calm Thelma--who is now busy counting out the weeks or months this will take and wondering if they will decide that he is too old on July 3 (he .111 be 38) for sea or foreign duty. I'm afraid she has pictured him as teaching radar in the Brooklyn Yard and coming home every night. A rosy dream which I made no comment on--though I certainly ahall not encourage her to build a fool's paradise to live in.

Sorry not to mail this to you tonight* but I was rather tired andcrawled into bed at eight and just cannot dress and go out to mail this or even my letter to Cal. I'll keep you informed on news and progress of patient as I get it.

Li^it note. I liked this from the current New Yorker particularly.
lS/hn the quadruplets of Derbyshire were born to the British barmaid* Nora Carpenter, the person wer were sorriest for was Clarence Streit. Mr. Streit had, after all, devoted the best years of his life to an attempt to make union with Britain seem plausible and vivid, but the truth is that union had never seemed either plausible or vivid until an American staff sergeant named Bill Thompson got to work on the theme. Four babies in a bureau drawer, illegitimate but cute, seemed completely acceptable on both sides of the ocean as evidence of compatibility unity,, virility, and a bright common destiny for the Anglo-American race. All that now remains is to make the thing legal, first for Bill and Nora, then for the rest of us. The local cinema has given Nora flicker tickets for life, which is probably as good a beginning as any.

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turned to spring finery. The shops must have dons en extraordinary business

if Ho

ens can judge by the parcel doubt there ware aleo a lot

laden people on the street yesterday afternoon. of people buying before the new luxury tax

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increase goes into effect* After the first of April a woman** purse will

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carry a twenty instead of a ten per cent federal tax. . As the basis prices

V,: seem high to me-*-* tidy."UeUu"'mV 's.?h ould ^be added ttoft,h.e>; Trea.sUu'r3y. ;

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dub for luncheon. They have recently opened a Ladies lining Hoc in this

very old and conservative men9s club at Fifth Avenue and 62nd Street, iixmm 5 S

on the premisses is such a novelty that most of the old boys who had lunched fj in the main dining room came along to take a look at the parties in ths new

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for a quiet nap in the afternoon sunshine. I was vastly impressed to butter for luncheon, md nearly eolapsed when the very attentive waiter

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of the Array Education work* t Id ue what they are doing. News--they send

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complete news over Signal Corps radios to all our stations. In outposts in

the South Pacific* from which Osbora hae just returned* a single mimeographed

pJ a_ge of war*a hom*e and ..wiolrld.1news .mis' serve,dt withA_ti.he m^ en9* rations. This material 7

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3TA2S AND STKIPISS and a score of others. Movies--they make films for education- ^ A purposes and alee iim news features we see of notion* the later are also

dietr&buted to all outposts* Ho spoks of the very frequent out of door projection

booths he saw scattered throughout the South Ifeeifle where entertainment films

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are shown to two or three thousand ram at a time* Eduoation--we are . w with both "on Duty" and "off duty" discussion mtorlals for men in training

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and in active service fronts* An extremely higi percentage of men in Guadal

canal are studying for high school or college credits through the Aray correspon

dence courses* He is very humble about it all and doubts if all units art

having really good dlseuseiona of affairs Isd by their junior of floors* but does

feel that if 25$ of them are well done* a leaves is provided for the whole* In

passing he told of a small outpost being constructed in the South Pacific last

autumn which had several transports and an ammunition ship in the harbor unloading

one fine morning when twelve Jap Zeros seemed out of the horizon* The first Zero

peeled off end dove for the ship carrying explosives* but suddenly a Hellcat

appeared from nowhere and shot it down. This was repeated for all eleven* She

several thousand mm at work unloading cheered the action as at a football game*

The commander telephoned to General Fred Smith (youngest general in the Air Force)

and thanked him. Steitb explained they had learned of the Jap approach by radar

and twelve Hellcats had gone up and hidden in a big cloud behind a mountain. The

leader hovered at the edge of the cloud and at the proper moment ordered one of

his planes after a Zero* Ho damage resulted from the raid and the Japs had not

been back in five months to that particular place. \2hen we build an airstripe

hundred foot trees are uprooted end carted off by tractors. Bull dozers fill in

the holes* Ths work is done in two weeks* The Japs had used man power--carrying

dirt In baskets* It wculd seem that ths gas and rubber we dont use is useful

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Harob 29f 1944 i Today va had a rather hastily irwngad private luncheon for Halph Leinsen* a 0W5r United Frooo oorrai ndent^ in Franco for y years hut more recently from the German internment eg^ at Badon-Baden* T o party grw very rapidly et the very end and the service was atrocious--they oust have run out of forte because I had to eat ay fish with a spoon. Awful eute! (% table ce&p&nieas were kind enough not to offer t tie ay napkin around ray nook ior a bib.) Heinxen in a seasoned journal st* xfeo has covered confererase *m$ other excite? ents in Jumps ever eine the last war. I was aaaxed mi the saeuat o* information--amah of it that I had net heard heretefor--that he brought bask. They got Gerssan pfri, one from Brussels, hud doctors end dentists wis came in. They sorted the Gestapo nan in charge of their Monday airings to such an **tmt by taunting him the Siegfried Line was no good having been built in a hurry and in cold weather that he once sneaked a group o/ thee late it. They saw 32 fortifications in a two mile Inspection.

G*maa ****

<*t Publish any casualty lists but the families

of Fallen Hares" tmy insert paid obituary notices for 250 marks. (I asked him

what that mesnt in terms of commodities and he replied 250 marks would buy eleven

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the entire back page of the Velkisher Beobachter (of Berlin)

is filled with such notices* He charted these announcements when they gave the

jsan o age and service. In about a year he collected statistics a 6*400

deaths from which he concludes that the 19 year class are now carrying the

heaviest casualty* only five percent occurred in the 25-29 age range. From which

he deduces that the flower of Hast youagmanhoed is practically wiped out already,

rosters are now displayed urging volunteers fen- famous divisions like the

Om^r-iers and the mrrnrn (Bering* This mmm appeals for boys under 16 and a

half and laea over 60 (the intervening ages already being in the conscription

egos) Cm garrison in Germany which he observed mo manned % boys of 15 who

imdequ&tely filled the standard Army uniform. But the kry to still powerful--

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Uae divisions. The Stalingrad esispaigp cost Hitler 300*000 dead and

his military prestige--tkough his politleal popularity is as strong as raer and

oorec,.r; iy aemngst the boye and girls of the Hitler Youth organisations* Should

ler Feuhrer die, his phiiospefcy will line in their faaatisss. Because all the men

have been drawn sway from Baden-Baden* the fire department there Is staffed by

IB and 13 year old boys end girle. During their stay they experienced m average

of ten art raids a month in B.-B.

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and supplies could not be gotten to the city and emergency# rations of a mall can

of milk, a can of salmon and some hardtack rare issued for the five days bsfore

fairly normal food distribution could be resumed. The Germans started the story

that Frankfort was a Jewish city and tka tho Jowe in the G$ ere so powerful that

they had arranged to have the city spared. He did not tell us what the propaganda

ministry line was when that city had six raid in ten days. Amongst other d&rnge

a 0OG bed hospital was reduced to 200 beds. iaanheim, the great ballbearing

center* ma so badly hit that 90/S of its residences rare demolished md tho Mayor

had to appeal to other localities to provide hospitality for hie dtisene* The

.American Mr Force technique ie now based on guile. They appear to heed for one

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m Qemm- &&**** as remin in the west go out to meet them* they then

aart off evidcrtly for a different objective * after several such feints they

make their swoop on the real objective evidently having lost the bulk of the

uermn defense in this gams of D1Indian's Bluff. In &m raid they watched

American Fortresses go over Baden-Baden flying in perfect formation for one hour

md twenty minutes* Lssier they cb&m back in equal strength and precision* but

the Fersaw press carried a little story about how the attackers bad been chased

from one city to another cad finally driven

with staggering losses and is

complete route*

His obituaiy statistics show the loss of 205 U boats of which there

was no offioal statement of loss* Hltlsr studied the causes of collapse in the lest ear and concluded that the tee greatest factors esc lech of morale in tho U boat service end poor food loading to civilian disaffection* 3e* he sect to it that the submarine men have the best of food are seat to the Hiveria for frequent rest periods in the sunt covered with medals and after every long trip given s furlough to get the plaudits of their woaenfelk "Through looting other countries ths Ovrmn civilian population farce pretty sell on food* they have shite bread* stalls all of Fmiee has black* they get 360 grams of et every seek tossy time sore that the French alletmsnt for tee weeks* but they have not any coffee or othsr luxuries* Soe of the people interned in Baden-Baden went into
the shepstwy reoollaction of the place is a nice Spa with mm large end very ugly
old hotels and plenty of bandstands and places to drink the vile tasting curative eaters* with a fsv expensive shops catering to the aged and ill who normally In fest the place) to replenish their wardrobes* The suite tfesy bought were of good material--combination of wool and preoessedreused wool* Heinseo does not look for a collapse of the Geramn people* even under the terrific beating thsy are taking from the combined efforts of our Air Fores and the HAP* Has letter are doing a superb job together in destroying various key factories* Anyny hitler has a sort of personal insurance policy in the 600*000 men in the 33 and Gestepe* under the orders of Hi&tler* Hinder has stepped over Goering and is now second man* They will take e&re of any incipient civilian revolt* An Aray revolt is unlikely-- Keitd is a Hitler man* the old Junker control of the leiefcswehr is done* and the present (tinersi Staff end the men too* know that it was Hitler who gave then the Army against the tsrae of the Versailles Peace Treaty* (Hits I here heard from other people too*}

within Ceramay they are not dependent upon roil-aye along* The fine system of motor roads* which were announced in 1937 to be for the use f the people and their fine automobiles which were to utFord Fords for cheapness and lew operating costs are intact* Heinsea explained that it would do no good to try to destroy these roads by bombing except for temporary delays* It is my reeolieetta that Germans told e they had built these after a careful study of the Westehester Parkway System and other roads* I know that they are wide* either three or four
lanes with a wide grass strip end then three or four more tmea, for opposite direction
traffic* There are no grade crossings ad circle heavily populated centers* I must look up my notes on the Autobahn and the Volkswagon* I remember von Gienath
telling m that they wore encouraging people of quite email incomes to start monthly
payments on their ears* eo that they would be paid for by the time the roads and ears were completed* They even had an elaborate system of promising a mm with a income below a certain level thai he could have gas for hie ear without the govern ment taw--because it was tho Feuhrerfs wish for everyone to have the pleasure of driving about the Fatherland* This pompous nephew of Heurath went on to explain that it would be good if these low income bracket people wont without meat to stoke their jmymsnte because then the govern ant would not have to deplete Its foreign exchange by buying steal outside the country* He had no answer to ay question about the effect on the health of children if they did not get proper food beeause pga fell for the sales talk* 1 eanH help wonder how may poor devils remember the money they deposited for ear they will never teen cad whether that does net weaken their faith in the Fasis* But 1 don*t suppose they do harbor grudges* for that was the year I mm to the conclusion that national Socialism had deprived
the people of the powers and ep; ertunity of using their mm intelligence m4 was
developing a race of ruthless selfeeekors* Yes I must look up ry old notes*

Yesterday I heard Sidney Montague of the ,mmdta Mounted Follee* He

was filled with admiration for the completion of the Aleon Highway in such short

time end pointed out that except for the twenty*thro mile (or something like

that) of Bering Straits one could drive from anywhere on this continent to almost

anywhere in Asia* Aloaa does not go

The Hassiaas havo ooarlet 7*000 out to Tin City* Alaska* but that

miles of last few

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The week began with a nice performance of Aids* well done uncept for the nervousnous of Kurt Bauin as Hamadis who made a total flop of "Celeste Aida" which should have been the high spot of the first act. The man or rather woman power shortage was noticed in the second net "negro ballet" where there were only eight--I would swear that they used to have twenty in that* Before hand I had Hiss Coe/ and Miss Kenans at dinner at the Town Hall Club--a pleasant occasion during which Mis Romans chatted voluable with little wittiens and amus ing trivia while Miss Co sat "dead pan" yet they are such good friends that they stayed on in the lounge to chat togeather when ve had to go along to the Metropolitan

Wednesday it snowed hard all day with a strong sharp wind--which spoiled

Aunt Annie's fun of trotting around town with Miss D&egnan, with whom she had

spent the previous night in Orange. However* she did get caught up some on

Thursday before she took the late afternoon train back to Albany. Tuesday night

X went to ihe Town Hall Club annual meeting where I made my final appearance as

a member of the Beard and Executive Committee. There are several situations

there* which I feared might lead to fireworks but thw whole thing was handled

in a very light manner and everyone told at least one funny story whether it

had anything to do with the report being mad or not. Some of them were new to

me and really funny. This 1 believe is out of Headers Digest--definition of a

super salesmani A man who can sell a double breasted suit to the possessor of a

Ffci Beta Kappa key. Miss Day* (i think she is cousin of Clarence Day who wrote

"Life with Father") A woman had a class of rather ycang children in Sunday School

sad had been disturbed by their lack of concentration. One Sunday she found a



pair of bright eyes glued on her in rapt attention "Ah, at last" thought she "I

have one receptive mind". Spreading herself especially toward this young hopeful

she finished her Bible story and said to the attentive one "Now tell me what you think of this." Young hopeful promptly said "Ahy, its'your lower jaw that doe

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Mr. Feakins attributed his to John i'ulholland the magician* who was disturbed

in one of his performances by a man in the fiith row, whp snored quite loudly.

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"You wake him up* you put him to sleep" was the uncooperative retort.

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war has hit the Saster bunny. Jelly beau are practically noar-exist&rrt in New York. I heard one perplexed mother wondering if she cculd stage an egg hunt with toasted nuts. I had a very emu ing time getting a few boxes of Master chocolate. Bar^cini is closed completely at least two days a week and then only open in the afterhoon with a limit of one pound per customer. lhey do not put up any signs or have an usher to tell people which line to stand in and the confusion is terrific. Yesterday when I got the last box I needed I scanned the situation carefully, picked what seemed to be the rlgfct line and waited. After about five minutes* I asked a passing clerk only to discover that this was the special aelection line where people were ordering a few thi/io and th&ts of their particular preferrance. Shipping out of the line to mother one I was followed by two young men. After ten minutes or so* while the man who me serving that group went off to the telephone and generally did not try to hurry us along* the two young men and I became so pally that when I left the one immediately behind me grinned and said "Happy Master".

After a night and morning of rain the sun is coming out* so I'll tnke my back end start along to Freeport. There is an Army Day parade this afternoon which will doubtless clutter up traffic around her and slow down my progress to the station. Next Friday I'll spend in Philadelphia at the Academy of Social :;AA and Political Scienoe and may go over Thursday afternoon* so as to confer with
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A weak ago Saturday I got nixed up in the Arsy Day iarade on lay wsy to *he station going to Freeport for Kaster* Seme 18#000 marched u d@r over oast skio--largely boy scouts# American Hautioal Cedets (Caterer they aro) and American Legion* Votorana of Foroiga dars in the senior eeetion* One young* *tr of about sight la the roar rank of tho Nautical Cadets was struggling along la a heavy light colored reefer# which no doubt a fond mam foreod upon him* Ho stuck out lite a sere thumb and must have melted from heat*

The office one hideous through ensealling and postponing a whole string of engagements for Vera Dean* Her own docotr upon returning from a rest in Florida insisted that she not travel after her recent bout with measles* It seemed to me that X spent tho best part of two days on long distance telephone* In fact it was so beetle that X almost did not go to fMladelphia for tho Thurdday evening con ference with Branch people end the Friday sessions of the American Academy of Social and Political Science* However X managed to get a seat on the five e'clock train# although eight people were standing in my coach whm the trsla pulled out of How York* I met Miss Hilles and we dallied over a cocktail and then had to shop for dinner--tho place she wanted to go* announced at quarter before eight that they no longer served dinner* However we got into tho Sampler Boom mi whitman1 e and had a ve y good dinner and then started out to her home in Fraakford* She told me that the settlement of that community proceeded that of Philadelphia # with the result that it is a closely knit group with a greet deal of local pride* It looked to me like a highly industrialised area new* Her father had run the family lumber business until he was sixty end then he was drafted as president of the bank of which his family had served as presidents since its organisation* He seems to eqjoy switching careers# though he spends an hour each day on lumber* Their house is pleasantly sekluded in about fiv* acres of well planted lend* on which the foraythin, hyacinths and daffodils were in full bloom* We had no sooner arrived than the siren for an air raid drill sounded and Mrs* Hilles decided that we should go to bed* You can imagine how odd it was to take a quick look about an attractive guest room# hastily brush the teeth end take night things out of -fe # bag and then feel my way into bed in the dark* It was ell to the good for I was desperately tired and thaiks to this first test since January first# X got at least an extra hours rest*

lbs speeshes at the Asndsmy were not outstanding to my mind* though they

had a very good attendance of people from afar and loel residents* X talked with

Brooks many from Cleveland# John Pelenyi (former Hungarian Minister to the U*3.

who was so kind to me ten years ago on the Cents di Saveia and in Budapest) who

was down from Hanover where ho is living in Peg Tobias house and t lot of other

people who had net travelled do far* In the afternoon I had a long talk with the

chairmen of our Philadelphia Breach# Roland Morris# our forrnr tabesc&der to Japan*

He told me that while he was in Tokyo he had a message from President <41son to

pay especial attention to a John Doe who would soon arrive* In duo course Doc

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Maeaiyk end proceed to make a long statement about the Russian Revolution* which

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* O dent* After the afternoon session Barbara Hayoc of the British Information

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tfi % V Hall idsere we enjoyed the first magnolia in the piresent square and the group

%\ * of old buildings at the Chestnut Street side* By nine fifteen X was so exhausted

Q WS. that X went for the train at Thirtieth Street* It was crowded nd late# so that

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ttia might well be headed shoppocg notes* I have heen trying to buy shoes for months mad kn that ary coupon would die on mo if 1 did not move pr*$ quickly* There are shoes in shops, hut practically none that fit my poor feet* By dedicating most of Saturday I nonaged to get some of gabardine and leather which miraculously fit and only look like first cousins to ground grippers* Deluded by one mam day I thought spring as upon us and I had at thing to vmv in the between suite and hot weather drosses period* Garelyn Hariia went along with mo and w each got a print* Bhe has a blue/-' background dLtii a red leaf &nd tiny white Hewer pattern, while mine in binok with a sort of feather design, quit small ami of a mingled purple and series--sounds dreadful but is really quite distinguished looking. Mine has tucking across th right shoulder and left liip* Hia the cold and wet cam on again sad the drees 1 still in the* box I Dresses are definitely easier to get than shoos*

Friday I wni to a lecture bureau audition--one of those dre&dful

things that begin at one end end ai fivo* Every sloven minutes a new number is

introduced so that the buytra cm sample the talent* 1 needed to hear th man

scheduled to begin at one twenty whom I did not cre much ife r and stayed on

to hear Virginia Klrkus tell how the depreasion sent her from heed of the

Juildrea's Book Department at UdHlXan into business for herself in th depths

of the depression* uhe goto the publishers* galleys about two months before

publication urid sp>raises Hie books for the benefit of th bookshops* She

toll the* enough to out the book so that they cm b intelligent md alee

says what sorts of people will want to read them* It helps Hie independent

bookshop buyer to know whether to stock two copies or two hundred* Her business

had expanded so that seventy seven publishers now send her galleys end she and

her staff appraise four thousand books a year* fcopie always mint to know how

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to read so many books* Her stock answer is the story of Jonathan

Edwards, then he ma a little boy* One Dunday he had a cold and could# not go

to church and his father gave Juba a Bible to read* Upon returning Mr* Edwards

asked what he hadnre&d, Jonathan replied he had read it all. Pap became stern

and said no eemolon pleas, he wanted to know exactly what the boy read* Jona

than replied **1 did read it all, but of course 1 skipped th nonsense*0 Then I

scrambled out tc get a sandwich mi beck to hmr enother mn 1 ma interested in*

During a pianist 1 telephoned the office so as to consult with my secretary on

the afternoon's activities and have her eta&p the mail so 1 could get it off

when I went b&ek after five to tign it* The last man 1 heard was Elmer Peterson

who has improved in his platform mmler since 1 last saw him about three years

ago* He ended by telling the advice given him when he made his first speech--

"For heaven's sake, stand up straight so they can see you, speek out so they

can hoar ycu, and stop before they get bored with you***

The rocnt lead sentence in a M YCRKLil article interested me very much-- "Francs is the only great nation today, which has a eocspietely free press*0 The author then explained thai the underground press, published bypain of death and distributed in face of long prison sentences for anyone caught witk At ob viously is free from government control* "niece mny small shaets have a large circulation* dome represent a region, but uarny are occupational -- piwpared by lawyers on legal mutters and the activities of people in the lgi profesaioxytf in the resistance movement* -ocxers and university professors have similar publications*

The xicek brought a atop forward in my campaign for & trip south to hunt for speaker*, though the General giving his sanction, and a delay by his wishing KG to await MIEO Lett's return for her advice on her to go--advice I don't noodl On night I went to "The Desert 3ongn la technicolor--which 1 thoroughly enjoyed end waSdy reessesstid* The xmn who played the news paper an is wonderful I Its a good part and he smd the most of it* The photography is lovely, the horses beau-

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TUeeday I sauntered over to Grand Central just before the daily rain began and Just in tin* to get the 12t30 for Worcester# Having a chair it mo possible to arrive just before the train pulled out# (ha the way up I went over ?,he list of all the Americans and Canadians# who through the heneficanoe of Cecil Ihodee# spent three years at Oxford doing graduate work# It ia very interesting to see that a great many f them are now in gcvernmelit service md some are in uniform# The, to me new# Grill Car of the New York# New Haven asd Hartford i a fine innovation# Benches backed along the wall with tables ia ircnt# set fifty two people# Smartly uniformed# pretty girls serve on trays with paper doilies# plates and paper napkins carrying an attractive outline map of the lower New England states in rod with a black streamlined train superimposed is attractive and distinctive# The serve liquor and a "short order* sort of menu--which to me at least is touch more satisfactory than a regular diner with table clothes and waiters. Just before I left Lt# Comdr. Mildred McAfee came in for her lunch# There were daffodils and fcrsythia at Hartford# but Worcester area still sesmed pretty wintry,
At the Bancroft I changed into my print dinner dress and as the hotel was very crowded cheeked out leaving my bag(with the little red hat inside) and top coat at the checkroom and went to the Ballroom for the closing meeting of the FPA season# Mr# McDonald and Dexter Perkins $great authroitfc on the Monroe Doctrine and chairman of our Rochester Branch) were the speakers# I sat at the head table between George 3tobbs and Donald Campbell# It was a good meeting# followed by a reception shore I had a chance t meet members of the Executive Committee and leading cltiiens about whom I had been hearing for years# The chairman was just over mumps so we all cleared out early said my dinner companions took me down to the very attractive bar where we talked until almost raidni#it. Since Mr# Campbell was successful in getting a taxi# George saved his gas and then poor Campbell who was also on hi way to Hew York had to carry my bag as there were no station porters# Now# sfeen wt arrived at our oar on the siding was there any oar porter# Campbell left me at lower three and went along to his roomette# I was just nicely along with getting my night things and dress for the morning out when back he came# It was not right that he should have a roomette and I a lower# Oh, but it was# Ho# he o uld not be happy unless I swapped# On and on it went until I decided that it would be ungracious not to accept and our luggage was shifted# By that time the porter had turned up and I am sure he thought w# were up to no good# Well# I was just thinking about sleep when I heard a loud voice in the corridor *1 think I have three" Mid I remembered that Gamtpbell had left the stub for the roomette on the shelf under the mirror, but I had not thought to give him the etub for lower three. I almost got up to paddle out and save him from being ejected# but decided that if there was trouble h could sent the porter --but nothing happened except that I was wide awake# I suspect that the noisy young men had said "0" not "$f* that he had companions and they were all drunk, at any rate they made a dreadful raeket all night and I hardly slept in my luxury# I certainly hope that Campbell at greater distance than I from the scene of the rumpus fared better as a reward for his gallantry! Hie next morning Mr# McDonald overtook me on the platform and told me that he had gotten up at three-thirty but had been unable to rector order# At his suggestion we breakfasted together at the Automat. There was an FPA board meeting that ni$3t--and ray# but I was sleepy!
T understand that General Marshall had heard about Ungate md asked that he attaned the Quebec Conference last August# after which Wlngate was told that he could have any of our material he wanted--but no men# He asked for and got a lot of stuff for that airbora Burma business# In addition to the men# tanks# and other materiel they flew in 1,600 mules that dark night# Hi planes left every forty-secend seconds and two glAdorn were attached to each plane# The only accident was the last plane--which alas carried General ".Ungate# His death wns a great price to pay for an smasingly concieved and executed operation#

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I am very muoh worried about a couple of spots* The dork, who had been reconmended

to me blithely said, "You will Just have to present yourself to the conductor and

tee what he can do for you, when the train pulls ini I don't like it, especially

after hearing the horrendous tales at the luncheon of the American Platform Guild*

They were so indignant about the ticket agents who hold back apace to be released

only thresh bribery that they are going to collect data and sue thd American

Association of Railroads and the Pullman Company. I had thought that the bottle

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and hotsl porters, who bought space plans stand I leavs Mew York Nay 15

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act as auctioneer at a cattle auction, but not to worry for one of the famous

tabasco auctioneers, I think it was the man on the Lucky Strike program, would

be there t help her* Things went along beautifully for a while until she

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suddenly discovered that the tobacco man had disappeared* The bidding had been

brisk and in an attempt to keep it going she said, "Gentlemen, onsider ho?/ many

fine steaks this bull would iaake** In telling the stWry she added "Of course,

I discovered that the bull was not feeing sold for that purpose# a/hat can one

a lo to cope with such situations# sprung on ene without warnings*

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in a so try I heard about him a couple of weeks ago* He was a newspaper uian before

e went into an investment house , but carried his journal!ril" b i; vvior along with

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sat with hie hat on and his feet on the desk* The financial realise that a proposition interested him if he put his feet

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wearing his white sailer hat and I wanted to see him* Evidently the laet Jay laBl |

heard of Cal that he was sack, and with round eyed amazement ho asked "Is he wear

ing hie white hat in bed? ' Cal seems to be getting on well and was scheduled to

be discharged from the hospital at 1300 hours on Friday to bo master at arms in

jjmSM an Out Going Unit until they decide what to be with him( neexxwt* 4 - 1

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an opportunity of explaining that the capacity of reserve food stocks in warehouses

had reached the warehouse capacity and it was accessary for the individual to get



pantry supplies, and possibly a private reserve on hand to make way in the storage , j/a : ;

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mk many people are assuming that this relaxation means that the war is practically
over with the resulting tapering off of activities, which they should keep right on with. A lot of people think it is political rnaneuvering, shich I cannot see.

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The rationing will have to go back again end will create a resentment. Shyfc didn't ri'/V '

Chester Bowles ask me how to handle this*

The ^ew Yorker reports that after g year thirty percent of the poll of New

York is zoned* Also thai the Mew York post of fie# handles 18 million pieces of

H mTM ail,TM each day, 100,000 pieces

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about the letter that ho sent me about a summer tenafct. Although he cays he has more prospects than houses the people he had in mind have an invalid and must have s downstairs lavatory# We went along to the house expecting Jim Suedecor to bring along hie prospect for year around tenancy# <hile we waited

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I got the plaster cleaned up from the back bedroom and put away the laundry

blankets and such that were used last summer. I must confess that the attic li W*%wi

dreadfully dirty and confused beyond imagination, however I guess it will

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had been through the house and wouM take it since he could act get a smaller one# It was most unsatisfactory not to see this Italian who gets throe crops

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a summer cut of the 25 acres across from the Todd's house. He ha a wife, brother

and sister or mother, and a Buick oar. Has lived In Bayport before and Jrn ^ays/Smbe*

he is good stuff, fimncially responsible , etc. He is to take the house "as is*

expect that we arc to pay Stuart for putting the furnace in working order* Jim

will sign the lease. I hope we have done right. After all the man is useful

raising food and it would be better for the house to be used for a ^M^c. I hope

he will be able to keep the place looking a little better than it appeared. There

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i. along the fence looked as though they should come down. The foreythia was lovely

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and the pheasant ye narcissi was in bloom. I picked a few of the 1Allies of the valley for tfolley, they were still green, but started to whiten nicely in water \ today* The alanthus tree had not started to leaf. I noticed on oriental poppy that had survived. The hedge needs cutting badly-specially 01eve's at the end

of the garden. . The apple trees were in bloom.

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can' not be out 4back sh;v..a.rply'.

We sat in the sun this morning* Molly went to the bctcr yesterday and

. he said she wt.s fine. The baby has shifted so that ah la more ooaf'crtable than two

weeks ago and teemed much better to mo. Tfcqy have buds on their rosea and the garden j

all planted. Late this afternoon the Dickson's and the i* Caitpc camo over with

| : Mrs. Dickson's annual Mother Day gift-- a huge olab of decorated ice crerm from the

president of Good Humor, so we had a party on the ptrch. Maybelle and I^vid--

both redheaded wore brown check r\.,:gm^xid wore pi*eciou together# they even eacii wear a gold identification bracelet on their ri#it wrists!

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It is going to be hard to condense throe wesks of travel and home coming into a single page but I shall try and shall be aore than glad to develop anything Which seems too lightly glossed over in this 3&ga of the South. From every standpoint it was a great success and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I have travelled enough tc travel fairly Miliar and found that lata trains and that bad nine hour hop in dirty old wooden coaches from Gn&rlota* svilla to Durham on a hot Sunday afternoon did not take more out of m than a bath and a good night's sleep in the Washington Duke Hotel oould repair.

In Washington the highlight ui a moat fuceesaful interview with the State De

partment, the greatest disappointment was finding that Jonathan Daniels, Aealptant to the

President, with whom X-had an appointment was housed in the State Department Building in

stead of in the KxeCutiv Office on the Shite House grounds. (Pale lavender Iris blooiad

in front of the White House--but the grass was ever long. I was glad to see that the power

mower was out the last time I passed.) The greatest surprise was seeing a man, whom I

thought was Tracy Philippe, on F Street turning into a shop. When I called out "Traey"

he turned like a shot and in response to ray "what are you doing in Washington without even

telling rae you have left Canada" said "Why, I8vc come to take you to luneh, my dear". For

tunately I knew a good air conditioned place in the next block on G Street and could -ajaii- ?

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don my Idea of a sandwich and some iictationzat the office before taking the train to Rich mond. I! had reported the day before at DHRRA to take charge of "Displaced Persons"--all

those millions all over the world who have been driven or flad from their homes.

\,VS '? While it was nice to see Jeff Heinrishs in Richmond, the high light was seeing

Alexander y/ed. d.. el_ l_ an d hie f^amous "Vir-gi.n'Sit.-a House"..

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and in the Argentine Hmi-s !h*o.u.s*e** used to bv.e^ a Fpr^inotrwy i4n Windsor no*r WaVrwicak axnmd wsags to be

pulled down to make way for a brewery, he took it down bit by bit and set it on the banks

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Maisie and Jim as well as the boys and Jessie (the maid whom Maisie has had for seventeen years) were wonderful. We went out to the farm at Crezet and found that both the

peaches and the apples are doing fine, though the beans, etc. have been retarded by drought.

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and I found the first magnolias of the season on the university lawn and went up on a balcony bo we could look into .their fragrant hearts. The honeysuckle was intixicatingly plentiful

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and Havy V-12 courses taught by faculty members are overworking the yjnnining staff and-,

putting them into cramped quarters*

Dean Brooks in Athens (University of Georgia) had been described to me as cantank erous turned out to be a lamb. He turned up at the hotel at eight as I was going to breakfa* and devoted-his entire time to me until ay train was due it the station* -He called people;w%li.un.tn.ocJhLh.is pleasant office to talk idth me and even toted rac home for a mint julep before

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Blltmore with a lovely view over the hotel garden nnd green trees over to Stone Mountain

which the Atlanta Convention Bureau calls the Eighth Wonder of the tforld, when I got to

Charleston we had fun looking up the other seven* The moat amusing thing I did there

was to take lunch with the assistant to the chairman of the Board of The Ooca Cola Company

at the plant# where they have dispensers in the corridors so the staff can have "the pause

that refreshes"--but I was never offered one in the hour and a half I was there* However

I did learn that they have "kosher" cokes which a Rabbi certifies so they are OK for use at the Pascover* This got them into a lot of trouble in Germany where the company was

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accused of being Jewish* Thay have hug suction fans in the ends of corridors at the

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Biltiaore whic majfea small .gale through the halls and easy to have a movement of air through your room* I only got into the hotel because Beth Black gives 110,000 worth of

business to W33 in Atlanta and the station manager was good snouj^i to interoeed in my behalf after the hotel had claimed to be full* I got there the day one convention broke

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up and left after another had started* Atlanta ia pig headed--they operate on Central

time# although they are in the Eastern time belt. There are a lot of Amy and Havy poets

and headquarters there# which of necessity run on Eastern War Time even as the raihroads

do--but not Atlanta* It makes quite a mess I understand. I managed for two days to remem

ber when I had a ten-thirty appointment I ehouM not get there until eleven-thirty by my

watch* I am still befuddled from seeing blue hydrangeas and pink azaleas blooming to

gether in the hotbl garden.

Everywhere Xs went peo p; le w' ere worried' about th. e n egro problem and the further South

I wont the more fear was mingled with the worry* I'artha phrased it well in aomewhat these

terms "The southerner loves the individual negro and faars them en masse while the northerner

loves the race abstractly and despises the Individual". Of course# being with the family

in Charleston from mid-morning on Saturday until half pact six on, Tuesday was the best part

of the whole trip* 01eve kindly hooked rides to and from the Yard# so Martha had the car

to taxi me about* Frances Page gave me her bed# Clevee slept with his father while Marthat

took to the living room--so everyone was put out by my presence but ihey pretended not to

mind. Cleve is working awfully hard -- is at the Yard at seven and not home until sometime

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between six and eight -- and with ten officers under him is responsible for checking and J

testing all machines on every ship built in the Yard and all those repaired in the Yard .

Since modem naval vessels are a maze of machinery that means an awful lot of tests* One of

his little helpers kept calling him all Saturday evening up to quarter of eleven nnd then on

Sunday we all went to the Yard so Cleve qould straighten out a couple cf jobs. We went to

the officers club for dinner and even there in the midst of his fried chicken the public

address system blared "Commander Pratt on the telephone, please." So we stayed in and around

the pleasant clubhouse vhile he went off to shoot a little more trouble. Fortunately one

more stop fixed things up so ho could go home to receive guests with us* It was interesting

to see the regular Atlantic camouflage# that of the far north Atlantic with a lot of ice-berg

white and the pinkish South Pacific job all mixed up together* Monday X had % very interesti

and useful talk with former Chdf of Staff Sutoorall (a four star general) at the Citadel.

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Martha and the children patiently read in the oar for the hour and forty-five minutes I had with hitt* Cleve met ue in town at Oreenhill Street that evening and we wont to Villa

l<

Marguerite for dinner* It ia now a club for merchant seaman and they seen to welcome guests

to show the seamen iher are still women and children in the world* It was fun to see typical merchant sailors in this former ultra expensive haven of the wealthy tourist on Charleston's

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aristocratic Battery.

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I am sorry to sey that the snow and ice they had in January killed or all but killed the palmettos and royal palms and killed back the oleander, which should have been a blase of glory. Over much rain from January to April and ihen none at all has been hard en the gardeners and farmers* Georgia corn is not half its normal sisc for this season*

Nathalie

Vc.
Hopper

sent :Mm0e

roses

for

ay

birthday

and

my

secretary

had

the

wA

to

have

them delivered the day of my return -- so, my homocoming wa gala* lite next night we had a dinner at the Cosmopolitan Club for a man back from Turkey on the War Refugee Board. | He was

not very interesting and I fear did not have much Turkish background, though he only used

the country for a base of operations elswsshere--since ha had authority to deal with the

d on the Greenwoods whose depurtue to Manchester has been delayed by a

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June 11 1944

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The news of the invasion of Franco

f,;.fgp

o^rtioiwnto to oomprehe/td toe whole. Tor /oars now General UeOoy ha. pelntsi t

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toe human impossibility of a single individual to give an aoourats ?dpO,<rf

+

11to*** ha himself has jsrtiolpatod.# *

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fit** rwosy

jgveenraelrl-a.lS !pisiac',B t.tniuornS e#. f-r e"'laetuo3 ,nue,,a ttuj.erS satilm^ ^oansT yy. oofp pwamnt-i^ sl4unwdf^wa.rVtdo2..d^ui.u_A .. :^ ^-Iri0^0>

Publ\ic

lea#tdfc,hutshteo adcrtaiown Tuesday,

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of lord and Ihylor sad a certain number of Waysr is all very .all, but if I tor. on the

not relish news x wouid be

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itousft ftoioelcthloymecfyrnoinctalhtaod eitunsopce.ecdt othffatwsorgkoaodt tphearctepntnargteieuofl peoplet*ed a.er,,r-t,yv ;,ad . Ppiloeaaesaann*t

holiday!

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Monday night I pl.yed papa to .tone Morgan's dinner table.

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Vera Dean and Vera Kelasy as toe other guests. to were

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a*laf tr dinner



it was cold enough to have the open fire to to# conversation. We heart President Rooeevelto talk on the 'U

iftotoS >

while munching cheeries after the ehocolati ic6 ereaxu -

^ s ienhe thruflM he

lip'.'

epeooh, but too next day re-.lisad thai

TSs"^ on a l4 end had

would be talking about tbo Invasion Aft#i J-*

rol. T*

1 was

to say something a. a canceltoiion of hie speech could "^"T

ited

m TveI1ra7 interested twhatt. toe first news of the Invasion cane from Serosa sources ,..st as i 0*o

been sura it would-

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Thursday n,ight,I dined with lOs. Cos and want to "Jacohowsky and to' e OoiMUw gKkMt-,

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ful business about sons Poles in Paris at to* isto of the tolnr'ac- n , h refuse too helped

to make light of such a tragic affair but JMoaemk* wo* a

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JaaeporboouwdskPyo*lsishphCiloolsoonpehlytoof eascltaeprenafrtoimve.s"abroisgwto to atogolandhoatnedl tsoir- rai4 ^eh*rittetor r*-etaotW oo . rwaodiioo ''

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bogar. to hint the doom of Faria--"Hither the flerrons will tis:e Pr*1J,

iont

do^t that is good. If they do it is bed,

^ ~!^".^^tivf either^

If wo do that is good. If wo don't that is ted, ^S*to to ^^Od oL or a ted one"

leavii us alone or they put uc in a concentrate-a

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snd so on. Ath tetoi/new situation hts experienoo tototo. to

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*Mht*StTmo^nthreeae-alil.steedr.nmat.Vhttiiavvtjlesheawnka_dstotoetheeenl'dfhvwdJi1asidJe

cnoout rkTswnewosrvwwtwo"hKaoPwtttw feto+m. rt pdltlf..riv Hee,bTof':h,t1a'

m*

lZr~,-aM

t^ oe

^ Colonjel Uoy

|t o d r i v e . A f t e r c a n y a d v e n t u r e s , l a r g e l y c r e a t e d b y t o e C o l o n e l ^ ^

finally gooxt txoo Sxt. Jueeann dqvo tu^where v. ground statione were to be picked up by a

TM

v.

,3es+n -c S al^et picked

up Jacobownky inn waterfront cafe, but he made a dive for the waen e pow

f\. oIf'Kn:'H'iiPli the Germane conveniently forget to check.

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Friday night Gerry sod F.nry picked m. up to go to^-On. Dtep"

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hideaway on tost Lake near Brswstor. The Hudson,

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filled with frelghtem ready for or already loadod to take

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t"-- trees'SS'Sa?1 fblin^S to: rfvert

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nrivn3Ve He har also becm wise in aia selection 01 t&uix, w ~1 g^of,dli(iSSV^r-rVr(BS1M*n*"th

i*t* te^ 1 dTetotee-cLtiivfee*Fstoortruiense santadffshaonrdt btsilntsc tiontcoloudeIttoeer Yorker. He

iateillciV*fn-aoeoe nnooww,. but

she carries on. Also Gould of the Shanghai

under a big

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aeth;*er*s*fte*t *son"*Aw *r!leTtlaoolinth**e"hToiBl p.oin.*i

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tttt an ere to ratter** Bar, herd and Sorter has dene * arl nt
t rinaows, ehteh to ay ntwi surpass ttelr raputallen fer originality. Big fiy*t
?S?L lf-V !?Tt-ot,A Tt.L,.'S^^wyae8frte4^**"ft1*1"^* * a^toe*r'lfiTine'l*y **ia mher ssmtt,"to*i*l* *the*

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!ettSttfinrStee or three feet of the ibe.tIte1n*d!:isplaAyBiOntgh*tor*4#e,htaon,'fe** Brtuiwr.T.ustostloaably

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twtng through iafeotlen center physical exaniaatton*. toother *S a M> ^fL*

Miling bore n the otrol J-*k reflation pool, toother of I h.Ilto of feLT

" Wtot:ttg teg

Ittt thW-tto tort^JSX

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Me dlg^ j'tA

aS^.$,^|ef the Ifweps-ars scattered (tout ee^SSSf^

toe wind** gaser* Oould rami toe hOoUins* at the eurrent 4*. fhe awsine not

8a# v R ..figure of a f.s.ir y#*r old blood ate* pesfcLng through the shatter* ttleh no* * to Sir. the arte patron* of too hoelttwf^i^f " '** ' n 9ttal*tat t o:;# versto* oner ehieh took ay faney,

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m . ^ mMva wmterwti# **i%* b&^u & law e*k

J tmXik in $m vti&Qh ftt lh$ k^ttoa of Ison^nara

mtteMmm* a% tha WurUs Fair bas lium asd is pi tag to gtTa 110 tko italt total*

Lf^fL

up tko oaiP, tWt

bo 'ftm to mit&u t

too other

ol^to ttto werything . very fell, ay ormai ttMe^

to

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mu>'V .0a0^ft toty' f *

f1 ^ too ethjino ooiferf and nfter a orato londiag,

fetth the ri ;wra asfe Mfoiy In v ;#lr tooolnlly ooiwtrueted ayaoh proof and

ti t tlniWf toe fit t.H. nee attaahod to toe leg and a Mid r*tlaae*d. tie rtnaei

amy torn %bm mbborjSTrrft m the rca, plan, and boat &*< op

|latent *^srJ14!1i?ma*

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^iar Ijw te *lain. Jitlo*t*1t*m*

alo^* felt tost I nore or lew i|a*r.red hia Mreral yam

in fcaiy In too I

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^.iwin^tii:*till bny nUiil^kkit>?baPg*W, tdoa| otlotathtasi.l0fet dit and

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"ii -1'. k\. ,, a* hnniWte thie

va* 36 and nhlio the thersoaeter iafront

tto nm* of Utollity to jjtott mm of per.plration waning la river. fa *r#y

yB^*p'orrht .

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Otottor liito thio oofht to & freah mmr that m h$m

lncreoee wr ohaooea of rooting -a taaat rh& hm mm m tm m

to

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netting until |^*to to# l>i lo. end a mgdi

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'he nesting for Opaekar at the Hous Eaybum am all right. ttHOdt ha

She*to*ul2d f5M2d e^eLr2W . t>.otl?le6*thafn?d m dllfg"o**4 -*n*d Ifwsepeerntqmueshtoiounr*a.skiHre.::huodp sooasroltloorv.M elyidoa.

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" WW*9* to wtt "Are rou stoking h dtUt tor

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vya* week beg&tt badly with wy having a hot weather up-set worked into a

"?'.f'ft3i%bfrS;.!'-..*it,.ve?.&.T'"4'$. r9

oriels Stairs

of of

activity on Wednesday corning h*m Ife&ra arid I ran up and down the hack Iorm Station to have two periodn of conversation with Gal, first when his r_.

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Navy elaopsr '* arriving on the end of I train frcw 1'iaed sad then riicn it va&3 Oroupif

hmauc<kwf raioi,tm.i2n_gthfeoYraarsd*intotj.h*b-e-

attached to offie when

a t X

train for got Uisra

afonsdtofnra*nk, >l;:yLsias*i*dS!te"*?vH*een>a.vsvernfvsba,rzvyoolwuos-^xIfoolOon,ls

awful!" FOOT Lis had spent wonderful week in Washington with her neiee who is a

.

'M, TAVi Lt. (J.g.) and talks of being back hcfce next year, and then sheeted to have an

squally wonderful we-^in Kew ferk.: On other visit# shs had four or ^fcvesqutrae |p.<

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ranging in age froa eighteen to forty-eight (she is pushing seventy), another neiee

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who lives here and the ?FA to fall back on then nothing mora interesting offered.

mm

found 1 was introducing Beth Black as speaker in the *Jr .W series, Beth t j*

is really faii'Uetie, her grunt pre'oleji being how te opend her allege money ainem- ^

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she is beard.

iTs-esh. aedpvaepretrisisnJhFCRgoU. ratagegnec my a*skoer-s*/'t.JtH.hW)-eILXm -hem y--I--'u.i-aiJslneen:ewm<MsdJTpanMpeewresp, ampAeaMrgWs'a'szviinenreeys,'*dr,"t?aiIdVf| fiaioi^ico<uBlaallTttm. fVt'Tboyft fugCgePi|tI

into--for example a new advertiser cannot get into X&W YORKER, TB&, Lor vOIEtflfi

at alls Th* Hew York Times only takes ads with the understanding that tkey can run

,,._wsE SML*,

then any day they are sbls within a six day period# She i wtioned a

a

which appeared in the Times on the 22nd--on institutional buy bond ihi%| wnich she . ,.

had started talking .to then about roughly a month- agofcv It fas dsfwite.'y placed on tl-o ;

, 10th (you will recall that the Bbhd ~>rive began ob'the 12th) but did- not rmih ~tm .



public until fcheNB^.'-: Ibe .rates, for ajslce in brents !%ga*ins is M#er per page

;

per thousand than in SAW^toST,or 0OU2Sft8 because .it offers a very specialized reausr.

I was very interested to leeia that the advertiser does not pay the agency . or *ts

services--they get their money from Hi paper, the angaria* or radio action where^tb*

ad is used, from what she said I drew the conclusion that dth many companies having more money to $ end on advertising md few opportunities to get space we can Ic-aM ,.R ,./.

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for increased use of car cards, billboards and commercials on the air. Altaough "Xilfora

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nation Flease" bad a very high listener rating Canada Dry gave it up beonuwe they did

not eellwnougfc Ginger Me to.warrant the expenee. Th#y resorted to printed ad. which

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thoy coUld plsoo in-Alfe.''sAo2W ft 'dY.rink V c, oItns . su. m in:..g

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cocktail

I parked Liz at the party. Thsy have an

uflnuubsufao_lr'pVa^lawceht iolen. Fs--oasXatr t " 4cMMo8* utTMhldSWrJiurne_ ott v%beeryotnodJlt'hdemeracranoR.-wntora^JbAeIrwvtaSSVnllualfelto^u, r

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have, as it was hot ae tophot, and went downstairs to a chanaing livingroom liUea with

chattering French. After, ape-king to hois and getting e. Bacardi 1 voimd cy- -uy -

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& .:the gardi "in the hopes of.; finding Robert and -1 hoped a.cooler

jSt'l

whoa J hav. bad faidi ouriouaity, the Kurtaoe SeligBans.eia. I had gens in the hope Jiai : IST^EW . &I

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I oould talk about Prenoh reaction to the invasion asd failsd on that too. a ratiiar

wilted uhen I got back to Liz at the Barclay and we had -a lots dinner. She had not

been bus riding and we took a downgoing bus since all those going up

jisa.od .md

finally got to Medical Center a little before eleven, whore w were dumped

She was terrified at tho prospect of returning by au'away, but foiodl' 1h.

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fast and comfortable to 'leluttbuis Circle where I put her on a Had teoad-cy

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a glimpse <f the Gmt Mbftte Way after the theatroe sera out without being f

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end depoeited her at nftt Ayeme "hd 42nd Stroet--clooe enough to .aratra HousejAer. d_I_ie- waa atlayIing. TI g--oxsjtl across on tihte. SCLCSIAtLhMD?"ridstrae.e4t aeWronasea*4troaKwa)st mFV> dA hVreftmTUed wTS}i.t"hth tLhiie rX*i.t.,f..r!. teou.
feeling that I had been able at least to a1-dd aooa variety to her stay.

/HM1& A 3* - _

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7 />Va<:i^

Tomorrow I an going to Freeport to see how Freddy likes the family, so letters are bsing written on Saturday. Vttle it is 109 outside ay window lies to be e very food tins to type indoors shore life is tolerable with osli#t netionof sir and not too much on in the say of elothee. It is 90 inside, but I don't think about that.

Yesterday I went to Marjory Evans to tea to meet H&llipe Mottu, a French 3vd.es aho had just arrived from Berne, where he ie amemher of the Swiss Department of State. We *"id a very interesting conversation about the internees from 22 different countries temporarily enoyed the forced hospitality of Switserland* There is a shole Division of Poles, who had been fitting in French at the time of the collapse, who see to be very popular* Itoey are "Wonderful" , largely I gathered because of their agricultural enthusiasm for helping to rales the necessary foodstuffs for -the aonarl '-is- popuX- iu on and the 80,000 internees* Practically all of the French 45th Amy la there too, as cell as many Partisan fighters, who the Germans consider candidates for shooting if caught, but whom the Swiss prefer to apply the Geneva Convention to and intern. There are 1000 American Air Fores erew membere* Evidently it i well known that if they develop# engine trouble and are unable to get back to the bee# from dbicfe --hqr cse on a lr*g bombing mission it is a good idea to drop down on neutral Bwitiorlend* He sold that official foreign planes did net fly over Switzerland, but thaty they saw and heard the three tines a day and sometimes go up and light then to keep them out of the shy over their patch of neutrality*

Wednesday noon I returned from a very delightful weekend with Eleanor Brewster

in Hertford* Her first American Brewster ancestor also helped to found Hartford and

her mother was a member of the Collegiate Dutch Referred Church before she mrr>.ed tho

Bishop* I guess Eleanor's father was not a bishop ifceis her parents were married, thoufc

her mother was a second wife* It was so good to see Connecticut in its customary

state of closely cropped lawns end well trtamed hedges despite the rn powers shortage.

On Tuesday we went out to Frmaingham for lunch and found that all the old houses had

been labelled with the name of the original settler and date of building. Ibis scobs t>

be a hangover fro the tercentenary celebration of several years ago, for wind: .. an

sure everyone painted his house* It was so spick end span* Eleanor had hoarded

her gas, so we went on a picnic to Hew London on Monday. I was interested in seeing

from the vantage point of the brige over the 'Ih&mes, the Submarine School and the

Coast Guard Academy en opposite sides of the river, the latter topped by the plant of

Connecticut College* The tee Homing kids and thsir mother were with ue and the

youngsters yearned to ride in the open, se I worked on Eleanor to lower the top of her

light blue convertible coupe for the trip lome. I rued ray impulse, for no heed was paid

my comment that in ay part of the emmtry we would ewpeci rain cut of those cloudy in

the northwest and later to the frank statement lore is win on the top of th bill

We get half way up before there was a deluge on the top of our heade, in fact a cloud

burst, which 2 later learned hod been a hail etor near Boston with stone the sis oi

mothballs of sufficient quantity to whiten ths ground. well, w got the top up end

went drenched the lust twenty miles to a bone dry Hartford. Eleanor suggested that I

our lateness to Annie and then 2 gave the storm a build-up as our excuse, actualy

we had just dallied so long that we were doomed to tardiness long before we got started,

Annie said "Get along wid ye, ye mm carousing, I know tw Saturday ?> vesjt

Coctc s

fcr a picnie in their barn* Young John raised the chickens which his father broiled

on the out of d or fireplace, sinograph provided music, end the moon a perfect setting

fcr sitting about talking and singing far into the night. The funniest thing

**

Peggy Cootc and Two-quart Quinlan (tho used to teach at Dartmouth and knew tiic louins)

jittcrbugging to the same boogie-woogie record that Ihlcc&m Pitt {Tmm if the Dctsimry

Ideological Seminary) barefoot taught young Sally Socio to tango to* At that point 1

left the bam to help (to) the non-dacaing JUL aook the oldie*ens. The horrible news of

tho circus fir. eeeuod very avful to no for X hod soon tho olreuo trains going up tho

track between Kew Haven and Hartford* but X w glad to roaeobor that l-'oggy *<* said eh.

mo tmking hor ehildron on

Wodnmdny nitfii. Ibo Sff papere eaid that Slaanor a

hospital got fiftratfare# of tho vletim. Personally X suspoot a fire-bug sfto .irod a

rev of camsinity gundges in Eloanor'e neighborhood ton days age* after having eat several

other fires in nnother pert of torn previously*

<ftOy lb, i&k

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*w*y protoned to be a. "stinker* NlnniiMl sweating mab*r to too

effioe toore 1 found a special delivery Utter had tow waiting for to slase Satuidoy.

It was fxon Oenoral aefewUo asking to In too toot kronen amr to ossUt bin to *

reaction to hit toner that afternoon at tee Baldorf tow tlx to #l.-*t. heedless to

arl tiled hone to bathe and put en ay heat bttofc dress and the gm> flavored

** l*rt th* l*a8k a****1 toleh add * flood deal to too oodtwo at

too off to# and oould only offor too General clean *1 to onoo. Of couree tooro were

a nob of people toon, tot I arrived at too waont with Hloo Berths and Kalvta* toftom

(toe sculptJMBB of pri-Stive beads) and soon dissevered may other.? I knew. The Oeaexul

wa* hard presso& , Monly est to hit imrto about tie-thirty. Be to younear and none

taauni looking * one gathers to hi pictures, and hoc a noot plaasont speaking votoa.

I regret to say that ho loft hl/b party at ton slants* tofore seven awl I evarheard tee

Moiotmwse toiwt MMS dlreottne that all aarvloe bo topp* MI loft at seven, too

t.'-rdy seals too oano after that t neither- food nor drlnk--tatt oil too trays of poetry

had toon oonswed by that tine by groups of thrifty freneb. A lot of fronOh sailors were

wood in twining tickets and separating too toeap fron too floato. feideatly

tto* too

uld net have a bias slip wore horded Into another row tooro too tiny dassee of sharry.

Manhattans, toisfeey and sola, and Sobonnot wore not posssd wd whlshdld Sthw toT^

table. It too nsaslng, bat I w kind I did not stay antll quarter of sight toon ton

lights were turned oat as an Idle. Wo tent too party wo over. That 1 think was pretty

bod tor the sards distinctly rood tows 6 to 9.

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Sodnoadviy I bad lunoh with John Sadeau who has Just oono book toon Calro-wado the

trip In forty-one hours. Things la ajypt oaec to to homing In the way of political in

trigue. lots of tojOflt I had sow toosawtary reports of like the rnlorla plogao la too

^Ptor Bile area deolmttng whole villoflW. the outlay of toe Sreok Bsry, too tftmntenod

abttloaUon of toe King of Bgypt, toe torrlfto Isoreeae in living aosts ho had too tool

etory on. After the office again In too black dress I went teak to toe Saldorf to tee

* preview of toe tow Ucroh of fine en Social and nellglous dlsorlmtlon. Those people

contrary to too French hod told toe waiters to bo generous. Safer have I hud so mmy

sandrdshes end poetry piled on ay plate, nor aw* offer* of tooWf and too. ferhaps I wo*

a satoed character as again too assistant banquet manager spoke to no and Is fact news* a

table with ash try ever to ny chair so I aonld srnfce during toe showing.

fron toon I wont op to the Doctors i!osj>ltal to see data* feet and hoar about

ttolr now *M--Qharios *. (no nlddle n ma,jst to# InlUal, toon Urm-m ooUs "the Vice

Afalrol). It was aU very oosy fbr too sdfe of Ova sklRpor of torUo*s ship had a Why

ttwo days after tiattlo on too was corridor. Shy hove noved into too Horth House and

are glad to on thsdr own again, 'bor Bafeis la ileflnl tsly bcaohod and acsigned to

too Third totml wistrlot. He boa ehroale Msnda (speUiag) but looked very well wham

ho OSBO In before 1 loft. B# goto an >rey treetawmt a nontfc at toosrlal ' aapital and

takes oadloatloB five days In Suaoosslen once o sonth. I don't like toe sound of too

situation at oil. hattie will go baok to Support on Saturday, fenllo toorae

a roo

with a asn la too Jhalton and ,<*xm out for hio day off asoh woafc.

Testerday we had a onadl laatoaoa

Mrs. Oflden Bald of too Harold Trlbant she torn

has recently com buck fros> nng-Usd. -andeU SllUde oono .wd hU bod acinars nado

sorerul poa^le vniy tingjy, but to# noeoo boyo who wero doling ouch sarvioe m we wore

able to tooddl* oat of to* hotel loot no tine In getting hi* autograph. Bra. Bold

dosed the robot boohs tut reported their offset as the had gettor. it froa friend too

srrlvwd a to n two ago. Thsy *e * shallow orator but have a very tide rorousaloa

aroa. Ons f<dl ot S5ydo Hark oorimr and batty donagod the Dorobaoter louse and broke

windows la Itufidifijan V iaca. &# fis Uu.t no one in JSngluad Is thl^dUx-. of ShuxcbiU

doing nor* than ooatoa tosn through toe war--ho ha* not the quality of tad fbr too -noot

war period. Britain Is raising f of tto food stuff, but still bm wn for a few Hewtofl.

It was a bsMtlfhl s; xlnc lth unusual ievtoom, ohostnut and asalon blows. Most of hor

other consents wore about ladlvualo--she has onosneus rospsot sed atodrottsM fbr too

loaders both JtoarlOan and British.

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-all, at long last I have seen "Oklahoma.i" 1 (Yes, one exclamation mark goes inside the quotes as part of the name and the ether outside as an indication of achievement. It is very good and I kept thinking of the play "Green Grow the LUaee" on *1* it is baaed and which I enjoyed so audi thirteen years ago* Ineidently Pranehot Tone playsi the lead in that and I only think cf him in the aeries. Agnes derails arranged the denting in Oklahoma!" and,also in "One Touch of Yeans* which I took Genty and Jeff Hsinrioh to on Tuesday. It seemed to tse that she did a better Job in the latter. In fat the dancing was the outstanding thing in that show. The only hit song is "Speak Lew" diile "Oklahoma*" has several. I was disappointed that they did not sing "Green Grow the Lilacs" sfcich was in the play. Kansas troops scng that in the Mexican lu* and lead to Americans being sailed "Gringoes" in Mexico and later throughout Spanish speaking bseriea.

Hating Jeff in town this week interferred with ay listening to the Democratic Convention very muth, for wfoieh I feel quite sad* We, Deoraocrats are such fools and have so muoh fun at oXasfcakes that the oeaventions are usually tare fun. I only heard the first roll call on vieepresidnet and part of the second, though enough to see that the switch of the states with favorite sons was going to nominate Truman. I iWBt confess that he doss not mean snuh to me but was disappointed to find that ei^hi years ago, when the old iho'e 9he in ksaim X keep here was printed, they did not notion hirc cither* The human and sciaotimes miv rsmrks of ehaime^ of state delegations find the diairman of the convention make It all so folksy and give one the feeling that the delegates are rather simple people and rather impressed with toe importance of the position in which they find themselves* X loved the Georgim who oast their 26 votes for 'Dallas# "bsaeuasc the President should have the *> he wants"* Senator Msybank of Charleston had lest some of his delegates and talked to the omireian about hie problem of getting the proper aufflfcer of votes* Xt was discussed almost in the manner of two housewives over the back fence settling how te bake a oak* without eggs* X wish X might hare heard morel

And speaking of egge--Monday night Gerry cooked dinner herself and gave us a

delectable dessert which is at once sophisticated and simple* She folded a couple

of tsaspe^fulc of orange marmalade into corns stiffly beaten egg white, popped it into

a taking dish and into the oven* Iksy of preparation,especially as we had a cheese

souffle with a heavy salad, end delicious to eat*

Before dinner w had a white

wine cooler*- 3/4 0f a highball glass of crushed Ice, 4 5. of mm York State Santera,

Juice of Iwlfi lemon Good before dinner or

and 1 teaspoon of with conversation

siinmpmlme sywerautph(eerq*ual

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Hawing dons Monday's dinner so thorough X shall only say that among other things

Maria served a goulash en the terrace Sunday night, to Hank, his mother and brother

w?t dU mt ii dOTO

eftor eigfei-iiirty so X was very lato getting heme*

Hank 9 brother is with the Foreign Lconas&c Administration (tormxly Board at Bammic

*nr&re) md vegr Interesting* He seezao to have interviewed a lot of the repatriated

people from China and Japan* X am going there

tomorrow.

?<*dnesday I had lunch at the Harvard Club with Raymond Dennett and heard a new

version of the Chiang-Kai-shek and i&damiesija story. This is the gist of it. The

l#,das and her family have claimed that they had influence with the Anglo*American

powers that be. The opposition in China feels thai they have not gotten enough aid

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tried to undermine the 3oong family influence in the Government.

sMle the MadamUeiiio was in the H.3. the opposition encouraged the Generalissimo's

former ^fe, whom he divorced to marry Hiee Goomg, to return from 3msil where she

had been living very quietly and taking the divorce like a good sport. Tho opposition

also saw to it that the Generalissimo saw his e-wdfe and were delighted vfom he found

hor still to hie liking* Hews of this Is supposed to have given the Madame a ner

vous breakdown while she was hers. Anyway it is odd that she is now in Brassil.

Meanwhile her brother-in-law B*H* Kung is working hard on President Roosevelt, 2

leara irom a Chines, and has had five conversations with him (wfcida is wore than I

had seen reported in the press. Maybe he will get the aid and the Madame will be

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Last Sunday we ware an even larger party at il&rla'e than the wads before. Urs. Huriii her three some# Jsiwny SlfW| Iferia andmo. SJveryens tanned Hank boon us ho introduced bin youngest brother to m u "Ms is Bud# He is in the Army#* t Hrs* Harris does not approve of nioktaames and always speaks of her sone as Ko^p.rd, tawrence and %thsnl^. I never knew "Hank**" first name and still look about Inquiringly shen In addresses herself to "Howard" Pleasant as the evening was on the terrace it gave* prti&s of the beginning of a hot week and sir jt. fears wore well founded. Cno of ay collogues at the office swears die saw the Geeo Odla thermometer at Columbus Circle at 115 c/o 1 can only say that as I worked evening on the corporation taxes the perspiration rolled off ^y forahead and streamed across my gL&cses and the hardest work I did at the office was to try to make isyslef think I

thore has been no news from Germany this week which causes me to sfcitngo

mind about the alleged attempt to kill Hitler. I still think that was window

dressing to let the Gestapo and Hlamler at Arcy officers and others ho are not

in fnvor of continuing a lost war. However* X do get annoyed at those naive souls

tdio continue to say that tho war will be over by October and that we no longer

have to think about travel restrictions cr whatever their particular personal

angle may be. The latect bombings of Ltukdoii arc all to the good. The arsenal

there was well developed by Chang Too -ling before he was killed in the late EG***

and was further developed by his soil with help from the T'aaking governsenfc -- ss

when the Japanese took over they already had a let to ge on. However# when it

takes three week to prepare for a mission as It des now * a lot will have to happen

In the way of our being able to ferry gas and bombs to the Oiixiese bases by ship

instead of by transport plane over the mountains from India. We imv seen how

extensive and frequent operation must be in Europe to hope for much from air

JwEarfTarSe *in.

the Orient for a long time to c&me* I don't know htm effective it ean be

1-V* but X am strategiciy#

glad that we but it lifts

h&vis my morale

Immensely*

Tho ether ni$H X took time- out to spend a cool couple of hours in the movies and see an English film--"Jeamsie". Xt was eh&er scope stuff m& very delightful. A simple Scotch lass from Perth inherited her grouchy# old slave driving father*s entire fortune" --a miter of 296 pounds. But since she did not know he had it and had never had any money to spend as she wished it was a breath takinr surprise to her* She peeked her on Sunday drees and taking her little dog set forth for Vienna* Her inexpertone* lead her into ridiculous situations iaclui ng falling for m heiress hunting bankrupt young count. She bought most unbecoming and expensive clothes and ran around with him that in a week she had spent all her money. It ends happily when she marries the Yorkshire ra hingeschin salesman who she met on the eroas Channel ship and she did get a great kick out of spending her money and fro the Vienna the eeuat shewed her nfoile the money lasted.

Xn a knockdown and drag out with the agents for this building I finally signed

ay renewal lease without the "escalator" clause. Xt provides for an increase of 10,

effective vfc the OPA lete them charge it * , Several real estate lasers say it is

net legal and they never could collect on it subway--but the leasing agents are brow

beating most tenants into accepting it. I would have sd gated rather than move# but

amnaged to talk thais out of it. After a 17 day struggle with dnodeeor# of which I

shall spare you a round by round description X got a special delivery latter fron

him tonight with a cheek for the first payment lees ecaarlsaion and el*m up charges#

and a lease which the tenant has not signed I I never heard of the owner signing

first and unless the telephone book is wrong the tenant's name is not even correctly

spilled. Ihe lease runs until September 30 and provides for the second payment

ecmallAeudguhsitm15o#ncwe#hiIg?wIrowteouhldi*ntewveicrehmavde

agreed phoaod

to. him

laedecor iafr the limit. Urn three times and threatened to

go

out there today unless he would send as tjwworfeoby s ocial delivery. Frankly I win

surprised but not disappointed

his letter came. X sender if the cheek ie good.

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sain? to wiee iiwSadoifi' tell *11 2 earn say is that they aanagsd to

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tj&nrz en great oonvoroatiena, (chewing gus) while all theee eioi^ente went on. fhen .m*
+h. Wnw. uneoafoHahlv near, and than everyone rushed ? with great relief te flnd

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T1BhaVt Yning ^X lcturd iai a big house taken over by the ilitary. Close to it a

bumble had COM dote ata noo..n , and the atreot WM a ohWee.. audience W^lte^

m** sthereioruoslkvanieev, aonfdthmilehoJmuostanpdo. itneatitngouthasdoutJ hinM g onm the mJpM vben'1hoiar+ d " it ,. II odeeesiidada

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did for te-teo tem the C.3. udda* ordered

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"Please, Mate, do you mind ivsplaeing your posterior, - <* i ?*f8w Juat. Tt

at ^ar of laughter rhleh grested this rofinsd effort 4f the poor sargoent

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tha bang of tha bomb. Sut it did not help ms prestige M a sateaua laaturar. Still, by

the end of my t UyX.fcad.the unitt.well ia hand". . **;>-

" "Ti Y Finally Orehio end 1 decided that the safest platej; for n, to sleep would be under
tho kitci.en table against tke eontrnl wall with matrmes, blankets, jrtllov/, tin hat, fla^'
s tend"thS at i2sale.pt all the ni^t=, bamuea IJU Umtm-yt-e" tec ternrne.-o.fr"S'^'sr5r

cLlurtcuhnidnegr l3ay*liktittleecaar/.tsethbyloet. tctarostselvfeprhyonhoarhda. s a long f-rtt gm1*Ve"ve*n ero!,,ullPd teawrrrvy eonn conversations fron ay lair with equally nervous acquaintances. You know, all teng
mwfrtStar.ed" is one of tha new parlour gnmoa. A Polish Colonel friend mid

ho

rm 'uriteca to stay in aueh an old

blaetlong bafam it is actually bombed. 8o new at 10,30 OrehU and Ige

eat ll dog to hi. Aji in a ^J^^^STtte wSSl mtlrobf^before the com-

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, . *****? ** s<**ld b called the housing shortage and tsoyba it is only local

t th* old ^ool hcu* a* 3wt Boothhay's tti#sbor, the village of

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bgr M, artist byMa ivOw iomAresidn* of Gauss.

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* church next to it, complete ith stains* glass

gadoss and aarUs ooimsaomtiss plaque sad is oeanrerting it into/ a yaar around boas.

nfl. to 5.2* m*, *f' of aoun*,bit

bar enthusiasm for bar new hens is wondar*

m wwLa^auuSdiiStsm riumr, ol t/io efeursiii?s11s2tiil.l*o#nehu0nTit8*d but-vihreytetxipnegc.ts tAot rtuht. winwaaitkltab&s ooilltig >-n& partitions to eop&rate the several rooms* Mc&mhile she be>s placed

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2d kt!'t.nm"r $ 2 1 not oonpalin as I haws gainsd thro# or four pwnds

w tmd 2aa3jr butler in 5fou2 rtson mfTMon?th1#.RuatnhdRi1s"haasr tin hinUsassanadlraiathsaaysinagrtehsautlts.h has not

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mere 1 a possibility that Vera Dean nay m to ^mlmd mxt math* tdA i smlns 2j[2iitiV*1|ht^i<B3r trip 1 had Hflf for bar, plus an awful lot ofa other
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The hurricane of Thursday reached us ag&in m la 1930 after

torrential rains which softened the ground almost to the gustos consistency of a

ssnmp* The alerting evidently bora both of experience and wu time orrsmiiaticn

was thorough and off active* >enslhle people had time to batten things down end

seek belter* They even went so far in Hex York as to cheek all tenants with terraces

to f #t furniture inside and roll awnings etc* People wore evacuated from Fire Island

to Buy Shore bp Coast Guard beats and ferry# Ibis* however the wind was from the

north and as the hurricane mmSwg out of the south west did not pass over Hew York

so w# did not have the tidal wave aspect# which did so wudt damage last time*

Fatkins telle mo that we lost a tree by the driveway w* ich fell across the lane and

one by the burr, in addition to seme branches* H only "had seme prutdng " done#

fitvnndtans is "a wreck'* in that all the tree which Mr* Poet saved in 1338 by

utiving

righted vai over again* Hist> Sarah lost several trees apk, which

eoxmidrUtg how badly she was hit before is very tough# tte had had leaks hero in

tewa, thou# the worst one followed a between the walls path and did not manifest

itself until it got to th floor below me for which I ma, properly thankful Tweniy

trees were Uprooted, in Xryimt lark, wilch in proportion wo: worse than la Central

Ffcyk# Ihere a good saay decayed branches were brought down and a few trees from the

mrthwert lad. _ They were stupid enough not to take in the marquee at Hidstcn House

nnd It wi ;actal itinddett and all* Qui said that there seemed little darn&ge

in Hesportf though they cancelled movies so that the men would have to stay in their

barracks lest they blow away* He saw signs of two feet of water in the tunnel just

east of New Haven* but this & probably drainage rather than hi# water from the

^und* His train was over an hour late because the signal towers wer> not working

properly* He and TheXaa came here for dinner and ho looks fin md tan* This

oogdn;;. vffcJf Me ship's detail will have a cruise on snather chip as preparation to

taking ever the FAHMSXWF in another three weeks or se*

I have been interested la advertisements lately*
a *g-ood may' more* sales *m****d** display ammdwvertising tvhi ma.n** am yjwema*r ago.

Thero seems to be Both wTtorlmirwefln'3s$ cants

ana SM'I DISCING GAMS ay# adwrtiawl AS BEING 100 pareant M)X, whltfc OA hae not

seen in sen* time* 1st Iters1 a very good glassware departomt is praetiuaaly bare

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vii 10 has plmt$ of tumblers* The gape don't task sense to me*

The other night I saw "Mr# iksffinten"# which I theu#t veiy mil done# t ;*<&de me wonder what sort of person Betie Sevis really is* 3fc* always plays such disugrssnble wesson so convincingly* Cfen ahe really be a ale person? I saw the 3niths at the movies that night* 'ifcey were at LineldLn Ld and live around the corner cm Fifth 'venue#

% had an Interesting discussion in the office the other 4m frm it seems quits clear that l^cArthur Is detenied to get back the iun^Lm as soon as possible* The Havy seems disinclined to diverge ships* to c&rry a large israiuen tore there and weald rather strike at the Japanese homeland md let the Philippines fall out of the Japanese basket of their own weighV-wfel# they mot inevitably do. The lens of that big airfield la (Mm is a bitter blew#even if it deas not some as a surprise*

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ihst Heoecvclt was playing politics at Feral Harbor# Hxank heavens the Anstrsllsn

iTiae minister hao cose out and said they did mot warn us of approd lag Jap fltei

as th^r did r:^i blow it. It k&rdly se@ss likely that if there had been anything to

hid# ths iT^ident would not have appointed five Hspukltecin to the .Bhertfs fpedseldB

to investIgsfs ' earl Itobor# One of the ssreuieet things I hr,.ve heard yet is that

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Ifallass was ditcJxed as vice presidential candidate because he is a Beams Catholic* It isstuaffeanboocukti*ng coamentary on cmmsm intelligence that people will kaudy that sort of

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Officially autiLija has arrived and ay private opinion ie that it is good, le have

had a crispneas la the air between the bright blue aky and ue which la not only

delightful but such a wehcome releif. Ihrougb Thursday we had law clouds and

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h\ot' d,ays and "X' feared
Cn Thursday ilaiaie

th a%t;.w/e werefin for anothevr hurri,cane:c# and Jin turn.! up frees Oharletiesville,

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had had a fins peach crop and wade axrangemsats for the equally good apple crop to

be harvested chile they mm away good to sea than both so well and

on a brief holiday between happy and I nada no effort

steomefsotreersst#al;lItthweaisriWfr:

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one of the aides on the Presidential trip la the Pacific# Immediately upon arrival

of tho President in lawail idairal ^limits mm aboard to report to the Gewsaadar !a daief# Aftor greetings were exchanged, f9t looked around and asked where lacArtHur

was and Visits sot about suftsundng kin# General iteeArthur she had arrived the day before ma not going to hang about waiting # Finally his procession arrived at the

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advanced at breakneck General's flag, a

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second ear with i&oArthur in solitary state , followed by a thir^ ear viiifc aides... and the column closed with another flock of motorcycles# Mac-Arthur's stopped

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abruptly end exactly at the foot of the gangway and be mageetlcelly strode aboard,

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wearing a great leather field coat# ' JKfc greeted him with "Hello,'Seng, it is good to so you. S!ov are ycuf In ummxt the President said, "What is thr*i thing you

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gre woaringt" to which U&oArthur replied This if the field coat of the theatre of operations which X crawnad#" FDR suggested that while it wcis no doubt a fine garment, perhaps he would like to take it off m& b* mom eaaforteble in &wall -H liMiArthur clung to it stubbornly and to hie hat an all possible occasions# bhen

they showed the rushes of the rsovies wads MacArtbur appeared ever and over again

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2 had a minutes

loofngsecvoennf#ereBnucteXwidtohn'ttwon&mmentforheeavtehegoStttaetneanOyCggeorstsiiMpmtfrom

them# &dnesday Larry Farrie telephoned ice that he was going to Paris whers he would

be for several months with baiter Sekwinn and wanted seme dope before he left# Despite

tits fact that he was having a fin reaction from a batch of inneeulailons he was taking ww bed tew at the mix on Thursday# It was a muggy day anyway, but his shots

gave him a fetowr which broke iatc tx fine, heavy sweat with the hot tea# $e have a

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lovely story about affair, which embarmcsed him no mdf and include how the bus boy eame with a mop to dry up the puddlm he made# All good clean itenJ He ought to

do a good job in Paris as he was there* for throe yweps for the abase Bank and has

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been there for sev ral months at u time on strxny trips# He ought to be a big hlp

to %lter who does not know Paris at all#

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Tuesday I had dinner with Ains \fclfe &o had just ^ome dewa trm Rochester

bec&us it in about time for Henry, her husband, to get back from overseas# He

into Faric with the Frseh troop tmd ms thsrs for t*m days before the ^erican

Army arrived# Ha mill have tales to tell.:;. X can't wait. The documentary film

"Hi Liberation of Pterin" is very good and searasd to me authentic#

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largest symphony audience, 2 was very mush interested in their "all request* program.

agaer lead the popular vote cn ovcrturec with "heisterciiJger" end for abort

pieces with a bit from "Trieiaxa", so this afternoon they plsycd two bagners.

Oensidering that in World War X m stopped playing Wagner and other German com- ,

posers , it would see thsit the world novo formrd in dropping silly gsstures#



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one* again. It is & lovely day and seaaed a good idea to take the 9i51 to Freeport, but after waiting almost fifteen minutes for a toua confirmed my fear that it would arrive four minutes after the train had gone. 3o rather than iit

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i or an hour m. the station I thought I might get a bit of writing done. 1 planned V ;

of course to do it last night, but was so tired that I went to bed at six to get

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warm, .ou 'will hardly believe that I got to the office doer at ten minutea of nine

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ml Wednesday . .en I had to coyer my secretary's desk as well as ay the situation any. I did manage on Thursday to see a pre-yiew of

own did notlelp . the new karsh of

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** ihe Ferua on aaturtoy; It is very good, though of course it was

made before Kr. llorgWthau came out with his controversy-making idea that the country

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enough

People seem to be on the move at this season. Ken hav, bsen in to talk witji os

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when everyone wants to koep on Rusaia's good aide.

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i-.-t.thhewJj.oLosd vwry ppoofTMr# "ithhiofo'uu^sih^1"Qt?lhfty*v aanat#id.idt0t4op0lt^iVtk0sea0'i4t4Chlfni"n*>*s*. It w.aws, *suAsspreiciIoucso,n,wis.i,hdeenreGderr--y

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ehof$ h8T ?8<sn mrn9d whTM 1 sr*im,Igt,,.

hawing been h^d up by a tropical

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aenlSdl> sftio'^ji/u* :n'; d?roo,tdhd .C C' "p*hhTlii,abh~acek^ewe oPbn1llayiac>a<>st1 hTi.'r}J^dv*wefi.ueolwvl^,ae.mr

FurtwhaefrtmttWorl eV I4ktV gone aro either

Uon'eognfxul#i-tJgh,,hei.tj sjoutrpeoert.

d>wn in the cellar.

Well, the meeting was all right though I had a funny xpor-

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ll-y: oaotcu,eidrwoHYe,i,iletls.yIedYto!or"ugalnoOoehka, idtthene^sheyaewwta'oroarmrmew eeyajnnoil.,ilu1y vn'6gWw em*ras
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dead 11,59 1 gnT9 Saedsoof to make good on ths Shade 0 2ayport r9ftt "tteb bounsed snd no word from bin.

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notified him when they infonaei me that the oheok was no good, .

he, allied the return slip for the registered letter I sent him about it and m<

two subsequent letters had return addresoes ?nd have not come back to me, so at

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had faith on hie part now and see what legal steps can tn^thirt"yJ I- shall s- tVa4rtv au.lAoUn:igf fiWoJr tWhiet? eClfkeUvVetnU oQ 'cWloOcWk have missed almost an hour and a half of their company

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The Branch Conference and today's all day Forum were acoompannied by f*' ,, considerable humidity and temperatures in the 80'8# which was a poor combination

. a0 f1 te.^ r IT had9 V b, e~en putting -...J.4.J w, -- in J. ,, t4-en h~U ours a_ day J... at t4he office# *<?! MA They nTUov both Va4Vi went V-Ii+ uwm>e1 *l1l-

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for Chinfak&"nRPIltllMwlHia:siB- slu: perb# Dorothy that I did not sleep very well# Now

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For ths past two weeks I hare been living for this day to cams rnd now it has

I can scarcely believe it. Two weeks ego tsorrow wo had the first conference eon-

esraing arrangements for the dinner to the president and now it is over-thank goodness*

Entertaining our 0 in 0 is nothing to he undertaken lightly, because not only does the

world and hie wife and all his children want to corns, but every step has to be oloared

or checked replace. The White House had to OJC the name of everyone invited for the

Speakers Table, the arrangements with the press, the movies, the still caserns, end a S^ri'-fir dozen other things. Hie Secret Service had to have the names and addresses of everyone
, y ; * of the two thousand and tsa people when the hotel could serve in addition &o these, jft

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the head table* On the Homing of the 9th the switchboard was so full of incoming calls tut we had d&&SitMy in placing an outgoing call with members md the public who wanted to mke reservation end the lobby cluttered with those who wearied of

getting the busy signal and earns in personally. The General was determined that m

should act make money en the President and I am afraid we lect some in the final analy

sis but we have gotten a tremendous amount of publicity, some ef which you ot hare

seen* I worked all Columbus Day, from nine to nine on Sunday and from nine An

morning to four-fifteen Thursday morning and yssterday from nine-thirty to five-thirty

in the office and then on duty at the Waldorf a little after seven. Poor Slefuaor , Brewster was staying with am m& when she turned up at the office about three X had to

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sit her at a typewriter to help sake up m m lists for the trouble-shooters to use

that night* She gave me a lovely corsage which I hope distracted peopls from any

shortcomings of appearance as a result of my dressing in tictjcufjg flat*

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like Dorothy "heapson dio oalled me up and called me by ay first Barns to sec if j. could

not get them a ticket, or m extra ticket, or to be sure they were well placed, te find

out isat they should wear and the dozens of people whose calls X took when the beard

was Jammed and those supposed to take such cells were tied up-of gr^ndaothei/s who

felt that because they had two eons in the service should be allowed to <zwm to the

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dinner even if they were not members of th association and m had already r^uraed thousands of dollars of cheoksto members whom we c uld not take care of, oi Uwtnuisas

of Chinese, of Britishers and Europeans who had either Just arrived or were about xo

leave and thought they should come, of representatives of obeeur orgsniflN^cns wac \ .. '

were sure that the President would be hurt if they were not en the floor* It was a

total madhouse and would have been fun if along.

there had been time to savour it as we we^t

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The room looked beautifully with unshaded candles, red white and blue on each table, a duster of United Nations flags and the shield of the U.S. on the back drop behind the Speakers Table. The President wore business suit <w& so did most men, a few women put on evening dresses but the bulk wore in short dresses. . To my knowledge there were people from Houston, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Glevelsnd, Boston, Baltimore, Boston, oroester, Hartford, Albany, Utioa, Minneapolis, Ffelladt Iphla aBd-|hshi^gton, sons eeoing en purpose and some happening to be ITA members who were in torn anyw&y* Mrs. Roosevelt was there with eevsn guests* I oaat begin to tsll you all the actable* but will try to reeal a few--Attorney General and Mrs. Francis Biddle (for years h@ was ths chairman of our Philadelphia. Branch) llr* end Mrs. Oscar Xvant, Jo J^viaaoii (the sculptor), George Field EHot, George V. Denny, Sidney Hillman, Messrs* and Larson of Tims, Life and Fortune, Mrs* John Foster DuUee (I am net sure if he came) eight men from Dewey's braintrust, Henry J. Taylor and so on and so on.

Uy Job was to stnnd behind screen and check off the people at the head table

and their vivos and the sorters of our beard vho were te have cocktails and et ihe

president. Fortunately X recognised Hany ef thai like l!r. and Mrs. Henry L.

Hr. and Mrs. Itetttniuo, and Mr. Forestal. Urs. Borden Karria*is~but I (did not know

the Postmaster General and his wife and die did not like being challenged} en I

TZ*T" naseed thsm they walked six atcpe and wore pexwdttod ts gp through a doubls line of

*New Tork'

it^Si shoulder to shoulder and friz there on thsywre under

survolliaoc by of ribbon, they

Scoret Service man with rsd ribbons in thft used rod hsadsd pins for identification) and

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U th!ir lapai* 411 other hotel enployees *e had anything to Mm BOZ OP ftoftPraident V Roo"setlv^ealt?"wuiltuhr "thlleitier MlM ba*lwprriitntetendon-Fiotr--eigthnisPowlic^yloAdretooatortiGn

the iwitore who served the people on the floor nod la the balconies where we had tablee

rvirif iaad

th pofl,i0oi;a,g.w1e0reaancdt loeuttte*in*^ oa"rpimnteoauetiiothreertolS4l9iSth or 50th 3t*res!ts r)tenAV>

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Idt'aiy we^ull w'aSr6'

.r *JP.J* *^2Mhlwed5tT h#LSe,X0fXJro^oa! ar#rero*uvtienfeefd to*ehow>our titekinetetht.hrPoarktiAav#enuteo

th, JSS tShJt outr*:* TT"" JKi:

*" ** h^m), brfnt tm MMhihg wif.s

Although x iM ouppoeod to be releiv&d to go into the recettion at am TMv?*

IX 1t1^!S !*&i<&0m088 0rndPP8O19)8^0t1o*hav"el*ef1t*f*oruacJmfoim?ISjZ uettoldZmo?tr oa? hotel aseaotaiit to hold anyone who sight ecsae until I get b^ek Sauttiimr ftll+ ?f

2>25f.lVL2t7 rx7tXcu2i7rru"aa2d 1ftJr* i aid-flight and elaoetfrtl.S IntSo fthfei^PrA toi^a m friLenddllFy "girniniT^dra w"a"rn*ha*n?d*o,la8abopu?heb.*aiiadg "rTrRell<l in1e,fehnodwBaiaresedthM inget,inggoihngladaonwdnvstlathirs?-

the h^Xeie'^d SjFlJfZL'ZJtftT**?' *** ""t Pnaaagetoy after th. rent of aHmI X y^irZJhttev had rreewSiraed^Iinf ftot tthle *faee7l*,fc^ *iywi2k.n8eawe t4h11a8tt*hiswa*s ashpirfot##fro#mththaet om

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its oorlousiiesis.^^ iapre .- eo that his disability handicaps hla very little, despite

JL?" *2f, ti- tt the crowd greeted him wildly when he appeared in the ballroca .

sad .JtirTH^T 76roue 10 apPlRUa# *

tin. to begin the speaoh

the ftort totTJoSX

ofS"*r,I7 a"afdar3rJ0"t r iuty for B" 88 that I Biased

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hanadirslasnrd.naedoncm ti^iu. aFPr?,u5a T ^r*l4^totit^ T{ J^inJa.

7h"on ths apeFe7oh"wasteoavtehr w<edsttoouowdtioaint d slapbpietdo aon the general announced that wo would

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:d. ?utom plans very :

8Hti?ebut' "fclah ilio their going baeh tc

beoks.^^iet ? SXTSriw?7?f * fl87op8 t; tosnwrow to Bayport and get the

in the afternoon sh0 return, to'St.

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bo useful* Sines ho has not been heard from sine#, and I sailed Thelsae on Thursday

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get there two day before the American troops. He said that in early August butter

ass six cents a pound in Hercaady but when ho got to Paris it ens eight dollars a pound.

Ho is sure that Parts would bo ?y cold this winter, so I asds a beautiful right hand

glove last night for Larry Harris lraviag the ends of the thumb and first two fingers

off so he can wear it to write in while a fleece lined glove keeps his left hand mmt \

In the midst of a jolly farewell dinner at Maria's he announced that he was net going

" 15??? after all because the shift from northern- route to the Middle ever the

Atlantic had gunmed tho flights. We declared that this was his farewell party and ho need not expect another if he stayed here for weeks, Sfcris mid Hank took him to the

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vordson pies at the FPA Hoard dinner on General McCky. : Ho shot tho dtag at W. teron

Forces Island, Acre each year for a couple of generations they have a shoot to keep a

the number oi aninals within bounds, $feen the General brcugit e up town is a taxi he

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wwdly 0391r diet wfeaa the beast ran putt his position

pertisularly fast. He seemed proud that his one shot this year resulted in instant death.

Yesterday after the office I went to tho luncheon of the tocrioan Platform Guild

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f**!,1 *** h>,u** *lk with both Duwgcra end cpenkerc end did fix up a meeting

lor tho Bethlehem Bnncb wfciefe had keen bothering m. moot f the week. Ihero me a ....

P**"ting one or two aid hande end several new imn. One of the oia hea.ds-Wa 'roan* toid an experience in talking tc sum in \ray canpe end pointed

out toe diiierenoe between talking to j.eoplo v&c had ear* of their volition and ueualiy

at their n expense to a lecture and to flftenn hundred men who had been marched ia

and told to Ueien. After recent lecture a pfe with a 3outhra drawl said, "flea. ,,

doctor, whet me that you Just did? kfcat do you oall it.?" f>u*l#d Browne asked him

to explain, m the went on Sell, I here hoard poUtieiane . They aek you to veto

for them That is a speech* But you did net aek for vetee. Shsn they quote scripture

it is a season md you did net quote the Bible, feet da you oall what you did?" Browne

s explained that he had delivered a lecture and eefced tho man if he liked it. The pfe.

scratched hie head and replied "Sell, I don't rightly knee. That eort of thing takes

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Military, ibo natives there art most friendly of all tho tribes in the PX to the US,

mfurthermore rdthough Osiaeiaa, the new president of the fhillppinias, is three quarters

*L*S2* Mmr U a ^ ^ "* ** ml** id3iThi. Ihe ^ral rBV^L?r9f'9m Kmt Mountains of Uindanca and because of his Many years ia the Islands

is rich la interesting information about conditions there and doings of the guerrillas.

t am trying to learn from him because my knowledge of the geography is woefully weak.

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Otr mat days of Indian mep have been aoeccu'&iiisd by a pretty high humidity which have given m a let-down feeling and one night kopt m fros sleeping more than four hours. I thinkIwould rather go hack to tto wyI had boon of hawing suoh vivid nigbmuree about tho Hooaeveli dinner that J would wake up. Then the next week X relived it all in my sleep, night by night as % week progressedIwas lauding back checks to the people i&ho applied too late, then getting the tiokete out to those who were sowing m& so on. Jim sailed me
the other day nnd asked if I were able to yet use for ordinary purposes the hand which the President had touched. Thank heaven Section will soon be over and passions* 1 tract , will cool off. Ibis weak I went to two movie* which I though partieulorly appropriete to the wwek before Election. "Mi the Conquerta# Faro" is a most amusing atory of a young nan wfcc was discharged frm the l&rAae Cswpe because of hay fever. Ha could not break the news te hie Mother and took a job in a war plant &nd had a foraer Fellow Marine mall letters trm. overseas. Well, when he caste up with sin Marinas from Guadalcanal, one of whoa >4ad fought with his father in Chateau Thierry, they took over his affairs and took him horn Ha ended up net only with eix brae bands at the station te great hits, but Mayor <f the town. It plays on the foible of the African people asd is really very funny. The other 0213 wesMKlleettH -- which has a case fantastic scenes f the 1112 Democratic lenvuation* akore they haHoiied for six days before 'illson got it.

"TuesdayIhad a vary pleasant evening alone *dih Maria# specially after we called the liirlinc mai found that Larry's plane had arrive on schedule. He had mid ho would cable upon arrival and she mm getting pretty edgey about it, thou# ah insisted that Hank, his brother, wee not in the least worried. She told me about m emeing eaperiencs she had one weekend in Tlixedo several years ago. The houscparty went over to the Dewey's for ctails md it fell to Harts . to be driven back by District Attorney Dewey. She planned te my that she adtelal the work he was doing, hut never had & chance for as soon as he got her into the car ha took a deep breath -nd told her what a great cson md bard worker be ve,b all the way fro Pawling to Tuxedo without once tlrawing breath. Before the soup course was over Mr. tommy took the floor, if cue can do that at a discs? table set for twelve# and cade a epeeofc which lasted dear through the desert despite te. Taylor's beet efforts te politely break it up. l&en they adjourned, Dewey epiod a piano and plopped Ms decile wife down te sigg. it com point the host weakly staid "Tew# don't you siggstoo?" Ttoe obliged and beamed and sang again. Eventually Taylor siad, "I know a n#t-olub 4cn there they have a new mi good program. X think we should all g one night next week. Vdjat about it tM hereupon Dewey said, '*% dear fellow, in positionIam continually waibhed and It would certainly bo bad for cqr reputation to be recognised in s idtghi club ' * Shlia insists that Dewey lost ten potential votes that night by his bumptious egotism.

1 have bed so ssucfc trouble with the program for our ^vombor IS luncheon

that it is dear that my tomb stosi# should read "Here lies tli somx

all men

said "no" to* or maybe "The wouldn't take no for an snewe? and tried, tried again."

Ibegan with Erie Johneon of the ttg Cfeisber c Ooap&rc several weeks ago, worked

throu$i Sir Bernard Par, Governor Leverett C-alionstell cad several ethers. Today

Italked to Butte, Mentam where Senator feted*? said ask sae another tin and then ,

got practically the ame word from Putney, Verawuri ad the voice of Sejt*tor Aiken.

Gh us, X am dlsceuraged. X cos so dsprseeed end tired yesterday thatIdeclined

te go te the theatre ?*lth ?xd*rick Houte who tod just fall en heir to a pair of tickets

for "The Lirterw, a new thriller on Broadway. ftblbh

reminds me of a story I

heard e month ^gc and juat forget to pass on. Someone saw $& end i^rs. Henry Luce

and said BHsre eemss ftreenic and old Luce.#* (in ease you have forgotten "Arsenic

and Old Lace" is a melodrama which had a long run on Broadway and is now about to

bs released ss a movie--maybe It has been already for all X know.

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Bt^inp very mart I vns surw the lection would b# lose that the stdier vote

would he important* that booattfto of the time seats and lengths* polling hours (we got

anxoxtrn two hour* lb. %w York) Here would be no coaclusive results until very late

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arid the fiiml answer might not be known until Ihunsday. therefore I war not going to !<?liaten to the returns and avoided getting tied up with parties for that purpose# ? But llil

e pousmy hare guested T listened and was ceapletely faeeiaated u*til two-thirty when SjO

I deoxded th^t it was e^fe to go/ to bed with the aseuranee that win. Bo I need te tell you that I rationalised ay staying up by

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XtmJXexmMer Hasdlton et al indented it they plainly bad no faith in the oemm a*A

m d thought that few gentlemen with edueatien and vision should do the actual deeiding.

X won't pass j^drewtent on whether that we sound end reasonable then# But it certainly

no longer obtains when teohnilegital advense* greater literacy, modern transportation*

md the radio give every voter the opportunity of knowing the iesuee Is not the actual

candidates. Up until 1SC4 the .electoral College delegates cast two votes o?-h and the

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Since we found cut that wae an impractical arrangement and Ranged it I. think m had

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have is dictate n eel write rough drafts of for a now "person even if

h is very good. 1 only hope we can get an aooeptablo apilieeat early enough for

a couple cf day of breaking in before taiurus leaves#

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, ahnt T. roaW say, |Mt Sunday j seat io Fraeport fo--ru .tLhi, taMrl--.; *" *F!--ro.)ldy 1J*growin...g-- pp|:

as that he actually aeilea at oeanle withoirt b.ii mt pains, Jny# leifat is to r.veld

Oasussing thing, hs prefers act te by asjim "That's a military

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pretty busy. Olwes has sterted piano Issscm tee, ae that the praotieo period must

h0UM oalaf* i*** ^usSsy (hi aas in i-ortaraouth and rather seuhdsd at though

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, vittout glove# (S) hut with rubbers, raineost ond umbrella. Th soeort v,ho took Thelsa

mad M$ and eight other eeoen ahen the gate t the ship had only arrived eln hcure before

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part* The crew numbers nine hundred in round number and the Exes* whose name I have already forgotten was very pleasant with a niee sense of humor* We met the chaplin whose name is Roberts sod said quite frankly, rtWe shall be gone a long time*" I was

impressed with the width of corridors, the fine equipraert in the dental office and

sick bay* When we went to Cal's mess hall, a youngster practically grabbed me to admix his fine dish washing machine. I could help wondering how long it would be

before he got quite sick of the sight of dirty dishes* They gave us coffee in inch thick mugs and very good turkey sandwiches of which I took three as I had had only a copy of coffee and half a paar seven hours earlier. The ladder to Cal's sleeping quarters is Just outside the crews's library, but we could not go down as acme of the

men were not in condition to receive* I understood from him later that their compartment runs the width of the ship, and is forty feet long, with four teirs of berths* He has the second from the bottom about thenaiddle from port to starboard. He is in the third division of the starboard watch.

The C.I.O. room is the deok below the quarter dick and well forward of the

bridge in the center of the ship, with the isolation ward across the corridor on the

starboard side. Gal thought he would be four hours on duty, four off and four standby.

I gathered that on the trip to Portsmouth they ran into weather so that he was on duty

in his standby as a good many of the bboys did not gets to xaeals or watch. He hopes

they will get their sea legs! As I understand it when he is on duty he spends twenty

minutes at the radar panel and forty minutes plotting or checking and then back for

another concentrated twenty minutes.

He thinks there is twenty-six mlhhien

dollars worth of equipment on the ship which includes a complete dark room for photo

graphic work. T am not sure whether he said the speed was eighteen or twenty knots*

The crew ind udes a contingent of Harlnes, but I forgot to count them when they appeared with the ship's company on the after part of the quarter deok when the commissioning services took place. Thelma and I had chairs on the aft of the boat deck. A great many of the workers of the Todd Yards came to the commissioning and did they go to town on the oofee and sandwiches! Sorry to be so slow in getting the details to you.

In his letter last Suhday Cal said he and his work party had taken aboard thirty tons of food the day befox*e. However he did not say whether they were staples fresh foods or what. He did think that he probably would hot get to Charleston--though he did talk about the Chesapeake--where I thought they were to have some shakedown runs*

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, 1 . l!e our firet regular luncheon diseuaeion today with Senators Burton of

Cfoic ^rguson, oi Miehigex: talking about "The Senate and forld Order" To offset

?TMv?7S we h^ abcut Keeeating the President, I made a point this time of having

^tha+t ,tthwag ei!e<onJ3c8i%z&sS#* tia ftifme0uarn*d"&th*e*a*tt^endtaendcethmeameleiglvheet, tobutthetheOcmtoebeetirng21godoidn#ner

.. Wednesday night at the Board meeting we had a lovely postmortal of the Frefident'e

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On Thanksgiving I went to Freeport on a later train than I had planned since I

just could not seaa to get up* Hie train was crowded with like minded people and I

was Interested while waiting on the Jamaica platform to see that the fort Jefferson

train had two engines on it* It always amuses me to so people going to the country

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carry flowers and day with chicken#

florist boxes with them* which w finished picnic

We had fashion

a fine dinner in the middle at supper in front of the

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biasing open fire* Freddy site up and tries to stand# but considering hie five

months is being discouraged* Jay grows between visits at a great rats and at present

gets a great kick out casting himself and the family as comic strip characters. He

and his father alternate as "Little Beaver- and -Bed Rider- whoever they are and Molly

and I usually draw -bad man- who are promptly Jailed our roles are simple . He is

quits content if we oooesioraly Wg for a sip of water or another crust of bread* ;

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Although the official report was 2.39 inches of rain on Mohde.y and Tuesday the

acco&g&nyittg winds were so high that it seemed much worse* Especially as I got Htf*;

than drenchodgoing Tuesday night to hear a mm ufeo had recently returned from a State

Department mission to China# which included en route stops in India and Russia* He feds that within the limits of their capabilities the Chinese have done such a good !,

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job of creating blast furnaces out of odds and ends of materials that they will pro

bably show a great industrial advance in the ten years after the war# just as Russia ^ $i]

did after the last war. Oressy comments very interesting*

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we# for the first time in our military history# are making every casualty count. We

are not wasting lives of our men this time* Coming from him this is interesting #

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The admonition to shop sarly seems to have mads a great impression* I had the

greatest difficulty yesterday in buying stickers of "Please don't open until Christae"

I went ever to BloomingdaU's yesterday# but could not make any purchases because all

one could see were the backs of the shoppers* There did not seem to be an inch of

pace at any of the counters* Where I shall be able to make a few purchases is still

a mystery. Hone of this easy money has come my way# nor so far as I knew to any of

the people I come in contact with* Yet the money must be there as shopkeepers are

net complete fools and they are boasting the -Age of Elegance- has arrived* Since

the opera season opens on Monday a good many of tha Fifth Avenue windows arc devoted to ladies in very glittery and handsome gowns* Lord and Taylor has a special set f

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window figures taking off characters in the news--largely the members of cafe society whose doings appear in the gossip columns frequently* Hew Yorkers get a kick out

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of the windows in a way the out of towaers miss.

From a session on relief and rehabilitation on Monday I came to the conclusion

thai travel in the immediate post war years is going to be fraught with new difficulties

notablhy that of health* Poles and others with only one set of clothes cannot be de-

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loused when they have nothing to put on during the process. That is going to make for typhus epidemic certainly. Lately a test was made on 250#000 children in Greece and 7$ of them were found to be actively tubercular* fhr civilian use there is today no

iViir5- quinine in Greeee# no iodine in all of Europel no anaesthetic in Yugoslavia and no

medicine for dysentery in China. Ineidently I heard an interesting explanation of

that widely printed picture of the Bayeaux shop window soon after D day with the even ing gown ?/ell# it seens it was not a dress at all but a liberation gesture ppade ox

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three bits of sieasy cotton goods of red# white and blue draped on a mannequin window

figure* I understood that this picture caused a good deal of bitterness especially

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in England and I am willing to bet that the truth will not reach a tentth of the embit tered# the hurt and the vindictive* Iforelt we should not jump at conclusions*

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Twenty years ago I went to the Anqr-Jktjr gsmo# but today 1 was quite content to eit in the sun and do some mending while listening to the radio. Diapi/M the fire new rules they played under it sounded frightly like old times with plenty of list bucking# though it seemed to me that Navy has improved its forward passing. X hops they did well on the tale of bonds. By the way they have set up a huge# from the knees up reproduction of the Statue of Liberty in white plaster with her back to the upper id of the Times Building. She carries her lighted torch and there is amplified recorded music and flood lights at night# Somehow this Tinea Square focal point for the bond drive reminds me of the World* e Fair.

la the high dad yesterday X got something in ay left eye at luneh time and

wept copiously before and after m oeuliet extracted it# Seme of the tears afterward

were for the five dollar fee# when I found Maria is an expert in that tin and tbould

have been enchanted to perform gratis. It all came out when X called her in the evening

to thank her for a delicious pork curty at dinner and pleasant evening she had given me

earlier in the week. Xt seems that during the British blockade of the Continent during

and after the last war# Iferla# Judith and some of their friends were used as useful 7

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young aides to escort Hungarian children fed* who were sent to Holland for a period of feeding up as the guests of the astral Dutch (even as the Swiss have taken Belgian#

Dutch and French children this time.) well# these undernourished children travelled i%

old fashioned railroad: coaches with broken or ill fitting windows and poor Maria spent

the entire journey taking cinders out ofqreee Next time I shall go straight to her

instead of waiting until Dr. Ellison gets back from the hospital -- even if I break in

en work on an important portrait!

% foraAFPA collague# who le now with the FEA# flew in from London and stopped

to eee us on Thursday. Since ho ranks both Walter and Larry it was aloe to hear they are
both doing good work on the Continent. Stone told a story that 1 thought amusing. A

group of American and British officials wore in conference with a Swedish mission is

London during August. They wanted the Swedes to adopt a stiffor attitude toward the

Germans and someone had just finished a fine speech about how they# the Swedes# had

nothing to fear from the Germans# for after all we had broken the retaliatory powers

of the l&xis. And KHAKI off went a flying bomb at very dLeee range. The En^ishm&n

whose sentence was thus punctuate never turned a hair and the Swedes were such good sports that they made no referrenoe to it. X also hear that in Paris we uss to sam>

flllfe

hotels and big buildings that the Genaans did for various kinds of headqunrfers. In

many instances in the desks.

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Mrs. Greedy# the rmgliehwoman Carry and I met in Holland,hae just sent me hsr

Christmas lettsr. In preparing for the invasion there were so many American troops
in Devon that by February all available space me taken and the mn were billeted with

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from Hocheater, Mow York! Her son is in the Royal Navy and her
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a operation on his eye in which he lost its eight# but they saved his life, my golly

it was ten years ago this summer when we were so proud of the way ho tretted around

France and Germany with Gerry and me. Xt is true that we often tucked his seventy-seven

years in bed and went out in the evening without him. Well# that stakes him 37 now)^

They hope that he will be well enough to go to his plae in Florida December 17, for

neither he now Mrs. Wllaot are up to taking the winter here. Gerry will have to taxe them down and turn right around and scuttle back again. I hate to have her do it but

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she eaye it is the only way. Poor Penny will be exhausted handling Gerry s patients as

well ao her own. 1*11 try to keep well and spare her that much*.

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miles rouadtrip fro* Avondale to the Bay ysrd t'yel is lteelf

are all well, th. children have had perfect atyndanw recer* far school

joy ihoir piano lesaoao. rXbe there was & lottsr free

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Well, "I am getting at the wee. kly roundup earlier than usual--but this morning Aunt Annie telephone from Albany to eay that she would come tomorrow insterd of today. Hence T have time tonight ?nd ehall not have an opportunity of writing before Thursday of nest week vritheut seeming inhospitable. Had I known yeatorday that this would happen T could really have gone to Maria's Christmas party. As it , was I declined--as I simply had to have an evening to tidy up the apartment and finish up some of my Christmas things. Knowing that Maria would have a Christmas tree and yearned for two years for rubber gloves, which have Just come back on the market, I got a pair--wrapped them very elaborately and put a tag on the outside which without giufj|g'_ the show away would keep her expectations in bounds. I had an early dinner got some Christmas greens and some fruit and stopped to give the parcel to nor olcvat^Jpifc "M* take up. BUT Mrs. %rris, who was a guest and had Just returned form California, caught me waiting for the elevator and there wan nothing for it but to go upstairs said hear about how she had had flu since her return! Poor Maria, suspected that X had been able to arrange to join them after all and expected to stay. Someone thrust an oldfaehioned into my hand add we had an amusing half hour--during which I went behind the corsen which hid the Christmas tree on her "sitter's platform" and 10ft the parcel. Despite all the polite insistence I made my get-away when they were ready to go in to dinner. It seemed wicked, in these days of manpower shortage, to leave an extra nan at the table; Nat aany hootscsec can pull that off without resorting to -the USD.

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Monday night Nancy Scheefer went to Don Giovani with me. It was a very good performance, which Szell conducted admirably. Pinsa rang which delighted both Hency and me and we also enjoyed Baccaloni's buffoonery--though he does overdo it a nit. '-'v
I have spent quite a bit of tine the past few days in the or rice hagg. ling^SJII I

over coBsnas and ten point versus twelve point type or matters to thai affect. fj*

have just decided to give a dinner on January 19 to Colonel The Right honorable Oliver

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Frederick George Stanley, P.C, 3ritanic Majesty's Government)

M.P., Secretary f State for the Colonies (in His I am sorry to say that no agreed with me in going

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the whole hog and putting the H.B.M. part on the invitation. Anyway, Colonel Stanley

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is nakiag an official visit the British Colonics in tht oe British ifest Indies end oorae hers for e few dajre. Our dinner will b. hie only public speech. >7e understand rV''"''''

that Lord Halifax end the British Embassy as excited at th. prospect of having a

Cabinet Minister here as though it were the king himselfl. ...and plan to go the viiol

way in unrolling the red carpet. More fun. The General and I are both very opti

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mistic about an important speech--but very doubtful of th amount of support, our f ;fii-V V . ;v.-i

members will give Just after we get

this into

undertaking. a vew year's

If I budget

go in the hole financially I shall be disgusted.

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other night I heard a woman say she had wilted on Fifth Avenue for fifteofi situates then gave up and wert to Madison to wait for half an hour before she got on the same bus I made. No doubt it was a gross exaggeration--but it gives you an idea. One

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satands in line for everything and I heve abandoned the idea of having a box of o*8dy

for Aunt Annie to munch on which she is here--I just never had half an hour I could

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spend in line waiting for it. Most people are patient and lately I have been

into conversations with people on busses. The other day

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I 'm'Hy ' ' an elaborate array of caviar and the like to the boy with very Simple tastes* Ssis . 1took it quite philosophically though s the caviar-lover was reported missing in

action during the period the wrong paroel was going to him. In response to my murmur

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JUttrt Annie ami I opened moot of our presents Sunday morning from under

a tall arrangement of Christmas greens on the filing drawer ^lieh double a end table*

After a late lunch we went to Freeport, where Jim and Jay set us at the station* Jay

greeted us politely and returned to hie job of waving the train out of the station.

X don't think 1 have ever seen Molly look prettier then nfcen we arrived* Freddy ha*

two lower teeth and is trying: to produce at least one upper to go with tfca. /ifter

wo had hung up our stockings by the fireplace, Jay *nt through Lhe usual fitu&l of

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leaving a mack for Santa dans--doughnuts and e glass of milk. jinking of doing the thing right 1 proposed leaving a dosen so the poor man would have southing to

stay him on the rounds. Jay played along with xm for a bit but finally seitleu or, two

on a plate* We had a lovely day Christmas, though housebound by nil on the ^now*

Aunt Annie and I came back to town to go to"Bt3renw--a good perfommce and sua arthue-

iastie house, but we skipped the last aot as we were tired

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Tuesday aorning I wsstss taking the 9s30 train for Washington sad w@ sipi until

8dsi3n0ersosoitcrwoawsdeda

md scramble, that 1 waited

but I node the train. My parlor ear was cold and the to get a sandwich at the drugs tore near our uawipston

office. I was amused when I went to see the Under Secretary of the Treasury-^ir. mte

to find that he and hie secretaries all had large linoleum pads under their chairs

to take the wear from the carpets. From his office I had a pleasant tics of the

back portico of the Jhite House--though X found hi a rather negative minded perse*

and my errand which was to persuade him to go to our St* i&ul Branch not settled

conclusively. He is vsiy concerned about the amount of time the Congressional Hearings

on Sretton Woods may take on hie part. I'll write him after the date of the hearings

have been set. All day Wednesday was spent at the State Department, where a conference

had been set up for people who speak on international affairs and theee >ao arrange

such programs. While X did not learn much, it was interesting to ses all the man,

whose appointments have made such a stir In the denote, except Mr. Grew in action.

After Mr. Stettinius had received the new French Ambassador and the on irom Salvador

he joined us. To m# the scion was significant because the Department has at Inst

recognised the useful of public discussion. Fro the rather pointed llonu <iu8* pu~i wo

them I believe thrt the State Departasnt nay have learned as much about the trend of

public opinion as any of us learned about American Foreign Policy. There were two

inches of sleet on lb ground and more coming down Am 1 left to catch a street cur

(yes, X am getting m fmiliar that X buy a ketch of tokens upon arrival and don t

bother with mm'ym taxis much in Sfcshington -- next I am going to unravel the

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bus system) which took forty sdnutes tc get to vnion Station where the tlx clock

train wu filling up. This time X went to the diner at onoo ad so got ay

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next day I discovered that people vfco took later trains were anywhere fFom two to

four hours late in reaching Heir York. Buth Bryan Owen Hhode took tn eighty M and arrived to a taxi-loss Hew York at four thirty and wandered around in the subway

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with the drunks. When X tried to cross Seventh Avenue to get the bus hom i stepped

into slush up to my ankles and further had my spirits>dampened when Y,St lWh3a .

found that Aunt Annie had gone back to Albany on Tuesday instead of going to Orange

an;d sp, wdin g* V.*>d" n<, w<tTa;y ni g.ht wit:h .. ; ,

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l^y plans to spend moot of Thurdd&y convention failed almost completely --

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it just had to be attended to ettft X stayed both nights nt the office until seven-thirty.

Ust night I went to their banquet where I had an amusing time and heard Harrison

Foreman who is just back from "Gcaaounist Chins'* He insists tha t thy are not^Jocaaunr

lets in the Hussion "Coilectiviat" sense, but trot out s merchant i&o has made ten

million dollars Hex. in th pact three ye?rs in their territory ae proof that priva*<*

capital is encouraged. All the rifles of the group with which he spent two

in Shansi province were those thsy captured from the Japanese. They uae any contain r

they can find including porcelain teapots, fill them with firecracker

(their

only explosive) and thorough mine the Japanese positions. Eventually the badly

Japs are starved out and the Oommmiste gain a lot of loot. Ho tho Communist government is li*ked and respectec."b^yetaheppeeoopplleearien atrhmeetde,rrpisftfoaia^p.a Jamiyl

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The aiddl of last Sunday afternoon Teddy turned up in Freeport on one of these unexpected visits which begin with "2 cannot tall you where 2 mm from nor -dioro X m going hut I can stay five hours" Ho looked splendidly end sua in excellent spirits-- though seemed to have Utile appreciation of either the day in tht seek nor the date * * he finally registered that it was the lest day of 1944 he remembered that he had forgotten to draw his assesher pay. We had a great faoility for imoeratly asking questions that fee could not answer at first but after a while caught en to the rules of the garnet The vieit was only possible through the tfcmindfulness of the general to whom he is couloir aids. The General is due t get another star in a few months, so Ted# will automatically become a captain and begin a fresh term of being aide--all that in the event that he is net detached from the general meanwhile* This is quite possible as he has already been attached to him tor m overling period m "aideebips* h - Teddy went along with Molly and Jim when they started to to<m for their iiew;| Year's Sve party at the Lyntngton'c* . I intended to use the evening writing letters but worked on s hat that 2 was knitting for myself* It is the first thing I have ever knit for my own ueo and 2 hope that it irlll keep my head protected frost the odd winds wfcich 4 thcr irritate my sinus or giro s neuralgia, 2t really is a riot, mads "by ear" rather than instruetions or preconceived plan* A black wool cylinder finished off with a couple of inches of brilliant red lwft tvm wristbands of gloves for the young. So far I wear it with a bit of wool tied around its midriff so the upper portion can be pulled down to make double protection for jay skull or Jauntily flipped into one of half a dessn /fetching (f) topknot arrangements. Tbe office is completely divided on the '... v. latter peseiditties with no two persons liking a# one arrangement beet! But to get bask to Hew Years hVe--the children were so quiet that I started mHag rounds Just to bo sure they had not smothered.

Monday afternoon we took them to tea at Amityville with the Weagenreth*. Mrs*

W* is pathstldy relieved te be

released from the responsibility of owning ths

houss at Bsyport and to be living in a very sweet little rented half house. Ifee height

of a vary bad wind end rain atom passed while we wars there, with the usual Long Island

incident of Jhe failure of'the electric li^fet. Jsy had made poor selections frm the

tea table, according to his standards, but manfully ate things he did not care for &d

when wo loft shook feanda mot properly with host and hostess saying * Thank you for a very

nice time* Seme and see us soon." my is one so pleased when the young behave psfel 1

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.the foreign Hconomie idiainistration he lias been plotting bombing targets for strategic

reasons in South last Asia, China and Manchuria--and perhaps even those in Japan itself*

like most Americans she have been for any Isngth of time in India he is distlnetly out

of patients with the Indians and filled with sympathy for the British. His description

of flying bask in a bucket seat In an Army transport Indirate that one mm only catch

short eat nape en route. Ikem they land at an airport at eight in the evening and told

that the plan will leave at two In the morning, on# hurrlee to the barrakee to goto

bed* Only to sleep- fitfully lest one oversleeps. ;le-<me sails you am! if you are not

on the plane at two, off she goes and you are left hoping there will be an ragty seat

in the nest plane through and you may bo lucky enough to be awake at take-off time. Yeu

are expected to have seen the world, but actually don't!

Shop windows have begun to blossom with straw hats and tulips* "Ths trade" may think in terms of spring, but ay shins ere chapped and all day I have rau#t #1bipses of Hey Howard at his window watching them chovel snow from my side ef the street as I cheek en the efficiency Of his butler doing their sidewalk* Maybe 1 should wigwag to Mr. Howard as a good bit has come down again since hie man's last efforts.

Gal's dbip seems to have ranted Its overhaul tests successfully. X guess it

fill be q^iite a spell before we have mail from him again.

I was amused by an article

la this week's TIMS about the Harry fehits Of Treasury Dept. whoa I saw in Washington* It

worn there la a carportr in ISashington by the mm mm and the Soviet Smbaeay sent him

li# eight bottles of liquor and the cigarettes intended for the Under Secretary of Treasury*

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walk down town to s^ueese wfittif en s ?4mI1** Avenue hue to get to the office. -V A

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niner result of the impeded traffic me no clgarettss* The ensue this week being that

truck* either could net get the gme or were delayed m their rounds# Little of the

. anew has melted tad the ver worked Street Cleaning department fees boon able to 101#

scant progress Is dislodging the Icy memmlmtiom*

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ef Miee*ysiwski turned

up this week with a letter from &*dttk te U . my 'great delight em irem her young

daughter DeJJdse -- written m Obristuy-e Bve * The child seems i have Judith*# flair s for apt description-- "The eat Higer is a regular wai*crladi*l# The ether day $g#f we

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were given e guinea-fowl for a Ghrtatm# present* Iter te it down for a aiemeni and

the neaet tent# 8l| was ea it beglcnlas to eat it* : this asrteg 1 f ted him seated
fuite smsfertably en the sofa in the sitting-seem# Orebi spoils him rmiy sausb. ; | !

"Yesterday he had sardine* fer hrmktmi sad today a pilchard.' They both coat point$.

Peter is Ilk a doggy %mel compare# to hi.* : {I think the cat is the property of to

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one thousand, and he .tend# an excellent speech-- from which it i# cults deer tot a!- ;

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I thou# Great Britain intend to improve Standards of living, education md peUtled

responsibility m the part f its coloalid people toy have no intention of turning the

lease# It was interesting tot he me willing as a member of the British telnet to

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answer questions f r m to audience en this rather ticklish question of colonial policy*

2f you will grant that Amsrieaae are to emotional tempi*# of the "underdog* and often

speak cut of turn frc emotional stimulus with cut the least bit of laformetisw, you will

agree with this point he wade deftly but definitely* We cannot share with there to

Sdwlastrstive responslbilites tech and shall weieone critictern* it tot

are curs alone# ...We do mat advice and we de want criticism is constructive and informed# ...for to

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slogan eft "Us criticism without study#* If that was a spanking, I think it well deservd

fe, and admirably stated# He is the sen ef to tel

of Derby, ovor six feet with iron gray

hair, ruddy coinplexto and very pleaeaist* At the reception before the dinner t totted

with General testis, she was with HaeArfehur en Ikmtna and went tek with hi at Leyte, .

steers he was wounded md is beck nm as EesiderH GcKsieaioner ef to Philippines in this

. country* Like $mm9 he too is partially Chinese and a suave , affable person* The .

initiorf more ton lived up to to new *o rem above 48 degress* rule and 1 nearly

frets--perhaps because I was exhausted#

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Perhaps you h*v# heard that it is winter here -- temperature# just above tare accompanied by the kir*d of gales that take your breath a-ay and leave you tingling mad brcathleee if you are lucky enough to climb Into a hue A lot of then aero stalled along the streets because the fluid in their hydralic brake and door opening apparatus frosen One morning 2 saw a lot of those red streetcars on Forty-second street stalled-- but never found out whet happened to bring the to a halt. Peifcap# w are to otarv# as sell as frseso for the ODT has out down on civilian goods freight trains* frosen switches have impeded all train movement and the military priority is not snou#*/ They just won't attempt to run the regular consumer goods freight trains, the inaediat re sult in ay life is that 2 eould get neither butter nor milk yesterday. % regular grocer said that they got three oases of s&lk inatead of fifteen.
the past ton days has brought a regular epidemic of orisss in different branch meetings which have left me limp and exhausted. It would be nice If I got a bonus of the amount of long distance telephone ealls I had to mk* est Monday alone -- it would com to a tidy sum. It is interesting that in only two of at least ten alls ma I requested to keep my conversation down to five minutee--one of those places was Worcester* Massachusetts. 2 don't quit# understand why their circuits should be busier thm those to %shingto and Detroit. ... ... #* Qfcite a spell later* A telephone mil trm Syracuse to say that a city ordinalso had just been passed closing the schools, forbidding public meeting*, etc. as a means of saving fuel in the grave fuel crisis that oity faces. So I had to get hold of the speaker here in Sens tori and tell him not to go and then, since hovsas not too agreeable, 2 undertook to cancel bio train space. In case you would like to know one talks to six different people before you can tell the right person they have space tc dispose Of from Syracuse ts Hcv York! the ether speaker, Milium Henry Ohamberltn lives in Cambridge and is tonigkt in fkmilton, Canada --so X told Syracuse it would be cheaper for the* to do the telephoning on that. 1 Imps they did! dfe mo, and It took mo a dreadfully long time to arrange this meting because it is the first one for a mm Broach sad they were dreadfully sticky about chat they wanted and shea.
Tuesday afternoon we had a little tea for ton French journalists wfceta the Oil has imported to show how busy wo are about the war. The senior member Of the group was fierce Deaoyer, whom I have known for years, as he used to be the Fnrls 3oir representative hers. He looked older, but as I had. act mm bin for sin years that is understandable. As they arc hero to learn and not talk, I did not discover very mush. Hewer, 1 did read a very good cabled article from Paris this week, which shews that Paris is really in a very bad way now. Fuel is at a premium, and food very scarce because there is not any coal to bring the supplies to the city. Butter is going rancid i fsfmaadic because there is no salt to make it keep. Fish on the coast is going bad again for lack of salt. And the interior of the country starves. Thoppeepl* arc glad to be rid of the Ckrmans, but admit that they were bettor off imp food and fuel last year. It is a hideous and vicious circle.
Wednesday night we had the FFA board meting, but it was not very ixtsresiingt The business van whipped through no they oould go into executive session and talk about our salaries. lb# nest day 1 was told that because of the extra *#erk I wax doing 2 had been given a very nice increase--but m account of that raise in my basic salary they were withdrawing the ten percent emergency grant I had last year on account of the increased cost of living -- the net result to me is practically nothing in the way of addition. 2 have not worked it out yet, but I think that with the increased withholding tax 1 shall get lass per pay day than I got last ytar, and the Board is no doubt feeling very smug and tenerous about me! Him ealy way X would be bettor off would be in the event they should cut off the emergency grant, which is fifteen percent for the past two years tc ass>*ex#outive categories* Ml, I have decided that I must adopt a bureaucratic attitude--what gets dons, gets dons. 3hat does not get done, is not going to worry m and 2 m not going to stay until after seven night after night just because the Association is growing hy leaps and founds.

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Lost night 3otty Day. n* *itant of yecrw ago, had dinner idth *

at toao Ball hafora th opera. I mm delighted to aa 2d <*rruw of CBSleak

to mU as ho nwi through the outside corridor with Ceerge Beany si it wi

atrionebpoToouotrutarY adtaaabthlthaalea,wtattmoahofIcihntnaoestld.wr.ei}httuhhiarmnthitahnenagdtefotiutorreaahpeLaodoornfteaddaofonitnnhav#awvtareoalriyam fttlexetrgaiehkthaonrpdeneeartkehaoeaodno.akBoouLacoaehfitaeanrta.1hloaak.dn-ooaatoTsieS...;;|$0m!||# V-.';

aatabliahed *ae aplendid workera' rest oontarc there. By eooy atagee ho drifted into an experience ho had last auareor with Sinston Churchill. Bo i

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had been trying to gat aona iafcraatios on huts heoba and one aftornoor the

Priaa Minister called hia and aaid "5feon you arc through at year office won't

you cone over and have aevawl whiakey and aodan with m*t naturally Sd went

end had than and the 1 addracaed hia as though apesking to a aultitudo atom

thing like thioiTho people of England are being given an opportunity to share

in the cane dangera that our brave eoldiere are facing in loirraeiidy. Vhay have

the opportunity of displaying groat bravery, B"* don't appreciate it." Yroa hie uoaally reetrainod

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t^]aort of oao-peraon.&udionco-oratlon"'the priae atniatar'a carefully plasnod

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the oldeot uanber of the Big T.h.re..e.. ..C...h.u. rT-c^hi-l.^l.T"o.T**ug.h,,tKnoat Thaavre .t.o. run aall. aov.eWr .t.o. (Ugffifaf

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cone toete.siisseeia aaginailn thlueyv,. the Brlitidsh* people, will bhoe furiioouuss*, Hiiuarrow weodu--ld *-.V fv ?. m.yj

' not fee mrprixvd if the eonfsrenee ms in Mcsaow, era at risk sf tke Pri -

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did leave a littta after sin last night) and want around to Crand flhntral to put ISM urg<mt stuff sa tfc* tri mil. mie thsrs aotissd that imdm trm

tha north mA wsst wars trm 9m IW# fits hours lsts* iersss ths top of ths

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board wim ths legend *3sws ssathsr coaditicmo dalayiog trains" Poor Henry

oa,fs,s traia was lata into Chisago iera days ago aad he ies4 his ooauestioa

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for Peoria* ifltr teiephoneiag sixtson hotels sad having roses olorks sneer

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in his ar Hay settled down t spend a drafty night in tis U 3allf Strsst .;

station, but he get to Peoria in %im for his leeturs and shewed m vim* '

hie experience when I saw hte.

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About tan days age Cohort Low dorpont died. Bio obituuy aeaticaod

that he Married Katfcxyn Hsed %ho for assay years was ths treasurer of the

Maoriom .mam** MmoUtlen for ddah ssnriw she was awarded the tana f* Porter aiedia". i think that is tha hd#rt of sowetUag. Kmthryn is a faith-

fid soul, though* The funeral was m Saturday end Tuesday she did her usual

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nurses aid stint at Lenox Hill Koyita, travelling to and fro in a Colour Club

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cBthuoianm for Bldbard Tuokvr on Bono end generously racpoasive audicMo throu^iout. In the third aot

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, train la t3b bail vts&no end woet flat wil^t <|uite a lend ba|^-but I thought she .

sang ssieh batter in the final met than before her aeeidsntt The score shows

many traces of the GwmM iniluuuoe ntid itrioe I caught pmmgm raadnisoant of

"TTriiissttaana** The snwusaile is neot ^pratritmioiulalarraiy tuuanwefwH--l--%theuojuy^* wos aa*l*l akanow **lk&Dn8efe op*f

the Hours* wfaleb the ballet executed very wall*

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IIt tTil^l ltkfe aWe triTgh^t1"back to is in*tr&oedBucu itntgo nmiei atli atwhep i Ic ht iu lr ei*protfmG Iu na lt aanndf#O a..its.

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rerereuMioB on ay liZn.A nan from th Office Of the Freaidet of th P.I,

wat to h.ve tpokon at our Breach in Bethlebew on Ihuraday night.'but on Monday it bOr.. clear to M, that doing, in Manila were going to efie

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bsoo&s ccjaeaQtrations of emergencies A rnsm .who *r.s to have

anltfn if -'Circ^t tomorrow fsl| se 1U that ho sura he csuld act ttakt* it I

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I tack a call ft*. our Bkd>g(an rapreasntotive Blair Bollag, ^ao tot

I w*.^WBS Tsi, ' . ^. ;:

gotta* hie "Greeting*" card withT^aatruction to report forJ

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Ger.in ihell lfJii.lfT TOy* i0neo.;l" "l( you nan feel th vibration fro. a

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30# 1946

Sony# this tar#r*iy spedimt ef pink peper 1 just & reflection ef ay scatterbrained state* Last week I ka#v I used the last three %kit sheets and tbea nevwrd did anything atom* it* Far the cake of tha record 1 siust again report another
anew atom, tat# Oiriatm# day it started U mtn heavily mad a lot of last week's
#$ ma mehed amy smd then a# started afresh lata Friday night vdth era now which Alteroiteo with rain all Saturday nad# a ail# day# hut praise Allah little snow remiss wa&mr today's cloudy sky*

y<md*jy afternoon Aunt Anal end I selected tb 3i03 train far Freeperi on th theory that ww would be between those ah worked half a <fe$r and. these whs had to put in # full day# Bid v not gen* down th# bask stairs we adgtt mil bar horn part of ih# several hundred would-h# passengers ate war# l#ft on the plstforsa ykm tb train packed
Ilk a submy at th# pmM of rush hour pullod out# Freddy and. day had boon boused for
several day# sftlch loft the both *4th coughs but in good spirit and we had a busy lias with thm until th stealing hanging at th# llvijogrson fireplace* Wn Chiistms mmim th#r# ma said* sxslteasnt mar day's Mcyels# katss and asserted toys. Freddy ms vastly iisprssssd with a large# furry bear which he asm discovered that he could aliab eat and slnss it stusds on wheals b pulled around on* His cheerful helpfulness ineluded putting wmmte* Rift# into the big sartsn brought la to collect th# discarded
wrapping 3 A let of people we mra successful than 2 in getting- good leaking tissue and tags# se perhaps th# market wj net as barren as my werieise shewed# Cal# Theism
m* holly'a aunt asm in tin# for aid-day dieasr# Holly had staffed tb# turkey# which
proved te haw# a mvvrmm interior and m fiaaUy restored to *m mmt auceessfui
improvisation bfor# black Mmsl# arrived to take over* bespit# tb# amltmmr.% the tw# obildren war in fin for and not only enjoyed tbsasdves but 1st us enjoy than tool

Wednesday night w# dia#d mat plmasntly at ths Mm1# Xhdfmity dub in the
Biltmr* with His Hamm end heard about th offer the Church of at* Hisholas (48th itret
end 5th Am*) has received fr the property* the three Ulis da liars sees* land fr ths business mam ef the Censistery to refuse* Maw ethers feel that if Trinity scold be pr#6erw#d in a busineee arm se ean ft HIchela# and the fmk is se good arshiteoturally thai it should net be tern down* Mas Coe# whose father was sinister ihSn# when others was a VHker ef thr.t church#told e that the hard carving en each of the pews ms differ ent* Thursday night iuat Ami# end I dined in th# neighborhood by ourselves as we were both tired and had an early start to mk# th# nest neratag b#a she left for Detroit

Frldsy I ms sleeted te the Beard ef rdreetcrs ef th# Mmarimm Hatfsya Guild

an ergrnimtim soabinlng th# people n4i ajpmr en th# platfem# the speaseri pay

the their fees and th# aanagers he net as go-between th two mjer groups* . The id**

is fine# but *hsa 1 attended the beard iseeting tlxat afternoon it mn

that if

1 an to be serious about it the pest will be m sinecure* Saturday I whipped through

trie morning mdX at the offlee and bask te the session ef sponsors seeitsn of the Guild

annual cenwmtien* It ms a wary edged group in whieh 2 ms th# only person represent

ing a national _ rRanisatien* Resell Fetter# ihe nana the Institute of Arts ami ^cimaaa

at ^ixiaabia !..niwsrsity and I lunched tegetlaer and were later jaimd by Bleon ef lha

;,,rsoki/;a Institute and Buff ef the lMlad<dphia Term* la the afternoon we had another

ssttsim In which the report# crif th# three group necrUiigss of artiste# Onagers

sad sponsors www presented raid dieeusssd* Stysiyess told ewsryaae else off end ws htd

g fin tiw# nmaMils it ms snowing like and* % a sdruole 2 got & taad frtsa the

spnrinsnt t# th# Park Lea# for th# dinner# se agr long skirt did not get wet* Th# fast

that the hotel in setting th price per plat# far the dlmer stipulate*:! that #eh miter

would hv te ham a tip of Tb cents end serwu a jainiMi of IS people {this in sMitiea

te bis regular wags) is an Indieslion ef where labor is trying to go* Fernsr Governor

ef ilew Jersey Kofftasn ms the toast meter# end talked nueb tee nueh though be did tell

MB. fumy .torie*. mrfMuer Hw*M UwjT *4 In ^siAj;. si<t tfmt t>j( f **-->^work en the

were w*^3eour*fft*r?ty*t'*r^?1^

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,, * couple of atrai^it quotes froa the HEW YORKER, because they set da as leueh -'""" tLti* f.poiat *ith prid* t0 tha increasing popularity of their country. Total stran
gers are eroiaiing into the place from practically all directions." "Unseasonably warm jwattcr has hampered the Red Araqr on tone parts of the eastern front. It would be nice
aur RubsUb 0O"md* oaa of our extra hlittards." "Congress has
Congress, 4it^seems,*i?s"inf" a m"oodbutol "puadt " everUybody to wotrhkaetxetmhept loHceantrey W wiallllaaclee.e" approve it.

bird

sAiJntgh"t.ft1Twd!rehasvsedhathd isnmctohr#nrinfgua"nd

day it

of sleet and snow since 1 last wrote, cheered me enormously. (l read about

I a

heard a mYun!

thw turned them 1YcooY o. "I^trwUansgSnot on*e popfUtehdehtoifadlasueghrtoobri'nssliIpheeatridekJ)to tAhlseoirsbin^ce^etlala^sdt

as ~ arsH'Ssi, f^nd L5T ZaulwY** depress"edf-b!U y tso0 aEud0di sdt0otrlmyBowr#e-athSeurB<atnayd 1 beoincgiiokdepotninthedoCorr.se.nwTohoedn. I" sss.sfx szzz

r^drrr.SSSss5*? ntTM wlic; irL- tsT rasovery.Ths.t evening Molly met ae for dinner end "The iiagle lci!wse "* t0 har Rnd R favorite of mine, so we had a fine time.

'fuesday night I sampled speakers at the Town Hall when the Women Correspondent's out

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*id' * Harold Tribune^ if t box Juet ***** wartisis living has hit the millionaire

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R^0aly proceedings|

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** galoshes . At one point he ae drunk as usual that evening.

pointed out the

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naxt ***** dltion and read the editorialsi Oerry

Indian ?wfi r

^ f writes the home eccnoadcs eeotion of on of the magazines (not the

rreiasoonLs Z Mrs. S . usedl hrher maiden namh8e rinhuahbearBdfo"o-drc.oSluimnkn.er, and added that for ,prXlloo.m Uu

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on YjrgrT

renlly interested me was Cl.te Roberts, a radio comen-

landed on the 20tZ"i no , Z inV?Bin of Ufta' TM7sailed sailed October 13 md

af h4n v. 5 *u tth..ee bbuussiinhess--but when

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f L Z ?< !8" built * tllelr " cgineere, they cheered. SoYm^n M ,rt ,Y

"Whv ViYi f yc?iB'

ths owo on raarker reading U.S. Highway #1, they said

on lets cu5ath." 1 ; "J* h0K,i a,t it.e devil are Japs doing beret Come

the fina1l pp,''astk"

dded- t.o "thYo cgnrelladtreuapssutragreteind hthoeldirinmg ourpaltew.o fingers in the V sign

Uorin is

Y*! ^Y*015 of the Stat. Department waited upon me. Dick

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Private lifs and brought his suesessor, Francis Russell, vfam

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lmi aet Wiiicc "bo has juet left hie CHRIU job

ret mInns " "" ? pepnrtment. UHRRA seeme to have missed the boat. If they don't

fetion! tt.rYylB 15 eTM ureYlyvoTc- rd!oanteTfofr9.renSrevienrnor Lehmen iaendvethryennperrvooduusceanadloext troefmely sensitive of public apathy in general, end sharp criticism froa a few informed persons.

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QfLl* "licfm* rbninr 25, 1945 7u*tr' fu

^alrt w**k#" hit~ehat was written Friday because we had a seating an Saturday and
I had planned to go to Frerport on Sunday, loll, we had the sooting, all rig)t~~a dis cussion of Conaonyi ih&t tsrms after Unconditional Surrender? It was good and I was sost interested to see the tender of the public. Svery tine there mi mention of reparations and punishixsent of the "war eriteiaals* the speaker wsuld be interrupted with spontaneous applause. But I was sniffling end had to telephone that I could not go to Freeport. Sunday we developed acute heating difficulties and wy radiator resained ice cold all day and I could net raise the superintendent. I complained vigor ously to the management on Monday, by Tuesday the tenants were holding indignation meetings and by ten o'clock Tuesday night heat returned. Meanwhile I discovered that the mind deos not work very well under those circumstances* nor do colds improve. Wed nesday evening I had to telephone again to say that I was not fit to be exposed to Freddy and Jay. On of the evenings b#ent is bed to keep mrm I read "Absent in the Spring"--a very intereeting novel of a woman stuck for several days in the desert without anything to read, sew or writing materials. She was completely thrown back upon her own thoughts and through facing things which she had never followed through on came to some realistic and unpleasant conclusions about herself and her selfishness. By the time she gets back to England, however, ehe decide that she must have had a sun stroke sad continues to dominate her family for her Interests rather t*w theirs.

^ Thursday night the Town Hall of the Air raised my blood pressure in its discussion of the Chinese cssssuni/cts. The speakers with the exception of Oongreseimm Walter Judd, who w& formerly a Medical Missionary in China, were all people whose qualifications to speak I challenger on one score or another 'fhilo X petulantly quarrel with most of' what Harrison Feraan, Lin Yutang and Agnes 3m<Jly said X deplore their failure to go to the roots of the matter. 3hen the Chinese declared a Republic they had very tough going, even to the point of their first president deciding that the people really wanted an emperor and setting himself up as such. That did not last long and he was probably murdered in a 'Palace devolution" by his own followers, anyway he met a violent death and Sun Tat Sen, the vice president besom the new president. He and his foliowore had - met trmi Peking to the South -short Yuan shifted frost being President to Smperer. They knew the country was not unified, but that they were better off in Gantea &*d started their reorganisation from there. Although the US and Great Britain had recog nised this government we did not give them the help they needed and asked for. 3 when Russia oiferad assistance it was accepted. By 1927 things were moving along nicely, but anti-foreign!cm broke out i flanking (X know the danger of an American who mm killed there rm-^ several peoplef including Maisie who were evacuated by American wmr ehipe } Chiang Kai ifeek deplored the "inking Incident niched to 3ham$tal got money from British and American non-govers&oxrtRl sources ami backed by that support gave the hussies advisers end workers thirty-six hours to get out of Ohiaa. And by golly, they went. After that the Bristlsh and ourselves took a greater interat in supplying advisers and Chiang grew by leaps and bounds, but as the avowed enemy of the Chinese cemrauniits whose political party he disbanded. This loft his party the ffocn&nisng supreme, ifcci gb claiming only a couple of millien members out of a population of over 400 million, mn the Jstpmmem attacked the Chines Manchuria In 1931 and took it over, the way was paved for the 1937 Japanese attack on north Ghina and the mm mm en. The Russians chose to forget the slap in the face of ten years ago and sent some aid to Chiang for several years--true sos of the material was ear-marked for the Chinese Communists who had boon doggo la the interior far ten years. I m tarry to have- ranted so about this, but you see there is so much more to the situation then meets the eye. However, this piece of sheer gocsip follows nicely. When Srie Johnston talked with Stalin, the tatter asked, a&y are yen Americans so sentimental about Ohina?*. Johnston replied feel that it is well to have a strong m& democriiie China after the war to take car of Japan." Stalin threw back his bead and laughed heartily "Don't you worry about Japan, I'll take earof that." And I'll bet that he will get a warm water port in Fore. or Manchuria before he is through.

Yesterday Jim Green of the State Department and X had a long and lleaurely lunch at Town Hall. He was desunentariaa at Dumbarton Saks and hopes to go to San Francisco which we decided would probably last for two months and involve 4,Qqq delegates, teeha ieX adrliar* and so on. It la aau8lBg that y,, ^yor 0f s.F. aill ua# hit -ataaat-r

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they left uaesid. Otto Telieebuo* wfee X eea to rswswbsr was bora in one of the between-wars-.^sltie- States* probably Latvia, a*l me Tim$ err#*adat ir, fttmnaay

uatil he was asked to leave, was very emphatic that the root of all evil in Japan is

vms Uhiateisin end its twasNtegs that the Japnaeoo aire divine mm and that &*!* sill

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Yesterday tot Annie ease on tho train earlier than planned to there was tine to jot up hero before I ran off to the Outoh cocktail party in the library of the "etberlsnco-America Foundation in radio center. It was a niee party to any goodbye to the First Secretary of the Knhaopy and wleorae to the new ran sho has Just come from a five year tour of duty in London. X am delighted with the latter as Be shows promise of being * new speaker for B. There was r.leo a goca oeuertuaity to tall to the war correspondent Vifpiios* wfee so disappedjitea me at the Overeeas Ireee Club lunch, last wok. He io gutting hie ehote to go to the eouth Pacific . He .aye that thinfce are ee thrilling in the Liberated portion of Holland that he far rather go hack there# 411 the Doteh are fired with the mm to get hack Java and young men who have escaped being taken off for f orced labor in Germany are oueing up for enlistment for service in the Pacific. He spoke to the young granddaughter of a friend of his about her returning now to her graduate work in art and was really frightened by the fire la her eye as she tec turned oil M with "But what about Java "--evidently she is trying to get into the Dutch equivilent of the WACs.

This week I had & letter of Wew Year greetings fvm Paul de Sonde -roaa

whom I have not heard since before June 1940. He writes fro* the south of /ranee

where he seems to be assistant administrator of a perfeciure and prcoisse to write

more fully tfatn he has heard fro* as. His letter took three months to come#

It is interesting that he uses M* instead of the previous Goats in hie return

address. X can' help wondering If they are all comrades without regard to the

old titles to which the nobility dung so tenaciously . Certainly ufcon I last

saw him in Paris in 1937 he had little use for the eeasaunists . Another overseas

communication this week *as u copy of Dudley4 e Hod Sress message from Vl^rra io

her sister. It read 41 Oharlott,X*ver

I spent happy Sunday in our suill quiet

pretty heme. May God bless us in the future as h has in past. From ^ich we

deduce that th sister-in-law lives with them now (I think her home was in Bmnkfert)

that Aaver vho is about 35 still has not hem called for military service, that

her home has not been hit by bombs. But we cannot understand why sh* should spend

twelve of the twenty*fiv word 1**1* * messages en Oed*8 blessing. The message

ems dated November 8 and vnac written en the back of a message from her siste

sent l&et March. Does that imply terrific paper shortage or was it merely a

word saving device en acknowledgement*

It is a lovely sunny day and the willow tree on the terrace across the

street have started te put out feathery little leaves. Maybe spring is with us

but I cynieelly refused to credit it. Inert Annie is doing nam errands and will

soon be back for lunch before we start for Frweport. I still hope to get to

Bayport tomorrow--but in one respect the trip is not necessary. I wanted to

rearrange the books te fill up the gape left by the sever! hundred boo*s waxcfe

went te the Penaaint before the house was shewn to prospective tenants. But 1

seem- te have rented the-, house over the telephone last iednepday. however, there

still remains and appaling amount to be done there--including cleaning up after

the September hurricane before the grass starts te grown. ; Sorry thAgts a

short change edition, but I musrt get eUng. (I had feared I would not get ;

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Last night I dined very unexpectedly with Ruth (nee Risher) and John feeler Bennett, She is very recently back from her ARC post in Egypt md he on the end of hie sick leave as a result of jaundice part of which was spent with Mrs# Bwight
Morrow in Mexico# He phoned her on the night of the 21ei and arrived at Cfaarlottesville late in the evening of the 22nd, The morning of the 23rd they decided to be married on the 26th, so Ruth made a few well placed telephone calls and went off to
Pdciiiaond j. Oi. a a ak /icurs shopping# The weekend was a round of gay parties and Mender saw what the gueete described as "the most distinguished and aristocratic wedding ever to take place in Charlottesville" and "More people in the University Chapel" than on an/ occasion since the funeral of former President of the University Alderman"# The bride wore a Bergdoff-Goodman gown of ivory saiin with a deep neck lined with rose point and a tight bodice and carried freezias and something# The gown needless to say was "something borrowed". Ruth insists she wanted to phone
me to come for the event--but it is just as well she didn't aa I had other plans# Now it remains a delightful mystery, would I have gone had I been invited? After John goes o&ck to England, which will be very soon, she hopes to drive her mother to Charleston to see the family of her brother Dan and. has asked me to go with them. It is tempting, but my first reaction is that I'm much too busy at the office to think of taking some time now.
mk vedneeday night we had the FPA board meeting where a member of the staff told
a wonderful story of the Pan American conference she had just attended at Mexico. Stettinius arrived from Yalta and way stations pretty tired. At the airport he was^-ieu by a .Large delegation and a member of the Embassy staff thrust a prepared statement in his hand which he read without looking at privately# ; It worked up to a line climax about Mexico, the host nation, what fine people they were etc,'and proud we (t.ue U3A) were to fclaim them as our own". There was a flurry and they
managed to get the word some typist had omitted added to the copies distributed to the press I think it was intended to end "our own Good Neighbor". Evidently ame cynics thought that this was an announcement of annexation and Stettinlus was not as popular as the charm exuding Nelson Rockefeller for the period of the Conference#

Monday night Aunt Annie and I dined at the Town. Hall and heard "Fidelio"--Beetoven 8 only opera# It was done in English and we enjoyed it very much# The overture/ to the last scone is quite long and very lovely, though it employe more brass than am accustomed to in Beethoven# We had lovely, unseasonably warm sunny wsather all week, which brought things along to the point of being a month ahead of time, Vtfhile we were at Bayport on Sunday, fatkins said gloomily "This is just a freak. Mark my
WS5?8J ? Pratt we sha11 ,laVQ Id wt April," I can only testify that the official temperature on Thursday was 84.3 degrees and I perspired around the office wondering if we should not all be sent home lest we have heat prostrations.

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and the store worse with eager shoppers trying to get Easter finery. There seemed no

chance of getting on an elevator so I had fine view of the toelae from the escalators--

in the millinery, dress, suit and coat sections you could not sec the color of the

carpet for the milling crowds. P.3. 1 got light packs for the two week period and that section was not crowded for once.

The news from the European fronts is exciting and makes one enjoy the NEW YORKER

commenti i err aedeker informs his readers ("The Rhine" p.71) that Remagen is an

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absence to start something he could not stop upon his return.

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Thursday afternoon as X mo living the office about aix w heard that the .resides 4 us dead* oil being trained to accept nothing on fcaan**y# we telephoned the TB&3 for verification* Maing at n place having music by Huaak X me eoacious that it me an all classical program with eacred music included* At seven ten a mite aasoi needi At a nark of reapset te the President of the United States who died late this afternoon the program for the rest of the evening has been cancelled* there w ere a good may in my image ef visein alio had net previously heard the nmm and their reaction mi most interact is| After a dated sort of alienee wifi espreseteas of ineredulitr* these people turned te neighbors and asked if he had really said freed tat Bcoeevelt me deed* The usual me&lti-e shatter did net return to its earlier intensity while leas in the plane*

Robert Valour# she is Just bank from four months in Frame* was peaking that evening lebder the auspices of *Frmsee Forever81 at the Sorbitol* Plata and X strolled across the bottom of the Park to meet Charlotte Huret who ms going with: m* She had had te go end eal a hi^hetrung friend of hers on the way to the meeting as the women me so shook od that she me on the verge of hysterias* Iks session was slew la getting underway and Beberi said that since hie report was largely to do with the *little people* la who President Roosevelt had always been so Interested* it had hum deoided net to muesli the meeting# He told of the humanity and unity manifest la France during the resisiimee--how despite the threat of death penalty people of Burls had sheltered end fed three million refugees from occupied arms* often iie~Frrh# and 500*000 Jews* whom the Consume were trying te gather up for extermination or fmet labor. At times these people sought refuge la-the sewers ef Paris* Be spoke of the hardship ef the first winter ef liberation when only site third ef the leeometivce left to France were available for the transport of civilian goods* hew hit ?T year old Alsatian mother had no lump of seal during this the most severe winter France has had si nee 1920* For fuel efee used eld these# bores* which gave heat but else a dreadful smell ! The French have permitted m term word to enter their vocabulary# for example they sever speak ef "bliiskrieg* but only limiting war* Hfcder the eye# ef the Rename the French hate centlaued certain plans* research and. eenstrueiion --he saw in Toulouse a TO ton sea plane which they had built*

Friday morning X went- to Philadelphia for the session of the American Academy of

Social and Politics! Science# after having telephoned to b# our# they would hold then*

light after luneheom Colonel laakema# head of the department of history# economies

and govemssent at the

at test Point and I joined forces and .spent a great deal

ef time together--all X could give him-- until we .parted in Urn Station at five on

Saturday* I have heard about him for years and he tumid out to be Just as fine as his

reputation* We know lots of the same people and got along splendidly. X had to shake

him after the Friday afternoon session to go to our Philadelphia office*-fibers they are

preparing for a dinner to Herbert Hoover on Tuesday* ferconferences with the secretary

and the eon ef the chairman which stretched through dinner* X had to destine his

invitation for a nightcap when X left the evening session early because X was staying

vemi#t with the HUfclee la Fraakferd, m& they ere iacMned to early retiring* It

was pleasant to wake up amidst green trees with asaless* lilacs sad wisteria at the

h ght of their blAem* The season is certainly three weeks ahead* and X m Inclined

te think mere* Certainly lileee and asaleas doa8t belong together! The morning

session m overlong because the afternoon meeting m cancelled, so BctffeOMi and 1

had a cocktail end lunch and took the three e#dedi from Broad Street and frm the train

watched m strongs* sudden wind which stirred up a great cloud ef dust and added to the

gloom pressedlog e heavy shower* I mas glad for the rain as it should halt the brush

fires of which there have been too many*

the trip up- Fifth Avenue was strange for five a9 clock of a Saturday--true

it was ruining* but there was praetically no-eae about* All the shops had closed* most

had drawn blaokout curtains over all windows save one in which wae displayed e black

draped portrait of Mr* Boeeeweli# a laurel wreath tied with black# a flag (Benson A

Hedges wee one of the very few she knew that * black bow should be added to small flags

nailed to tiny polos!)* Few chops displayed any wares# some had elaborate and beautiful

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Cm ,:nit<Ml {^tion

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^ DMCI) ""d

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*

to in Base bo soot *my ad reeeiviag

bfuorbtshaesratwuoardd,heX

sneesilw >? /

It!?.

U. 1 oa. sailed fro.

r

should * telephoned

for aessagea all the Uae 1 w

o* "^y



un.uooos.ful Mid I BBS faood with ntSnr

l***m *** L* h<i Men

loo of . "not too hsreh" pa.,. fo? oJ^LJ. ^heil*JLS* *hPPul.r point of

* ooraahl# olth .liven c vi^n0^,,^!\ L ^ "a4 ""t af Tu*d^

oad I all other .ngogosumt,, soas hoo, on brief fur'0*A-. .!! !!^* ? **** f **.

sot BBS elserod up.

'rioutfio,

no oa.

oas

la then that

h u u m T * ^ Z Z i ' ^ r z * 21 rL^ ero R% a t .i k 8

-- nd.

to like then. But ho bnk. w h2rt fit hi

hi" oad * Nml

Wo ttisalea

fortheoalap WV" St but I fear ho did not knL wj!.,.

,?t

y od S*?iao*t*. M "isTp*e*r--*

export .need In mUZ ^ oTttoZ^ oe^oniff

T tyf9',ner that I W

of being able to go oa iBsxudlathlvte , ,,,,,

Ohint.ee eels (even to the extent

HMeoy FOW.U end .H. ^T.tZM?&- *?* " 1 dld If "hkdtt 1th ftp***

:sr s ityr-a-!'

sss'cssr

^

-- I Ionrued about the nevsl vUteriafln JL*S.?

5f* ytw sd4fe oa* iUuetratin

*ad Andrew Jaekeon's brilliant euoeeos at New

liri* !"ld uk GteaplMa

the Battle of Bl.dM.b,.^

,*t ** J*4"" * I newer hoard audi about

ton (though j know that tho S^OM^rSrfpMnt^1whi^<lla8* * *M*-

teereh of tho British fire), but I TMwer dL^L!
tanw of Detroit nop the dijgn..JTSL^JAuSl

"* t# WWf tt

*

rMi*-

noro.d.onre#t

loam tho lagsortant

detail. than

of

Wlrthot^h!^i ,^*J? .2f<^!?'?;

!^ ! 8rlg"hPtoll?tieual?affaMirdse

load goweraor. rofueed tr.snS^LtfL,%^ a why d" 1 f* ^wt th. Haw Sag.

that th. Hartford

^

f yr#BidKst

Sd

X BBlatain WW would bs lass sosky If . wo-I
.oaatfupiwabislsw rtgehltstakee. Isss iSumoSteb"

LTM",.. we li%<!

f eharaetsr.
"*8hlt* ^ of ouou r rpparst"

. rather fun, thou# X bed aot had JwS^t tf J? dressing to go. At th# ensuing luroehon

18 p*881



0ulld. It was 5 Jf1* "aJr "Mil X wet

dawrpopof^LUlt?latblo*dndelraslMa veins bolnw r-TM Zti " this--tho Oonoral hha^a 'nTot"a

Coowr had such a diffieult ttao. H. iHS se good nprointaents durinr his JrJZLf

*"**, +* W*1 Mthou# ha had

aati-aorioe, who were oorreotin Sin^Sst^

^ th"

ttwecoauptlhedrefaerleeyfth*troewcntl.e^wahipthl.ethhoeCrhwu-reciha.a lTaha-t-^SSl^wJ?il1*i *^*"i"f'1-ltM^Tlrn.adns#caealn!toleh"iecoldwhloMaaue*b**

than do net see. to brL lokof w^h

241 B0V

!". Sorry,

Ihiosiaa sad te.ri.an troops in the hsart^T^^^ "*

*** th* Jw,8tttr ^

ct, fits, o w ,* A f , 5Ju^To*ez,

* ?

vtnvA h&mti gsy#y#X

reports

Tfcia my net Bake toe nuoh *****~^^,,^ Mgcact(UdlH by ' nor. neee.

i

1*&S JStSil# ## ###onditiSisX

.g 1 &1* i$ # 4 BO llOftt#

2-rs i"."v<-> ""rSfi

....!.

hT vcm > J.oIin#"^<mr "*r"0|*i7.g 1#S ..?^2-^ -S lis.. -- -- --

P*hmp# W a**ml fib#y * Jjjj?

* this iRontl* I k#T# W* , n ff# .aKthr I ltoil#<*#lpkX#. I womod

prinoipl. about never bwaki* **?^

**. U.t Monday I broke

.

out of lunoh with

Jot ris

dinner dote to din# with Brooke

* -Coony go \

_ M

Beatrlee >---,...

Lillle in "Tbe I had * beetie

aevea day and

ojuU!

"

(Actually he dinad-ithjaatth. TomhU* t0SM, j ted t . wort rt#tP

not tbiak of ft #*< nooiiji !&**

ttan--*Mh *

l#4i#* ft*<H#tHt.}

to bi* aub-~tb* OositW 4

lu ?!l!

Brook# &n4 X tort* 1

^ub

a oiXly f&ft#* X rolftti#.- ^

London in 19&5 ##) 'avlog &Xy

3e# Ulli# (b #f#a^ t# swing hfr *;HJ ' -T u<r #11 fer ^ i th mitr of at wfc*

fron expand *ftt MVI

i# nof

^ kf t

d##X of

thoroughly 3rod

aiX fcSS^oi*ly

supported by A** 3U.

vory poor ballot by the rattan iM AHeia LTS. ow loooly glittery M etartS

aha arefully propped her up tt *ery vur

it oor and anotaar shec

^.r;,rjrr'""1U-

iTl. >..r. . -- - -- ' -rt"' " ""

, ..

is?

faw iintf-#! E#a#fftr^ ^#r# Brook#

mde the spTeueecshdayanadtoluutnletnhadI whiast pdlaenwe fer ^P j e.t^Tini*tohunpdlaryedasalUajeaer trhoelev,erythagood

rgererehtrhhiotorhdoten.thinat there ere not a huodr^ ;rhCI.tdtinleidtraet^theiOtWrell.eta*aondhvaveent to

Srriod aeokefeHer glrte.

tSkS"e one of 9oths hueineae aeawiatop

the A1A annual Meeting. ^f^?r

^ %m th, <^lldrn played under tho

Snyi?rjii^##Li<Se ir^w to wXhio*h&tH# a^n r*pllf fm-iyih^*i ttfhtmWr pxin#yy mum4.wr tb# ninilotcn now

gr* m#.k #fect wk wlib tor/.t^ro.

sedneeday 1 got n wire fro W 1W stfief'^tBheaitaethoanBdXuv# tNtwtpwaoyrkwhn*t4A#okulXd

b#r to a# two ftw#-nlut# bridesate n wnok W _ ^

^ if #ii h&<2 to but

IZ oat for. After o#e eheaking I aired Mr bort to da it^rer erw ^ % ^ ^ t#

to ask for five hundred a week. So f' - , , , f sjonrtana for half an hour oei'ore

tkhe.pPoikeerroattolunesnatbeorBta.inH*.?ineTMa<fWe5a.o?i^?tingpjroon. End iSTi^thoiunghmaBll. eoAnfgteror etwwoea

vara ae good. At the age of IS be enlisted to s#

,, in the itoriaaa, Juet

yaare fc. took a short hit oh in the. ,\TMi' fl,.; "~f^.or of hirtory at 0 of intern

to be iwpartiel. After sining a whUe

_t,,r hc (at to Chine on a epeeial

and a few yesra age vac eert te uo^reoe. 1 J>

d$rk halr^l with g4 anslyti-

mission for Froeidont Rooeevelt. Ho it toll. W

^ that it ie poeaible te

eel
uthao

aLwlunotrdonraenaadnldlyanOsketiaonearwyteadtaausianiboaSreeaepnetdesffoecxrepr4r1"e9s^3s1fio"sn^n.d r^iinblVerrtt/drirrh."t*

of lSX..y e ba... that Motion m the

lalondet he ie eure that the

idiere J

it>eehtaakrvteeedntbsvoen4drthcUeoaptulaahins

#f th#ir

X# ktisfcuriis. ^

^

w#ry Xww by bl#ck-

*%**& &tfemtir*##%###*p*y im^rin lnfeflof#JWtWJ! rS^S^.r lm if In f 3m\m5rry 44,0^ io ^ **sy-

F#LFO#WRNTOin#

OWE##DR

of TB#

I_huapt*

. s,

SI2T-U>FOTFOXATAT#OFU%I#A#T N#NWO<?tRonTHs#ETX*SN.AAIEIB?. #

-

13to*,00X0M ^0SW00PQO B^&YY XKN#T

LKP#li#. K# HUifW

THIS

U S|30 J

MVLTM ^

K

Hfsj:isiw.'s Ktrw-rsj^iJSS

i

^leased him. Mra. Thomas W Lament

tendency. Buell ie ^ry fearful of ?

observation. By the way thlnge

^Inksthev are dandy and was much troubled by Buell -

u

> Mrs- Lament has

^fbeTooking P *U a sweet new hat with anemones on it lo take

*** ** PaSSln

"

hih she wore for two seasons.

or) took ^ with

last night Jim and Jay and JMTjK to ^^^Sally by toe animals and his con

ns after toe circus. Jay was thri"^ ** *iaw?" yere-vtio* was filled with "Do you know

He liked toe elephants Lest butthe ^ with the manpower portage

nanthere made a deep impression on him. Ji

jjjpr.ased with toe few and odd looking

and the number of women in theaete. (

^ters worse toe eostuoer riggedthem out

man in the cant on Monday night and to auo ma

had to leave the office at

in-tanee in the most unbecoming outfits.) _ b ith a e0Uple of women from our Omaha

S'Hner%our for tea at the ^^"^"Lcklo toe offio. to finish up the

branch before toe sarly to!^eTMuw.st--Austin, detaila on three meeting# in the souxna.

Tulsa and Shssreport and one in SI

/VI ^*4 --

1*1? 6f 1945

*c <A< MLv

One o&msot stay crowed up at the paint I had gotten t without suffering a marked raaatiou when tha tension begins to relax. Added to the bone weariness the pant too weeks have been marked oy much rain and chill (with no heat la the apartment)* exhiliratian from the successive surrender of German
unite in Europe* jitters ae to \shen the final word will some, and a mounting anxiety over the sharpness of Japanese resistance in Okinawa* impatience with the proas teadsnsy to magnify difforonoos rather than success* it Wm& and an overwhelming sense of the difflewltioe whish lio before the world. In brief
I have com to tho realisation that 1 am very tired*

Belatedly going over the %vy Information Bulletin for March laet nlgftt

1 noted with interest that Captain {then Oossdr.) iiey 1. Gsao* 088, and Captain (tha

(kmdr.) Herald F. Stout*

had both been awarded the Silver Star Modal with this

published comment t "As Cda of destroyers during cation against Japanese forces in

the Soleaons area from 31 Dot. to 3 Kov. 1943* they fought their ships with mpmrb

skill In the initial bombardment of Baku-Bonis and the fire daylight shelling of
the Shortlpnd area* In a subsequent engagement with m enemy force of superior

firepower* their destroyers aided in sinking five enemy ships and togging

four.

It may seem a little odd to congratulate them nineteen months dtor the action* but

as soon as I can got to it I shall . After all X was maid of honor at Stout's

wedding and Can has spent a lot of tin with us daring midship** loaves, this

same Bulletin gives an oxeerpt from a sailor's letter* which I liked very mueht

"A sailor is a guy who is worked toe hard* gets to little sleep* toko verbal

abuse no civilian would take* does every imaginable kind ef job at any imaginable

hour* never seems to got paid, never knows where he's going* can #ald tell where

he's been--yet eeeepts the worst with complete resignation, and last but net least*

he really kinds likes it! Ton know why? --

youtre dog tirod* boon up sine

4 A.M. working like holl all day, and about to hit your sack at 8 P.M.* a woioo

shouts "turn t on a work detail!" then yon unload a ship's cargo of perishable

refrigerated foods.--low are ready to die by 8 A^.. but "Use job must be finished

before dawn.--Soon you don't ear if you live or die* and suddenly* you're a sailor,

Its over * end you did it end you think of all tho people you knew and how they

would roast under the ttrownstanees and you begin i grin* Tou grin because yov

ain't seared of nothing, and it is a fast that there is m ordeal you can % lace--

and you know it 1" 'Ibis business of not knowing whore tho t%vy unite are and

von whore they have been in one of tho hardest tilings that families of the Mary

have to adjust to without the benefit of the philosophy that the man himself has

accepted.

In as# you saw the movie "llle-on* I am ours you realise that ft second lire, doodrow Wilson was highly idealised. I glimpsed her at % reception recently and wish to report that in bar statuesque, blackballed manner she has weathered the pest twenty years very well. She looks fit and vital. A week later I went t eon house of the Council of Foreign Relations in honor f their new hoadquattora#
tha former Harold X. Pratt bouse at 68th end Park. It is s aodorately nice house with a lot of grandnese about the drawing; rce and library floors* but I wzn rather
critical of the bodrmem srrmngorterrte* vhlctt now are offices* but plainly shew the
original layout. All afternoon I carefully avoided Count fiishard Condcnhdwa^Khlergi (son a Japanese woman and Polioh count with grandparent represent lag a vertline
league of nations) chatting as I went down the marble otair to leave X missed my footing and bumped down four or five steps m tail--only to have the Count spring to my assist*nee! I'm mro he hexed me. $exi time I shall go right up to him mm
chat politely end maybe save myself n hlsek and blue!-

/oj ^' A8B-CVC - W < ' y . ' %6 f

/i >., , _

WL,])

I

!#?!

*W IS, 1945

failure

thragj th, e far om*Uled

"J*,"1',g 1 **4 te raai In the efflse until ^LT+eU* "

^ "ueie on Fri

*s(.<>.!/, ***** I worked until efter toe -i. "t. ^' eeven on Friday and g train an

Hmwe 1 Uiciui B

2: rt^r^TI'

but

SuJSTT* *? U* d!'ys * ** "*9 orthe ;,T,k t.

r-f; off te

"U^

iwifl2M,W ** had 8aTS" unt11 th*SSt. dof..t with", ^tSft&SS^% th.

for the sak #f th# rwrd l it ar way of thinking he ha. M surrender. ,'a, ,etl,, th* leader* in the Sow ycrk eele*r-<

moJ *

* I as. ohelehaertedly ..-*

""rMlrti the ,, sf the 6e2 ^

""-

fo)r <* ant part they aero

,axLUu2a?t#*n**erI*g*at*$*?t*abia2tit2lit is"WSnL * U J/ S.&2^riM 8 *W **c1 f ** w^iftUC r

^ " T T#udiae trmt#

the ortTo."!I"2*lr, "** f b80rbod ntohlng th.

It ill ,I **#* V t f!f -rr4- * * ^ *" were throwta* eonmtf1o-2JST f* i8PaiRS U oa it

* the le>, of the tons of reslyjanrt*,_8h0TOd !L .1

I?r *" yaeI.>I* ableelhlogd,

turne..diem nr v' *o4i1le

iay,t*o

talked hue* M< tfc

threuA

f4

'."ore,Aahftaeror fteohulroluliarf%tnlsa/fsioauhdaidtioUn.e-

ttrVjara*-



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,rts* ******* Ohwumu t uirtil ttx^ikiriv w w

l/*? kfX***

Mt

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rrr

00

^"oefey aoraing x hnwt

mid

to tdh ff| an

mi my S TwLdsornt"?"d;"eTM "eeMr,y"linaarsttlyw#Ut1h5attoogu0r< ml

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tn

tt/j:,".

"2fr!fr,f,1ifs;f.#,"*l""ongl- #>tIorranbydothne.

^fea f#tt of THE ,*

4> .

^t all twr cad okittles." lo'ill^tl'Li??1

tald " *< wn satkorin wo

!Sg* ot iron HinUr^22lin fSTJJlSSM M eJ1 Ca "aTS

ttTn^-r^rr*14*^'

tb "rffirS Sr 2^2^

;

;ely

thai it

toxr nd * Juitakmrt*trjM,1t12KLtr i"*^* "

Gor^n oivllCa^irhl^'" ^

* th*

"KitlL'?rSt noodtsl" afnodlwioavsedBi1nT.iv",hdm,letMM ^-!a W,'2 . 2 deeuatToa^U sh^ew>iniag6th"at^ they ,,r, tn

f f " ^ EUsaoieBg

* j.* - ,. . e"* 3 m t

tZizT ith^oiaroue of tha *fg6ttr#tw ehil^ror SSajSr,XfL^^fili- S?nrf

n

k-m0 br&t&ar of on# of tfe ^raeft"

^

the

diving)) of -yio out
w q8*rasti*d'

f-- th
w

ouh d .= doaomrf r1:r,,fr

h2

&#ar< ^iotroy^ ho too would bo

^ f^Heo tatio of hi dictriot h*d both

Sndo kaa. afc.t Wa3d

f1' W h"

W

of 2ton?Ll

paek^ ut and wont book to Stoekbola

e-'hif 1 '1**,.rt*r trtm *&* Cemny ,irwy, ao ho

George loabe, ^ W8 J2t taok . 1 ,W9t" 1b

mooorim. *

ere at ISuohfeenowld before Sisonfia-'nY-

.!, 'rot"*,n '"tat n^d he and Lwoll Tht .-,.

ST*! tte inreotJen hmuoo of the' htnL^ZJ?Utt*r

*

sbaabenaaid with a erke of u.r a. 7i

.

** J*ll hotel Cead!e tinned m

lud for auah

m folloft0i

'* fUght. of .So Ueh^hl.

\ioK tff*

/

# "S

**-- ^ ^

Sgesryt fro Mr 18RK I f $p U article entitle ** (Af) ley

At # 3$ m m Monday 1W 9MNI seyy bsya were rtnli% at their poets lis a mm

thai bowse* 32 busy mm itbars oh&tttag. the ball on the Anssatatsd Frase tinker

msg thro# ti* slgnall/tag sa Aapesteat bulletin# t IBM

ths tider

y*Atd "jam arrxmi&Y mmmm Mmr

tmMEaMUVe" out bey

Snrefully tore the four-line sssssigs etr% of tho ttilil and miked (ho dft4 net run) out

into *Jm sal* editorial roe# sber* he piseed thn FLASH o& the deesk of the day eH

editor# efee h?d not yet oswbo to wit, 11$ the* Afcfoniadi the tttgr editor's west*'tas*b that

Mslojfy fc<! Just hesn ends (by if spin# to it happened} ^nd sent bask to ftto diseaasAe*

StwAtiiWiiiWiflty tho anas ftiiMM# sltel&fig into the bvesdoaettng studies, mmminrilf

Aatomptod the busy prattle of the radio. Deer Kf* sad affliletsd stations# & house-

fceld-eimt U^r aaaid Adelaide Hauler wm eoylng* *Ad atv that the rhubarb season is here

again##* Xiao thay turned her b.k cm, sbe hod finished with rixubarb and was bristly

inquiring# *Hew shoot adUsne* oa bm$T*

mmitc *8$ Concert" rm interrupted

fear hers ttm the finish of Matt*! *a la tisa-Aiiso* a enyeaiti*& mid* ashed? hot

W*X3 hod ewer heard of before* fQSft dsfhrittad the rest of Seimtt mod started off efreuh

with %-iWg*0 *H$y Oypsios, lens# 9ypl**%

Ih the 8S3 neesroecs# the busiest motim mm a esbiiie in thieh a harried tometer

wm#ing eairhouee mo ^otuidi^ smiy en a toletffa Mfedltf mmmrdbag ndth rsriau roiato

in the aHwork. 'fct use heing mM m the telotyrie w*t *!3&ir#iiH hmr&

^ 989

aoa

ad still wthis.^ frm WW m ho silently etealss

w^y will

"BafrO alert

oiPw **Be you Iramy ht hmw%m& yetf* *0 mm Aft*

Ihrou#

the windows of the newsroom* ?mwyhody emili st# e^rleyooo of the asoeelated f-re&e in an

&d&Qinlmg huil^lifag

mm? late ti stf^et with loysl iletensdaetioii. "If that war

tarns hlookt" mmmm ohserrsi# wit will .aeta last ^or hss Jia^ai oyt the v&ssdm * At

11 oftloek a yeuni: lady sof'Sarod with th# elootrts ann^aassaM i *MW km %im>m #i AF

4mm* Deaied rov|rthing.* t%o ^yro4f then tided#

t%m ^ 4th oAHmpI *

fci

4th cMkw?* a wi-Atr sohod. *Oss f<*i rfey#** she eaadsiXHMi# *!0S U1 ring fmur

itoatt as aa idecriifloatIo olpra instead of the ttenol thro***

A few atoitos Ist^r# it had hep to eno^ wmmm of istpw. op at Heohofoilao* Hasa

sasiforsied ma %ith hurlao ho^i orrired en seen* to thw first bits fluttered dosou "Iboy

KOt te tbrep' pspor#* oae of the usaa tmld. W^ywft they i^o hone or go maaahoro aiid tare a

good tis at least?* *Hlero* ^ sipimtiM a^inet it#* sold is poamhsr W# obviously

saetehed frem desk duty for the onorgeniy. Aorooe th# street# is front of it. lytrieks# e

ena fro the It* me roeinr e gretir of ladies sssis^ flegs &&

the V

Om of th# l^diea sue also .dsuriofcini a whiskey bottle# *S&e& that bottle#w the ^fysea

yelled. *This iiH Mew Temr#o lee.*

la Fem station# two mm

mm trm the AP sati the ether fr< the f8U9 .

felegrwa# were sasdefieg sreur-d

for #tete *llere me this eeusle# mltiimr ml hie

wife# holding a yeper and storing at lit# hea&lneo#* the WUMM mm wm m$&ng to hie

seafrere. M5erieuleating# eoiMerfui espreaeion. But# Jess# it me the Aim they wore

holding -- s loner $$?.* At 11 e*^^# 9mm itaiiea's pMIs address gyetesi# sadjiiiy

eleared its threat sad eeid# * Hr Mbeatcdiili seated $M the statiea meter* effi#--llr.

FEW Ihsmliai*# Hm pfdres of Matty were festooned with tiokor tmm mi other im^m*

wised eoefetti. siwl looked like wnlidy l^ypelm. A mll# irritated Mutton was IJgMag

a tree $M the gmfsyntri# toylai to yoke the yeper off the liatim with a bri^etlok#

Downtown# as ewoiy^.sre# the 4*m&mt*% Hpt.rsr wore owerwem# drunks# mid str#ei

eleemerst tho m in twifois mm mther taken for pasted# it steased. Ihey seoeptod

driak *hm offered on# by benowelmt 4mvkm rrd ellewed y-tiaft ladies to kieo thw for

the iswrtiii, Nobody sew any yetum Isdie hieoiitg soldiere where there tors no wm*

* Tbl looks bed# but lt*f nethint te 1918* 4 elderly D.S.M.T* mm was esying to e etllt%gne#

MMowtdy we Hsew hew te beadle itwet the paper down eo it eaa*t blow around# then take

year iiae eweeyini: it t# It*11 be all geae tassorrswM#

M Bhllerm vmpHxl there wee m rnwwsture eel.ebratiea# Qae lad said# with no

aprermi eybieiea# *Tfss sorry for all the eiv&liaae that ere getsg to wake us teaariw

ith a hengewer ggg a war still on their hands#*

May 13, 1945
Excerpt from NEW YORKER of May 12 article entitle V-E (AP) Day
At ^s33 am on Monday two TIMES copy boys were standing at their posts in a room that houses 32 busy news tickers chatting# The bell on the Associated Press ticker rang three times, signalizing an important bulletin. "FLASH REIMS FRANCE" the ticker printed "ALLIES OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED GERMANY SURENDEKED UNCONDITIONALLY." One boy , carefully tore the four-line message out of the machine and walked (he did not run) out into the main editorial room, where he placed the FLASH on the deask of the day cable editor, who had not yet come to work. He then informed the city editor's assistant that history had just been made (by AP again, as it happened) and went back to his discussion
Simultaneously the same FLASH, clicking into the broadcasting studios, momentarily interrupted the busy prattle of the radio. Over WEAF' and affiliated stations, a household- chat lady named Adelaide Hawlay was saying, "And now that the rhubarb season is here again.." VJhen they turned her back on, she had finished with rhubarb and was brightly inquiring, "How about molasses on bread?" WQXR's morning "pop Concert" was interrupted four bars from the finish of Schutt'S "A la Bien-AMee" a composition which nobody but WQXR had ever heard of before* WQXR defaulted the rest of Schuti and started off afresh with Romberg's "Play Gypsies, Dance Gypsies".
In the NBC newsroom, the busiest section was a cubicle in which a harried character wearing earphones was pounding away on a teletype machihe, conversing with various points in the network. What was being said on the teletype wast "Haven't heard anything on BBC now Moscow and still nothing from SHAEF as he silently steals away." "Okav will watch" "Have alert Guam pips" "Do vou know what happened yet?" "U mean AP?" "Yea". Through the windows of the newsroom, everybody could see employees of the Associated Press in an adjoining building heaving paper into the street with loyal determination. "If that paper turns black," someone observed, "it will mean Kent Cooper has jumped out the vdndow ." At 11 o'clock a voung lady appeared with the electric announcement s "SHAEF has thrown the AP down. Denied everything." She paused, then added, "Suppose we'd rung the 4th chimef M What's the 4th chime?" a visitor asked. "On V-E Dav," she. explained, "NBC will ring four chimes as an identification signal instead of the usual, three."
A few minutes later, it had begun to snow scraps of paper. Up at Rockefeller Plaza, uniformed men with burlap bags arrived on the scene as the first bits fluttered down. "They got to :throw paper," one of the men said. "Ihyn't they go home or go somewhere and have a good time at least?" "There's no rigulations against it," said A paunchy COP, obviously snatched from desk duty for the emergency# Across the street, in front of St. Patricks, acameraman from the NEWS was posing a group of ladies waving flags and makint the V sign. One of the ladies was also flourishing a whiskev bottle. "Duck that bottle," the cameraman yelled. "This ain't New Year's Eve."
In Pnn Station, two news photographers, one from the AP and the other from the WORLDTelegram, were wandering around looking for shots. "Here was this couple, soldier and his wife, holding a paper a*id staring at the headlines," the TELEGRAM man was saying to his confrere. "Serious-looking, wonderful expression. But, Jeez, it was the SUN they were holdinp: -- a lousv SUN." At 11 o'clock, Penn Station's public address system, suddenly cleared its throat and said, " Mr. Mussolini wanted in the station master's office--Mr. FRANK Mussolini". The spires of Trinity were festooned with ticker tape and other impro vised confetti and looked like untidy Maypoles. A small, irritated sexton was climbing a tree in the graveyard, trying to poke the paper off the limbs with a broomstick.
Downtown, as everywhere, the dominant figures were cameramen, drunks, and street cleaners; the men in uniform were rather taken for granted, it seemed. They accepted a drink when offered one by benevolent drunks and allowed young ladies to kiss them for the newsreels. Nobody saw any young ladies kissing soldiers where there were no cameras. This looks bad, but it's nothing to 1918" an<l elderly D.S.N.Y. man was saying to a colleague "Nowadays we know how to handle it-wet the paper down so it can't blow around, then take your time sweeping it up. It'll be all gone tomorrow".
At Halloran Hospital there was no premature V-E celebration. One lad said, with KO apparent cybicism, "I'm sorry for all the civilians that are going to wake up tomorrov/ with a hangover and a war still on their hands."

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Surprise* here 1 la town again a Saturday and able to writ* It Happened this nay. Yesterday with a good deal of foreboding at the gray skies* I want to Baypert and feaad a thick drlialy sort of fog# chill east wind and puddles la every depression en the road* Still obstinate I dismissed th taxi in tha village to buy a few supplies# though found no butter or au^r. A I startad to tha house I met tha plumber aha was horrified at the thought of ay aleaping in tha house and convinced that I would oatoh sold* Ha was only partly re&eaured whan I told him 1 had brought mm asperin with ens! It really mn not bad in the house* thoufd* I quiskiy realised thai everything outside me wish too wet to permit ne easy degree of comfort in tha raking Jab I had gone to #e--and tha stuff m so wet that it would need at least a whale day of brilliant sunshine to make it burnable* But I got ready to do what I cculd and than made tha decisive discovery --tha gas had baan out off mod throwing tha mmatr switch in tha barn full ad to produaa electric currant* The plumber responded to my osll ad said ha could give me gas* but not light* The Lifting Go^paay said they would be delighted to giro sse current on Tuesday* so X gave the perishables to the plumber and got ready to return to Hew York whore at least X ooald put away ay winter blankets and olothea* The 1111lee of the valley ware lovely and 1 picked a fevr while waiting
for tha taxi-- which had t* come very early for ise in order to tabs mm pr,tress
to the ferry for Cherry Grove* {Bather them than me# for the Bench offered no allure yesterday*) I guess X was smart to give up my plam for it poured and got much colder both last night md during the day* 3c expedition did not net me any material encouragement on. the manpower situation* Everyone X spoke to had the same tale~4feo-cne wants to work* school kids* if you mn eateh *e seat four end five dollars a day*

Tuesday night there was a dinner at the Barclay when we* the leng since

retired members of the Beard of the kUk greeted these who Joined cur banks a few

pecks go sad irsddenily teek netiee that the Association had roue new beard

members as a result f the same annual election* .Hie# Blinn* '"bo really dose the

Horn eonomlce sect on of the ladies Bern# Xourml was much entertained when I

measured the sugar in the envelope she teek for her coffee--half a teaepeeafuX* It

stupid f me net to mk for ae* tee* as it might really have helped a sugar

taking person get a sweet cup* It ie hardly worth comment that they did net serve

butter with dinner and yet* the Bareley tmka In the nasi ela$s with the IfcAderf*

Astoria* :fhieh reminds me of something in the Hew Yorker this week* which I

liked j *k million er more of our soldiers will be coming back bofor the year ie

out* Ihtsy should be happy here ease they get used to the American* or vegetarian*

my of life*" Another item called "hittle Accident* struck me-- "We have hoard of

a lady whs hailed a taxicab the ether day* e taxisab ac&n#y In no worse repair

than the average# and asked to be taken to Pennsylvania Station* 3n she arrived

and started to pea the taxi door, it fell eff--Just asperated itself completely

from the cab and lay there m the pavement* The driver accept! this humiliating

accident with a certain Jauntinese. "lathing at all# Hfcla**" he sold* "San you

lend m a hairplat" However buses ar^ more my etyle end the other lay I got

into conversation with a Uadisoa Avenue driver about hie daily "take"* He claimed

that it wee 4CS a day oat when I said HHh*t ie a lot ef nickels." He replied# "Xbats

a let of people!* According to aor rapid calculation that ie 1300 people--but we

came to my corner before X could ask hla how many more h got on transfer#*

guess

would be at least n third again as may* 'Me wonder we ere steely peeked in like

sardines in a tin!

The other day an. anthropologist named Junek who had spoken at Syracuse for me asms in to report and. we got abetting* On one f the Booth .Pacific islands of the negroid belt they hade a rather gruesome mourning Justcm* Bodies rest on a platform out of the village until the tropical heat and humidity Ammvm* them. The skeleton is buried with the exception ef the lower Jew bone# which the widow wears for two w*ks attached to her belt as a mark of respect and sorrow. Ill

Martha dear--

June 5, 1945 17 East 64tli Street

Don t think I have lost my mind at the above heading* But you see it

is this way--.. arrived two and a half hours late to a New York of some forty degrees

less than the Charleston temperature I left* Added to that the fact that it was raining

--but really pouring--on Monday morning I decided that I would probably get pnegtmonia

if I went to Bayport. I telephoned Watkins and telegraphed the woman who I hope will

clean tne house and have been at the oxfice, (You will remember that I planned to

come back to hew York for the FPA Board meeting tomorrow night anyway.) Last night was

so chill and drear that I went to the movies on the assumption that even if they did

not have heat--I would be warmer from "animal heat" than here* Today about noon we

actual1 had steam heat in the office* A few brave (?) men wear straw hats and look

too j.unny for words walking on the street with women in fur jackets and heavy coats with

fur collars.

As for mefc I have worn a suit and polp &#Pwith tweed top coat for

tne street and sleep under all the blankets I have used during the winter. Ah me, what

a strange season we are having. I ran into a lot of work at the office setting up

meeting with conference delegates from San Francisco. We are working on the basis of

C plus 5--meaning that meetings will be held on the fifth day after the close of the

San Francisco Conference, though when that will be is shrouded in as much speculation

as last year s invasion of France. I wonder if we can count on the AP giving us a

tip off in advance as they did on the invasion and VE day i

1 did have the nicest time in Avondale and enjoyed every minute of it. All my associates in the office are amazed at the transformat!on in my appearance in so short a time. I knew I was pretty tired, but had hoped that I was not showing it. It was wonderful to have the children out of school and Cleve away from the Yard this time, too. So you suppose his holiday did him half as much good as mine did me? Elease
C^evee that I thought of him at recital time yesterday and knew that he did well even with "Row Lightly". I think of you sewing busily, to whip up the dress for Frances Page's recital tomorrow. I shall be curious to know how she liked the dress and whether she or Josephine came out first in the duet.

To go back to the North Charleston station and Saturday night. After you le t people kept drifting in and we were quite a crowd by one-ten when the train was calledand we all gathered up our possessions and went to the track. A WAVE Lt (j.g.)
2d I pre^ented our tickets to the conductor by car 140 together and had him say M Section 5, Car 140 has been double sold. You will have Section 8 in 143" We bumped
ong^ <*aricened corridors through three cars with our luggage and found tightly buttoned curtains. The second in command consulted his chart and suggested another possibility m another car and we trekked along to a third disappointment. There we balked and dumped
uffoge when suggested that we go along to the lounge car, three cars to the rear , while they unsnarl the mess. Three soldiers were laid out on the small sofas, or to be more precise curled up on them, sleeping peacefully with full lights blazing. The WAVE said tartly "My space was procured through the Nav/(y Transportation Office. There should be no mistake about it. Please straighten it out quickly." We lighted cigarettes and oped or tne best and pretty soon they said it was fixed up for section 6 in a ear whose number I was by this time beyond remembering. I identified it as Joh n Wmthrop and that sufficed for the trip. As we prepared to tumble in to our beds we agree to sleep late in the morning and I stayed aloft until eleven--which was so far passed Richmond that I could not get the Coast Line breakfast before Washington that 2 counted on. (I heard that one woman who got to the diner at 7:30 waited on hour to eat and when she left people war lined up waiting in four cars, and that some waited three hours. We were supposed to have two diners and there was only one. Rumor had it the second had been detached for a PW train. ) Anyway I enjoyed the fresh air and sun on
the Washington platform and was among the first dozen into the fresh Penn diner when it and after her return to

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Sorry, far the long pouee between issues of ohit-Aet but ay routine bu

been shattered nod ay aetiviti ee of a non-writing character. Oi Ifay 28 X loft for

^wrisston, sfcem ths entire family art a at t2Q (the train was twenty minutes

late out of Haw York and an hour lats Am). So laft Clave at the ikwy Yard as

the worker* ware streaming la afternoon we want beak to hs

for the day which seems te begin at t Yard for him to ebeok on mm work and

a.a. elm

On /tu*ut*r his leave

papers so that he a uld spend the nent tin days with s--Sieves was eager to go

aoov.ra a Ship, so we soloatod a oruisor in drydeek ad wandered about the quarter

dook uatll he spied a gun mount with batch open end asked to go in. Blissfully ha

ellobsd tha littla ieddar end aoon his hand emerged with

gleaming. 1 nuked him

what ww. in there, soon tha hand wapreared sad. ha rajortad "Sveiythiag that should

a

nose*w5ith *v*o"r>k7a* nammrnio1s4

asne-baek to a all ovor tha

nasty plaaa

question. The but especially

ship,

of course, was wo the port

aido where damage done by a Japanese torpedo was being rewired. Sunday nerning the

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then far ehurdh service-Cloves is vary

interested in this little Ashley forest urab they now attended. He eaya gmee

at every owl and turned wit early on Tuesday to gs ever and help aloes up the grounds

in preparation of tho Slower Bible Soheel. Ha spumed waffles lest thay daisy his

S aatJhi" ng SwiJllFSisStelr^fa*r4..**Sat?urday ni?ghtmitnhiasytegrotvhtatm*a*alawrsdythebitrthhudmaby ldainenaenrawaimtahd

,4h* awAT~*r third birthday party for 1945 (2 wonder if three in ana

'f

J*1TM ****"8 aWaat en oe.) Pago mid "See" Bragg govt a pianie for ma at

Ida of

anTumesmday and we gathered interesting shells end walksd en the fim

vw*fine sand before gorging ourselves. Mdnaaday the Ooatesworth Haass aakad us te

SuUivsn a Island te awls uad for tieaic auppar. Beth afternoons wa wars glad of wrap*

beiea-s wa left ths Brush, but by Thursday the theMaaeter mounted in reel earnestness

,co&oa*}y * td-ni|; as we waited for the alee lata north bound

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** ** 'ff? * leave! the train wsa aver on hour and a helf lata pulling

^!ri?*t0B ?d thm *how **

about ay berth. ibsc tha Sfflt it (J.C.)

Ith*a" u*o*n*a!i?ag.

Jert "gr"ekete*d anaadw1ithmrm*is and saibde.d4d0edsdotwenmpewrsaatgurreeeantde Idedeapaildsadta in

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was too much to go to Bsyport the nest day--se X worked

through *ednesdny and wsnt to the I'm Board Beating end rroeeed to Bsyport en Thureday.

Thou$i mmar it woe etill add wad drop there and perhaps I would only bom

you te recount By week there. Suffieia it to oay X laid aloest ISO fast ef ehdf paper

en ohdves and in drawers, got the house moderately wall cleaned, had the brakes

vdsdow no rootorad, d eased tap the lawn ae that Murker eeuld seas with hia tasa of

ditta h^Msasd tha moor mi out the grase and laft the flaee moderately in good order,

-soever there ware pl^r of tisao vhwi if aayans effarad ma four thouoeud dollara an

the lstte X would have thrown in tha hauaa free! ifetklas ana a trassura~>

brought at the TISCS ovary day did toy meagre marketing, aasngad fra Strykar, looked

^J^ara^wr In hie telephone book (ours MI vary old) sad was generally a great

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wheanftthearnwoionnd,

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the at ran sounded and X eheeksd oar watoh~dt45. And daaidsd that it

*thhe ,n2ewLt<ttLhitnKg'Ifk,n?efwLteheuetaMpeparatus wase'lSoloemeikngtedoswtn--btuhte lsaon,memi.ttiAet*hlr1eiaekkedfraogmatihnoanfdrotnhte

door showed a poet pillar ef Hone te the SB, ea I aara^ted lata rubbers and raincoat

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had \mm m nhomr md mat to tb# fir## It wm tb ME wo&m Mudcdll m

^Mopp^Mwtan.o'SonraraOluurherlin rraporty, now orawl by tho Wroolias Order 7

Siotara. para a stmnking wimndasnd e good erewd turned rat--but tkara woe nothing

to do out let it go, *11e people groaned about tha waste of all that good lumber in

those days ef priority. X shall: interlard fortheosdng letters with further notes

and aoBBanta en the "nighteam ef Bsyport".

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1937# Mfc totoi$;

took toe fw Berlin

Hfc la probably 35 yeftre of n*j on engineer by

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wfcfc asrried ft Cermn (Uret) ten years

to Vienna wherm e tM heywi-fiKHr^B/e, msi'-iid',t,?j'JHe-dA.<'yp/e s' eanvftilPeM, P:

fth and1wSia&s!' uavilltift' to

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alone in Vienna ami wanted as to be where Amrlam tollere

would OftCttpy to eoentcy, Xl.

P. left tors ftpril

jyd.wtife ohXy .&pfev. clothes, to|^pl;

four day* SJkmM. in a small town

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I alv- :

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with when I have Com la- contact* low I

toretary

to the ftilltoy

governor for a

wonderfully treated by" all

a living 1ft a

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cert&ia aree* ' The voffc 1ft

officer* stud aol&iar* and na walking: m ",A |J .very iftt^reeting- bat i^'

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X tot be oacreful not to do too ifth ai 1 ft* not string, vsigftiig ocly 5$ Ansrito pound*, , . to m very nervous on tmmml of the terrific ttyftift J vnft ander the"; l&ftb aCftlht of the

wir, though X' ttiii mmM** thftt Sever to I wire v^,-;leaky to tot beta able to^sto^lip'' :

together all the tine aetjpt JTanaary end >ftbru ry ton he. to to go amy .for training,

I'i Pr,-w'' h'.vr--.^t':" '"vvVV,

h*t before 8hri*taft&i to section of the town me *tt*4toVto boabs fell in front an%|i j

behind our house, breaking asaty windowft'to causing' nucft, dirt, as .a big alwMft of olay to

atone crashed through to 'sua bath into our tofc mm,. .. rut we ore eiuy thtofol thftt our |

rooms with the pretty furniture escaped &m*m tad

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Of on. the worst thing for * now is theft

uo did X.ltsnre

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to ton"out of our JM?pM '* ' '"
tot the f?fte-of iqr

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darling Xavsr is, hat I toe. faith tot Ood wili t$m eare of him

bring as together ,ppv

again - if not in this world the hereafter, .:e elil try to get in

#||m throa(jSft'|

to ^ricjin to Croat, but of course it will toko menthe mfor* my sort of t mvir-d

registry bureau can be est up. Aft, Anna weeded to be ton only mmfoer of to fmily who

would probably stay jmft# ?ro figrto' to try So kmp to iaforacd as to cur toro^beuts,

but f?:A

at present tore is m pest, and private travel Is only ?aiowod In special cases, Uowsver,

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m soon a# our office too Is liUiV^twd arid-a oftT he*.over ift*" tot' dirwetion# ;/'.

then I shall try to ^o ?4oa^ and see Anna'and. fimd Out whether she hat Xvssrm froa any of the

other eextbers of to ffftlilf,; But my.futo 1 shared by ttilliois

end X* ajs only toakful tot

f toe ajbb shi<di keeps m toy so that I hw no tlia:i to worry about t&tn&s i cannot ohmgs.

X do not allow myself to tldnk about to dear poesftftslto I had to leavs behind In ;/lcnnat

but a* grateful to h .ve toe through as well ftt I did,

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WI *hmo aufAto fthoa in a house near to - offic'e-::'"ftlsd$>toy Is# doss everythinve .f"or:" axs;- X. .

I do most of the jUfttopreUng

the Governor and

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A,: to si -,ia si^l douftty fefftors,

which

':-:tishould;be and ftep ftcia lly I de not tow..to

technic^ -muI .governaent-4 t^r?w. Mft at present

X tow aare English ton snyosw elfte to left spe-vde. iftjpto so X hiure to- do to Job, when we .

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'Ipll^S;'sss ''getting plenty to eat mX believe X have put st a ample of pounds aready.

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d.Vea^Hrl-,fTMri t |t-<o..s

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there to vI> ':5^',' !'iv'i'ii-.. it* v

look k '

forward '* -y -i .

to

seeing

r live my dearest love to all, Sftpeciall 4ft. I ask to be ,rsaeabsred to .to Outier1^ if you could write then* I shell try to write &vefy mdnth* j^orH worry tout &v X hss sure .

tot X skill get clong all right until m ot again, Ur-y God bless you to

you all

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This, ay flrrt Saturday and Sunday in Man York since the middle of May 9 * dedi

cated to getting a lot of postponed writing done, to sorting out ths little piles of

things til over the apartment and getting my luggigo tut aw sinso I shall not ha using

it again for at least another tlx weeks* Charlotte Murst called this morning and I put

her off until nest weefc--she has her passport, was offered transAtlantie passage whloh

she had to deeUne far leek of a French passport* Molly sailed tee and asked me to Free-

port, which I also had the strength of mind to deeline--but suspoet as the day gets hotter

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and hotter X shall regret* She also reported that X had won $10 an sous safety slogans*

Months ago on a Tory cold Sunday we sat around and eeaeoetod slogans for * sent est---we

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fully expected to work war thorn and polish them up--hut X newer did and with her good

follow through Molly typed thorn up and sont the in* (She says that her charges for

ssoretarial work aro moderate!)

Fnon Friday afternoon last wook to Tuosday morning I was in Hertford, shears X play

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up ths great-icreat-ete*grandfather John she helped to settled the place 199 years age

and all the intervening generations who helped develop# the plaee After all pr groat

grandfather was horn end married there mud greatgrandmother died there 90 years ago*

the Hartford Branch of the FFA had gotten Itself in a pretty had tangle and that was ay

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job to straight en them out* It took a lot of talkie, hut the mess seams squared away and unless seam rather stupid things are done they ought to roll along quits smoothly for a wills* X was afraid the key people 1 talked with wore beatdn down by the heat -- and therefor easy proy to my manipulations, hut my hostess, Eleanor Brewster has sent



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me a long letter reporting m the formal aetiens of the .Executive Cemmittse whisk eeimdts

them* Friday ai#t we went to a farewell party given by the retiring director of the

Hartford School of Shtsie* (Heanor lo a member of their Board too# thou# she and Frank

Goodwin, the President, were the only sponsors present--the other twenty five guests

were the friends of the Telaee!*', fatuity of the sehoeland musical personalities of the

teen*) Quite late in the evening a member of the State legislature turned up--hi# as

a kite* He took over the piano, burlesqued a Baehssaninoff Frelude and told srasy stories

about how ho same to eomposo even erasior songs--on was ahlat how Anno Boloyn hm ntod

Hoary tho Fill "with her *ad tucked under her arm*--which made hiowing hor aose very

difficult when she had 1 sold in her head! Tiring of that ho tamo over and eat beside me

with tho eomnent *Xtvo been looking at you* ah are you?** After dissevering that X was

not there with Frank Goodwin ho piokod up a olariaet blew a oouple of notes, which were

picked up by Yallueoi at the piano and Goodwin with an aoeordian mid without a ord

being spoken we had Ravel * 3 Bolero* At nether point someone sang from the "Student

Prints* with piano and violin *m& the singer announced he wee not in good vole and took

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over #0 violin, and they did it over with reversed roles* Agiri who had been with ths

Iri# San Carlos Opera company sang very beautifully, a oouple of convert pianist ployed, as

did a cellist. Xt was a grand party and not all silly* Sunday afternoon meaner A X

drove out to Hempstead, where a nine swimming pool has been made in the midst of deep

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woods with about-to-drop-mouxxtain laurel on tho banks* en a hot afternoon, but Monday was hotter*

PT&vh:--e eater was

cold end lovely

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Hsoontly X went to "A Boll for Adane* with a visiting fireoan from Birmingham , Alabama* Hot haying road John. Horsey* book X don't know how faithful an adaptation it ie--but it was an interesting play and Fredorio Harsh was very good as Major Jopolo* tor X want to read tho book--for X have always been interested in the problems confronting
the Allied Military G vemments, particularly since X net some of tho off leers training for that work at Charlottesville several years ago* last Thursday X went to Edsard Sunn's apartment overlooking the resevolr and Central fnrk with a group of people to talk --or mar# accurately hear him talk about Russia* His brother is James 1* Buna, Under Secretary of State* X certainly like Edward bettor than his too smooth brother Jimmy* At five his two nsatly uniformed maids served leed tea, and at quarter before sin Champagne* Gems ef the men dusked the tee and mixed hi#bells in the adjoining library and then did net knew what to do about the champagne! ; Dunn had a very interesting solleotlea of drums -- tall, short, old, decorated --they make amusing eeeasional tables* Forgive spelling
--it ie too hot to look things up and ujr brain is toe liquid te help the fingers mush!

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July 9 IMS (only It is really
feeetfadT
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Lest Saturday I snde the aleteto sfgoing oat of 9S.3

In

BpH.BrPjfaPt pm&*ra^

-J.. '?m

shads lata tha sua atlhe ... tato tim of tha dag to do mm hen

.

sad haw a Ions luncheon ia sa air eoadltiaa plane--rseult *--? **"" t,

1st ai sinus aetiwitj than has haw pleas nt

tha

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. XC^i;b;*,r&>-;> '* '..., f.V '?>'.;-.>:/'

f- ... ;

result--nothing heyond aetuoi neaassStias hare haw aeeoapiished. MlMt m ht there ass a lowly hraasa and the thememter steed at sa I ana able ta gat through tha bulk of the awmal bout eith tha tan ferns for tha Corporation. Can-

?$S&

Marin;- Khto progwt

I had planned to do on tfc Tib# 11M

it

on

tha

Fourth

X

sa

pleased

to here

. . -i.

^:

aade

sa 'U. m"if ;m$?sste!

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NiS ..
hiric

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Tuesday after the effiae X stepped to see Oiarietts itoat for a bit and
wry "Wit later*ated to find that she sat only has bar passport but ms offered

space oa a ship to Stones during June. She eould net taka it baaaiaa as yat aha

ted net secured her Stow. wien. It deae shoe progress that passage aw smllsbls



.. ;i-;:.

far bar, ia Faria

Ansa bar enrwd sad she,rants ta

ia gawly personal. aAl not only their

1 or dear, her wwy *<#**

aid husband 1. ^Jawt tort

that

of tor pitiM* ia tfco asm building sad gt bar toe' d to . ia fatally in beitssrlead.

I>sr situation ia wary different fan tint at" tone Hargw, wto.aWtodlymakgagS

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ifo

-- drnf t wjry Satoriestte's stask aof s s a s . ' s s B s t f

.

.... The ether day s. / ..J'v ' Hath Curort tald. as about bar trip

' Hj

Coafarenas en ana ef tha offistsl trains. three laag trains left Bashlagten alth

I

ffara adasta haadaay and mat dirsstly aarsas the aouatry. Of ocurss at arary

I

ssttaattiioonn tdbiccye geaett sout tteas^trm etshtihje^ir lorn and sere greete-dI tboyr. lar^ ge s.roeOdbaiahauan, tainwg

>.11 lifgi-t*- 'mr Of the eorrespendasta apoka ta a train offioisl and

of tha luster erseed froa his isterpratstion of the situatieni Jorreepondent-

"It is mat heartening that the toerlear.
that they mutt to see the Delegates and

reople are so intwes"tdsSdlrionndthnaen--uo"rftfhearst*oeoe

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tot yeu' thitoi"" toll,'tills

STtte longest taeii'ttor tore ersr

wmw .WW to* wi -m- auric.ra te aaa if tha amnngWi^nma ammwm m mmk-~a|to graded

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t, .. . . ; , % . . T v

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-i: v "v" ^ ^ V.. - ?-f ;f Tha sewsp uper delirary ma are still en strike *"ithie

asm and thp

iM a

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tto

^
eighth

oW':r.-eV.-'fci w
tojr

dp

--and ay i ill liljgjl ' suffsrtng badly. The radio is doing its best with sddl-
"*.* toomi news sW rgm* Thar i^ptomn gem so far w ta dsssrito tto gtctotmr ;

aartaam tod diaanss the highlights af tha ooltawlets* srtielm for the attoreiaa

naeslaas population. One ceneswtntor said that Has Tartars looked end sated

I

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strangely without newspapers ia their bands. The toy or mnsgsdts rand msk Bnoy"

irm ikm <tmtm ta tha ki4* hm aa ha m runalisg owthaw aaal4 a&jr foiat ant

tha mml wfcieh was "dirty mmy way brings utoswdmss1' and relate it ta his

'3,:ifs?if '$tmE3kS3i;

I - i r - K . ' ferny BUte--an toe. telephone in as toylloapnitli

p itottt to r-< toitow a ^

feWiagtw apeah of Thuradayt r^ito Mr. Hike had net wly toerd but tod p s

slang afterward ta Mr*. Susan's for a post meting session with tos Ssmwdsr.

.. -,x 'r "> :.>v, Si

Ha urged m not ta display to pager wealth openly on the my torn* teat X to nobbed.

Mr. Pito'.gaam te agree with mat ef theea who were et 3an .ranoieeo tost Stassw

mm hantf ant flk<Md4kHPi ,j|teov Ik* ft

Ataarlaai

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A'f'W
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that ae be listed to the speeeh to wondered if to were listening te fee neat

ermltontoftto Ibdted smtoe ouUining his pregrw for toe aawUy. fe mwnpapera

v-StoTm ut-S;1to7, eiiai. ,Tftot'^th; aiomw umtaad of w out

wd out HMto) w the part of too bus drlrwa a nonto ago was tortura.

. J

bat. twenty-fiwe peraent of the bueee did net run, smd the rest peeked te tog

y* , m **: iom at Immt 4ayme tha tism for a i$B

jSjawawB' 'jS.-jsa-fRssft

tfcid tto thay Smew lost any public ayar^thy they issy nao have had# Sh#l

I

are 0Lit odd affairs. ?ha Harald "Yibuaa newer runs to par# than jg$ twenty **

wfeara it usually woo always at laoat 38# Xt la pmottewliy U aolid nmm* ith

i

mtm_

m load adwUuing# Only the institutional *ads n for tha railroad tailing of

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V.

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the ads,

curtailed and swan

slaepor serei**# bond tha obituary paga baa

radaa^tioa oaf farad

iwtf c^a# sewon

a fe fling* in claaeifiad
or eight aoflaoa ifcare thara

/is* ?wrnaboBt

forty. .

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& travel d, ?a bad a grin esg*ri<ie two *tafe age--tfca Saturday

it ma $5 plus degrees. Her young was dtdared out of %u*9*~tlvio Arc# mm$* and

55 she could not ga| t

arrived nt tha Grand1 C*-r.tra& at St3C for a 9il0

train* 3ho fmrnd that hundreds

>d at ?*S0 $m tha whoosh when tha ggtaa

''gga|avadaafpfri|>Saowiktt| rpd'an-t* so*||jrn5iedarilny ,ssaplalrvthtaed

bar ete

eat* taken,

m

ah

got to tha oar
aatabliah*^ bin m

$Mf hat

suwletrceaa*&'

A: "':1

bv tho w"a*t*e**r coolVeF,#r~, mwi ^x*iTiajKa#'e*.f-at**clack , twh*# awsasfVtPiS#PP^aPWaPt~a^i#* eav*^Wjrswa* in z*>*y/-mw#1i# ewredWFa^WWr_a*^rd#F> swcvs*a"aw tTMw~e* nty

'f '1 po?l ia ttte the Matt nttrtst th deer out ie ytoviia amU tor "ZoldieM init-vilUag

on mmntizl geimnm*t

Vnm m4 Silly had it join iht :ilm t^ed am Hthra

yXatfomu Saw paoplo lad 1^ an eld mo who mittarad "That 1 hould. Haa to aaaaoa

t^wi"4r* j A*y thao wnmi a'f*n"' 'dT* c^W*h'W^i'*liP^dWWr-aWWs v-vsw-is tWo~-- .,Iggp^WitIF#w* ^utirr awa*a'taTM to able**' W wTir'dwtwiirpwi w* TMan*dTM1* mrv u""iisw thaw I

atrugglo M want ham. tha oonduotor Udrja"prttr good Jab of gatting air^^ian '1|

ssaloji t> mSfO Ipsfiy e^sts to o^iiaw snd tifcildrj||'' but that did net Uke amra of tfc ;,:

mahar lafi and Vam atsod to paaaad SprsU^fidld--a, goad thraa houoo. Ihaa ova of tha

'aaldlara* who twraod out to be Uaxlnao ^omtahad frow tha jaw* of daoth at Okiaom to

study astglaaoarittg at Sartewth guva hor hia aaot whila ha want to aspic*# Fratty aooo

Billy aammgip ia viih the thro* iras&ining !%rin*a oM regalad tlioa with oil tha johaa

in tha bak ha hod haoa yuaoing the iwRpo poriod with# %a Mft iggMl

datil

finally ha awhaustad hi* rapotoira od tumad to aaa Uothomaeh and atkad "idiot ia

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Tudor ihi.Wl have bean ths gueet of "Ilia Byltoaia

m'
1 CosnmSI v:-""

iI.V *R

I Qmmna* at sjpeia showing* of ^liah md dPamantOsy oawias. th^ wara oil mat

iateraatingf

tha ana I liked bspt woe wory ^hort thing aeilid rtCj:aratioo Ktutd

docLitc tha auolkoiuri end

# ih* lap pica ddA pat iWdar tha water* of tbi

': i^ngliah tSwumol and dorrlod oil far tha iorueian of franoa# "%ritiR Tide"

h

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|J>jg

V;i;.nJ| great detail tlie eyirtar. of burning

to dUpal fag on InMlw fields#



..;v. olainad that tha "Bottle of tho MgoH"w*a no it ma p*lbl* to aand aircraft to hair at n

worte Ite it tie when the

tiawad

to ha haaouooMSV".lv,

Gafsaan* Kknu^t thpr would W'1

only hawa to antaad with loud fareas# 1 oil# If

of dOeutiestaw n the 1r " .

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|Verier torpedo Boat paira. and the way coast. "Threa Girls a Bc^t" dhowwd wmm maning a barge pd taw earrylr^ SO tons

of coal on % fiwa dey trip through oaasla to mve ndtlreod and votor tanumort# : Aoothsr

sO^hWwo*Wrwed tWhc"We^P trm#* *iWsapa,'#a^iwniK#z'Wv^'^t c*

aJWWcW1Wt aWP*W, ec't**s#rieraw# oWwnW w--pwa^to^.Wrif.'Wl ^My WWi"WWi^iWif*f^#1' ;tWoW iaW#a#*r*w*#!

whatt

tBlBjfcoasI and tarl:ogmf wire* svt knodfco* out by t^e blit*w'; :>t mUb Ifmlad not 8

ral

to im.tha yr-vnrd method of aattine off fi-rcti in the waters od tiio ehora

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IKliiR rtuP rl ibeech nm rA Ia^gain f.urthar inland to r^v.^l

Eli xsa
'.'

thasatg

t^h' a Japaiiaoa iiirstv

mi#t profit by that <m5 -wa%awSxsSS!pel' ^*i ' yjfmwr o>*>.nEJrb "'"xIlnk ###

r-r-rribla iiwneio##
mmm:-

J I,,t

e_aooad,
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jW^iiRw*Wi*Pvtj' air^^ wmm-%Mjmpon>llwWiy,*rw wwr^.v| tvowo.. :.^.

the dantiet oad we did tha Soo. ^fetblng sdlmaod

nilH

wo fend to odwit iat no sabrwa warw on

; aho^ihraa of them w!1^ only two "toys" were

o

#oi

oaa lioaa at feeding tiw were the hi# et^et. ' had lonah on ths inrtm* and took.

i

o train about tliraa to Fre^art. miy M1#oFWi"n**u'#' *4W uW*f in*.. tSFw bWTTeW'tWJ^<j#-..fPTo*** r~ our lppu(.WnMcP!h d^^i"dW" t*h11,1eW

iI iii;m 'SaOr,aiapyWIft1m 11 ^ tn'ay w inoS ppS g .r.-jt-v..' s o v#'.'Wo', a0lMap..r^d tho asoit^ mant >^ 80 it Ogaio* Wha.n I hop# ht-oi;j.$-W$'-$'f>ei'

Xu 'a., ; rife

V !f.---v * ' v- iisTfl .

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'5 for the pa^ BrtwW5o<fel*tR--EJllU?uvMn' kki?Ulyr*t8h*ers'd*oalUlSwveetrr-yr'of0^tn8Mowkn*ptpemrohohals*.bj*efecse<r*.i<4*.l<jredism o tetnot i - ;/$

frftlt?e"

f'" * n" *** After rev oda of. a.im . e.r.e,lenr,r..na-eet-rtem odd.

tee-A-n,,d--ay*fmtoaf y8p0ooyaple

WOW 38 psgm repute haee ru death notiooe

". >/.. %

*****"*** Mid burial during the ported of the rtrike . m all begun to bo



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;ton*l tea. it Mttt poiirn terrerta on aturndnyw-St. atetein'o ay plu four. tee #*

,'># . " ./iiwi'i :v,:.

**".*1*n*?S*w*no#*oVil. o o;'r*w': yba the e>l'd b.;vo; y'e euro# to no lon^ ger good If'-o'Vr forty toy*. I y$iM m

I

" ' ft!

T?-r~ r - -rr ~h n r '1$**** q*u "fPfVV - W (p fi gip pin.Hi 111" I At ?' # MKfll

-' ^HQSrW||^' ^MpvPrVPlPBV'

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or w>Mr**r* ********* ** f***rin * u"d "J** *> u

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SET tr".**1!1 . >" JatM wfl^ be ovor by Augurt 88. Mwl the



irtoo .roeidont of f*o 'norioon Tbele Torfto told no thst ho had It on the oU km

-twy t^r^re." SUlla nt let. for the fMMh* MMW booeuoo ho ted to otop yid uifc^th tho .Tarenooo MhMooder to J'eoeo* upon tbo oes^otian of the nrotwitU Soang. (Srm tho Hpnnmo radio rent oo ftur no to nay that their ontweendor oao to

**

**or tho Osinono tnlk.) /U4 thot thoro mo oror yoooihility that tho

_ ,, ond ted--- jn-o- t -- m-o-froa--Soraoo and ojrawt tho=naoight inanwoywauagao'oofios rttw. o. nMtOUthOioloW ooHonhg.i

I

*'i:' S; 1^1T31!* if,2

y?e*p-?is^1"th*rr

J ^'?'#pdo *o*"** in* tttotdio sa sg> I

Job nod it nill toto * long ttoo. 8u oo ea aoko londiwgo on tho Jojwmoo km ialr.a

ttee oo rant twi| Wi# Ihoro

you ean m i ; it, '

'^6:3^

#euld

W oonrtMnrtthioeSawi ofnorl

aide'o ofcooo tOHaelSop

bxMarna&tt

MT whMot:fr,

htbmwi'tbwhomalivoweotmfbrinttu.V^,tf-oly

Ibrgotton

;

with Muridt on taw terrom and wo hoe n sotdorful

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Umfot'Oag n *0vt op Mgwmtimdiy on tbo root tie ooohat!, Sho i werhiag wo*y 7:1<

hord nd heo oeno ooonoretja teik to hi uood oobdrortioono to for"CemvoUtmr'aho

kwteo it bit has ttocod out <ww otinmiof thing in vhioh a room andalL ooood in

?' *fon

boautifiil okieinn owontor.She d4d a mgnlflowit Job in rotrodi-dkng

|thn intrioato gngI # ppnnttttoonma. OosBopoliton boom without itfono, k m diootiseod

I

Ohio

to

got

O

report on Wn5?y neohor trU& Imlw&ing m nm

j*"5 * bet of

Im-

1

th*r**

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fsor doM-t ohe .hao not been . 3W*X *Aif**n| I
Ihri*. hw ** tfaat tfe#y sur^ im

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****.r^bnoo to>iioii tmt"tb^1ha^"o~id. ^ro*m^iirSf thTmu BWI

I

oho food* oonld BK1

imytooe'rtohor.ZooihtyeranfedwhUidy

io ooil-knoon to bo out ^uwetaro.v: She

a nth told

has not boon o)K* to got my oerd latoaba oho. Suneoy tnd rrt.y

froa tmr breka diplonntio

relationaJ.ho

way

kmnm

that ^

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teke

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for?i-'.*n--he^tftitt-oBwrfoa."a.ti".nfnyid"-tgw ts--ro-rtv..oh-o:d"-Kon--oM; o--tw-- rav,ite-- niZo;inrt.-- >trgi;io.Ep.--owpr-'jop<ht-o.--,do.fo^ml.t.du.-- celent.rnwn.TroHrtoU:tl*inhnroo.a,dO.tridoltrhnoa.oj'Ae7 mJit^os.tvOneiw osOnfva^inrpeen mnr.ma7dohmayr*atawSvjua*ttrhti.aritwrro'tew_ potiw oo3w r_ doZlw o.tTiioO I '-nJ~wiP i^5si/VS|II

tho indvmfr-me

eboirt r*ey'o hnv'ng dm their grand fleer. Ko, riillon,

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tR eaeJteojlwd'%etonooefbroimhoniarotmerniaantnSi-nnoonorgtiiadVoorRrtyoy^Hrn|ia||HwsasHbMHn^oH^ trtrePotPymVofo^aaw|Sri>PntaiwPbm 0otHohuPtfeVttaoPt9nloPtRorfi*riRatfMhooromPaw,de*ott.hhVeiorHam QevhjkHi.mgn.P!h~m>al;y;iIom m'nMjrrro,,*'newom d"lB,oierdor:> --t-o:iah-n"msdm t"domm rrapmtw "igtdaB;l;w''.%. aK-'HS"\y\1

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m tee grrermat ftod.-,!Srok later teld i%Uon teat only a wary few people in

gtho State "!brtant and tee Prooident know about tela md ha ano dumbfounded '

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^_ 4 " aid

L ho

hod

oo,Uso*dthe>!F omrrntnpe. rM . hHooofrotordhteiea

tenirow natortol

how for

h>

smA the mm trimkly ;-5; ' '

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. UUm on ih Htm *mm\ This past *?* I

wrfcwllf

'''

4pld?'Itoflsd^

en aw eh dUplay ia abapihfct few!

iws?,'"'-

-'hIay

i^rs^iia|slui age* :| *$## tisaiww--Mh i rot$ but net may hnro olds t thi jitoU' at thin

poiatl

T**t#rdy thpra *ar

fce*tngt In wist of tfeo heuoohold itaaw I o&jsttd--ao frooh carrots, a aayomioa or

I ''."^" V/ "<'*r?II
j

j ttlad dri*g of way iart, no oggo* so * or > sr-ao:

sy#v -

Si of ttoim sliiiwr ^ {l* . ratter drink raitejfao lauadry m (net ooea flakee)

a* rw drying weather that to ran J woke w with * gra^l fwt f w* emryihing in |

_ r , rtpt.tr W ** >lf * f I*or? io -boost . |te*;l itotiS**;# eoffeepei :, ..,;.

'${&with pin* m* h"d P or green pine eeated bat* eakeo*

,*"loteaote tera J *: a

put |p jig** i the window *fOK HahtoT "* eicort for tte earnerj. eeao ted*oto ** - ,Vt

two soatte, to has tte dining rate at the Tote Hall fatAi-if'

m z&Axavgwn on 'mmwm FW mmmm{

plotted up t* the. State 9epe*teEt " The Dosarttettt |Sdle while Byrnes #>4MM Another reported to ae that teeetor Kllgora in Praeideat ftusaa'e toot friend sad

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1 * i that te,-a result of .Kttgora'a raoent trip io 2urcp te out look for a tenee*

Mketoater to rmtoo. Mmmtportion

our poliey of ?to.p.|*j*>"- |~|||f x

%!

.^SSeo l! tern eoneiateatly

Soyteur of Surope to

the wiew

Uttlean"eateprOmlior

deplored tofferaon Star journal wan eatec*. for teer

SrtfeftoiT no ite;teernesr. one of the oditoro Oneral Xko

seueitedwte

a north T tern

copy ot h

vlT-lo^ur'waa.SOdd

dor r found iiio lteelp hit. The AlUod WUitery Sorarnteat ted fate*S>ttetteo in the

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Hunioh Satekollor. Upon leertng tho building they found a group of Huaioh rttiton.

,

l_womaoj.ilo^Fprfbatiaeost IfUth ailio

utfolaothtbeoa_dAbW Emrurlimoloinbatdwrca& 4taodn^laulf.r_osT^ab|wiabtirr^iartoasBfsoprlfa#lini4sti_latebaoI:r"tbat

too

yi

tho bioyeles of Muaioh to tab# %hm to their hoslssiAo.

*o'

hie duuidora ted oia|-ttd* ora yeur

brtng" i

I

SSSopk and MaoBBBMiliHBMMiMMIiHMBliliMAHHHiiftB

Wt' ^.4*;:'ted getfcored for' such .. .

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$gggocaagui|glihntcthocputrooionobtlnoatwitneuoaopt->di*%al>awhS" ol"uftf.o adnddiahfoiaorlydwftoerthoonr

roorttod in Amy boater

tragody yootordoy to land. Olowrly

whoa loot

tte tho

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pilot triod to piok out landtertto in iter 'iork had doejdto tewing teen waraod by tte

traffic towor UOuardia that tte -aIpnira itato Building wan ohroudod in fog, ran

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mrt into it. "Soman at work ao wrtl a* tho. orow and paooongore of the plane ware

:$ji| iiteltei* to dteth by tte. fire of groat.intoaaliy' fro. thrtr'fual.. A grtP'-aaW peoplo tote ta tewa loat their hoada, for arasplo tte pfcotograjter who takoo pioturoe Of aightaaora on tte Obaorretioa plaifore ran ctewn Si floora, paertng fee am at tho

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lifer* t tho ?9th..'5lt ia terrtfrt ttet 3atarday. awraor rtoia Of rterea <M rany y ; /,

\ ' ted kp#t tho roa fairly frao of Sfak. >% ft io intorartini tte|<wwrt| en :

,

atroot feerful of emer.y tenteag fell to tte atrart aa they had adw nowrool

.

, pioluron of wwaen in tendon. Sihea tho glaaa and oonorato otartod ehoaartnp

thoy . y I

aoraablod away suiekly oaeupb. I guoaa I won'* go tbwn to oaah a etert at ny bank

; "i on tte oocond floor of building tonorroo at 1 ted plannod.

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oleoticn wtedta did not eurpriao ao a' it aoaood that labour - teW

mSmoafrot uhoepweootkinnogwtnhaittsCshtruernrgtitlhl

whoa aiglH

it forced tte olooti^nMihough 1 ditfpov* n period y| bo aloetod a o geatruo #f gtetfttidf JflSj|^*jjj

--m

PPW plotien of the teropsrm war. . I'a giad tte

oad tteir frtiara la ttejg|ttl*| 1

tales did not go soft and oontiaental. -rtania* is a greet looter for war, trt net ia

' tte roooaotruatite ported <-oiail|f, whoa rtw ohrta *rt9*ttrtet to to tte loft. (HoiIn.

tec loot both hie dynarto, iaagiaatiwo ooliogute and gotten ofeapl* "odaot noru Pot^--

ho should let Urtetcnr take his c---ir at "Big Three" oonforoneoo fro* now an d te

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This week I had 8 long talk with my former collogue, BUI Stone who is

recently back from Germany, France end England where he has bees for a year for iSA, */#?

The former SHAEF headr r.eris In Germany ie now American Occupation Headquarters* It

ie the largest building in Europe--the EG Farben (German dye trust) headquarters and

is completely imdemefed, though mush of the rest of Frankfort on Main is a shambles*

sln th residential area around the EG Frabea building was^ only slightly damaged, g IIH a compound has been s"taked eff.w Quarte"wrs ars assiHgm ysn***eWfdwa i----n*# thsFwewarsnsews r* we*see*id*.jaewens--caswemssb'and bsfSo(r Stphec German women and Polish, who hare not been transported back to Poland yst are assigned

for the household cleaning of thase living quartsre. For example ona friend J wdS,

Walter Sehwlnn hie drawn the apartment of a German engineer complete with furnishings,

books ote. BUt the headquarters itself is the "cut of this world " item of the tale*

It is on the rder of the Pentagon Building having sin wings, but also have terraces

with splashing feimtainc and bronie statues, a sun deck, a bar, reception room lounges

and several dining rooms, Cn& small om is used by General Siseahewer md his staff* I

atone says that you find hsre everyone you ever knew, but he was amused one day idies

he same to the head of the grand stair cere to have a friend of bis gr*b his arm and

say Of course you are prepared to see anyone and everyone here, but you will never

,

|tt*ss who J saw come up those sir Irs a few mommte ago-- Gertrude Stoln and her girl

m*dj

Ho-one seems able to girt a setisf' etory expliimtior* of whet business

this particular author had at 5HA2F M* stone so,ye that it really is a completely

Hollywood set-up, I hope to lunch with him in the course of the next couple ef weeks and my tUk up some more tidbits.

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ffoorr e6 fgfl.li1mmAprics*ea1 ott\hff4theliea,rrlyeppa4ai-rrt*woo<rf*!k>thbeeinwgeekdoonneeo--ncratimtheuFpownpii,,pre.eoSp jtlae*tec_ raBmu>iiilnd>gintgh. eiOr nnMoooknsday I was amused to see several windcwcful of Empire State tenants gathered to watch the

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noonday crowds **n Bnf ***n

on the street all gaping at the building. gUsses wers i great use all over.

Of course cameras

biaecu-

Ho doubt the open mouths,

tilted heads and sidemdk congestion did provide an amusing spectacle fraa the building*

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Grevc Jnoe in our office was working last Saturday, heard the roar of the motors and

stepped out on the balcony off his room. The scimd was echoing unreliable fro nei^i-

bering buildings, so he began to look in the north. His seeming of the sky took his F 9e the -Impire 3tatejHiiliing at the prcciae moment of the orasb, hile h 1

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eareful to say that he does hot know if the plane canst out of a cloud or not, the

a tSr-er irons hie slightly north east point of view imss la cniire visibility. Later

envelope the upper part ef the building.

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,yApbiu..tmIerh acv;e

hopes that we can get someone to report on September ffcrth. She will probeb* a hsnaraiee than a help for the first few months, but 1 fed that I have won

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a major victory in the ever continuing battle of office politico. Another important

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thing is that I new consider it definite thai Vera Dean is going to England and we hope Fraaee and Cermany during September and OSteber for OK* After stalling for months

I nof kno*

1 *** u h*r a a speaker sad am getting the schedule in shape before --

I take the rest of my holiday. Thursday afternoon I went up to the Hate Department* s

passport office and swore that I had known her for sixteen years. Her old passport

ems picked up in 1941 when she Came back from South America and she had to start fresh*

We.hr-o n let is settle as she T?as leaving town early the next day on her holiday, so ' **t"'

Vera and I sat outselves down on a bench in Rockefeller Center between the French and *

Mi British buildings and accomplished a let without the continual interruotions we each

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have when we try to talk in the office. That night I went to the Town Hai ^here



she was Speaking end found myself in'the .*;ame box with the new lender of the ^tkOe,

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who was I don't

making a know her

reeruiting speoeh after the program. The name) was supported by a aajor, a Captain

Colonel ( and I am and a lieutenant*

ashamed It was



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to watch their oqntinusa redeployment of themselves throughout the program.

Sue, M88. i^bby'a successor, ie small, grey holred. blu ov^d

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aaTsofrtslsoouf thther.nrderlaw^l. I was sorrv that L Lrf

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With tht: *pt. I w* W" *

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waiting far the Japan.ee reply te our qualified aooeptwio. of th.ir oif.r to s irrw-

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der.I wish they had .aid "advice" or "instructions" xnet.artofOrderethatthe

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escorer will have to take from the oupremc Allied Coem^r.. would *eto.c. t* ocb gAtAt"eiuofnp:effrryfwonedm^ rfaeyfytrwobsV "Iauroahtufe&ialrms1dXwv^ eedbcgaLeh^alnmaalanddy^yovol*stnXeh2intlot'ygee'^ct|aj.l.ikbvdpeseeoetpaa.ey39A er|uon *ajctutts-oo.hw _itme**a*ttry.uuh-- orrrmceinnfoovlmlaiioleeecttlncuct#eoottiiptffoo$hfftnnaea*nftoooreocu!yrrrfteo,,ihbtborrrjh$fyurrwnlojmmi|egueno>Aeo:egfjffirarff>ihs.rIttitt+htnh.*ooo,,tentrth.eua,JOrAgAuvt--rmfmtlatiy,,eeeltnrrsiiH J,ccnWaa.alnnyei*UthW sTT. ttooa*ttoo_kh1?lleess"mmaWSi7osoffoso"errtkkw.sssofasmswwuunooeiituutooahlliddisiandteig,,ec. S

Fridlaay Ii htooook S nevep rtheB less# including

ny raaodxiou to t*h"we1office# bWku*t" a--w.nagbd to timing and polishing the radio epeech

gdmmpsw Btt^ m :VH jfcich

done of 01

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is#; st.afiwf made w....ith fGeorge F.*ie*4ldei Er.'il4ioA+t oan 3riBRSft sait 55s.3300. _ 0Onn mmyy wv,-a? y home

Teeter-

U some ounticus shop keeper. ^^^b^^r^n*,m t. Worcester #

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day there called me

were a good many drunks, up Friday night and as^sd

vIfImb|

go

ou|"t

and

get

drunk

with

him

by

way soifffig'

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celebration but I declined, Ke has such quaint ideas,

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Monday rise Xeet announced that she was going to Trance on her boUday^

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it is all shrouded in mystery. She talks about the Stat

sleevo booing interested in her going and then mentions OWX*^ Xhb grs e&li >

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*S*23 was the 14 th. New it is the 18th. She hopes to*. '*/**



80th, but I thick we shall have a hectic September a* she has

kFfift BOunde

.ailing date. Abb. Diumet, a great friend of

and

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of food with her sinoe she does not want to be a burden^to her their slender supplies. She news of the atomic bong

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m personal sense of confusion. Golly, what power! v.hile ram deligct.d tnax iw

is undoubtddly contributing to an early end of the ear, I still shuodsr at the

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M. of using the power of the atom.

3, i, gocd t*

that 04 ! f#

anese pounder, will fail to obey sn order ^

r"uh^n:n:iir.dtoouf:-Ero,,P by group x. n

ft 1 f9ar

m.' * 4 &'by+?;

, fanatic.

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wyfi of men to be returned from Europe nmst involv. tbrowinc out Rohedulee and pipping up new ones# while public pafcx *-Wa m0u

0M sees more I t V

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*andy- mo"re y" oung men town. At the same

in ^Ivili^n. enxionpthneess time one hears more

ww-Iiiittixhiitt.ahwenohtvofnaoirra,bltehed^ iaAsoMrmh,Lya.TrThg,a^:isn

,,nno+t

gcfAo4tt<tn.nm^y^

ffi.llis home yet!" Baieia Casii writes in real distress a on *

Artillery as a

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Hardy landed on fey 5 in France

because

rdio iniin, ITher being no radio ^ork he ms given oxner quwot ^

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of his knowledge of German, routing out Burgoneisters and

Srtli^^aper*.

them, and directing traffic on an autobahn in that he had to examine civilians P*P*TM"

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The men of the 44th were in England for a while where

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the British, while they were in France they thoroughly bearing and ooealslnte. '.Jhoti they got to Germany they f oundtheoivilianemuo

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agreeable--unwilling to beg even vhen they wore desoaratrty hungry and hsy W

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enchanted with the pleasant Geman oountryside question ariass, what influence will these men

In the hare onycuolic

osinion

y and

ALmereireicaann

Foreign Policy from their dirkorted and narrow observationeT

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fett# ii Is probably very iiupitl to try to mriU tAill# I era so ti*cd thoro are

certain thing# I mat to put down for ay pcrconal record and satisfaction in the future.

Thought# I fee* during the sect

and perfectly inconsequential things that 1 #aw yet

they are itcrae 2 feel any he of interest five years hence.

The Japanese offer to surrender on their term laat Friday kayed u all up to a

totadful Piteh. Hvsn that raorninf: Quinsy Hdwe was ae jittsry an the radie/i that ha talk ed tha trunnion fmm paaee to war when ha meant tha othar any around. The lasua of

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lotting tho Ekparsr kaap hla povsr ma on iaauo. Ifenything oaa ho told free tha nation

rids"sideselk* interviews tho majority wore net in

of anything ahort of

liquidation. I did net agree, an and gradually ease hi out

houftjrfaellittitchaaltpowweerwo,ulledardoiagbehtltearitnetahaekeethtoerrahaawlifthofthhoia,-p-k

f""1 J*1* religious lesdar f hia people. Saturday (the 11th) than the aide walk

fopUhow they felt about Seerotary Byrnes note in whiah ho replied for Britain, 8ueein, China and the USA that w would aoeept eurrender and leave the Bttper-

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,? orders of the Supreme ailed Cem&nder, many people pezfcaps half aeamd

to hold for liquidation atill, Serviee on were in the majority of those holding that

view. XTCn then I was uneeey and felt that the werd "erdn" weald be utselit ble to tho

Japanese, perhapsto the point of making than witkdrnw the surrender offer. Per three

l1'*""* * *die getting mere and mem frayed.By five Tuesday I

rsgirated

the

Oworal Ms word order**

wOeoya,grweheodatdhmaittttehdatJhaaptanheasveatwenreerhvaovuisnagsaatewrirtlsfhiaendinhtaertnoaol

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struggleever the tern end it might be days before we heard. I gathered that was in

. P^f*1* "We te eur high eenrnnd as thio gavs time for us te get jtaerioan Amy o ileers into key prints SJJre Shanghai, whore they would be arid to reeeive the ultimate surrender of tha Japanese Instead of having thee, give up te the Shineee Somoun-

Ufytt fpa ereetlng a very bad situation in the already sore than driieate Internal # \
Ohineeri set-up. At eeven the nmaa MM that Japan had aoeeptd the Potsdam ultlaatta,

d ae I was talking en the telephone the whistles and sirens of ships end fuetories

told a ths- we had news at last. Hy ooaverestion ended abruptly and gathering up t*

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of my eollsgues, atill in tha offiso we heard tha statement on the offlas radios Tin Hi'tijJ numb and dated we went te dinner tegather and found that 42nd Stroat was alive with 1 people rushing to Tines Square. About nine dive Holms and I want ever there to soo

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u th#t th we 700,000 people there then. It was bedXam-

horne, eonfetU, people already hoarae froa shrieking, but a good aaibrad, well bahavad

end sober erowd for the met part. One felt sorry for the aaU children, tee little te

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f * af edulte and tee big te be tarried. At 44th Street we turned aaok to I ivor.uop whiM In a way sosaed noisier beeauwe all the ears wsre honking"'-(

their for a

home. let of

A little things.^

before ten I got One was ths rwsryj

hem to rinesrwW

aCmVRyeVPnUbo'tW'iwWConFnsSraoM-fdfc.i-Mo*84r# a#.ndHebeesgeavnelttoabseagrgartaenftul^

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lender anddjlthle^ paB rt hMiPs jwiPsdPojm Mhald playsd -- in the final result. This atruak



ttdularly aa there has been auah a build up for Mr, Truman is preaa and radio a* late.

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* had taken to prepare ourarivea a little before

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"'*4: "iria did ao uh te enable us te prepare our industrial life far

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mr rredmtUm I sua glad te rsmatbar the rols of labor in eupplylng the naeesaaiy

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equipment for ourselves mi aur allies, labor en tha whole has behaved wril, MHIm

did oaeur and they angered me, but we had far fewer strikes than soma of eur allies.

!!* * natmimjind ineffiriea9 during the war, but we fea^t a war in a demeratie say. Only on authoritarian government ean avoid those delays and wait**--and 1

am net sum they are sueeesefttl in eo^lete avoidenee. X was glad te rseall that eurs

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> Part. I was proud, too, to realise that

B :'s h*r* draft shewed up iUitsrat.s (that they existed at all sua ehocH;>) they

taught thsm te read and write through Speelal Training Units. Mors than 290,000 nen

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have been given the equivllent of a Fifth Crude education. One of these nen wrote

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FX weald not take all the fUrlu*s in ths Amg for what I faava loomed. I tell you

that i*>en they let me eat of this Army they ean take away my pun siso ay uniform but

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they wont ever take away haw to road and write.* That we eeuld atop and teaeh tha

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equivalent of seventeen army divisions to read and write ia a tribute te the spirit of the Amy and an asset to tho country. It would take mm time than I have to list all tho things X thought and was proud and grateful for, But aside from tho ^

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jfy >1' "i".n. c.Vred::'i' 'ble sf"wift:ne;,s' s'-and coordX iVnatio'"n' * wibth whic."fc achiev'e' dt'Jisuitp' erior>ity of Away* %.vy and Mr Foree--eerviees which have mde outstanding records a the fiOd f battle, albeit with sad loss of life# we have assoKblad suefe aUitaty night and won sudh Victories as to loavo as la a position of rosily trl&Ur.iag power and its asooapaaying
.:: responsibility. At the moment I alnosi wish wo did not have that power. Wo shall have to us it wisely tot its passstalest 1saves as inescapably la a role of world leader^ ~ like it or not.

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: Of the i thmings X saw during the celebration period which mm*d m especially* Tuesday, a

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H&tttShhietr*oHofor*e%anoHTTuIesfdiamyrnipsglhntirtaetd

on 54h

sad

44th,

a

rather

squat*

dart

WSJSt

lloatonat

la

fell whitOefs atchceompanied by a Juaoeseue blonde waved tra*ffie-book--^--li-le h--oaeme.mp--liemjttleadifhdiisi bo

added an* dioorlaimtioa, at least one of thsa probably got the thrill of a lift time. Aa ho proossdod along 44th ho took oat his handkerchief and carefully removed the lip

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stick acquired at the

r vfi letters toe the P.O.(as aail delivery and very seer eeUeotlon sorvios) X msd thread

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Grand Central Station. - la the aiddle of the BRHH throe merebant oariiio sesmca wore rasing miniature, gaily painted turtles. Their shouted

on, K aty, Do it for a*. I knew you can. I*ve got give

dollars on this race" attracted

, rt ij- m*i>vg* , aXr*i.a.Jt*> -ijk - 34^'iitlw< irii*aiPtfii mtrri i ~ m it

Hia

fcdnssdey

Kra.

':.- %rilI": Hgfall d Hr* Harris sn

ever

*'|fev /%: M froa miadelphie

t3e35s:e:e.V::^M.di

as end it was interesting te oospore note on Tuesday sight with then. They reported

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a large number of aogfos in their selections and 1 had^bosa ooaseious of tho seas

thirsf at Tlaes Aguaro.

as 40> of their crowd te

Jv^- itidt Morris pointed out they only had a X&i black pofculation. they also found that

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, . swam of people, aspsoially

B-

warhod

* ages sane is froa the suburbs.:. The few of us who

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wore U! Hooping* and t understand that Tiaes Square was Just as f on IfWdassdep evening as |

Tuesday. Thursday I gathered that evoryeae who oould got in a oar and vtt drlviag <m

| |:d oeupealess gas. d igf seoretary eeat^tod herself with a dayfs bfoyo'Hlnugg.|jgg| mf m

wP:JSfm
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T o.otor' d;a'y I -t'taalXkkeodA:

with

Krt .oai..::,og

alio

ijad

Jwrt

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fpoa the

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Fii|Livve"i^hmlodor*o*,dIin the nelghboiheoU of his Cot, so that ho slept with a oarblne under his

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bed every ai#t and never stirred without it during the day,^' Soae of the groups aiv _

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M telllianrggetahsensoifn

thousand, they ere dm in the aouxrtaias and there is net the official surrender essept sending messengers on weeks

any nay of hard

or travel.

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HO believes tint any messenger who tries to tsll these fellow* they have te give up will

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have their heads out off. He believes that it will take weeks te work oat the Mill

tern of the HeoArtfeur and the Japanese surrender mission.

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time. I fear the seat weeks and probably months will net be pretty.

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Y#a^ naN ciavqi^l
^ X riffet tfeto were 46 issues

-dzx/'+'-j t 6ft last year '"i-d ocvniif 1 rtorfag tfeo number of weekends 3 heve b3ft .&* y X suepest thi

All fillstloft It 8fitwty

tH| gill e$> ..or? Mi wader hov fflUflfe IWfftf fan get assy

with ih#-bulk~of-tht-w^l^ai^oa-eftfeiMl. The fl#*tln 2m stepped but *a I eing to

rim have any m tiae for graeefuliy phrased. chatty. lattote letters! Sosnhew 3 doubt if St
idLU bo soon Thus X bare an assistant reporting iflWtr at the office* but the tins she

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oavoe

oho goto

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It""f~ol..P.-^ tahO,^.|hleiiOjnfcOp,ri, oiWuinJwf.A tXJii.o.*f. A1,.t2.<.aS--kBA in%Xgii&thUritn... 4(g.O*a s00o*ff

ftp Mi to AASO it neve 4*1 - - **. *** til in^^ifi

atondTrlwsj^km If I

lip. 'PSO irin 1 m ^ M JO -M. \<iM

uUcing rti n*iif tr ifcr

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the pott too years. ofcifi X M &ailu toV . .lo. .t. elide. ' . .

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fy sinest two weeks at Fort i4Uor turne d out to bo. logy and IMy end to eoatsJft

of the work 7 fend expected to do. The oreps just did not ripen* Xnotoad with

the-asking we tow tferou# the eomiry a groat deal md % saw wore of the nel^ibortioed than I

iwp mm possible before. % breakfasts i bod ant a luxury end helped no to failai at

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end of the long labor

first week bow tired Jfcy week at toeport

7 bad boon. % one wonderful. >

then they were Xt was bet but

too delightful to y*Mi| we get * too wooisvfhl,

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evicts at Jonee 3eaei. ' During one &f then M^ead % salvaged same rope and line. probably

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f k , . MpdsomOllraaiemaM rrpdgetiM.dgtlloeawadutfAsanM la^ialld^dBtiSef-HtlnM ra.*weoaatjdthiKaam^dtl^KdowWekM'rlindbani^doa--td*nhf,,iinnbndedataHeld*1Hroa^rndlafnaia'Mfe',,lta4bomjf(i>mrL.*eeii.i'o^1a"oik%Mi1dAaii*f*laMoSa4la0*u*Moa^ikto<.t1-.d1tife-aa,uofdAtfu*opfljn{eji*o,_,&a'dbd%hldaty-i*leLJo. bl''^epm ibgiHrihrifheoyefthp.ts_ toetA lflnoe^oyfr^Hjfstotus.-osedtUoohoidt^tobeH^enoe|my-ea.nenanmad*vitl"aalt on--n-1u^e- ou--ir.~Mnlsoia_tm_ee^elm eWevMMf--Mee.tmosowt..boSiLobj^k4Ta^^^Fbbutmhro4eue6oeaitdid*ridtfldfasschy'yI*n bfoAoJe*itr*fo>*1Wotlrid,iydttg-oMIbftci.dlitm0JO%Mr^ra0?n&iMrl^ly*i

m m h daeie ste;c! with

er any to spend a fov dayo witfe ti:e and got fear gait safo.

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Marien- wndflBBorg ore feere from

ond

a r

at tfeo ait]

aoedsy for tom of her mum friends, la ate in the ^trdan end 7 we

it tfeo

dusks eiiiofe the Duke of .^ds-or Is suppoeed to fer or^o^-ed feeding is ibo little

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ft

hew gtoa wy wo a pleasant

to pigeons wfe# pookod indisovtotely at ooweion, but the pleee was orowded ed

ankles aad mmU- under noisy end the herrassed

witotreoks: "

did net giro very good oerrloo. ; l|pe. ^Ipfe feofe^i!^wiNdpMi

on nassdag stoty of a

tm mm A ?iN

Orloane sa a reoent trip. A gvania done leamiag that oho woo too Dooton said "ton will

be interested to know that ^

ly built tfeo l^yflowor* tfeou^ w did not fifeooso to

oa it. Kay wnto to know tfeo proper answer to that one. Homy looter insists it should

boy* Won. *lfcy?*. ..Sfeured^f previewed tfeo. or-Uu-dfe'-of tls laleetiae Frefelon"

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m a horribly diottrtod prwiioaist preeoutatAoa. ^'twiMrd. ie aoko xovomadw to ay host

as fee saotosd out of tfeo studio as I had neither tin* nor MtlnatiSB to;|St

en Ml

argued with hl* about the toW end objeetivity. Be did soy ihtd they had a mora drew

there sinsioatfes waking the afeots. 2 gueos the kUs~oas in the outting roaw'S fe

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Random Notes on Japan

Of the four main "Home Islands" of Japan , Honshu is the largest and probably

the one most accustomed to seeing foreigners, though they are rare in the northern part.

English was the second language in high school and many people like to practice English

on foreigners, in most eases this is a painful experience as their conversation is largely

confined to conversations phrases of question and answer typo* It may be a time killing

pasttime, but usually serves

other purpose* Hokkaido was not even colonised by the

Japs until it had been surveyed by English and Americans late in the 19th Century* The

country looks not unlike Pennsylvania and is quite different than Honshu in climate, being

on the whole less humid*

From the 6th to 17th Centuries Japan permitted foreigners to enter the country, at various times with periods of isolation in between. Primarily Japanese life Is patterned on that of China of about the 12th Century. Chine, progressed and disoarded certain customs, which the Japs elung to, because *$$$$$ "Shukan* (Custom or traditions is one of the basic attributes of the Japanese life!* For example the dress, written Mwi&fr language, art forms and the Buddist religion are copied from China--thou$i China discarded the kimono as wearing apparel for men and women, long since* In the 4th and 16th Centuries the Japs tried to conquer Korea and failed after that they put up the walls, chucked out the foreigners who had been trading there and remained isolated until Perry opened them up in 1853. Then they copied Western industrial methods and by 1890

foreign dress had become the official garb for court wear* Since then the popularity of the Occidental has had its ups and downs, and they became very nationalistic in 1931 when they went into Hanehuria and feared that the British and ourseSrves would at least boycott them* Col Stimson, then our Secretary of State, proposed outlawing Japan under the Kellogg-

Briand Pact outlawing agggression as a national insturmcnt of policy. Britain however knew that the American Congress would not support a step which might lead to war and the Japs became more aggressive, gradually working their way into north China and by 1940 tore making it so tough for foreigners to do business in Japan than many westerns left* Not

much is known of what went on in Japan in the past five years*

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For basic attitudes, I like what Helen Hears says in "Year of the Wild Boar" which I hope you have access to. "These people, who preferred isolation and frugality to the effort of conquering and coloniting, adapted themselves to their environment. Their islands were smothered under a humid, heavy atmosphere and excessive rainj they were melo dramatically beautifulj they were subject to recurrent natural calamities--earthquakes, tidal waves, typhoons* They had neiter space now wealth* Not even space for agriculture, for the mountains everywhere crowded the rice paddies, and even today (1935) only 15$ of the land is uneer cultivation, and the littied vegetable gardens are on top of the hills. An agricultural peasantry and an urban handicraft were exploited for the benefit of para sitic nobles and warriors; but no one had much wealth, and at recurrent internvals debts were cancelled , and the rice-lands redistributed. The population, high and low, was taught by law and by precept, until it became simply habit to do without things, to utilize everything, to waste nothing, to scorn possessions and money For the masses, the color and drama of their lives came from their ritualistic relations with their numerous nature gods, their festivals, their worship of nature* The upper cikisses, with little to do and nothing to do it with, evolved a make-believe world in which they evaded reality by means of imagination, symbolism and ritual* Since they had little to eat, they said that food was Art, and disguised the lack of variety under the ritual of service, their use of de coration, and flowery, imaginative names. Since they must live crowded into minute houses

they worked out an elaborate ritual etiquette that disciplined individual idiosyncrasy, eon* trolled individual emotion. Their small empty rooms do not suggest living, stripped of furniture, they suggest a stage that demands formalised behav/ior, there is not room for privacy* The Japanese are known the world over for having a special genius with flowers, yet there are few. In the city the vast majority of people had no space for even a nastur

tium; the wealthy did not have flowers in theri gardens, but had instead rocks, water,

stone lanterns^ m tM farmer could spare the earth for a real flower garden. '

(That last long paragraph is a briefing of two pages of Mears) Now I will try another bit which seems to me to explain how the pattern of politeness, the ritual of behavior and face-keeping combine in everyday circumstances to what in my standards is deception# "Wewent into a "modan" restaurant for lunch# The witress gave us a menu, printed in Japanese and Japansse-SngLish, which listed all sorts of good things. While we read it, she recommended the roast nrk luncheon, witch both Tama and Chiyo ordered at once# I did not want roast pork and ordered chicken salad. The waitress departed. There elapsed a half-hour. She returned to report that the chicken salad was not ready and the pork was excellent. I still did not want roast pork and ordered a beaU sandwich and salad. We waited now a full hour. At last the waitress returned, bringing our lunches. They were all the same--a slice of roast pork and a mound of rice# Althou$i it is rude to ever explain anything in Japan, I did manage to find out that the restaurant had no meat but pork The rest of the menu was pure decoration# A Japanese understood this at Cnce. But since I had been so persistent they had had. to order the other things for me because it would have been impolite to refuse. The waitress, in turn, coftld not admit that they did not have what I ordered because that would have been both impolite and a lose of face# They all knew that, if we waited long enough, I would accept the pork. In the meanwhile, time was no object. This was a recognized custom in Japan. The menu gave an illusion of variety# The waitress told the sustomer what the restaurant actually had#"

Another revealing bit is the admonition a Japanese mother gave her daughter whom she was leaving in England to be educated in the western manner as she presented her with a small steel dagger. "Remember it is better to die honorably than to live dishon orably. A Japanese controls himself. He accepts what acmes with strength of character. He does not yield to motion. He learns all he can from these foreigners, but he does not yield himself# Do not trust them. Learn from them# Stay secure In your heritage as a Japanese. " (The poor child had the devil of a time when she returned to Japan ten year. latar.) ,

If you get to sigihtsee --temples and shrines will certainly be on the list# There am

two major kinds--Buddhist , where as I recall it the priests

wear long brown, monk

like gowns# Their temples are filled with statues of Buddha, usually have spacious well

kept grounds with quarters for training the boys and for the priests. Then there are the

Shinto establishments before entering which you are supposed to cleanse yourself by splash

ing water in yourmouth# Shinto priests wear white gowns, and the chief objects of adora

tion are the mirror and rope, which are symbolic of the Sun Goddess and the direct descent from her (with the help of concubines and adoption during the over two thousand years) f the present Emperor# As nature woship is all mixed up with Shintoism there are shrines all over the place where anything from a view, to a etone or a statue of an animal $$$ god may be the object. The Fox God is worshipped and propitiated because he^ can bring

a good rice crop# Religious pilgrims used to be all over the place and Buddhist priests

travelled a great deal begging as they went# No doubt the eivilain population will not

have much freedom of action for some time# If you get on a Jap train--mind the spitoons

they are sunk in the floor and if you are not wary you can turn your ankle in one! At stations they sell "Bento" a little wooden box lunch, cooked rice, raw fish, horrid bean jelly complete with chopsticks. They are fun but not very satisfying except for the rice and hot tea, which you can also buy. "Benjo" is the toilet--usually a porcelain ring gunk in the floor over an open cesspool, which stinks (no other word for it#) Garry your own toilet paper, even in peace time it was seldom provided# In entering homes, inns

and temples you are supposed to park your shoes outside. They used to issue either sandals

or felt slippers which would never fit your feet--carry an extra pair of socks to pick up the little dirt you will encounter. Don't get excited if you are offered an^exhibition

of "Judo" the wrestlers who indulge are great fat hulks who provide little action# Note especially the landscaping of inn garden or temple gardens--they are all designed to

give the impression of much more space than they have# The manicuring of the trees is

interesting--that is if anyone has had time to take care of them# If you have a chanoe

to ask question, of Japan..., remoter it 1. impolite to .ay "no" .mill, and bo* and .ay "ya." .van if th. .tation is not down the tre.t you ak.d about.

Better say "Please show me the way to the station#" "Sayonara" means goodbye#


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hi ftcttd m.m*r and t4 *>it nig *MM>tiUy and th we tn antrfcaxa^t

. which praise henvon was accptabls to the British and Russian of.icers.

correct, and probably very uneonirratble Russian womsh wfintainto ajriany eagMSsausoian, but was absarved vigorously tapping her foot fa tiw. to no tunes. 1% oWMtog.-todfi

PMJ

with

im trrnad th #hu!4ftrw f hi Huifti

ilff.

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of 0W3 and the hlt-up li

ftlld ft to **Xrt w hr

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Vera li&d M &me> mi&i about her preparation* fthd wa very tmecrt^.ir

^| eour-

ity of her ho.hoald

JL- I^iu--m.dir 44fie.y, owmelllel*d! aitoltl -fw towtf t>h!ati, tul*h "SalSu&Comn'

3 .

wfuouuilad go Saunadwaiyy aWnIBd w "h*ile t*heyi iti*d* notw. hv s*p--a--**. for her th

" soparA ..

Friday roouoot

of.arrc."in-asantyhfco*. im Stto^wt.oaBn^sup' -rs--srtdma.^.o.y..nXt1*4fo"4- *r

Vsfeterara'"Aotcm a sseum*-.vwoMOn.WidolXt4w1t-weoiul-ftewpathooookVns-iteidn i*tt.a/M Joitr'rfftMothtWneyVy.,flfhoillaleduldaO

aahha

Si ,,

.dJs*r4ttiaftn#nadthii,etBtyrraonbnooounnoceodti

thsSoo"ot, n',na_.ilfrtte^tihra ei IaQ pdslsftikfofifr*P tJto%fw w-f%iw thdtStoipse.fsoanl

a wspreiaiso TM on the return hnd tween a3.1owid aid vould

^vi

w advance th* isonv fr pahaag* * "ai*-scvrr.*ic?>t **pt* idiifth they were r thy ji*

crtocuuisld gg'x#t... I i agirreead wwA i*n ntt houy!r ow-r ^s-ov' they enlled bac:*k* 4' *> *y* 4h.- t n ueh ."p^a*

was available for this chip at all*

to | be dj*e-fe|HatHed* " *fo-grtu y-m ^pM ^ ho--n--re or

SMtliMIfttked if the ffl trsnspcrtntlon jean ffe#d ^ind if we tried to pull a fw i

wire a of that the

our own* ship MOO

a0lr1otoadryin. goyseirtchrowhidraedt ei'*natok.htniiisnte* fr* t.tibwu. itJt. ''oanb. otucttthi*rfX* owu*teo4wwe'nii*tty*w* **V *%wZ e(Vfrt*2eftT W?tto#l%>^ l1d1*

(..ado on a atone toU w had hie pentosan. It took a tronandens .tow ionjn/ rart

^IW got Vera into a taxi to go to the British Sontol.ta to hnvs a try. toan^lo

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tl**hu*<l .tiajor JftMMfod and bdtpok his help. H *4*d y&WP*l? tv^f-

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ban Vera arrived at the S&aaulate Ju*t before Xai% tie she wm* py^roptly banl^,

,,v app-X* ioa"tlon f*or

duly a4 out* ?he took this to the British Shipping *m*

Si ',>'yv ;V;*_

t o* day

and o%7cre

er orrir

afW-

\ *1?

? f.fv&

T

flRTSiiST^ISCESS

! >5

ff reported

k
thy

weald

fc
not

8r
be

a ope

n

d o on

Sg ertuo rM-llP, S

.

-^V' th# ** * *P * beer, theri JJ1

the, preferred to htve vZ roturru I suppose

pS^oTh*"1*^

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oen ed eitfc their own Tutuno then the Job they Wot now

!%>,*&

*B0J"e 0B-

L*** Phoned that she ia&'- haid a SiietaKe'fh W 4&wi4 tSl&lff'

I'"mM^hs

I

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givenon the 47th fa of the *cw Tcrld*. Hi* tag tin* i* still V*W# nd ' .-7'V- t| '"f-

fortitude*; hjit he h*a ft * *Pig pfarace. ef HateUi^oeVid seeing which

.ynJi SiJM^f^ l . raw

P%*,A a ,**i 4.moo,d aaJOd--I donft think: m<fc of ie *mv *orl&".

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{* - " >J .< r *' tff

w^r^VSi.T,, Sr

offiee th* repalnw* earn, nd Xy the tlno I got how, absut four o'olook the ftn

nrt so strong that I tilled Oeneolidated 2dieon wergency to see if it mis danger-

'r'; ' WW r Brelr disagreeable. .the very nice nan on duty. gangly esld m6n only

.

inetiuled rs unite for refrigeration -ad that I w',.11 sell tie police m-geaey

qua* *o mmM sob# sni remove the bo* free the rrssdsoe. This 11 teemed pretty arserieas us nmos sr. nicely ooncentn.ted in the bathroom. After a good deal |
of preddieg the euperinidet soiled the repair service and ropsrted that they
sould get *. mut here right away. .' SltK the siotor turned eff sgsia the laaJttgeli> ' '
infitasiwl hut it i, a nulswncc end I don't like to stay in t^bathrecm iSg .

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fwgff to take s bath. It ie now two-thirty end netting has happened dwsplt*] I |

I

Mdww

**li..,r**-. **"' r"e. r 'tu aotoly.ir.'. aTTfT t7ew-r* f et . fu, fll' wWeew ky w oM fr . fjii.

ccid vim dipping i

weather bes changed eo that there was a snajpy sleost

air through the place. A ypwng Jesish en-soldier .dth

Ml

*?!* F'ft J"*1 arrive*mth *ir#| verdiet eas that rap

woe no leek{with a

" :1~"y? 'TM ^ i*^ PlW ie^ atV ioTn' that *2 ww as *an hjyrcext.iTrtxeeotal fieceo nlse)l'blu*t ftoffln a& final eheek iJyu*s i

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Jft*r <# 8'

"nc' behold tingr found thai the reeiiried motor did

1

"?!!*

*,* ?v *** d<,lBg

thet I will not bo annoyed <dth funos w::.

WhiA are not lothal and will return la the coarse of tiae to mho real repairs. It

I

sounds to as as though 1 would not hews the use of the ben for ages!

... . TM lowior etriifce was oosetliingS Tur building i t not unionised so we !

"".f1 * and down all right, but every eeeond person that we wonted to get in-

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formation for a list that X was raost eager te Sell en Frlduy either had shut up ehop

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/; or ens working In a temporary office without benefit of nil their aloe. : Ou* inoon-

vemenee me sdnor la eontroat to the plight of neet. I Just heard that the opening

| ,. Z V.i ;'*:*Pt r*n pWllamyv t4h.hit** wwrsenemklr twmranms postponed bI-e-o-auae tith.*- odstuo* a*kK.r* h "a'd.4 m. awt -ebeen *.U.* t.e ox^- '

m

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^ lftt0r rtrlkte ill freight and expre** ^Ipment* te Hew Terk x-

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ri

. ar4

F#K;|BglMW

i3<4Ve

*t*pp4t until"..the plmtfOPBte* be *1eared

the

i deliver. B .n.IuIIr.ib's.r.. ev*f sim -moveW enet ^peeo^pm le th*We have been

^fgff tr*edotts. J#M|: aroad**ting has it* officee-on th 18th floor of a

Struck building.

I should hate to b* the eelliat in an orchestra end have te tote m



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'' gg,''frbht-erga|iowiriw.,oi.jl|op.fr,ii7dh.g#eea7inrci7iwd7eInftenSchhuir*iawians

1931 near

(eewerel 1 ppwagpyowrn*i Peking in 1937 and

rrwefwerirraedu tveo- *itx aa*e vtxlnuei I eon teroied to write

.

I J4 net!) It poured but they vent en with their plans and as I had. te

5
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j-o eut *1 say e bit tt it. %t the dragons, aloe, but I did see a group of acrobats

I J
I H^js i

aareUng on etilte. ueae of the sostu-.ies srcrc lovely eabroidered eatin geene. I on
eclil(aiaefiktn.elp*reaeeea #fVtokefr!osnTkeh;ce^g^ii'rnr*xlneeiJndl a8 .tvh.eb, efaeuvtiiefwuilaigliixnsiteaugdrJSe#eeBn fm Meaao^fc.um tahfe*je, sraoeb.eaet Z:,ipnd SusJlIli-iniavggeaotnatea& |gwoo*dwnmaod^deefrrna, "v:,'

I

fiv ' 7^^
*

JJug*atf an old be*u# who ha* ju*t eeo* back frea Yugoslavia Where he iw* deputy ditw . e*<MP" of^UHHjjfc*. * chief we* e Jteeiaft# tWm said that the Cromui* had a devie* . .., f; 1:

I

whi* in retreat they puHedeleng aftwa treiiu It tor# up the ores#

fe^pPI

buehlad the wile effsotivoly delaying the repair of the few railroads in ifce

Kl S eoiartry. i oeevor he eav the inauguration of th eerviee fron Belgrade to Zagreb.

&wmS-%m'

!

3e#uritjr regalRt-icn were in force for the Queen Uisabeth soiling but

*

; everything on^th* pier ra very efficient* I raw France* Perkins getting her picture

Ptarter Perkiu* (ht (mm the Fanny Farmer cookbook mm that .hi*


I

.agttl Vera

lteaileddw}ithp;" ar; ai^it;M'Ilb.f..ounJm.d>k. s0mradi'nor-.-uV.*!eaifc!begrr' a^ILm. c^hca"7. onucelddi '

not bi) e' sen. t to discover

te ' the' '. ship en route. en Monday aernii

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4 .- *ri^;..J..y |*,t|'1

r># pip-

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<

A- ' , ' ' . A* , . .. ' I 1 ' i ,*'*< <y . r ' \ - "f- ,,.v- <) . rr '<>*irft-J., , "_. . /."V-

m^am.

44^8

I

**f, - > "'i'.. i-"'-

It rad| e*<tt that vftsn thy refrigerator repair mar returned he

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teck a nap or tor some other -.twason ueed my alarm clock to notify him of "' V"

five cUskand forgot to reset it. Anyway while It was #U1I dark on

Tuesday wornlnc my alarm went off with a merry -*irr % ^ aomething wee

wrong end ao paid it a head. Heeult I ma eeandalsuely lets at the offioe.

The noxt day I was even later because 1 fell on the street and had to go back

-1

to Kteiniotor first aid to say knee and put on.-a fresh pair <?f -tttoekinge. 'I'did

?.

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a

be-at'-ir-li-fi-.l--zrwjob o..f

p- *u, ttinLg. ay,,.. book

out

o^f, #, hnok,

which

Jerry
w

had

to

tm^usmepi' owe

of.

J5* di<J :10t lok M** a* I feared <& m%ht -in view of tho strain of her

i9P , :*, -'.-'Ii

. --- --smirtm

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i-mtiifro.V?-'fW i''f 4'j..b.''Jf''-".e' tx- gi

bit? aver having Kextan nonore and **ct to Adnk. ftCs ship i$g as bound jmat coast, tha east coast, or to be sent bee* to Jafan to flagship in He expects to bo put (tabor* at its most eaatetly point,.; He said he is

sjpttr -tiifc Tokyo. feeXiaa

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te':}#

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A '44': : fine--better in fact *-:tb ev ry point be gets, a, total next week .ill be 44.

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last

TMnv i_ ght

r had dlrtner with Blnnaiyird 3tt who aaa in froa Princeton 'l-'1

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^4 * ex 'v-tpxr^sv-

J tw wen** 'dni-.

w^; a Jt A-tivTM vvgl

J 24,1

where one ie The old girl

earing for has always

her 8? bean a

year old aether-tit* ride* of %rthi and a tartar and wist

amoral Pppt be a haafiful

1 ricctt.

f'..

to wf1-

I

W wuutge no* that *h* ie far fro* wall. Although we planned to dine eerlr be had to - IV7 A'ij.i.

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w*it half an heap for a to tie. There may no longer be a wt.jtm, hut there i* ,

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.Igotrty of sftsnaath . Bi* etrikeiief today srs going to rake as awful Sot -at : < ehortages Store apparert. in . few mentbe T fu**, The wlk out of the telephone

. J??.

,,

opera tors on^Frtday ftpn*o tied no up in the office in a fine ** Be were ' *\4

"'. ".. v j.-/- Wit

11 fe sM I

all waiting for word B w wre ^ Mtuf WD WMh IvweeWv 4u* lW|i00i^duriiig

fro* Ifcshlngten witch l3id n.e.ft sccor;n:s until q^urfacrteur opf fivvei

shewed pvople over to'Tti* sIlowV% l4daetfciuckf nthoeKbFeirsftbtiViiaAtveonuure;;.S ...4 _ --A.

Jj .11. __ . |h| +*'<

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0tjm

V3 *rvrr%V <V 3k*It

*-0

M 4t 'ibi.M

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already packed %u9rt> bv.l?e t*f left i^ony mSUng i^&iUntly isr tke amxt.b&

w,.*n |f 0lm*- *t$ >i us er^ed*

I
mMA0'4 mm

tffil

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1 ^ 1-=^ -1th Barbara W^ff-8ora ingell'e niece, ,,

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*h* British IisforcietioR Services and just tack from several iuenth^ in

I

ajfiliena. 3be KKf back in-a British r>vcreej. .oa*nercial plane

beirg the

' fiLIS

^ private cabin which had Wm used fcy ,'l^tcn ^urehlJUU'

Semet'.inf r*.p*m.*e. to the he.r-.tiRg of h?r fine tmbin laaft she, nearly- freee to deatii' '.'

It has been very' cold in ^RgU-d this

often people were so colli that .

they put on firea, knowing that it would mesa one less fire.during the viator but

f

feeling thoy c-uld r.ot go or? without getting.%%r& 'then* Theatre? still go in at

'.tvfr'i"
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f*10 because busses end undarvroond stow service earlv t t 2 think hA

and all- streets lights go out at uddaight to conserve



gH?sa* mas- hbeet got back-SMootnidday bhavinngs' Hiloowwn haem#e via -AAwranv#;Ttrraenaeaa^fcMrt t<taknmaMwn&t!*. r-*"Vi...-

her tales of Franee are alee pretty rugged* : - few facteri*? s^ aifai*. mate*** v "

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tbay car; tne workers tasist.. aa ia^ rove-eata for which there are mow mo laaioriale

0 they too don t work. Fcoi in Fcrit is ooarca &~d without variety, an# of her

fnends fed a er^.ri loofclM;.; .blaok suit, though short for her ago* which

bon t.

<44M fontrljec. fro|i the ^goiag to funerals* salt if the father-in-law, igotfer earlained

..;: ' Am?-." A-t.(iSuijUj>7 hr chio red Jaeket as having bwm -feii frata the red fe^adoloth tehli aov-or so ommovlr seen i.c Crista*, dracdiif rooms* life and ^ildrett wear swart little '

.4 ' 4,,-. .; white netton kait rlevea sNfe ^ uaravelliag knit or orofeoted

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.i o.t. l.ong ago .I had a very interesting oonvorsatioa ^ith a mippino wfco |p

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does not writ: ihdoDendsnce* -wai>||plip|?in# b^feks down

Be says ..that t0'--4j5l?.:0 yeer

statistical 4nh infene for

Urpaperi.% credited td the average family of d

f

^our

knif persons,with 030 of that going for tastes- Indeheadonet vould mean

mil.:.. :" ;> a levering of even that living standard. He alsopB sinltsIdIoB ut V thaitlthe CwjBovre?,lth

I

did net have power to declare war on Japan. They just happened .|p||-. ,'P- - ,gj|. t- o b' e the locals^>

of the Jap attack on us* therefore we are resjameibl* far war damage*! A alee leagal

:.A

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last woeto oditlea. !to planned too* day wokoad fci Bsyport

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r

** ***A. did twi mm off too&us*

of oelds oa to urt #f to <h,U4m sad cftfU* wok westor*

flton .-n~ jtfEk t-K^ JBkaS:.PPfi. ^ *r wftO OSy *O*K* (Ukki^ ^14 A tou*d-

-

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--, b

'OP d^rll

for o# ftoto*tod mi to

*o*ff- io^1vo'I.:

i

P^WUPWWIIP^W,

, #01? ttofl

ltorft*t&ttyto eft Fri&ty a*4 to oil

1
Hp I

k ?toft*St* tie fodto

K* tordRy# .,

y- 1 r"^todt^ q&i

;m njr* mt sag* tow l&m it will tost or roto-fttoat

it# oaawk tot to

doos tot no

t!rBoisn jfror;. tto-J^i end i fkr-.tat sot MJftitar dflt2&- xitlift o.f imm^k his

SBcMsa&pilBp8lii

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dotoolftt* itoMwetfftfci* IXyiag trito to Mr forfc-- .,

P : .V U tottodfeftlffmr*lfriIa*cnftmlitolrtototm.'iMIt$tlll*fmtigtmoftMHmwm . #m this p&MjsmUm.ttofotfttoflft|*lk toistot)]4#ms4!* *dtoftdtfor goofinf gtti*$':*!?'j

[~,.'.

dijfwl control Iwonl o# #s|mis ooA'^nb#1k. d^Nto oot smwws tssollisodi %& osoopt

<!

taie mm Mir i liou of rojprKalo-tXo ok ti ow*tra Mrd* TrtMtey Ml Hotter

tola no tb&t bo bod WOK out in hi tod ligtel ltb torotoiy fiymm

to pootpeno tfeo

iMMKi'i opooioi totot tototo

for to Ml of 0to for to too

td to h&pm

toto told

ooeo throto to ploy tol*



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. Ki niMPmi -iii K i -i MBHilWWWWBPWWIWWI .,, diiu^r wto oaotbor i to Im ^toto,

to fiftb- ot ..to ^turd^Ar Itokoooi# ...} 'I

. At to ^o" ' 'h-vL^'.-.Vv"^-,:=.

dbp

I mo bw^sir X ,

-opp*wwr ip^iMl

t^ry bsS Xbte

&m?m tk &' w ** w [ tH*- "r*Wf"W^f*p1 lroK#r

'WW'* lTMiiwt-?ewtw-jlt*ie * -: *- t >*. o t w 1"*- ** ***rr* i^ ^t|^bP i l t i t l w

jdosaoEtB -or

to

otod m%nk tm* to to

rtoU- of to ftoi

f "|

oosoiono to o^ito thyiillf^l

-it of tMrty to a^i.toto-tototo \^.;w

I

fro~a Bsstaa to i'hoowix}

I.

bod oo^o difftot ma&

to too

deto or itemed* tooot

omyoKo

mm ft iitotese aisltoUft^o to to

to|| | to mm toto

proalwcie for

rod to| tt to

takiaii; wr Mow Tto lo^g oft r wo to

'or our dodispe IsotoX s-fis# 10# at ft

1

prlUeMaaaMil w m -MEiiaanf awrie" "oKfcitoit iA6*- |,,:v-t .#- --eQ'6 os our mini hmMi ' I

ooouro to tor

koto or olub otooattoo#

kxsUxb *W A ' Wti lCT* ^ .we^WfrWPftppoefti1 PO. W##'-I-F!W

pftfto

toMt ftt to

p^.{^-lf..^^totPooBt p^||BdiiiPB^BrB|||tPoiP.rPPtiWliW^diP^WpidBB|ildBfJrtoy o toto

tto to mw lipod

ff. ^ sintito Ift toto"

'-t w ^ob I cai f>Kftto <- - . -

i* for .l^fftriir

twfttwffc -w^- wpw. W ^4^%^i.f/ftKii

ma

I

iVm I

f

1B^|__^--; I

m m ' c'*Kd^fa*tweiwawt'wet tipifwBepi w
- irate* It

w^**o1* I!t--si tm*y!}i-TMn-iwi m**SmP wpA-vjt 1.9 -t^^bWepOir *eWt eWxr?f*t r<fet oOnyM6rn'.aip.fOtr tBfStESM,' w^ijry f,tft a oN^oo td-'':rola* ;-ua t h^MI

' odtb io* Xw* did ftot " 9beedw.Wro twow' fojpi^*^WKOipr t*rh**We^F tjo^rowMiMHW* it hwofwtrwootmyO*P^ aepb^^Morenw,

iiiiiiieriilerdvF . f* * - .^w *iw,wir*wi^<^^iF^P kriM sag^titte

ita?,v -

(- - 'H

I

hmm w&

WfllliflmWtWfatWit i

|: <

EI jiort ipvio miifer^wi m?s? iweatmi1 MbfiaftAf obo

with to er-oko'

em

&toy ro^roo^-Uyo* tbo IIMKI:' for ft t^ntar mi i-fei*^.1.

G^nm&k rf

world ftpgftftL^

thgm I mUm m4 mUmml gwrommmt m mXIM for by to ottoo to.^*l

I. : Mds ^^9^w*a*'iw ooaoi *"wO<n- nw*twati-wi* eoFwwWMPJO B*FOiiW ay9 .

ftWftFwje..w^PfetKt' n-.*ftr<lft> x*ftwa^n^jf* IwBrr , axt e"Witr ace'iFt^wfWt- tftflts*fiit,:O*P.' 1

dtato rtortoot Kpto ok Our i ftliey la to Iftr tot to

get ft

.

Trlbwao. ton

OUdoiftleowo to dovileftod ft lot ft* a rtoLt #t to to

L to

idooftftiitly outyrlood m* OmmpeH to tottago

loaayt to woo

IfJ la to
t^mimm

iH|9' ' of to u aiftfeft -

'

Kftft KKt ftl '-^ -: ^trty' mUm ?.-' ~ * wMfd'SB ' ' M (P

*"i*I-I'Hftixd totoaet*

tto fftatob - I

r.r.

Mtoodor to to tl*'^*f worn ft

tolod ft.

2ftm ootorlftl o^tft' for

dark to

i^lloww owoator uaier
plsMvm &i to "toteff.

to totftd

soot xftioft Bight mdftpftto ||ft' ftlfltoy

od tottote. tod .h' op iaaKft

Kftowr tot to

acoto totorod

wy ia to iiiiifttoi . After I had tod

|

mi
**t.t "* .(i ^ ilMft- T

I ., to t: osso to tola to tod to 1'* NVv M*-'-ifpc*tw*iSjski.isr* s..i.o,..4t; tniio.r.f.tP i

rro,1tw* rft1*oraw?

to <t*Waiiuilfe'^1

njr 4jr t 'Its? Alloy witb >,

Bo&rXLd iadrawft for a a^ol driidt' fit was ftft ioto w^?ix* *-4

dwwtwowt*o*'1*" .ft. air *wp^ws_'' .,j(r--,

m|to 'tipit' ftt^-'-'ir the iVvti4.s; boiXi -:%bl^ bat ;|;l|NftX^ 'ftft^ft

iSailft 'le# dooft ^oivla^N to toliewft tost too

toftb to ft itoyitio-Kptori

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sure enough w t^o4 sewwl * aest jaoksi Wow lh|.iW"-

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days latter. Since there were several questions in my mind which were not

answered* so I telephoned the Third Naval District for interpratat* iu

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The very nice Duty Officer said thai he was .travelling in n troop train. That sometimes it tool: six instead of five ddys to -make the trip. That with his

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rate and points His destination could only mean separation,;a process taking not

: more than two days under normal circumstances. He estimated thrt the train would

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the 1st or 2nd. I apolo-

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#'* 'the Town Sail be- :r

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Ur. , buaineee suit and

Brynee in ipdimeri ;::;'

auet aaiataia the eeeinl etendude of the

mOs. ... . m |j...^| birth and haviS spent * traee of the .'loutS in hi a

Iterrmbvr ?, 194S

this Is tba first iBBtallBsut of 4i atorg tor whiab tfc fondly tai

Uag asltsd. So 1ms* tb* Mart iartril--rt sill not bo

in ooBiag. Osi to

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Sunday, Hwirtir fourth saw bin 'Vndneti* fren the Hewy at the Stpwitia

Center at Udo Mtffe in the two ofel k Mae*# and he Is !& Oat- year and tw day

after the U3S rnrwariirt was enais9leaed he lift her at &ediak on October 16th.

ir&velling o independent travel eiders % the last Alaska Stcgsaship CflUlW v&essl

to mm south, they stepped at various little fish m&mrtm to piok fishermen

and their last haul and proceeded to Seattle. "leporiisag to the mm,I authorities

there hd waited until October 27th for the trooptraitt east, which carried 46$ ether

mm with en ensign Is charge sad five Shore Patrol, and two i*wy kitchen ears. 4

fifteen ear train. Arriving at IMo m ytentmb&r 1st at two in the aftsmoo% ke

was oat canctly 72 fcmas later.

1% m* a bleak thro&ioaiag day dans ThdLMa, Aunt izcii* mi I wot ic fbee*

port whore Holly, Jia, Jay and Ml Mi greeted us. After an early luasb Freddy took

a sap and Holly stood guard ot the fireglass so that shs sould strike s aatsh at the

proper assent to tore a hUcing firs ts add to ths "Mesas Kent*. His pest si Mdo

is largo and tho buildings f tcnperesy woods* csnetraetlsa, threat as wore only Inter*

ssted in the "Visits**1 Iowa?** whore wo had sti* rendes-rens with 8sl. mo twelve

Minutes ws waited free It 30 to 2*02 sssiasd long, though they were broken with the '

public address system announcing thai G.T. Pratt tad visiter and ths rrenincs ef

other eon with their fwwiliSS. -hi# mm neatly nsnsapllMi a aawwi bear hug tor

Me wife, while ho ured ike attar tod ts

his of'- spring hand. mother had

ee&rcely oMased his fmily before hie snail eon soled share hie medals wore, the

hush teethed father tossed that question acids with a brief *1here are la sgr isrhg**

and started herdlr^ hi ftusily toward kjae* rei lodksti 1 ar^l

dltiSlayodt

Mo dis^argo were and ilnw tre huttern ike %vy had ghr ifida to

oti his oivil-

law oloihoB to show Ms doseanrlss status. 4fter mru1 rensidesMtisn as te where

M. was to eit, Jay <d&ske Into Mo lap &r<d we were off to ^reeport.

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all settled down for a long session of plying Oal with questions. Just for the retard

ws fell reed his ship frcxa ^or lovk to *iosfoih, t^ra the ^girwfwm dhftal ts dsn Fsrnntises,

to i'toOL todor, to OlSidalsamli rihlagi lOitM, i^athawa, Is iMns, hash ts fSssi

Mir^r uijd then in nldugust W

a^d Qntuate for the swsrgweey nsvsl seeupaiisn

of Jlorttow iionshu for

the

was the flagship* ** 4dsh end Kodiak. Frsn

GusdsXssanl north thsy wore a flagship and part of s large soaovsy.

Isndsd Hsiinss

0^ ClaMwwn oe >duy (ipfil 1) shot at plenty sf toatoi pli^ss. Chl#e post- sf

duty was the bridge, where he plotted iim redsr rw^dsig f<* dn imwigKtor. &es thini#

were hot both the skipper' and tli# e&seutivo sfiieer were en the bridge.

day the

osffes loving skipper sent his nee hey for coffee and asked, Chi ts Join Mn

Sal's cup appocred with @rwa^ in It, ike skipper sent it hssk rew#riiag that OM

preferred it black. Ike bnee. however said, "Please, sir, if the plettor does net

mat thai sup, nay 1 have It?*, m4 4to thim^tfMly stirred Oil's su$sr in the Black

rep for hi* while he was busy plotting. Tow em see fan that why Cfcptaia Mi and

CMnwMer Ouishy were popular dtfe their mm m& why i?5# fHkmplf etc a tow sMp m

well so a hot one. M*s pride in their %erk aad the way In diish it was done is

pnidsnalls. Ihe illustration he gave that in one period the planes undsr ths Miint'i

ssatrM hreu^t down l$b

planes

the snna&er-up only scored 23. ?U1 their

Moss sells sens fpen air craft, all of whish were net shot down by ths pssiyhsry pre-

taction, (his plans with a dsad pilot at the seatvwls ssswpsd the nests at 30 feet be

fore it feM in the water. &mi <hd sr an aerial tsrpwde retting thre^ iM water

directly for ike whip, they mm able although at anchor U mmttwwt the Fanmini m%

of its path. . _ hmie** uo11* &** ** &l & <hO!l4K 'Mldsne feocM dinner Freddy

had Jiiiiod Jay rersS'e mpl

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Teday vyow fiwt luntaea with two speakers at ta Walterf* It m*

rn ta

* * relation* with nglan*I with

m ta proposed lown, In a we-

mat of weakly listening to one of ay eolleguee I invited OA Btart

of ta

qMftwnp Iftibtias* lit were deluged with diatribe after the asaemeesaento were out, bat

2 really think it was a wry useful thing* fUllaai X. Bait, president of i& ta ;vwsr-

lean M^tr of ta tonb&ta tar totorlale

Beard not only natI# a skillful *# for a Iowa

to Britain for our MI *emmic well-tot**, hut ilk ta Mseuestoii parted ^terfully

lined up 2el HeSemtek en his aids of the fin**# ta British OmmX OanmI# tank atas ,

sat ri#t feshtad no at ta neat table and seeta sot to bo affronted at lletormek'e ore

oar- *d enttoBrttisfe st&tatas* the basis of to# imComiek hato# 2 had hoard was that

after Untd Mr X he wrote the British Gsvenisent and ashod for the f*C.--wMfe needless

to say* he did not get* However, his position is deep rested in eelealel history* Ms

aaeestors lived en tag Island and Mag Buteh were Med. out their lands by the British,

and toea went to the tortaesl Frontier where for thirty year* after the Mduals* of

the toMattoaaiy Mr were sniped by the Indians who tured la their tat to the British

General in Stat* for a price. Mtasta eaye it ie hard to fidget a scalped aneester.

. Oh no, the *>edlen*e tittered at Ma at tines* 1 wonder if he found m harder te talk to

than into the wdertftaa as is Ms v**gl Ss is a huge m with a eeiaaaadiisg presence*

Ms wife (she is nee toviiig renarrled after he ta

a widow e ample of years age) re*

winded no iMShat of Urs* Joseph (tatotasttss) f. Bevies task her tad adto a tolerant

and apelGgetle Mis taa he Ms MM*1 of his s>or* peopsstorcne statements* She were

a huge, tolly green peeps* feather bet and a double shaker of easy large pearls* Mr*

dOlisM Good was at ny table and told *s about her taakfast with tasldsst ftadi on

levy toy* She Is a stanasfe tons tat and says tat to is wtasrful*** tot sparkling

sense of huBer, great sineerHy ta told tor tat fee tod ton

worries ta* asy other sen

in the world* However he mrnMmm My one of tan at a ita# wei#s the ptota

carefully eai arrive* at Ms toeiMea end torn te toe neat. It is Ms decision ta ones

it is node, tat is tto end of it* to never looks tok end nmmr mates that in regrets

if his decision is wrong# to told her tat to tod

pined fourteen tit pounds tan she

SMen te d".e:n his appa&raase"* .| - * |

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tat Friday 2 lumhed at tfes Mver Olub with ta* Frank tans too was sate**

tslsing for Mrs* Hajerie todta# the mm sttasto fcr wimene affaire at toe 3rltito isatos^r*

toe# %4toe nssls a very good isnfOssisM as and I think toe will do an exeelleat job

here* ta ton no emsdl end telle ttot toe is a iree^rterta Sinister* daughter mid ta

wife of a setoel meter and proud of ta feet tost toe is a ^terther* ta tod never

worked prefeesienally until the war top toe went Into elvil eervta ta auet tovw

pod in a big wsy te get tfeie mppolntmnt* Seek te the affiee to sip ato dieiate a

few acre letters end rush for the "Southerner** tare tabs

Meet toiele into, toe tod

top ponding a ta daye with ate* to iaxie ta 2 tae ta tain

by >'* anoosl'-rtohl# r*

gin end very feet* m teto tat train bemuse it m$st etfaigbt thrmtto* tot the northbound

tain was e late tat we wta m a shuttle te taMipta *

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there* liM# Ms daughter ta totMef two yeungta seas net m at ta dMisttssvllls

station taut UttO* to stayed p ttoldng SMto ta late ta. I did net spiear mill Imm

isse* tare was a 0* of fa* vs* ?1* ^ Hefewewd p tat efteraep ta we all mmi tc-

ses ta to^e tea in a tatoawny viete*y# tay tore

a taiwi^ ph of playing the

&sm toter tr toito the aluta etta* wit^m ^ith tored tade evpy Ms Virgtaj* secres*

Beepite ta toUl drixsle ta ta mm tatatttas

at leaet, ewfered so totog*

to were Mm tw dtaer eeustta ta

^ro# ftart tolsey ta Jetoy's pmps*

taper hesu to? ta craning toe lata took her te ta tonee. toMStta

in ta mrly hows

ef ta mm&m tordy, toieieto eldest op fSsesMy took free torpe ta new stattasd at

a sip in 55ertfe torsllaaf eaae tons pad# pass# te ewsf,SMS,e surprise ta delight*

Hash Bessie found fear iss ton tod to raided ta neat- awmlafs ^ mm toeeidnf up

before layisg ta table* jtaay aftemeea we went te Jinsto fa*vi at Creset to msuts off

where ta new wing wmld be built ta see tat ta

views would to frea new Mndews* the

Msixatains were shrouded in sitae, but ta near Mils wert tautiful and still tasked with

odor* to ta way feeae wo wtspta for s driafc wito ta Ibdwsy'w* 2 was d*U#*e* to sea

tat she feed ta in MeMag a tmmw mmtff slab iat e tositang ^^e* tth *s*f ^

yoono ta tow atoiered a tawMltg effect with Mature* of e&era .tnd ^ntita ta liberal

use ef painto-evea ysllew and pink in toe mm rm&*

AUheugh tee Halaay1 fatety ae* eaar te.aurtHMUi

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teat teey Ml Mte* Oimy whc*hl ted art and liked the firat Um I mwl t SbarlettaeetUa

and llr* teye# teea tetala ted ted t *a*t a eighteen aeatho tegllte teteale

tie tea tea at tte ateee! f Military Gmartmrnt keaaua* te Mvil lif a ma md-

atetetrmtar te :iigerte* Far a hang a wmt te feed a rmmmtel* hmr m Saaday m tee

ehildrec ate Jim ted t g t sake! te# aext day.

ilfMr m ted * Bardr off ea tea feu to tertasa early ia tee anwaoaa tele*

ate X left tea ear at tee MediftaX tehoel for Ji* and alked mores tee feaauiifuX "Uim*

f tee teivereity imd up to tee aster aertatiea reaoreir tete far *mraim and at*. me

sum me out# tea air ww (though till ate as vrii as it ted ten tee previous week ia

Hew Tate) ate it aiie levefity leekteg mmm tea teiwtetr# tea taw ate t the tell teere

Jeffarsea buUt teaUeello. te got tete ia tie t teapeat tea late ateitete for am

asaoelate fe^esaertete test Jim ie trying to flu* Toimg Bated# tea haa seam all the

prospacrte, aanm&te *Hite la tea ae" after Or# Vtarfeer mad Ma tefa ted tern tekea ff

fey tte tear assist*** Dr. dealt la tea dsrartasat* of mteteegy. It a^wld tern keen hard

to I mm teaearar X eatf feat X tetad t apet tea rmiilna wite a 7ilS train. Umww the

*S(W*bermr* ted e Mad f lie mm end after m w*m up# a eat teat to ted agate as it

aa reported ee hear a half lata*

3 X got to teihlBgta* about 111 30 tetad of 3|30 and ted te telephone to

tee State teperteent teet 1 obviously ma mt keeylag ay eleven a* aloefe *pf*tata**t heeew

X get mm tear late te tea ttftarawo* after tea Ootgreawor free teateaa ted te aaeel ay

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If thsrc is any truth in the old saying that ths season's *mm arc determined by the date of the first snow faHf wo or* oertaiaXy in for it. On the night of the 29th violent winds end heavy rain turned to enow, which continued to fall epaeaodicmlly for almost twenty four hemrs. * arc supposed to haw# gotten throe inches in all. But fortunately it did not Xaet on the etreete t any extent.

Yesterday I listened to the AierSwy football game and was a indignant when the very powerful Amy team made their flret touchdown that I squirmed tho seat of ay hair away free its supports* Beeultf seat and X went onto the floor through the frcase. atmoylsg tout damaging only to the chair. Xt will have to go end get a first class repair Job as it was one of the ahogony, antique side chairs I

Wednesday was withou t parallel for X went to a aattaee at the expense of

the Foreign Policy Association. We had heard rumors that we were mentioned in the

new play toy the authors of "Life with Father" eaiXed*$tate of the Bnion". I got

a brainstorm that we ought to take the house and have a benefit performance. The

office was enthusiastie and since none of us had seen it General MeOoy suggested

that I do BO before the Wednesday alght *** meeting. % a sheer stroke of lush

I mis able to get a single ticket tor the matinee. Xt was great fun to think between

the acts of all the telephone tails I was missing* The play is very amusing and will

certainly have a long run. It is the topieal tale of a young manufacturer of airplanes

who is very worried about the state of affairs Is the country sines Vs W day &nd

his endeavors to besoms a presidential candidate on the Republican ticket. The

Foreign Policy Association corns into it when he accepts our invitation to #eak in

Hew York In ths current version we get called by mm& three times (I understand

that in Washington ths actual mentions were greater) However the content of the

very important speech becomes a natter of great concern to his weul^bc supporters

and they all try to give his advice te such an extent that he kicks over the traces

declares that he will cay what he believes and not Stoat they think expedient even if

it costs him party support. It ia vory llJCtf ourrast Alio thoro is a mrleua

uadortone of palltios throughout contain* iom wonderful liiSM. To ma it a

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be lookers-- but at &sy rate so full that on wonders if it will bs possible to cake

any purchases. X seriously consider resorting te mail orders for such things as I do

act ssske myself--cad my great plans in that direction give rreatse of production

being very mudi under anticipation* Yesterday in the biting wind I saw a lowg lis

in front of an as yet uaopen stocking shop on my my to the office, sad m even longer

one before another sush store on xy way home. I suspect they had advertised nylons.

I understand that any nylons that arc now going on the market have rayon feet, which

arc put on. T am the satisfaction of scions is that

ths feet wear and wear. A far acre important factor to than the flattery of tho

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newspaper stories which have already begun about how taxed transportation will be

this month. He has been out of the Havy four weeks sow and ia still surveying the

situation on the employment side without having come to any conclusion.

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Friday 1 had luneh with Donald Andrews, the Johns Hopkins ehmiet* at the Brueells restore*uat--which is Just around the corner from here, so of course X had never been there, m managed to evade the Admiral Hnlwwy parade traffiee snarl by going up Third Avenuo. It broke my heart to have forgotten abort his reception. Andrews. Genera! ISsCoy and I got to tha window Just in time to see the lest open ear and to nice the Admiral. the luncheon me delicious and X wee meet happily Impressed with both, the cuisine mid service* They offered secode both of cur fish and desert I Jven in Brussels that never happened to cither of us. He knows the city well from his student day# at hoyden* I em afraid we godeiped o much about the past that our talk a# the atomic bomb me eetni* He forts that we amst surrender cur military sovereignty within the next five years or the situation will be hopeless. The arid #14* Broadcasting people like Andrews swob before the Hertford ffh cc nusii that they asked him to make record of part of It*

flfednesday we had e private luncheon at the OecmepelitAa &*b on Iran.

Kindle, the speaker, used ie be the Secretsry of the British Legation at Teheran* ]

He prepheslscd that Aterbsijan would become an attteawfcstt* atate within the sphere

f influence if the U SR end sure enough It ie so announced in the morning ppr

today* He pointed cat that although *!he Jill of Peter, the Great* ie declared

not t be an authentic document, just m the Ifenaka Memorial was diwlntlrt, the

k: e 'x *p.v*a-nsio'vnT#,o,wftt(vRW,u4#ssia, both Imperial and Soviet, h'a$s%fo llho&wtvemd- the trea'd$> 'i:&tM -cot forth.

Monday nirtt me liigolettc at the opera and a mush better performance

then was offered the previous Monday. Bidu Saya w a lovely lilda Leonard

^rrm an acceptable Bigelotto his adaging better than his- chare cteri tat Ion, Jussi

BJoerlinjr m# a fine Duke. They were ell in good voice end the choruses of rtirt

1 am particularly fend excellently performed. Sporting of opere I icusi tell you

that Mr. McDonald me in Pittsburgh the day after the Metropolitan season opened

ed reported that the paper carried a long story of the event without ever mention* ing the name of the opera nor my Of the cart! : As you nop Lev noticed McDonald has Just been appointed t the Anglo- American t)a--lisflaa on Palestine. Ho is a*

thrilled as a smell boy going a his first capping expedition but fully reel lies

the diffielties confronting them. However he aays he has reached the age rtere

he can no longer afford to play safe. Be etttmstec their rtanees of iueees# at fifty

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in the pest rt have not been assassinated by Japones extremist will try to bo nice

to him socially* Back Id August wheat w# he*d our fingernails with impatience over the delay in surrender negotiations we knew that a battle was going m\ In the Japan

ese government now I leal* the battle conilnadd trough the early rt&go of occupation

rten KaaArthur vent into that airfield (Asurgl ?) he knew that there were at least

14 Jap divisions drawn up around it sat that the Japanese General Staff wanted to

disregard the agreement to surrender. MacArthur had naval vessels at hand so that if necessary he eould fight his way to the sea. It was the Smperor and his group that won over the General Staff Hiwithe Kazakami boys planned a mass attack on the Missori presumably to be timed for the surrender ceremony period. Again the Emperor , like Dick Tracy or some Oriental version of Superman, whipped the MDivine
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The week brought another saw atom -- the worse it la underfoot the further I bsw to twlk before I een get en a bust Yeeterd&y we bad oore snow to rewhiten the already celled residue of Wednesday and Thursday*e essa* I know that a white CtriMisms is to be desired--but somehow snow In tar York 1 such nuiaanee that I tar cms to regard it with jaundiced eye* Vitally on' Friday W ailing secretary gat bank after over a weak* abaneee atth the prevalent sold. It was good to bar her but oh was hardly at her bant* ta axplalnin& a mistake ahich had gpiten lata a latter to th* l&mmptlH Branch 1 said "the office ha boon decimated by flu" end it com back to se for signature "desolated* Trua# anou^i but hardly fcat I oaid!

In addition to the Beard saatinf the office was further upoat by the official aratouneanent of General McCoy's resignation trm the FiA* Ha i to continue a titular bend* despite the junket to Japan* until Ma eueeecscr i installed* we need someone at one, but this 1 net u attar for hasty action In my estimation* llstuaally tha cltuatica cronies a perfect atmosphere for intrigue and shattering and a lot of one'# time een go in "conferences* behind closed doors--when I have acre than enough to do with tha Chrlet** congestion slowing up oil und the tor furthar delaying business cofiaauMcation* l$r office life i messy to put it aildly*

.tot Annie me due at 4*4C on Friday* but Chi sold ha would help me out by

nesting kr* Hi* station must hare been a ncd hence adth e alight space for anyone*

It me zmrc crowded than hardened habitues of trend Central had aver seen it before*

Mary trrln* ware five assd eix hours late--but bars m& only an hour md tan start**

behind* For years the Ocmersl and Sirs. McCoy tar fiveu tha staff end board of

directors & vary nloa Christmas party* so this year in via* of their trip to Japea

the staff ployed host* The poor 0*wrd arrived just in tine evidently tadng

flown up frost tadtingtaa without time for lunch, so we plied him with sandwich* t,nd

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the punch me very good and 1 know the eoeekleft were fine because

I got thm at ay fin Frnach bakery and lugged the down* A goodly number of tha

Board cam* ^.nd the party want very wall* but would have been batter if th# General ia

an attempt to dodge the limelight had-not insisted that Harvey Fike tall about hia

recent trip to Venesuel*~hlcfe he did in mny too nany words* But at the enc1 he aid

thai oat be his groat rogr^ta of World tar 1 was that ha had never served under

6awsl McCoy and how fortunate we all were to have hrd that opportunity* He did it

estmeely well and since I consider it an Utttxeu&X experience to have worked under

hlz$ for six year* wns pleased that he put it tha my he did* , By the time I scuttled

up town to join Aunt Annie* Tfcelma and Col for dinner* tha street were voiy full of

people who had started their celebrations* 'ia arc making Quite a thing of Christmas

this year* inrk Awemia has nom fifty Christians trees in the grass area in the center

all gaily lighted aad is breath tskisg dight* Tuesday as I me going to the Cosmo

polites Club to din* with &* Ogdsn 1 overheard young man aay "By Golly* It looks

*# if this were a Christian city atr all! * The trees met be thirty feat tall*

Some are a block apart* others two blocks ap*t* As usual tali City has outdone

iteflf* a fifty-five foot Meraagr spruce decorated with colored plastic bulla* These

have hem trested with a phoflrffwaasant pydrci w^ich makes tha glow at night when "Black

H#t* is turned on thorn from nearby bullding.

After a hectic spall at the office yesterday I had tha Greenwoods* -is limem &nd Mies Gee for luncheon at tko Town Hall for Awnt Atroie* Later Miaa Co teak Aunt Annie to tha delightfully satirical "Monel Blimp* while I did tha household errands for the weekend and addressed a few belated C&rirtieae carde* Fortumtely lAicille turned up after an cbeeace of three w**ks so that X did not have to finish el caning the apartment* It la pleasant to have the brass polished again--but ^is clean curtaire I evpacted to put up have disappeared* dd though they ware I a sura I had d*aidaC thay eoulo hang once mora* Tkured&ys snow kept mc from going downtown for my Christmas graena but 1 i^r.t get ansu^h to laok festive at Slooaiitgdsle's that nl^Nt and almost froose totting thin hoaa* Harry Chrietmael Happy Maw Year!