4&B, AW/U HJLji ZU\/ Ju i t t - M ~S/iel - h * y , v Jftnuaiy 13# 1946 SIW to default test week# but I w&a fears <1# eambwt* Uf !**> days In Ifcshifl^te** we Jw#i too SMl for flat health retard and Z. developed a beautiful cold* Tharm day mc i day mi solid interest at the ittxte T*arartrl broken with a quick but inter* eatteg luncheon with y old Meat Use Fiaher at JlHa* liw. Ike hue spent tee bolt f the pact f if toon yours in Tblita and is new in the State Department# la the evening teere w * wfeamptH at the Btmtler at white Benton# Aeelstunt Secretary of State peka of the new Xateraatloasl Information Motion of the Departsaeat which is to be administered by ny former tellague '3111 atone# tea mt m wgr right* User to certeinly a great need for ue to tell tec world the truth about anUva after the years of censorship and blackout of all new from here snd the ether dcretraeitt imposed % the xi eeuatries. Pear Mil# realise* that he has a gigantic job* I certainly heps that Congress appropriates the money for this service. As wartime agimeltt fold up a X#* of g**d rereotmal for cute serrt.ee Imam available, if there is delay it will bo mnk harder to assemble a staff ami furthermore the tire te do this Job in the occupied eeusiri m % yesteriny author tlie day after tmnrot* The treperaters of the room mi lea mud with an strong draft, the finishing touches vera put to icy already b&eesreftjig cold. .Friday 1 her* my apjsalatamits by telephone rather than in person e# the excuse that mi geissy state would mp CtaigrresiaBa ti&milvM and others wlte teem 1 had dates# Actually it mm a great saving of y energy ar*d it ma mute easier to us# JSXttmre that my# 1 made the round trip If 11 6 this time m4 found it much mi teaifertrblc than Penney. taturiay I did the office by telephone red epcttt meet of the day sleeping and Sunday I jussi luted *Nt at thnrs cere a couple of crises about meetings managed to get to the office on Sfomday# but had to postpone lolly end the opera* By Tuesday, ifeen 1 still did not have speakers for the meeting in Bow Turk on tea iftht 'tee printer ee to see so personally red .asked what me the setter* I explained that 1 had been held up by very important people--tee secretary of tee Treaeaiy Vinson end Under Secretary #f State lahtsra raaag tee--mo desperate about the notices to the isebers- and wondered if I should print the luncheon seau and add e line *F.3 As usual there will be speakers** He looked at me a couple oi seconds and eai-d *Se# Lire Pratt# you can't do teat. Hi'"one sver^ advertises tee food#1*. The festcrn Union strike did not add to my situation and by Thursday the long dL*t#"ta telephone strike mm adding to m troubles* Even ay good friend M Hume turned xe down teen I resorted to people I could rreefe for a nickel, would lev to but had to be in ashingten on the 19th* I yearned to say "feat the devil goes on in iuteingtoa thai day# you are at least the fifth pertmi I know die will be there thou?" however# he wiU spate for us in March, lie will spend February in fetehlug his tifO# sou bnby end hocks from fagtaMS red then be here pmmmmiXf is soon as hie current contract run# out he will step brvadrettlng and be an administrator--vice president of TBS in charge of talks# Testcrdsy 1 raw pert ef the Victory parade# end wonder new if 1 stayed toe long m there was a snappy wind end I am soughing * good 1ml mrm today! It ems very is*prasrtvs and 1 was wd. interested in. wetohi^ the feces of tea men. the teritc# teak destroyers, self propelled howitscre goii^ to i in#iec and locking like forcchcrtcred gun# frc baitleahipe were terrifying in their calm 1ushering up Fifth ivestto* '&at mist tecy feav been in acti.cnl I hear teat tee Jap# were m immmtm for scrap iron that they rereved all the radietcrs trm Mm#mi building *k.in^ tee pay cortege to docksidairiJtun chtt^ for $ or Isac radiators ilfiS# Then the shortage sf bettens was #c frost thmt their haul rcaulaed en tee dump where tec owners are now buisly idtestifyi?ig teeir pro- pmrty# Th' !:!rtcl Titeay (rtNcre 1 cteyed) had minted all theirs blue mti o haw teem in rlg.ee but net operating: on account of fuell teortng#* Tn f^ct 1hy only have hot voter In tec rmm imt t wo hmrm tm Eights a w##k. Hicroforc all the f ricado of all tee resident# arrive with soap and towel# and stand in line for c quick brlh# The licst or hcgtesc bathing first la the olc?ia m%rt A)d/^ C(ie-1>e/ Ccdt l^tcZtZ* January 30* IS4d Yes* X ai wora then X th ugfct last Sunday ante 40 a result did not go to the office Monday mi am theoretically spending tedny lis bod having declined twrsl Invitations for that reason* However* 2 ball mrngt sy letters today 4 2 bay every intention of going 1 th# office tmmmm even if the paper dm cay that it in to snow later today i tomorrow* Yesterday *e very odd with a strong biting vind but wonderful blue efcy and brilliant sun* However a had a luncheon at the .a&Xdrof so 2 did mot gat smch of tb# latter* the hotel was so berating at the soans with events and activities that ihsy ballad things up in a most amusing fashion* Our topi wee *2h# Future of tetsansgr* and a the hotel's instruction we stmt wert t all the Speakers and guests at tha head tabla to mmt ia tha fast Foyer .af the ballroom. ma vs gat there we found a sign a tha door "finned htmtheed" & a number af people ia buoy conference. Pasteup* birth antral ia tha taar ta Germany's future# but m had quite ' a tlaa re-routing mar pmpla to mother ^therlng place* 2a tha middle of luncheon a Mr* tJroyfu# cum# to aa and with such acidity mated to "mm why 2 had penalttad the display of few flap* of tha Briti h GmmuiisaXib to ba displayed with that of tha and am of Sjfep# ftrnnce* Actually ha had n&atmica tha flag of tha UB&R or of Ohiaa for m of tfe Oraaotaal^Si but thara as am of franca sad 1 persuaded bin to accept usy apologia* and not risa in tha queetleu period and ash tha poor piaahhittihg etealsamn fmmi KUaptan* how com? the QmmmX is ia Japan# a baaSda speeharc 2 now have to atds sad train a tfmimem# Among those at tha heed tabla as J;oaee Hilton tha author* Ms- face fascinated nose runs at m decided angle from right ia 2aft and tha two halve# are quit# different. tha right eyebrow has a renounced arch teiah givec his a quisaio&l expreeelaa while tha loft ana is straight* One of tha speaker DeUtt Slinton roole said binary that Geriony has so future* that it broken is la tha middla at tha ^ba and that with tha fvngsmts of tha farwr Genaaay ooopmti^ witli naigiiborir^ aoyatrias in ragiooal fadaratioaa my say ba usafal as paopla but not as a nation* Ha is quits raoos&ly book frem hawijig hw%&#& a -Stat l^apartmit mission to quastioxt Chmma paramial cm poliiia^l amttaro* Ulan W* onillsst tfca other spaslar as tha ehiaf of tha GiS mission in OmemMp* m at laast a hmrc from sasa -ho Imw what vast an*' Dallas mid that ha hsaw of two Bararm brother* *h daring tha war vara told that if thsy m-.tad to kaap ifcsir fasdly busiaaaa oaa of than had to join tha Masi Party* Hiay flippad for tha honor sad tha no ha loot not only dainad tba Itaty bat tha 3$ sod in dua ih tumad up at tha OSS haadquartars ia 3vitsarlaad sad baa&-a aa Aaariaan agant.***# aaaful no* tha wbstaro tjdian strika orH^a ay life ia tha fflss mod adds ta tha difficultiaa of ccssamiaatioo to say aothiag of tha cost as 2 bm to use two long distance telephone calls* hare s dear latter and a prepaid airtight tdagram for tha mnavar would haws dona tha trick* D I a^ad to say that 2 take a vary dim view of all thaac strike#* Especially tha propsad tie-up of all fim Tort transportation--busses* subways and alsfatad bacmusa tha Union doaa not approve of tha proposed a*d* by tha Oi^r Council of three city cmiori paver plants to tha Consolidated ~:diso Coapasy* I don't know the team of the sale but fail to sa# ssach diffaranaa whether tha city buys alaatricity fscsi tha lilaan Oaapoay or Mil from aomo m also'to sake their cist ataattetecity* It has always bam m undexwtonding that tha city power plants war# not sufficient to supply all the Municipal aaads anyway* ixsotb-sr Item frm 1hm$mU On tha -hola Ohtmm mplayaaa of teserieaa firms took wsadasfhl good sera of tesarlaaJi property there dmHlwg tha fast ff yaara* Oaa laorteaw ho had a big offioa ^od rafidgaimtor business want back fearing that his entire iavantory would luw b#as lest* ;3hack-up dbawad leas of oaa typewriter* m^ich was offset by aa additloml ad^tag saacfeiaa sad every single refrigerator. Ovarwhelsed by hie f-ad fortune ha turned with stock adcamity to hi# (Massac wsnager mm rea^ daring the acaouatlag asd gruffly a^ewi ^baut ttec fine rwi ^Ute had bam i* tha ai offioa* '^Ith a depreciating mile tha -Chiaesa bowed and asid* *0ht 2 m a aowy* It got vary dirty hare we carried it for aafaty* It is being cleaned and 2 rmgrot it cua not gat back in tins** , QL_ ) i * /ji * iodU ft. M ffti %mMm T sfe, mfrM* ***& k*+u*&n 14 $m fcJfc 3T mm 'r?uV mbm tmm MftlftttdMjg** * &&&&*& ti jhw^kss ffa 1 it.14 *' liumiiy M# 1*46 , at wtMt kanti X Jas# {v /^OtV df " ** &** ** he ,h lift m*-4ir** wmm mw m m mm #f her ' ^ Jh! IZH ZOTZUtZ* ? Pnn" with tony owaot inscription to our friandaiiip, J laTBlJerlH tbfH tdVcTop*y Of hio >J. and tbo wootern -eria . Instead of roe dine either of thee 1 spent too of n>cuietavenlao nlnaon-.- n^-uarty-to-beds Mb are still a/- routine in reading Milan's "So *^11 hXinfrf*il f^:7atitiLfT"tt# I1* i#ne*iJ*## i* ton town of the ikuifui tlfo end natal groping of a selfeducatod sngUofaBan. It bee em wmm mmmitmt amrMiiil X aetieed with iaterwet k the ftnnk *h* artjomjSlbl Wo firot ST* f**"* f**?*?, * *>* ^ft oepiao turn bin that I'll over have, though. T*oroi>a told Bft anjmsing thing whiab probably la not is hie book. Catharine tbo torfi. u-*a *""| * " disadvantage la sot having any pleturwyio raise to afcov vlltor-~n, efcs bog m Wi B, nmn that there io * HooMow of part, wound ft. <>*tersburg(as ho oallo it)- shore up to roeonythc ruins stood 2^TM"* Xaust shook up and am if they aorrind tbo war. I pointed out . 1, .? 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F#r awsy1# ho $wvir woisf#ra ^th aoao a,, hist 'Xhlko with ooaa Mlaaa4** Xsialiostly ho msm Twmm mt&kmm nor with his# wi mm. to horo htan immmi mzt in difforont plsasts to laara aathoda* Ho Miss# thgr sao all V#ry mrnmmimmU ahoat oar frodootloa aathM sod mat to stay larger to loam mro# My wso Mam fr all i^rta f fmmm* Qm&imm* iai mill h&yp#s if Franoo goo# is far aaaa yroluatian asd mmwM^ limal I"a.ct* v 0\asi iL*v a(Cy ( ^hxrtdt^ CctJl February 16, 1946 Wall, the dinner for Secretry Byrnes i gone in a hurst of glory and I m glad we don't do this sort of thing every weokl The test of his sppeeh was to he brought up Sunday by himself and I sailed in him th suite we arranged for Mr. and Mrs. Byrnes at the Waldorf on Monday morning. He confessed he had only finished working on it on Sunday and that it was then being mimeographed in Washington--and all the papers were already hounding us# He sled he expected it at four and would sail me as soon a it arrived. Nothing happened, I chewed my finger-nails and Wilgue who was running the public relation agreed, thsi he had better go to the Waldorf*s publicity office sambas I got the undersecretary of Stat# Russell, who lad com up to sit at the Speakers fable en the phone and discovered that the releases were there and asked him to have them sent down to poor Wllgus in room 555 who by that time had some seventeen impatient news hounds on his hands. Then for an hour I ran around answering telephones which rang all over the place after the night connections were put up. People just learned of the dinner, might they comet Others found they could not, might they cancel? should they wear? tlhere to get a copy of the speech? Mr. Do&kes found his wife wanted to go with him, eeuld she sit at -the same table? Well, how near would her table be to his? and so on end so on until I staggered hose to cliabiato my jersey print, which despite its age is becoming and good looking enough to get the Questions from Frank Gerv&si (Collier's author) the last time I wore It in Washington, "Isn't that a French print?M Or maybe he is just a diplomat in foreign correspondent's tuxedo. It wee a cold blustery night, but believe it or not I got a taxi after fearing I would have to go down by bus. The reception for the guests of honor was rather fun and when I * inally decided I had btter go down the receiving line, Byrnes grabbed my arm and we went into a hilarious huddle deciding -.hat sort of s sight I would give him when the net-work cut off. I knew the radio signal for your off the air is a gesture of cutting the threat, which hardly seemed dignified, so I said we would use the cross fingsr(usually meaning half a minute to go) for "you are off the air". 1 sat at a front row^table with good vision of the radio control box and of the speaker, when I got the throat cutting from the technician I passed on the crossed fingers. Whereupon the Secretary of State demonstrated th# signal to the audience, and. said "But I have been in th ^ Senate too long to let a mere radio network cutoff stop me from saying what I want to. He made a very good statement on the need of our extending credit to Britain and the good which would derive to us and the rest of the world to say nothing of our fine Ally from such action. I was interested to notice how often he used the products o;^ th South, cotton ami tobacco, in his illustrations. He was well received and I think he liked th# party as well as wo liked him. Inci dently he and I made a dmt* to go to Charleston on March 22nd. He suggested the 15th, but agreed to tne 22nd. the next day, despite the fuel-state-of-emergeny-order which closed everything on fuesday Byrnes >f both Times and Tribune and they carried t -- - mm_mr^ Jay, so it is generally conceded that having pulled this off was good stuff end worth the plugging I put into the State Department for six weeks. The eity is divided whether it was the Irish or the former cop in our Mayor that led to his Monday night order to close everything for lack of fuel. I did not go out Tuesday, but under*tand transportation was cut by 20 and tor twenty four yours mil stores, theatres, schools, offices, bars and museums were closed. All outdoor illumination was banned several days before that and street lights back t wartiiae "brown out" which in actual/ practise is something between a half and a third of normal lighting. 0lDwyer told us not to be hysterical, but issued statements that he was tosassndeering school to be used to house the number of pneumonia patients which must develop# and also to shelter the inhabitants of cold water tenements end other dwelling without heat. Statements which Bid not make for calm, fortunately Jungsdid not to that pass for the good old Navy tugs brought from Brooklyn, Boston and Hulaaelphia delivered a lot, of coal and oil. Guess they must have surprised Hit r.onor . I bet UGuardim had been in office he would have been out operating one ox which I believe never did get into action. hile the office and the par * * < ^ oxi th# cool side, I have not been uncomfortable. / fit fj Bf CQt^ue^ X^hd^ /I4qu&*V - ^ % i f .* / $bm*xy li ii4# Japma in Jtmrnxy* 194# Q mmi mmmr 1in sigh* *f togr** otmtogic mrm th Japan** Xalaads mm in ralatiot* to to isdail "ontiaimt* as It lis athwart air and m fut SSTto M. to Mm an* tho mmrntern. nmm^r it la * longer irm toy* t* 3aa IVmoolso# fcyt Oroat Qireile 0km# north thm frm toy to Honolulu# ^*?*152r forty*# nisBlOft to Japan (ittl) MX# molting In th paai^s or I" tftdt w&th Mm m mdwrtekm to our sallng tatioa for th 9B thwy *a* human tysatn** fr zmmm #hm to Japs** 1*1n*ds to ooal in to tfttloa tahXih* uadar a bluff mar twk&mm tmmmI longer ton anythii^ I# *ftr th* groat mrthqwM# m to early toaii* Purpoa of to iter ite#tm OMwtoioa trip nan to esaaat wtth th 0iier*. 0#ra ttealrthiir# A to Mm of th ourrmtetor th Japan*** uthoviti* hat# toy wold# tor# diffleulty oeatolliag th# poopl .la Ua with *gpMt a&d hp th hi ripi*B destroy*# the Hem Amy* os n* a half million soldi** frm Aslatl wtlMaai an* th# S#vy paroona! hav toa toMX it*, a* diaj'^ard iat# th toil tan rpulatiog tol wl h.ve w&i ^rrm^m*cu th ta powar hiah foo^ht for Jap&a4 dfat an* ar rprmst4 th Conrni mjion {.imto* rpr4atf^tir to lnforsaod) found, th not yt Jtod cag^lot# th groupt 9ueofui thow^ Ml 131 on* e&rriod out ***?* lit ttaoia s,ui4i.i ttaWMN 1h Ja,paa##o poopl r latfyand todldrsd and coi^ltoly #...ui^c^ art living uatcy t .in tfe aaap# ountry* Half th poptot^on of port aitio hi8hrdnt an* hf yvwaiia* thr 'Sho to sa#vd ta^r#d *.n oiiio# %livJ j. in shek to4*i a*r rtaford conorrt 'Utildiisgjs and sa-' ^ 1 torn trtour withstood hanhig tho<.^gh iiiasiidimrim acitumis* for bmj' of thir roofs# Baua of Japan Ourrent rap or raisi thr$*#tu4 th Fr i^ ^#t#m Japan# to tovarlih mtirm grow radish##* ahhag --nd ttor "toto * M aadtoi d*otd t rue in Mm #ypr (Mar than half of th mxv:# land x# od^*cr fin. } to Japan* hm *mUd a variaty f ra hih an witNtoi flurrls of snow# Fr 'Xhhy aath aiwag tr#s r# in foil fruit a* pil#s ot on-ag# m m th Siitftf* Temern tor ua4Nt in feo&rdl^ so * 1--<* ^bm , ,00Q : e s " I 5 ? w r E 3 U ^^ *& 18 1 ***5?i0v'u. l*TM h* *""* *"* !"*#? fL to kUoaoter* fr fbS aaifcttftefof*lotohhe,Waoilnl V W*laWH*^^ lEbl^Betr. knooked <*>. lS lflNlkU*o>a-*ta*rJ*i* r^ ef intend# dddtrotio?.lB ^ tn tfel roe sbinunar bwuar*r***o*ro* ^aW TH lfWy*!21o1WlTkoooW efoar^llliTnJufW. Mj^^toheTkHN'M*P"<^4',' ^thi ougt'.hcyg-"snras^ aor aolecta. KW* v?!7hL Leadhlri pnwaooa*. ho io * ,ts pjwunoa.. Prim* k-iaotor ihldohar j had o oleoo dlWW uoArthur nt hi !H.'tsrar Jbar?,,i2^^*y?2gst klese to tako W W*" 4 -1 _ February It, 194# Japan In January, 194# One maist &wor lose sight of thtgreat strategic area th impmrnm* Mmmdo oeupy In relation to til# Asiatic 2ratiw#t* m it 11## -athwart sir mi sea routes frm th# fS to Mm and th Philippine# tmsnsbar it is no longer fro feky# to Sua FFanaieaa byi Croat Olrele M0$0 north than fmt Toby to Honolulu* Ooraiiedcr* Forty* mission to Japan (18S3) while malting In the opening ep of trad# with Jhina wa# #**ti#rtnfe#a to secure #altng stations for the IIS %ty and hwmm trmtmni for seamen shipvreoksd m the Japanese island## The coal in th station establish#* under a bluff asar tQfa&mm burned losger than anything else aft or the great earifctjUakfe of the early twwatlaa* Purpose of the Far :;#tern Societies! trio ma to consult with the Supra!* Gesamandsr* Om&ml Hat Arthur, tt the lie*# of the surrender th Japan### *uthssitl#a knew ifery would how# difficulty aantrmlling the people in line with agreement sd by the n##rcr and hi# r#pre##ntatlsr Iad#d sewerml conspiracies wore foiled# On# m# to dleragard the motion taken in the emperor's oaa nut us the son of the empor as figurehead for continued rcsiflrtanae* Mother %mm; the diehard of th# Havy m# to make # mas# kaiilmMn raid on th# "Big Me* anehsrei in Tokyo Bay for th# surrender eerssieay, this m# diseowercd and averted th# night before# ;$m tfeeirthur landed with a few paratrooper# h knew that th# airfield ms wmwmM by IT fully equipped diwi#ion## Th# initial landing and subsequent ecupotion has gone faRtaetieidly well# Japes*# Utr potential has been completely deetrcyed# Th# Haas ;ynay, on# and a half million soldiera frees tsiati# mainland and th# Savy personnel hew# been deaobillied and. dtmppmrsd into the civilian population. Havel veeeel# hew* been surrendered* Hi* tea .powers whisk fought for Japan*# defeat end mr represented m th Gemaissiec (Imlft'i rcpreoentRtlve in# not yet joined the group* though the lift he# fee## kept ififcnaod) found the occupation complete sod eueceesfhl end carried out in #tot>smawllke manner* The Japan### people ar# confused* bewildered end completely acquiescent. 00% are living in Me country. Half th# population of eeaport eities had moved to th# country to escape bmbarfeeiit and haws reamified there* 7ko#e who stayed in oltiee liwe in shacks, the ugh modern reiof creed concrete buildings end saediewal atoms structures withstood bombing, though incsedlarl# accounted for may of their roofs* 3o#a*#a f Japan >urrt crepe ere mined threughmt th year la eastern Japan* Th# b##w#rlike natir## grew radishes* cabbages sd toHer "Garden ###* in the paddy# dewoted to riee in the eumner* (More than half of the arrmbl# land ie used for rise* } The Japan### haw* deweloped a weriety of cmng tree sfei.eh ea withstand flurries of snow* Frs Tokyo south on?ng trees were in full fruit md pile# of oranges were in the mrkmtm* Fsrmm haw# e####d#d in hoarding* ## iietributios is unewen* 'Despite reports and pi,ess frm the Japanese there will be no starvation* He ewidenee of ma!* nutrition in any age mnge. Hiere is h^rdahip in th# cities* but not starvation* The MiHomit ehao# is the result of the needs f the mr mnhlm and it# eollap##* Bombing ostri'but#d to the osMplet# breakdown of industiy* Imsirthar has imported cotton to b# mad# into mush ##d#d slothing. Silk attt seal* the latter te the F*X*f'China and Korea* feeir^- exported* let ia the interest# of Japan so tmate as to enable the purchase of neeeeesry inserts* 7Z million psopls are eoayletely di##snjbobulated. Hi# lowaly old estl# in Ilagoys was deliberately spend in Vhing, but a group of 0*1*# got out of hand end looted th# mweim ---probably only inetan## of its kind. The pre ha# naggeratd effect of the atonic beaib. HircehlM# a elty of 00,000 v$th snuiition# f notcries in It# tenter, presumably l#e a* ammal* Kure aawal base a few .idle# amy if jpreatar end mr eempiete than asy base in tSnnpm or the H.3., and island with mountain# nd well tunnelled* leeks a mees but of the mshinory found to be intaet* Our bowbing (#nd imv 1 hm^mrdmmtf) dellbsrwtely nvoided damaging the dooks ifclM w#rc sot tou^ied M are new feeing used, 'kmrimm vessels now in their drydeeke as well at s^e of the Jaymint# e#e#tal craft. .4s a result of our rcclio wam mtm m Jarvn, Jaau#ry 1946 ing 3O0f0OCiishftMt4 4f4 to siiy. Hhwm mi R air mid tlorl in to ami^ md *ftr lbs pUnes WWW* IWtoBw rtjwrtlvs, all clear sounded and people returned to streets, where wet of thee looking upward were eaa#.t by the steal* boesb. tail alios mam to|Ifloraotom trm itmm dmtmoilm ok a soeop, mil# J dialike hi viowpaint and 4mH trust fcia lives* hio blast* aoeo hat mlys interrated mo. 1# *y* th.t the WmbUmm (wo- atotisg in a privet# diiig roam of tho latiead laffMioaa Club due to Sok) wilt not ran Staoson fsryoaldont hut that Trtma* will nm i 1 eeuld net draw hia os stews tho HamabUOeao would put agalaol. htm. Bo had horn la mitfiiagtea da' Tfearodey and raport tha so sob* Joot of osnvaroation or rathor Quootien aad apooulatieao oa ifeo part of Soaatoro aad ffllHirooniOM woo what vara party ohonooo 1 tho olootioa. thlo aftansoea 1 am golpg to Hftymood Loalio Buoli*# htaortl* Bo woo 4i ami sfio# lis ^eatroftl whore bo had go for aaothor oporatioa* Ho hao not bmm woll oiaoo the rmtmv&l of a ferala timer aovoral yoara age* Use obituary mtim all aid that ha attained hiff wwiot public reeepsitieti wftMO ha was with the fero&go felioy 4ooooitieo. ;N^I ew# oovaral litdhoo of it. "todiiooday sight it get wory mi*u siti r, wlokod i?isd o the loparlooMt of Sahitatioa had troahlo olooriMt away pilao lour feet .bifOi,* loot a littlo mora anew* hut fOrtamtoly It la all malting today. T < in for Im Bohomo on Mosday night nod it was a wary o&oo pmft+ *o?is*s*oa**3,,hriifsomf tmfee*ar*ll srounwdi igto tmoothaegoaplaarajdo|iitaoo midDooaahr nod had sot aaoa holly , ;,. istoraotisg ld# ll#t m Jeswofho }mre two all oenoumiiif laid devva !thorggajs?a'rjraPl4 otorwatlom sd oooond of tef^unisis* principle of tsdoaaiity (it oaomo tkt tho Fetodaa Oosfwrawoo Far iaotom Oooniooloa ail1 dateraiaa ito finettl}| the of a fealoo viahl# aeosao^ and tha eotahliok- aoo* of a doooertaio gmcrmmnt ahiih Kagli ultimato ho odnittod to the laltoi .Mtlzm. wW t that thoy aro ^isfarior41 and oxaXudod from world #! ^oror dfwosio of a sosotitytlenaa moisarohy aloog 'Mtloh lii^o bcmum h# io foailiar with tha old British pattern wad igrrewoo of it* Thay do sot wont to patters thir future aiosg: ihm terioos line# hmrthg tee mugs aheut otrikao and fooiring tirnt as art ^oodod for os^sttdUHOi (ibay oaws to knew little of iha Labour SwarsRast is Em^^rndm) .ill frotostnst #mr^#s is 4mpm byi J^tssad a io^aranoo oiooj t the and 11s# ipiooopmliana. The Cferirtlan dapasaoo era hwisg stra^thn tr sglfl gg yPWwohlp Ottd'WO > ^ MmUm Ehw BppiiSO hie ft-sdly wm ttttdouhtadly aattousca their oemraroios. On two oadoa whoa diffotmst poopla Yisitad v sj S* kJL I? J?, M- -u o,# *j l/t/L*3*** *%# * March 2, 1946 % f AM} vfe , 7 , ^tx~^c y rei M Tomorrow to Free-port for the family version of the doable birthday of Jia and Jay. The date is really Monday and he began the three day festival with the party for his playmates. By Monday he will be six and I hope not exhausted. I'm feeling a little guilty today. Donald Andrews was in New York on his way back to Baltimore after making two speeches for the FPA in llmira and Albany and took me to lunch at *21w. It was not the amount of food we had, but the sise of the check that loft me uncomfortable. W did not have cocktails, only sweetbread patty, mixed green salad, strawberry tart and coffee with a half bottle of white wine with the sweetbreads. Yet the check was over ten dollars for two. I know it keeps money in circulation, and the service is excellent so that it makes a lot of employment. I noted on the raenu^ that a hamburger is $1.75. Donald is doing some special work for the Navy in thermal-dynamics, sub-sere temperatures being his specialty. I m very much inter esting in the political and social thinking being done now by the pure scientists. They seem to feel that their work presented us with the problem of atomic energy and seem to be doing more thinking about the problems it raises than the social scientists. I asked him what he knew about the current activities of the latter, he replied that from his observation in serving on a committee to select the new political economist for Johns Hopkins that most of them are etill buried in the derails of the 18th century research! Monday Olivia Holt (Mrs. L. Samett Holt, Jr) telephoned that Frieda Utley had not gotten back from China for the Tuesday evening program at the Cosmopolitan Club and she was stuck with only one speaker, Sir George Sansome who had agreed to introduce Frieda and "Say a few words1*. I whacked up Rosinger of our staff who was supposed to take a typhus shot looking toward his own rather indefinite departure for the Orient. Gerry had asked me to dine with her and go to the program with her, so I heard Rosinger and Sir George. I was so glad that he had declined my invitation to speaker for the FPA 1 KAe "few words " took forty minutes and sixteen people walked out on his pedan tic analysis. (He is the British delegate on the Far Fast era Commission and has also just come back from Japan--perhaps the General had told me so much that other people liked Sir George better than I.) Mrs. Raymond Buell and her sister-in-law came in and sat beside me, which reminded me of Saturday's funeral. Paul Kellogg sat in the pew with me, as editor of the SURFS GRAPHIC he took an editorial interest in the Hymnal duing th second hymn and carefully studied the page of acknowledgements! I must say the more funerals take me around to other churches th better I like the Episcopal service. Reinhold Hiebuhr's eulogy of Buell was magnificent, but I do not like the form of the Pres byterian service. - " " Wednesday noon we had a Pierre luncheon for the "plush bottom ladies" with Major General (Fighting Bill) Donovan speaking on the need of an independent intelligence service in peace or war. It was very timely as two books on the OSS, which he headed came out this week. I had not sem Donovan since the autumn of 1940 , his hair has gone almost completely white. Despite his vigorous hardhitting manner, he is curiously re- .. .. laxed and very approachable.(The ihole business of asking hira to make the speech and getting his acceptance took me less than five minutes.) He makes the point that a nation needs an intelligence service independent of State, War and Navy, which gets its appro priation, does its analysis and makes its reports stright to the President and Congress. Channelling through another service or services is too apt to color or slant the intelli gence and even delay the news in getting to all the people who could use some facet of it# He said "We made mistakes in OSS# I believe in mistakes# It is the only way one learns# One mistake we made 1ead to the death of 16 men, who although they were in uniform when they were captured were shot without a trial. I went to Nurnberg and helped in the pre-*-^ paration of the case against the German officer who ordered those deaths# He, too, has been killed#" Thursday Eleanor Brewster came down from Hartford to spend the night# After dinner at the Club we saw Cornell and Harwicke in "Antigone"--a slight adaptation . of the version produced In Paris during the occupation which gave so much heart to the people of the resistance. It is beautifully done, afterward we talked too long before bed# -h <2 S| adh#iv stsrlls fads, tooth hmdhse mod wis, ths post sffim this sftsnxoen* unXgsnthtiemstasbtloe#tssXslflol tsJks tfesn asksd for and aotbsr food jpsrosl to powdered nUk, hooolats end eosoo# Mhsd fyoa kri**a otlt#r Bug* ts rswil snd mmm fsidst to have bos lifted hsr *jp*rtsnat still trm ths standing ltbeothoagPrgi yw#ntiSdhisshf ttaiithtTrOa#nhditeh h looted of her hofmh*1m1d$olncitdhdlbi.^m, feooHdm# dsi9ss#fiIrhsst thing *&ieh fpevs sssjsr effort# her greotsst Four frap^its us ths pcrtnsit has pierced ths seams# but shs got it bsdk ts Lssdl#9# end rsasvstsd it herself# lbs dsssribsd ths Isotersl as miMt&llgmt tor Mm tmmd in the rabble iplts * Mi of hsr sllvsr inslading pnrt of * very old and val-mhls eoUesiicm# Ihe mid ona trmsurs for m turkey and a hag of floor* lis# tsahsy ms the first neat they had had in slisost a year and shs had a right to b# proud of her stroke of ta*iisi#fs# lit) h^i ii dreadful, tine got ting fern 3on off for Orlsmns *-ns spesa# At one point w feed a ilftm to Atlanta arriving about tss in the snig ns festal tfesre sould ssssnodats hmmnd a sdmopmr ife mm sldfet ts Hew Qrlesms* ffer^gjh a lasky ^rnk end ths visa prmidmst f H#!i# l4#y PS finally got a aysgartn--t ssrteiialy wms afessrsd ts get spass Friday for Aunt Amis sfarsdnmlawtsVgeosktstsOlahwnrOtsvsttsialnso#n X the BBad# X shall h# wsasy until X feavs ths ratm spass In y hands# I nnst hs hsrs m is Bf1k* ?#ra goes as far as ifeosala ^ad X still don9t know hew she wilt #! bfe ^ lA JoJt; &T mm si xm 1 ,:. , iH.ji U there is an lama of ofeiVtei next wtesasl it will kt fro a laSfflf disappointed person# &* telphssod ns Ttiosday thai through friends in the yard h# boh 9iwini 4Wr berth bound speee for * It was %tm4 to bear Ids voice md knm Wm waryam there mm soil end m fiese of' te soot extraerdltmry Ittsk to get gpeee < tim *b# *m P** Ir^ia trm Qmttamtam 1 hmwa mm ham Ma to got en It tins** IMi* te it maHy be thet thing# mm leaking; up tessoertetlon wise! Usasi&j? sight mrjary Mmm mi l dined mi the Srilim before &ofg to the te ia ih todoieebuo*esoievaergnrioguhpt*andJh#ehgeemrsadmmmthrolueggh*flMt mfssmdsm*d*aeyarttgheefteoeffeficelimvaeddmhmapoptiilyU tea I wit to tJartee for dinner ttetef *&&%* It 'mm wall tei I hod teen bar tin of wy favorite mittmm Ohm dieter to try* teething nysterleus hod Imppam ad to her tej* mi she m pruetlselly is tmm tern t arrived* i ended op with Mg bs^i m tender# bat roils end m lovely* lore# MUd ^ith errors end teeee end aaftaa$ whieh she mil a *mkm* la the beat tetiqlentsl meaner* Dm so got to esrk piroolo. # opened up m wkiefc hod tern itemt hy the pool office teeaelhly for mm petege*~bti% m both fool test it ted boon seat busk bestuse it so* not soil !kM *d had olftetr sprung * late Je both nmd to it mm m lot sop# fte u oprm#kiH^ff#tfre#atr*t 1!*# so #aa d# 3a# se# fottel oosi# it o^ia* It is tbisg I ooiildaH sasotigg jmt y to ooo tessia oa, m4 1 ma Mm bmaa iamiI tbr that teo fold sot loe&t#* Mteotey 00 bid te lost or te dw of luooboofis t tu# fiorro* Qmmml MaOo? aam up from 4mMmtan t&r it mi mm in voiy good ivm* It gsoo mm m teinoo to got atei^etflRMMl oat m mm wimr point# shi^fe had pus^od mm* Fsr acMtiv^iotyy Tb bttlr of mil te# lipasi giw book ag^ln^-silSdor tM bolter tea bad fro tb# ot#Ml# baft roll# #r#r* Hrro w te ^i^i.2353ii^' oi # SOW immtmmit for bo!do### X iimwlol iooldng i or sprte wad Juat aft of tfeo birldgo a faataa* tio now dariao toioh muioaotloally dfeorta Hi# patfe of tfeo mip# tfea lofan #pparmtu#f te. 1 ly# femw that Cliro#a Job waa feoaay sad taportaatf tot X aw* iaprooato to know tfeat to a atoglo yoar bm tod Hpiod tfeoHoet# oogsl#tdwfeiw for oror 3500 ofelpa of oaa Haaa (pratofely L3 a). "Htlat of ooura#t mm only part of tfeo Jafe for wfelto to aoa ra^onaifelo as fea and feto staff tod to oonduat toata on arory loaatioa of #rwry afeip built to too fard# or rapalsad tfeora* (l 9*m to raoo.ll ttot aimrillatog and motor diatlllatioa systi# to feaopltal ship* gar# jorttoaiir troufela tod rm*fear tfeat too yaara ago tfe#y fead a drondftil tiaa i^itb tfeo rc^rigormtioa of a Franofe mi##r.) Oa tto Utooatar X aoa auafe totaroatad to tfeo toadtotoa gramtly in toiiwao trm tto aklypto*# prlmt# Torntoafe town to a taoBHia*# poat of duty tfeat #11 war# studying altfeor far tfea work at tond of for tto sasxi grato* totor aa attopto up tto laadlag saag ^ tto feaaifesd fedT 29 itoafe fead toon aotlott to tuson mod CMaoaa. Htfeoa# tfea Tard to to a fira toy woto ar of tfeto araa war# busy witfe lmrtotsr tod ifeiir ,pa9t to yaoparattoa to ola*go as tto aooaor tto Jafe la doao tfeo aooaor nany of th# would to sopoiratod frsa Has aanria#. Ifeo Tard Cffiaara ^uartors and toapitol war# owns aoro attraotiro than artr to tfeolr aattiog of apri^t flavors. Ifes sign post# around tto Tard wfelofe tod to orootod at C51ors#s sungoatioa warn attraotlwa mud a grant kalp to giving dtraattona for finding tto various topa warabcusos ato atoaraga aroaa to tfeia groat sprmwdtog sotafelistenst# Aftor mrnrsk m. l-mtoy in Asfeloy Faroat Manor at tto Qfftoors* Oluto wo wont on to too toaa toll iltotatton tonally knows m Qyprm* tordaaa. 1 gaslH od wall tofop to asgro feoatoto iiiffit m for 41 atoutaa tferougfe tto floodto ***** and mmmtixm mmX* w (w a) skillfully evading not only the o?pr*m tree# of great height but the submerge! *baees* * Xfe# eater 1# Husk* puaNi If' eletrieitr fjnr tlx weeks ia .Cee#ber and early Jfumry to latof the hUse* Xhe beaks are pimaied with M it# Wiles* bug# daffodils end assise* of til eolera tad warlsties to as ie mmvm m long period of bloom* %iek sees Mia# fr# the trees* bond spia amis# kleeaa IMU from Ate# overhearing law#* *d float #a the LsVWUfe^*ei>we***^aS*fgi*e#t*e',*,**aa>#|#dtihsrteaunathv^W #iisW itiaamW sfcw *l m of pink* rot#* aesaita or salmon hiem. Ia fuly the mn 1# drained of it# 5 f##t of water Mew# had iteve for Mbtsy m4 Turner e* while the children were ia tab##! a# swot t# sights## CtMrleeieaw the Soak -Street theatre which stsangely i# oa the eeraer of Mirefe sad $# Streets bat boot beautifully restored If A fund* to it# erigasl IfM state* it* IMUp1* dbureh were Bertha*# family fe&vw pew U interested fr the individual teste di$pl*syed by pm holder* ia the abler end efe&raeir of eusbisna tad teaeeeeka* it# sburebysrd is a both aids of tbs street tad is pari of tbe "Cateney ,$aikw #*ldh eovsrs MViffel Meek* tad load us to Lme* U$X 1 where fmnees bad bar pieno rooitsi* Si* Meh&el'i has a levsiy safr #f weed for lbs fmiptt# ptrk&ps far ssouti# ontr###a* though it lsoki a# tfc#ufb Hi wf did m% trust th# roof! Thsir dsureh yard 1# ##U kept bat ha# stoaa# for the irdfeoystEsl iliobael iM mzz&thmr for Ga-briel* wbiab sasli# on# aaoder if tber tar# members of th# prittsb* Horo, toof is a wsodom b#dt#od hoadpi### to aarb ehiid*# pxw* lb# tiiy is dotted with bouse# #b#r# Iburtha4# aa###t#r# Iir#d aqr farorit# Mi ^utlsdg# Mr#* (m fra# MMkwyr $all* mm m boardlag *fe#sl for girt#} ahm bar gvaadaotbor mxt a# a brid# of if #ad had it ohildron* Tot h# # a#v#r board #ddr#s or gyasfc of bar feu# ^ftiwt tifttii MI ?*Mr* JaBtaiagse ** I aa# doftof ollr interested eftor rinitliig doaoybia# ft#sdr* mm9* "Tbro# Cf slocdt M$amer# to ##e the **3ereusii** <*<<<** ebbute ea the froisbt yard# .sad ffie# werts of sfc.ari##tof# uoop#r Mirer mterfroat* it mm a farorita ar#a for tlx# sity hmtm of rise plsatatioa ooa#rs tad aaxgr Xmmly baa## rasia #aa# still isbabitsdf # ia th# t*T by the original foaiii##* lb# outbor i# a oeusia of 0o#t##Mrtb Moan# ad bsrlba 'amid h# opat Most or b#r time ehiob aM#b#r of ibidt fadly #a# ia Miad a# tb# tariouo obsreotoro a#re presented* More to# w# aaa tb# Wash ia tb# Cooper Hirer Bridg# sbidb ooaaeot# Suilira# ship dragged eeobor is a oI#aIreioaud#9# Foal Meultri# suddea #%u#U tad Idle of ead dashed i%la odtb tb# oity* m&dmt a support ia A Viot#*y tb# ##* Miry brought doaa #rerai hundred foot of bridge upoa Itsoif* aosrauaioatioa ia a#v aaiatoia % auxilXisry ferry provided by a oouple #f P# (or soaethiag) or as 90 ail# detour* lo were glad to see la tb psp#r tbst tb# first seotioas of a Bailey isrido^ bad arrived s# serve uatll permmmt repair# sea be sad#* ta s# rotro#d tb# o#U of berth#* aether sad sunt s mm mm beautuKoiy out bid yrtl glees## sfelob 1 bad sever aetised before* w# piofeoi up the obildrsa at tb# SU 4adrova# rsrieb Bobeol sad e#at to bagasli# Csrdea# -- la ail## from toss* the estate vas oseatod ia 16f$ sad the gardas bepai ia KH9 shea tb# first *&aale hutim* aero iaported into this country* Iber# are bosover BEAR iatere#tiag trs#s9 s Osiifozaia ii#d#oodf Otia#s# Tew9 CrytonerUf both Spaalsh sad Froasb eypr#a loag iotf piK#9 Jepoai-oa $<*, Craodiliora* Agda it aas tb# aagatfieeae# of tb# a#ala# sad wisteria idtiob took our broatb* Ttw ground# or# sell kept Igr #ouads of aegso wmm wboa sew raking the leva# sad MM sfeo aprsyed sJ&d detersd the pitting# with sn#Xl portable jUP Motor imp# whiib took tb# eater froa aeevby reads or refleotiea fools* As so left X remrked to More# #lvsa If I have Just ###a it# X still doa#t bUsv# It** A# we drove ea to ttaasrviU# a residential sea^usity with aasy retired aorth#ra# as noted tb# profusion of yellow Jassiuslae ia tb# wood# sad tb# white dogsoed* ihmervill# b##id# the beueiiful hlorn* sreuad beoe or easll boue# be# a large* wild part of aealees evidently iai^led by a locnl mrweymm* Tvt4ois.t^r the tin# ie trs**#fl#at amies# is bea they are la blooes. Her# we saw a geed ssny of the later bloeedsg *mll*r flowered varieties ***! Ttrh### and I were jessed to-see assy dit#e end aere del lost# piakt sad ealaoae* 7k* field niggers sees t# have benefitted by war wage# end enlarged their eeufftry eabtas* lb# fasbloa of pals^fjig door# mad windows blue *to hoop out tb# Hauata* ###ei to bsv# passed for w# observed few* It i# geaoraUy esaooeded that tbe negor## have been Mere thrifty of Mr bom money Ms* the poor Whites* the-ugh we did pes# negro night Xub out ia tb# eeuatry* H#d or white atooo# or# *hi#i faMoa* ia tie aegor fm*X* world new* THOUGH the elder wmn ^tiU wear Jmskm dewa #MHB#S slio##* aaok# |DPO end oarty the wseh ea thdp bead#* ' mrm m in$ {** help us!) itaesday uernlssg we west to Mddletoa $%wm Gardens * another iebsly User rise plantation* Us# mats house*whisk see dM^eyd by mm built in otioniaX day# fit the heod OF bend in tli# river* From it a aeries of tlx HIVMII leed to the "bitterfly pools* end the pwssy strip at the river* s edge with wharf end WW riee mill* 3mm tli# sire#* bit 1# t.h piling idht fvm Use old freight Vbasf dheereetly hidden in tl# woods# The plastitiie* and gardens were already established when 8*013 president of th nsntin--rlsl Geagreee# Imported fren Engl sad a Isndseepe gprd^mr* him ilreetien 1km terraoiiig sM farmlity of the grounds 3^esjr the htoudNS m with on# hundred sis### wssfctm; for ton years* notary*# son Arthur# a ilptr of atiim of Xadepettdsnss* invited the Freasfe betaaist lain Miok&ux to loud m haai with the garden# and It# planted the first Qsnellia# Japeniea to bo brought to tills countay# four yHsitts war# sot out* three oro still living* Here too 1km mmHim were post their prim* but under sash was a esrpet of rod# hblte or flan* 'tilwm wMeh md dropped mid Into flowers worn still pretest nmmg&i the skin# dark folio##* *mm p3mnd mm foot toll* vttm so sent through dim slipped tunnels shtre the plants bed grown on either side of the brisk edged path to nest overhead and then had to bo trianod to loop the passage floor* Arthur'* mm Eeary* was Severner of South GeraLlna sod Inter Minister to hussia# as doubt added bis bit in the whole# though the useless were not introdusod until -411Ion's tins in Vm* Busing the evolution the SriiiA cashed the house* but did net ham the true- tuns* so M it housed the negotiations afeisfc lend 4# the Jepartiure of the British fron OHarlestsn end the Oarellas oonot* In the Between to# .States in 1MB after too fell of CMdftMetffl the house mm again idlings sad this tine* X regret to soy ens burned as sore nest of tbs JMlmp Hear jdalUm beans* The ton story right slug* probably guest quarter* essayed sod is still the resident# of m direst dossoodoot of the fouadar* The bri^t rise udll* osri^g kmtrn, mad oxtenolro otebloe and olero quarters soon to hers survls od* Th# plantotion is slm&i 7*000 sores of obiih thers ere id aeree of gardens* It requires SO sum to keep the grounds* loot ymr they only had eis! Bos there are asre end t# m& tkm mowing mi refeing th lev^n* sprayleg the esalses* snd ekiamiwg eeua free the pools to beep the grounds in the soil ordered mmmr its ferns! design dletatoe* At the right of the present house averlsvktzg a #-nll late eith asalem plontiogo as both, sides there is elnap of m&niSimmi lire oehs shieb were Just buddtog. in their early yalien* i^green o^ leaf* Frost th^lr rugged linbe hangs cpantitiee of dpenleh mmm* % the riser bant after the bend is the senersble Mtddleton Qak* mte to be 900 years old* with a ltd spread, of 144 feet and a elreunphnrsase of 07 feet* After luseb so drove down to Felly Beaeb md eat eeatlesu in the sua to eaten the fire rose of snail breakers roll up the shallow keaeh f tamsnaUy fine sand ihile the palanito peine rattled behind us* be parked at the CtQ dm dub for wMteh dove had a guest sard*-to Me #* greet surprise* These wen ermage parties for petioats at the Ussy ford hospital to gin* a day1# eating is wilder weather# paying the seete frea their eleb**in*io*nts profit* It w%s as hard as vw io lest# on the 7*40 train* Ibis is the first tin# in four years that % have gotten timnspertatiea ei this train ores with Slots*s inieree sloa# vhldb ikieU It this tlip* ifeile heaty travel is easier* n both trips mo wet# able to get into the dityler wttbmut uaitiag* be arrived in Men legh right en tine IMseedey norrdf and war# lueky ^u>uiht to get a three thy old taxi* It mm a Joy to ride without greased ideoe mtsd mmrtent susplelaie that tin door would fall off if nothing worse! J we* at the of flee by ton-thirty end get sought up with that bed happened Is ny abeeree end ploswmd to dietote msmt of the afternoon* However 1 allowed ayeelf to be sedueed into yei^ig to the mvtem of the United IiUfi Soourity Counsil at Hmrter* 7m wee to get In en tie m sard while OsrMyn id I wwpe the guests of the Soretry hmdi the mgrngim Wr* Me* fe ueoided to go up at ones and in oinr nsse teak the wrong train# did 1. fortunately dleseverod before It was tee late te iBwrtaully wo arrived t TOth street and walked in the lovely mm eunehine airoygh of relies te get rnsr eords# then over for s eefeterie laasehea* Outside was festive wtl^k flags of all the nations# starlit** in dress w&Jtmm while inside theie wars great slumps of dogwood# fsrwytfein# ete* X was MISII struek bp the eonetruetimsi Job# the intimey of the etnospnoro, tb* skill of the tranelaters and the pereensllty f the delegstee* It was nest interesting te be these then Aubeeiisder Orossiyko sonde Me hitter!* etetesw&tf gathsred Ms papers with great deliberstenees end followed by Me advisers walked out without msfem tmmrtm te toko sMtiee# thmigh the dilnese dbeisweat hold mi buMateee until they left* 3-jf, i-Vj',^ , Ke'^j, ^' ' *}'<>* - "h , t dohmt Hopkins, in hargs of the Savy CT prejest end about to smdertahs some further research fsr the Hawy, aM is a graM pareon in e eensitive, ei4 vay# deversl year age he ocseit oo^d a ballet* which was produoed for ifbOC visiting Oh*nits, arousd the Mom splitting thorns. The epeetgraph reading for varieue elesMMte provided the tesipo for the rsuei , the wsnry ^oicctlM fall asleep working ever the forrtole, audi tii# itaai com# out and 4kmse to their proper sheMlsal vibrations, fimlly tho nam awakes frightened t wfcst he s#as, ruaho to his aiesi enasher and pute *n end to the danee# He played part of it for me Sunday aftomooa after the end of the Fhillmrmemie vhieh so heard the radio# Before he had his supper a Saturday Mf asked if his aether would ytlgy a lev records? for bin :M had difficulty in deciding whether he mntd Baoh or Xslsixthe# Af4or dinner we ylsyed the first half of the *hagi* Flute" reeordimgs* Saturday ofternoon we wandered thren^i the Sionrood* gardes dher# aialea# and tulips were just esaing out# Am*3ugly large and beautifully colored pansie# were planted in stiff three foot cissies around the fetltas of now ssvem er tight foot dog wood, the pink .ad riiite teloeeoms bout haif my to mafnrity# fMtf* ms one young, mtbsar spindly fiWMpselia gfeliflora# I had never **m m% eo far north and vender if it is culte Happy. Tt did not look It, Jesey is a dear. IMgjh X hgtfS known her ior ^n ysars, we have not seen wueh or eosh ether awtil this winter# 3he tmrn from Hartford and used to ten oh at Miss Fortr#e School at Fhflsington. tusiday, sfier ahiireh while ere eoeked a doleetnblo dinner I wsrksd on Sandy while Ben tried to get srae pctien picture# of hiv. X seepert *the profeeaor" nntehsd a imp while Sandy and X played bell in the sun. He w very cute about tHiaMsg up ways sash #?ng in rceition to start a new gee# after I eelted three etrl.hcs en myself# X .suspect tbt ne-on had ever played with kin in that muner before. The trip Ml Sunday eveniry g^vc ntwtwi mm&t time to finish Ko.rkeo.eha Fischer*!* *Hy Live in Hstsin*1. 2 do net think thai knowing her slightly and havinr talked with her only the week before entire ly colored y pleasure in the book, whieh eeemd te no vividly written, honestly and real ist iely portraying life in the USSR during a do sen rlileal years. fj k-' >, i ''## T" '!~ T ,T^', 77 ^<7^ 5 %*cl/t "Jt^, national Weak ha spread into the off!# and we are having our wall wished mud in om lttwiaaaes painted* le certainly needed it sine* nothing had fcen done in this direction fiscw we moved in in September of 1940. They have finished elaiming the Public Utnuff and it turn out to be m very hit building inatesd of a dark gray. So they have net gotten down to the lions, ehere seat brat- recently applied lip tick to the el awe. It 1# a rather startling effect to suddenly not bleed red slaws on the atone lions! m- brightly painted trash om have bmn put en subway platform and penalties intouneod for thee who do aot use them. For several week art full of potted plants have been cruising about the neighborhood* lb eat of the hyseiwth alone is worth having on pass* There are vepy few faster 1lilies in the florist hop but lot of hydraaga, sala# tulip in pot end the usual eut flower including quantities of yellow alia liliee* By creasing ay nmk 1 discovered that one small asala was priced 112. % qglek oalculatlos ma that I had seen two and a half million dollar worth of & salens in Charleston* however send thought incline e to revide that estimate upward. Monday I had a very interesting conversation with a young Dutchmen itemed 3eotg* ' He wee bom la Java where hie father me Governor, Ftrhaps hi mother was Javanese or maybe it at his recent tay there which gives hi kin the diatinot tm. He ay that the movement for independent la Java existed before the Japan# sasupationf they built a the condition they found and th movement tea now reached ueh proportion that th# Dutete will have to ask an gsrangMnt atifnotary to the pepulaticn, many of whom are well *dtt#*(ted and capable of elf-government This condition of mdmmemmnt dee act obtain ia asugr of the other Dutch Xadi?# islands* The Hies have control of the cities but the Republican* completely donate the interior* It will be a year at leaot before thing quite dews thai white era live in safety en the plantation out in the country* Alec there will be bloody flare-ups* Boot am hre by way of Holland where he feel that the government fully realise the situation, but mny of the people who have so long live! with the pride of empire in their hearts resent the thought of SSptilatlam* There being no school of Journalism ia Boiled hs had th# choice of going to Germany or coming here in the let thirties te cob^Ietc hie edwestlen* He preferred to come here end will sen be en Amrisen It!ten* He served in cur Army and also with Dutch forces with .Arthur. Frieda tftley finally got fee. ok from Chine and came in to * how her hai'Cee were of doing eeme leeutring now* Poor thing she broke her arm in Shanghai and after doing what he dot out te do ia China for Benders adgeet gave up an opportunity of going to Japan to fly baek in a Marine Qorp plane to fill her schedule, only to find that her af*wt had poeipwnad the all until autumn* Meanwhile she feel'that the situation in Maaateiri* needs am iaaaediate airing* Because of her xyeriefisws ia Russia seme ten year age, when her 'Russian husband "dioappeared* Itis very euepieiou* f th# U3&H and i oeavinoed that the Chine# Communists $>re in direst eeonsniecitisa with Messes and either stiffen or compromise with Chiang a cording to the general political temperature of Soviet relation with th# rest f the world* She is on interesting person and sortinly better adjusted than I have ever seen her before, but I still de aot consider her an ebjeotive observer* JBie i very depressed about China* internal pelitice, but mush kinder te Chiang than John Horsey h been in hi dispatch from China* Cur research nan Retiagcr is bit today ehim te be gene until September. I should eerieinly like to be. in his shoes* Poor thing he lira never been on anything larger than ferrv beat nnd ails en a transport out f Seattle for Jheuoghsl. Yesterday I got into the Church of the Incarnation for part of the three hour services end wn* greatly interested in the group* cf men who eszae together ale in the giile many with carve over their hoed. One wore a white handkerchief edged with laee, and I wondered hew she would keep it on. At Mary Elisabeth** Carolyn and I got some Hot Ores bun and I had wine with a tray upper before going te a very early bed. Thi wa Just as well a ay pet baker had gotten only two of th hundred deten he ordered But X did manage to got five pound of sugar, which i th first I hsv# had her in 3 or 4 y i N " * ~^."' ./ * *P PfcAmM&f , i w' trf . t o /> - t H- 4 4 , Jfc ; *?** " ,, -t^v /""v~ f PPlttWif^'HjS,.- Mf ,' : ; Lart fhiadey I g@t 1 tangled up tit'the lowlier parade m of way to the sittla, . ''" '" "; V ? ' % V. . 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A registered letter this morning from a lav firm informing m the owner of this building will not renew ay lease m ha intends to altar th# building far hi person! use* I don't believe for a minute that ha i going to live bara at all hut fear that tha CPA will support his log&l position* The one curious thing is that they only talk about aat rsfieslag ay lease--they daa't actually go a far as spying this i# mn aviation notice** Monday ai#rt we had tha first of our two recaption for tha ttnited Nations* The special pierfcs war the members of tha Security Council and half af tha Saeratariat* It seemed a good idea to hav a sarias of small dinner parti e firot and 1 was assigned to tha Suataoa Seligman** * who ha^ Quo Thi-di i tha permanent Chinas# member who was the presiding officer of tha Sound I a month ago* Ho la a nice littla man who rove&lod himself In conversation to ha quit anti-Russian* Hla wife ia a victim of trachoma, which ia so prevalent in China and vary jelly. % keeping ay eye on th watch* I managed ia gat my group down to the Pierre in good season for th nine o'clock receiving line, the FPA members shook tha hands of kVatt* Minister af Foreign Affairs in Australia* Hersshell Johnson--03 deputy delagate to tfeo US* Dr* Quo* Ooaar Lang--Polish delegate} Mr* H.sluek-- Australian dalagate and a couple of our Board Members. From there they were token to little "nasi egg groups- around Stettinlus, Arthur Swaataar who is assistant to th< Secretary-General Ho and others, finally they drifted into tha ballroom proper where there vara chair# and wo ffmiMf later had brief speeches from Stattiniua* dho warmed staff hearts by giving the FPA a wonderful plug by saying that ho thought we wars doing th boot job of any organ!tation in the field and that as a business man ha had bean a member and also me a govern ment official* Tha papers plakad up his statement that the US sua In tha UN ad in "far keeps'*. &vatt with hie bread Australian assent had net oven been invited as ha only arrived in town that morning md expressed a desire to attend but ho mad a plmmml little speech. Adrian Felt, a Butch member of the Secretariat amusing told of come of his problems la housing the delegates and their families. Alexandra Fared!* the French resistance leader who has recently arrived ta serve as chairman of tha Security Council made a graceful statement with a geod dad of hAmour in French. Than ta ny great ear* < price Mr. Ilka announced that one of tha fascinations of tha San Francisco Conference and the sessions at Hunter were the translators and asked th dean of that group to translate the Fared! speech, which ha did. I was delighted vith that unexpected de velopment as those translators are superb--thy gat Just tha right nuances and infl action * *rkinc from brief notes they must have prodigious memory. Imthew got a loud round of spontaneous applause for which 2 was delisted Wednesday ve had four Weiss Journalists under th# sheperonage of a- State Department man in the office for a while. In response to our questioning thay said that th great problem of the Swiss now is whether or nor they can Join the United hations md retain their neutrality. 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I did learn that tbe OPA will not grant eviction notices until they are satisfied that the new owner needs the entire house for hie own r*sier>ee and that sueh an evietlea gives 6 months actios* whieh in the event of la* ability ts find other quarters is renewable for three month periods* That is cheerliqj hut mono of us are content to go ea with that ussoertalnty* And should OPA be abolished thai preeeedure will be lest ts us* Monday night Z went te a dinner given for the British MUlstsr of State Philip fioel- Beker* h I had net soon for about ton years* Tbe pieee do rooiotonoo of tho dolieieus food *!* the oompeny twenty-six awn* three women and as* I only know ens of ths ether wesson* Ame 09litre MeCoralek of the TOSS, hut lc/ts of the men-- John Ghapaan of jusiaeee **&* !!?. Kaltenbora* Mil Shirer of OS3* George fielding llot* Joe Barnes of Si* MT HSEHB TRZ2K7H5S* Profetsser James ? %etwell* Clark -iofaelberger* Joe fhilllpe of pyl* } who brought me hone and others whoa you probably never heard of* There was on hour o very lively conversation which began on the table-wide level with the its ereaa* Keel-Baker9* answers te our questions were off-the-reeord md both skillful and Interesting* *oe Jones of TZKS UTS AMD TGKTVm acted no a devil9* advoeate The Russian policy is altering and we eon hope for aero cooperation fas then* Ths Social end Keeasmie Geunsil* #iioh has gsttsn s wwy poor prise in its surreal seesiens* Is ths lift bleed of the Kg# It should push along to agreements m Transportation and Ceamtiaieatlea and Trade* which should not be too difficult* Then ^fcile everyone is hamoaletie tlM central problem wf \ Gomany sen be tasked with nations in the habit of constructive multilateral arlisn* (I me oaased te find ee little support in that group for the miter l&pptm eritieiea of our polity in relation ts Germany*) It is possible wMftk$ for free trade te exist in a world where taenia eentinuee to operate goveniasnt buying for polities! purposes. 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Anyhow for eight pengoos a day 1 had a bed in a good hotel on dorsa. ^ e wrote on May 18th that on the 8th and 10th he had received parcels mailed on harsh Iflah. It is curious that the medical ae sent by first class postage was two days longer in transit that the parcel post parcel of food. The parcel I have just finished wrapping contains a special little box of sandy for the sugar starved son. Last night Vera took mo see the Old Vic Mayers in "Uncle Vanya". She gave me my choice of that or Henry IV, part I. Never having read or seen anything of Chekhov I ojm Una. Vacy. and Ml delighted that I did, though X understand the critic. " nthu.ia.tie about it a. they were of the retainer of the repertory. It mas besutrfully performed--Laurence divier as Aetrov, Ralph Richardson was Uncle Venya. I liked eoyeo Hedffiaii as donya better than Uargaret heighten as Tama, but maybe thai was because - olem 1. luali a dti).i Hi. costuming and .tag. properties wre delightfully late nineteenth century. It was a great opportunity for mo to have Vera to explain typical Ruesian oharae- torirta, the social trend of the period and oo on. I'm not our. that I learned anything that ail hap as to handle Vera, but th. play and h.r reaction to it wiU be useful in understanding h.r. Before th. play she dined with a. at th. Golden Horn on what is supposed to b. Turkish food. Hi. last time I was there was with Traey Phillip, and s. he hae lived in Istanbul for years, I have hi. word for it that the food is pure Armenian. Lot. sail it -w Saetern Ld 1U it go at that - the menu is just llk. the Baghdad *alf a dosen othere where I have eaten with Syud tioescia, inean Rihani, .to. -e had on. t -lag i have never experieneed before. It looked like oomething wrapped in oiled paper and well baked. It turned out tc be oheeae in Multiple layer, of tissue thin pastry. At the United Nations reception Geuvener Smith of the Cunnrd Li.ne gnv. ... u-1 to the announcer instead of eaying Mr. Smith" with the result that ho went down the lino as Governor Smith and everyone pusspled about what state had a omuth. tellings, one about my unhappy apartment situatibn and eaying that our great ray of hop. it mas going to be difficult wo hoped for th. owner to groove to the that bp mh? needed .even apartment, for hie personal uee. The eone-back was no gh _ Before the MUM reception there was a dinner for eighteen nt the Cosmopolitan dub. I would not leave the offiee until almost six and had a breathle.0 dash to get bone a..c dros and get around to the Clpb by .even and then the guests of honor Henri laugier and A. . Owen did not turn up until twenty minutes of eight. Butat that they were hatter thaaS r JMnaswaml Mudliar, the Prestddnt of the Social and Economic Council, '7TI!vrh.t special guests at this reception. Sir Raaaswami telephoned at duart.r of five to say that he bad had a fever and all day hoped it would leave and he eould be with J~hut, aleai , no it still pereieted. That was much tee late for us to got anyone dee in hie Plcec. y th. devil did he not warn us in the morning and wo oould have .aught u. an anchor * ward. I am beginning to feel that the United Nations personnel are irre.pon.iblo individual. Vet* ie giving a cocktail party for some of them Vedneeday and want, me to help '<, a Tenants Committee meeting at six and am afraid I will only get to her per y tend the guoot* home* Sunday was a perfect day for th. family barbecue Molly and Jim gave belatedlyt?'Lay,,, birthday. Both the boy. are fin. after their swaelee. Jay had a fiaM fay vrtth jhelma^and Gal te add to hie ball team. Freddy 1. too yeung to play and very .wet about not bothering the game and without trouble Muses himself out of range. It both*TM Molly ean bite their big toes and he cannot--but console himself that his fstner oann either. I had a wonderful day and got as mush sun as I dared in view of the ferial party of Vi"dy night, *ere I felt I should not appear looking like a looster. me. ,-l.-A-ttr, Uk Jwm 25, 1946 ^9ir/ to be late this week, uad probably duller than unttl* Friday half an boor before y train for Ssyport left, X had to tall Cel end tall tola that 1 mi hopelessly tied up in the office and aoioit to# low with a efeeet sold to go before 3atu*di*y at bast* Actually 1 414 sot got ar fren the effiss until alaoat eight hut was eo eaii&usted that 2 got a vary long nt#tfa sleep* aturdey was hot m& hnt4 with a waek swathlne and 2 ml oat on a alow Min train, long before arriva 1 realised that ifcile rootod aonewhat ny tld wo* wot gene and 1 had all the ahum and eoelal gross of a brass nonkey. Molly, Jim and tbo boys had uaespeste&y gone oat that waning and wo wore quite a party* is had several ssenle on tho ooath pofwh *4 a thoroughly nioe thw Obviously I did aot got a* oath work don* ao 1 hod hoped, hut node a otort and woo enebantod whm we stopped to find thars www six lordly oapty trunkal W Oriental popios had hleonod, tho irio, nawdesuo, daffodil* and peonies a* wall a* tho lilios of tho volley shewed eigne of hawing node a bravo dhow by thanodlwwa* The eerise stock, ooiy p*1* and ha&cysuekie arw Just beginning and soke none snail splaoh of solar and eeaat* Tbslm and Ohl had dene a fin* job of oltoning tho house. Tooterday and today ham boon hot and sunny, whan 1 oano out from under tho waltor of wort in tbo effiee to actios. Ttonorrow io tho big State Soportet-U*ited Motions Shorter *Wk ^r, bat 2 shall bo glad whoa it la ovorl Z suppose there io always a first for everything and 2 got m osawnppmiisi a week ago Sunday dun 2 took ny porool to tho Foot Off loo. It woo nine as* over weights there woo nothing for it but eariy it hone and entrant d twelve on* tin of lunch neat and rowrap with an eiMo or two of paper stuffing whort ths neat cfcould hove boon. Fooling that it n* stupid to who two tripe with caw porodl 2 whipped up a second, ooaawhat --ill or effort to go along on tho eeesnd trip, tho elsrk twoogrdted as, and allowwd aa how tho weight wo* oil right* Zbon X handed in tho seeond and ho ewyared addroeooo and asked if both parcels wore fron the sono sondera a quaint prooooditro a* V signature appeared on throe different fame fsr each-- end then oimounood that only mo parcel oould bo ooat per wook per sender to a given individual* People in the Una booano helpful end suggest that 2 una op husbands nans as tbo ponder on tho soosnd, 2 thought of whanging tho addresses to Mrs. Vbmorsr* And ended up by oanounalttg that a rule wns a rule and those devisee sore only boating tho devil around tho bush and toted tho seeond horn hone again. had another tenant*o nesting last ^Odaosday and ore now oenvineod that there is nothing for us to do, but uneasily mit for further stops trm the omot. m shall have another nesting newt Tuesday, then 2 think wo any ivy to bribe bin with aero rout from all of us to lot us remain fsr mother year* After it wo* ov*r X senttied up to Vera*s to her seoktail party* Franoes ierkl&s had wmpoetotfLy turned up and left before ny arrival, evidently tho hod a fine set-to with J*dsim Ohinlunti, vioo-prosident of E#H Mar/ whiefc 2 regret having adased. It aooand a curious mnMnatiwii of inportanl people in tho OS Hlemeshy and young shipper snappers. Had a alee chat with lauginr, lOla* Fmrodf (** arrived very late in esotraot to her brother who loft early to go to the Louis-Conn fight) and ay old friend F*C* Chang end node conversation with oone of the whlpiespttappers and wives* A recent letter fron Charlotte Hurwt firm Switserland soys this sinter In Europe ho* given her on enjoyment of staple things fsr tho rest of her life--*! shall never see nCU, butter, white broad, honey or oil again without positive enjoyment.* *Soiiserland SMfiirlnbio* U honest, dull and pretty, is rather like Sir husband has gained twenty-five pounds Hsineaevenshuentionotkerbeisntinthgehreutfirm " ^ Paris in 3oswsr. $p had Just returned fra* o businoso trip to ibrts (tho Aasrloaa jo umalist to when she had rented her opartmet hod stopped paying his rent in Feb*) Md reports *food is ooareo, oven in tho black norbst , end it is slightly unpleasant ^ to be in s cigarettes lend whpo anyone and wine, and the nsy steal osyHOag* grftmaml increased tphi ei--pluomlioamsioniolumymnooblapcokllnelaerekeitgdart B B/ IM ff*c* V Af 6^-4/f tOi/ I ~-U* At ilT I k c i Wt_ . f <* Friday--July * has just been declared / *. v. - m office holiday. Hext ChitMiat will ^une 30t 1946 be late ma I#U be at Btymrb--the dfearXeatea fewIly due there July lA Tt&s seems a wry somber day to me--the last of OftI unless Conferees peaces a mimcle* which they have given no indication thgr ewre interested in. And the Blklssi test! I hew always regretted that ee developed the stem boatb ad deplore fie number ea )m continued te ad in the past aedbci tWffi demonstmtienirmipelivw of what it shews to be the effect en chips* ie not likely te holy position in the works Meat oouatries fear aad hate us ear and is ay opinion thie is net the petal is wmM history to follow the Lyautey formula *A ehov of foree avoids the uee ef feres.** It ie incredible that eo many things could conspire te soke our United Imtione day en Wednesday eo mush mere oasgOieated than it need have boon# ill along 1 talked in tome of ita being a hot day and on Tuesday net the eenfemaee neon chairs including the 74 secured for the doings te take Jar* of ndeaatege of any possible stlrtng of air* la the first plase the houseman from l&detoa Henna mm a grant neay chairs in the yeas Wednesday morning m*I decided that he dted net add those a bad arranged te barrow from them* with the result that we scarcely had persuaded hie te bring then up before the early birds began to arrive* Being unable te secure a lectern en Tuesday at the re quest of Mr* Lancaster* Mm ana tm preside during the morning eeecieot Z inprevleed mm out of the wooden telephone book rack and covered the beeke with blotting paper* even adding a refinement ef a cardboard lip tc held MM papers in place. well* W. Lancaster had so folded hie papers Mat they would act stay put. However* every**** eneept the remois for whom X had gone te considerable trouble* uoed the t*aiv/ satis factorily! Just before lunch 'Has lent had a violent nosebleed end temporarily retired and left we with the neety feeling that she might be here do combat the rest ef MM day* After loach M rallied and carried on notably* the buffet luncheon table held glasses ef tenets# jules* bowls of saldd aid pete of coffee (dth Bullion oupe-- Hair poured two oupc and handed then to Mr* 4 Mrs, Francis BusscU frow the State Depertwent with the imitation *iMUHH yeu like a cup ef coup* just at the woeaa t the arena ef Mie coffee reached hie nostrils*) Being a wane day everyone took oner* nous helpings of MM salad* and the attendants rushed cut tc replenish the supply in* stead of saying that chicken patty with vegetable would be ready I* a moment* -y the tine Z got down te the dining men the situation was temporarily completely snarled up* In due course everyone made a nueh better aeal than they had expected* ty the tine I could Hit dose Z found a plaee next to Adniml Hlofaaead Turner* USB* American miniher ef the military 3taffs Odnission ef US. s had a nost amusing conversation shout motor* lag acmes the country with dogs* *he Turnsrs have Japanese epeniele Miidi htm pretty much severed the globe* Hotels hem eberge 41 per night* in Bwitoerlnnd 1 franc. ahem we got bach upstairs for the afternoon session we had to oopo with a testing of fire alam gongs, (the fire Departae t fearful that tha recent save ef hotel fires would hly H*T. had ordered it and the hotel management insisted they eculd net postpone it fcr our sake. Fbr an hour UUs farter triad to aute the dleng ef the nearest gong --there tan ns wgy of telling either hew long a given signal would last aer the length ef toe inter val.) The speakers found some points of their remarks applauded by ringing bells in a most micing wmart DM dinner nt the Waldorf went off with no wore than MM usual incident* despite the fart thai the hotel had uaauthorisadly issued a press release Indicating thnt aU the people at the heed people would speak. This thrown tha UtTZ^A into aonplete confusion end ens of their people argued with we en the telephony for ten Minutes. Anyway the press treated us very waU--petheps because odgen Held finally appeared* very late* we weds the first page of the Bsmld Tribune* had a fair story in Mis WS and a good one la the 088*38* AN 3CXWKL; MoBXTOa. The heat persisted threu#eut the week end dk/ny eU I en getting JiatheMr to emek the congestion in nr Mseet awl run smaud with a sweater to wear in air condition ed places. On Thursday Z honestly did not ears whether school kept or not but went to the office because Jeeey Andrews cans down free Hartford to see as. we had n delight ful luncheon at the Brussels and then stopped at tha aid Jiitelaw tssid house to see the Theatre de la Mode--a fascinating collection of ndssiatrue models of iinris fashions* Th slothes am fhacinatiog* the sets are most interesting* imaginative aid skillfully executed. Dm costumes are complete with shoes* m*& gloves* pamsele* hand bags and reel jewels* Friday X unexpectedly went te the early shew ef ,MAna end the ling ef 3i" at mdio City with Chrelya Martin* which we greatly cmJoyed. / ' 0-w July 9 1946 P*fcap you ahould eu#tea|4 yourself to ay new routine of Mas lot#* X moke no promisee for the future exeept to do ay boat# Hi thenmoter roads S2 but a X paid ny bdlle n fa admit## ago tb perspiration dripped trm ny fa## and foil Ott ay up# And X den#t look for eooler weather ta;edi tely# Tootorday X axpeotad ft talegrsaa fro# dove laying *han tbo van with their furniture would arrive. Bene ooao and ia tb afternoon anil tho substitute offioo gill brought dirootly to no fortunately. imtmd of to ay secretary to open. tb# oeoeud aOl# Part of it woo an envelope freo Caere# Tearing it open eagerly X found nothing. Xfc airwril envelope only told me that bo bod been la Charleston t ?t30 Sunday afternoon. <&ea no further word wo at hon*# X put in a all f or hin and finally talked with "Undo Billy Lueas" and Urthata nether# The tarn had boon lata and understaffed and did not leave until one ovolook 80 tho fsadly worst to Oroonhill street for tho traditional Charleston throw o# clock dinnar and astuaUgr loft for tho north at feur-fifteen# tfr. llowton esid that it had boos fin until Sunday vhaa tho woathor turned o*oruoiatU|ly hot# X an 00 oorxy that thoy will bo driving in tho boat# A oooond aimail today brought tho Sunday lottor with on apology and tho Liondoy dotwlopoEaonto# I gueoe thoy won't arrivo until Imnday and tho furnituro not boforo Blhy or Saturday# It had to piok up pesoessione to bo dropped in inoblngten, Annapolis and Brooklyn. Hither aounda a thou# July in general tmnof lb en did he loam that the Emperor's gift was of brass. a)BP> ^ y- jf -f July 16, XM Mouuc f 'j $kme>> hast year it rained m St. Stithis** 2*y and w had tb ssot appalling wet for week* MI yesterday MI largely olu4y, it did not rvixi and today has been on* of thorn wocderful bright, crisp, MM day that M lif seem worth living af**r all* I begin to think there ia in th old boy'i crura on those bo moved hi bona after 111 Tb Mawy family arrived eafely m Timrdday and art fine* The furniture did not appear until six on Sunday but that mm a rainor natter* Sunday fee Franco Hag*s thirteenth birthday end bar birthday camera waa in the am but being a yotmg lady sow, he understood and had it befora the day mm don anyway* lb a mora concerned at not having the shoe eh anted to ear to eburch. lm as enhaatd with 3t* Am** &nd itb Mr* Bond and van before we get in the ear took a poll to oo if the root of the finally would support hia ia hia detera&nation to continue thaw* He now declares that no cotter where they finally find a bous ho ill keep right on goiag there* Young Kin feet mm in tb boy* eeetioa of the and looked adorable, though 2 could not e that b sang veiy audi* flint there 1 so ch reh school during the sussaer, I would not b surprised to find &* trying to get into the ehoirl It is certainly good to bat then bank after fit year* I worn* out after dinner Friday and had heard nothing about their trip when MAlf and Jiet arrived with new that they bad lined up a heme in Fraeport* 3atura day mcrwlng, before w bad finished the breakfast diehee, one of Sieve* e oolleguee in iho Hdlsoa Ooapany telephoned that he had lined up several aero houoee in Fort Mibiagtea. w rmtimd from ohurob Sunday Jim and Jay had arrived and had new of till another house in Fraepert* 'Xhelme* &nd Sal an a Smirday for th weekend and J wet befor dinner Sunday poopl trm Charleston arrived and v ware eleven* iiartha and X vara vary audb pleased with our weekend hopping, especially a th only thing w asked for and could not get a soap flakoe, and 1 did o yllov laundry oap in th aooebd hop wo went to* 1 was very interested to find that the price were no acre and sometime* lee than ifertba bad been paling qbefora QPA died both at th Charleston super market and at the bavy Yard Cteasleeery* wb haw just had another tenant meeting ra 17 ?*t 64th Street, this time w had the vuneal of a member of th HY Hani Estate Board* Ho asserts that th owner ha bitten off mora than he mm hew, that He* York tat Housing Hani Socmlseion 1 everything to us that the GFA was and mora too, ineo Governor Bowey i very anxious to protect the householder* ile practically guaranteed that w an remain for another year or two* After ^orld Mr X housing and rent controls lasted for five year and he is sura they will be ffeeitv longer this tins* There 1 fust th one eloud on the horisoa--the owner an Viet one of us for hi own occupancy* * 1 like t think he would be a fool to put mo out and climb seventy-two steps every tim b mat boms* Wur is wim th shaapset apartment in th building, so it i un likely that he would pick on me because this place would bouse him at least reduc tion to hi total ranI* I m very busy in the file* doing necessary but dull things* However, last week I had an interesting conversation with i*S* Hart, th military correspondent for th Ho io J not bask from a quick trip t England (ho is Kngiiah) and Poland and during the war mid tvjfo trips to Ifessia* He is quit sura that Stalin know hi political life 2 short* Itadar the trass of rar bo made too many oonceeeion to the General, gsv them too much power, and eanaet now take it bask* H spent a good deal of tin in th 8wr M end assert Met tb Arab played ball so mi vdth the Gemmae, end are mm accenting money from th I&ssians, that tb Britiah Aimy which ued to limy up to tha are completely against th Arab end a far as fbleetin i jonoemed, pra-Ximiirl, a complete right about fa* He pereeaally aw a British intelligence officer near M. Alamoin trip tb bouraouse ff an Arab and leave hia in a full OmtmM field unifcrm, even te boot -- vhidb had tipped tb aet-up t tb ffleer n-m already knew M he MI looking for* Interesting if txu X mist do a little booking* ^ ^ O ^y , 4 r t 1 &h A week ago taaoriw. and leas fern * week after arriiaX. Caere sailed to eay that tbor had eettlad on * heme Aa Freeport and the firet paper signing mild bo m Saturday# Shay the day la torn on Friday# both and Hewee find eoaalatere nmmry but dAwine** A abort trip on tbo euomy mmtemm .mm* At la tee bet and arawdad. It me gmaAimm theyj*em Friday aa they drowe a at with ihea* ^e mat throu^i tha nldtewn tuanal wfciah eeemd my flat ta all of a# It 1 nasi aedem --one i>^;ig ike eleetrie eye oonirM of lllimimtioa mar the satraneee. On euimy daye those Ilgbta. ara brl^iter than on Moudy nee to help the driwre eywe adjuet ta the general tunnel lifting* Qa the way out we leaked at the Meideef the bona* tbay eeleeted* It la lit a good neighborhood em an old atraat abaiaif by Harass ^ laa ablflb neat warhead* *bAXe a new *4*w bom*" It ia la nooeaadtlt#loioSt labuebpe*tsnitti&balamb&earnemaoye*moplSismhaedtkIlnfgM b It ma aaherahlng hatin tow war tba weekend but I *lf>t under ay ueual Baypmrt blanket and we bad * flna time* Qeody# goody* Shday I ma finally deehargad a bodag as rniah aw ay eold aa I would ba a Xaag aa thAe current hu&ddity keeps say siau* eiirrwd up* Gerry1* edsadttoi for y holiday ma to gat aa uuA raat aa o^u^u but not to gain back tba arrwml pounds I abad with tba noaa-kloMsfc bout* m&t Ufa em 04th 3tr*ti Sim# it ma hot and pouring rain Ml yaatarday afternoon I decided on tba early Ohe* of "A Tank in London and a lata Ji nor* the nowle mm wry good and I enjoyed it# though it has its diatinotly tearful aa wall aa hilarious omenta- Malaxed# aooloa nd iiot sleepy I road for a Mi -- longer than Z should--and had ay pease shattered about addnight by a oraab sad tinkle af falling gLasa* hy gueac ia that son*- ana in tba building en tba aomar of liadisca Araaua triad to Jtsaap or ma puahod trm an unapanad aindow--in tba bowlag tba natal aaamaait bug maaij./ owar tba atraat* Unally I got to aloop and a aouplo of hours latar ot- Mdo amka* iltlla I lay thara woadaring fey I abould taakaa* Splaabl on ay knaa# dura anougjb tha roof had sprung a look right oror ny bod* I mwod tho bad and thoughtfully rOaaad a plata to aatab tba drip, tumid out tba light d iMa prwparaci ayaalf for aloap* fingl itngl ?** auapana# mm tba ami would wane waa too nuah for oliadbar* Altar mN|bgi rtoM aMorbar for tba dzwpa. tba raat af tba M#t ma Mtbaut inaidant aa far aa X ma Iba atbor day I bad a latter fwm a am aba ma at tba BiMM a**lM test with this vomvmU ba bo^ toat waa an mrtraoaXy interesting ahow* T - ing to power, the but mm! aoboM rather I bora a frightened than AAF# I take a din view of Urayiab feeling about tba b^sab ^a inpaat vbon ** _-N uaod against wore "profitable targets'* than arnorod Una etfear dny wa had a littlo off loo ;^nrty *siaa fomar editor of tba old V :umpm llowaUo also ma ia Parla throughout tba oaoupatien* i .ar amlyaia of the blaok market wmi naat intaraatii^g* mm 4mi&am& it ta undamina tba Frmmh by mking it inpoaaibla to sustain Ufa on mmt mm aould gat fron ratioidng. A Mmgry and daaperata people.fail lata tba trap* After tho last war tba nouvaauz rioiiaa wort larc^ mU jant whiOb tbay had mm?tad to fill nuMtiona ordore m iblh tlmy wamd ridb. ^ow tha noumau* riefcaa ara feaiTdreaowa# ^Ita^ara. faetory mr^era and all manor of fonaar mall mga aornara* For la n faotory - rl-ar ua- gyalad fifty kUUmatm into tMi eauwtry rar the woMmd# bou^ii aa mifli butter aa ba m&i rnrry baab to sell at may tinea his mgea fr a bwl wet in tba faataty* Urn ami weak ba mried only a ooupla of da^i. imd a n^a liaouraly trip and bad a few day# aff ta beat and atill bad Ma aMttta* tha death of a gawndnether* Ma Mfafa baring a baby# iUnaa* f a diild# ba Mmyw baa a anaima for Ma abeeaee* I mndar bow ba eorera ur ^Ciuxo P'\ ft fiktL*. ft ft | i' - ^***'- free tot be walXy get* aiwna hundred dollar for* Mln sent nwtd tot be Id# sd we were to #:o i to luaefe with him lbs hotel presented * ieeaaiesl ;.>rhl#fe; Cue U the demands of labor, the radio bad a problem to pfeetogrjhers mated special J###* of people* a eersage was delivered to an, to|*aiae people meted it grert me or to 1# presented to saneon* else or ecnsult mo about asntoias* <.e waited es long M I dared for Jr. MUee d then at got to- lad table tested. I and# m appearaase at ay table ;*ad went out to 'the elevator to wait for Mr. Dull#. % the tin 1 got ^ busk with Mm, everyone hub finished thelS malon tm& was halfway thru hi efciekoe. Cullee wee good--but the penaeemin wad# Ma# stretch cut tb first part of his speeoh md deal dLth too much detail on to agenda of to Cmntl Aeeemhly and &om over almost to li#ily hi Hews m Ma&rlmn foreign poller wfeieb ms tors he war suppeeed to put bis nax>tiui>In to Am his sdvaaee s^y hs had mm* very in&ereetisg tuff. Perfe&pe h got it fell to-1 had to 1mm before he was through to piek up to sr4ora to to afternoon eeseiett, torsohel wtom arrived in good aoasen without his prose eopice (Mis Gordon K,sso* telephoned to the Delegation office aud had twenty seat dew hp sp-eeial ^*senger so we got these i th# gross table before Johnson g.< eke--pretty porously> Deaidie to thorough searcfei of to SdLdevf bp a to employee ths fifty copies Johnson soot a# tho day before vsrt not discovws4. II w ebjeet that they had bes* seat to the hotel instead of to off is md X euFet eoaeeae* fato will buss toerrow if not ac;. ;. , . fi ' .vir ;; -.-"i" voU J l P * Mm* -u ^ iuagh * tolly got Into to afternoon eession. I understand Haaluok wm dull to toebosoal-- X w$*& sutsids fitiuholsosd his speedi is direstlag to defeases release hunt. Chsag uaa grand--poke with aotss got at least four spontaaaeue haad# dusing his spessfe sod lighten- ud his talk with nie bit of hujaor-fcr awl *1 should like Is give you ##ststion frcfej Ceafusious--not in Chiaeoe though it is one of th sffisisl U#ytf>i - the Xrdtsd Htosast I shall not iuistst.^ X m.u toushsd tfeut ho had Ms elder brother--to Oistto guisfeed Cbatag i o-llpg --osms for th# mmioib ad asked me ts see tto he was takes ears of. I could only tsunsur a few politenesses ito plop hi dssa at ay table and ruai ofi ^ to do ^y diox-oe. l&mrrow I toll bv a gret laaay thank you letter# to write to to nd ends "to do with the pious hope that the deer # will be cleared eooa end I oes ret-rn to a lees harried routine. tout four o'clock on Friday I got & telegram from the sua was to apeak on the 14th at Cincinnati tot he m si ok to unable to go. Jingled idth to things tot had to be dose I eliminated half t doson possible substitutes and landed a couple of alternative possibilities. About Mlf past si* last night X telephoned OiminmXi to oroke the new# to U*<$ and am to know by nine tomorrow morning mtm om they prefer. _ the ma isfeo ip buying Beyport--Sir. Horn is very nautioue to get a quick title passing. Is started t get a Long Island lawyer whmb asked for tasesnc in "e^ "fik m or# delayed because our deed sfeous the IZaaane Creek a boundary u^d actually it ie now ths canal. I muet hunt up blue prints to additional pops** aid Mvo a ssnCerssss with Lou fettijf tomorrow &lspitoo. X hop this does not turn out to be a monkey wrextda I was ecercely available for a persona1 tclephene Inst week. 2 was fortified for the tmy with a good weekend. Sieve delivered ^1ere# to ss at ^sdiscn Square Garden last Saturday sad the tm of as mmt to the toes--tore w saw more beef tuaa we bad soen in & long time. Cona utrny sang to urono# were bustedtctc. Beth GXevee and X laved the dswaa and had a grto time. s joined 'the rest t the family ts drive out for dinner n the my to Freeport. dundoy amrnimg I stayed late in bed to worked m ay pelsen ivy #iile they vent to chursh. Hslly was b^dsg ^ests for , 'inner, so Jim delivered to small fry late in to alteram to toe supper to ue. to to# ai pee red in Ms first winter little bey suit -- a blue toriag bene toed with wMts shlrtf leotlier belt and sap. He unbuttoned his jacket to display the belt a couple of times and could hardly be persuaded to toke his sap off in the bouse. '"bsy v/cre gscd cuest* cad it was sweet of Siartba to offer to let Jolly entertain uncm^mbered. CM and Xbelrna arrived ^.bout ninMMr^ aft or having settled thst be weuld begin let trining as assistant gensral ssustger of -feat soaads like a very lotresting eossmiaiiy prejest at Brmd nad Gbsese Follow -- on the north shore about f crty-fiv toinutes ds'^ve Cr i"4 "Teeport. An apartment gses with the job. 1 paseed up hi off*r to drive m to owi, uid spent to sight * ^ " J w: I. ' - 't*4fC' *^Ol' "*W , ^ October 26, 1946 ' Tills is mi unexpected opportuni ty to uae the typowriIex* at kreepert and we shall see how far I get. It is a mild uay tat open and skat and no great amount of sun to be absorbed. Bast night we went to a dance recital at Clevee's school after having kad an enormous dinner at tke Blk's Club public dining room in konor of Frances wearing stockings for tke first time. Wednesday I went to tke official city welcome to tke delegates to the United Jiations very unexpectedly. In fact I left tke office witk s little thought or*preparation tkat I neglected to wear my top-coat and found tke seats in front of City Hall both ckill and kard before tke doings were ever. Hew- ever it was very interesting and Carolyn md I were glad tkat we went, among tke early comers to tke official seats and very close to us were Groiyko and Viscninsky. ftnetker all tke Russians for whom seats kad been assigned did not come or some of tkeir expected neigkbors did not arrive I do not know. The result however was tkat this group of Hussions sat witk a "cordon sanitaire" f empti ness around tkem. A burly individual who looked like a bodyguard was in front of Visckinsky, who was in tke row in front of Groayko, yet Molotov sat in tke front row on a sligktly higher levek without any guard. A lot of people dribbled into tke official seats very early, Mrs. Hoosevelt wearing silver foxes among tke early 0omars, but tke bulk of tkem came together after tke conclusion of tke motor cade parade up Broadway from tke Mattery. They entered tke stand which kad been erected over tke City Hall's front steps through tke rear door, passed through tke buiiuing 'r al J&& b*s o ' , ; . /t . . i . "< .. JO -.*- > , , if i-r,'t M , , ". " Vv, & CO ;.."W;*-j! 1;*Tgl~iiTO f'lf.fH*? *c"Iaf-irfttaielfcr* W,'iMeC< *.\'K J : HaJa loiiMf/l"i. : ! 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XMVwfeBM ii M">* * f-li si aofolio arX *;o issf it b&tr'.. o-.'a k.:*)J**% &&&"&.*%tofiWihVe fllne^t*eubwov'qef rtol e?wto.^T ediH|Hjaitliheefo * ko&i of ne >, is be,, fan i ris; oj- teo.% s b.b sos l , foot fly. aid no te"" oi" TJ 3 m s irfcjrX KpIXivas/sonC .'i ejptttie l. os tbcai to bffl! erf. taft rf.sl-ofc_ W o i!-J'I ; c .. . ' i os-7 j ax '.i, 'u..'.;j' . s f' .. o* 'iox - *e * :i ^" A hue gei^eqe nsm mmV it ceexbnwl teXXexe amv . at swbdoeq^ e o oi twew I ynba'turfl t itedi ei yitAiimoe VU| - CI fiU* 1U^jul S --"W**- '"tu t" 4 ''7 ** * f November 24-, 1946 a lovely crisp sunny Sunday in i'reeport ana a welcome change frnn the overwarm dampness we have been having# Martha auad Xr&n were -ho --ink in town yesterday and brought me bach with them after un earfy^c ? - i offlee has 8pecial madness chid X worked until three thirty on a aay %f ^ -u rosed to be in# 2he cause .of tlie jam was a thus far > fruitless attempt to get General Clay, who^ is hep to advise becr^ary ,Li,,, di ^enssion of the peace treaty witxi Germany , wo speak c. ou^December 7 limcheon? ^hf^ter for" I had to have ftefpa^?ffor neMiaey in une announcomen a. - University of Puerto Bioo and getting "be honor basis plan for a oocktai.i p i people concerned with the caught henry Wolfe as a team maifee 3&SSSS5J"silr.SS"SSi--.Js JU-.*- ** if frayed from the stx an ol the vaioxess _ laach interested &*|;%h.--ysSffSk-JS^Ur tsss s; ^i%h.2ss,f s.&. S^sss^sriss;&if*"" before the pa Board J^krvant situation^^the^wages a break in the Ions W. n they demand sh has had to i iya Uer household, with the result that ^ . ue is holfle the dinner dishes with she washes break-fust dishe^ " nine son or the almost thirteen the help of alternately her soon-to-be-nine^o^n^ & ^ daughter. 1 aou^t 11 this :ha.p^ ^ bafore to tue premiere of evening engagements--havin^ go complete waste of time and "The Baser's Edge" which sne ^sorxbed as ^^tithe Spirit", which in effort. % own frivolity of ***'was .the Ttrsion. hargaret mFouvlileerfodromesIa superb job as ton^emduiumSuSi*., aS I have a weakness for hex Harrison, rrr,he sorsi-et* cfonaili ssttrriik*e makes me, ana X gaTthhoemrasa'sgrset&attemmaennyt other people, very angry, xhe otx a 30lma traek recording tha" they had come upon a news reel strip wi a d s^irl& "ihis John 1. Lewis shaking hand " Control"Interested settles things so long as the govern- hQid t me very much ana g i v e n the properpuDiieivy^wcu^ ^ willing t o deal for the govexnuient s "f , does occur to me however that^the dilgii^ ap%f this record may'give a lot of public figures grounds forweighing more carefully their public utveiojaees. Recently I heard a curious flash-back on the Wallace i vi > i rient ruroorting to come from the circle of warm friends of tne ffoorrnmeerr SSeeccrreetu'uairyv o^agrioalture.SrtWtBaalnlaf ceorwatshesvoidcies-apprpeosiindteendcytthhaatthhee was Passed over in ravorfW ^^^ probabiiity in discussing his Madison uluare speech with the President he gave him quite a differen version--not^maliciously or deliberately but joet tnrough the habit he uOQ n owed Himself to form of saying mime3 %'W*---cta_ a. a - ^ have mor# a^+ __ t did not collapse from hunger ana nad oeen ra n voo ^ than'on. highball and one little aandwieh. The one inter. 'Jt^ters because the del.- at the party was that New vork would loose t.'0 4 ~ t New york and that sr*s: be able to also in five years time! ftfter a mroning in the office last Saturday I went to Fr^* .' * <71 eve at the redio to to he bought and decided not to use. rrT..r sr..* ??owers9wd8a lovell^rtdlrfylfl"; mcaw'tcld "mL "Folly -ante^ fl0w.r". the date we noted wi* interest a fi.ld ' pinkish whit, ro.es eHmbing on a rail fence* AH ttis 5 %?rft^ardf for two aVS warned - most tactfully in advene'. P 6 b J^)atA4Mf December 29, 1946 Christmas comas but one a yearl Which is Just as well for mo* At five minutes after mid-night with all the gifts arranged under the tree at Jim's and the stockings filled, I was still working on the last rounds of the foot of the second sock for Jim* Alas, I gave up and decided to wrap the one which had been completed and finish the pair on New Year's Eve while sitting with his children during a party float he and Molly are coming to town for# Hiere is no getting around the fact that I was just plain behind on the job from Christmas cards through gifts* Aunt Annie came on the Friday before Christmas on a train due at 1015 p#m. I had warned her that I would not be able to meet her as I had to have that evening fe getting up the greens and wrapping the stocking presents* It is just as well she was not counting on me for the train was an hour and a half late and I did accomplish a lot before she arrived at midnight* Saturday morning brought rain as a change from the snow and sleet of the evening before, and Clevee came in to see us while the rest of the family were at the doctor's around the corner* Despite his impatiense to go to the Zoo he sweetly helped me open the pile of cards and licked stamps on some I had just addressed* Then we went off to see the sights and had a lovely time in the monkey faoue0--which as I suspected was his favorite* The rest oi the family joined us in time to see the sealions fed and then we ate in the deserted soo cafe teria* After a bit of shopping Aunt Annie and I came back and worked like oeavers on my unfinished presents. It was to good purpose, though, for the vetiver sachets for the Greenwoods got finished and we delivered them Sunday afternoon when we went around to call* Monday evening Miss Romans dined with us at Town Hall and we all went to "Faust"-- not to cheerful an opera for Christmas, but well done and we enjoyed the new tenor , Jussi BJoerling. Pinsa made a fine kephistopheles, and clowned rather more than x remember as customary* Curiously enough 'Faust" was given the very j.irsi> time Aunt Annie went to the opera as a little girl* The office was closed Tuesday afternoon so after buying a couple of very last minute things for my nephews we wem. to Freeport and found both Jay and Freddy with colds--poor dears, but quite in the holiday mood., We had fun with them and then went down to call on the other family* In the evening they returned the call and everyone helped Jim set up Jay's electric trains* At one point it looked as though he will never get the thing arrangoa to his satisfaction * Hie children were sweet on Christmas morning, not waking until quarter o ei&ht and then waiting patiently at the head of the stairs for us to dress and see if Santa daus had really come# In the middle of the day while the boys rested we went to South Ocean Avenue again and at four they all came for dinner with us* After long consider ation black Minnie once more capitulated to iiolly's blandishments and came to cook the dinner. We were twelve with Molly's aunt, as Freddy had his uninteresting pablum by himself. Poor child, our turkey was so good, too. Thursday night we went to Henry V for which Aunt Annie had with great luck managed to get tickets* It was bitter cold and wc congratulated ourselves on getting taxis both ways. But half way home the motor just died and we had to get out into the eld wind* Fortunately there was another cab at the comer and we got home safely* The movie is wonderful and I am so glad to have seen it* I stilx do nov see hov Lioy were able to produce so elaborate and magnificent a piece duirng the period of material shortages* I did hear that they used burlap in a lot of the costumes, tut look as I would it was not identifiable. A few days ago there was a break of ten cents a pound in the butter market and some other commodities also dropped. Retail clothing stores are advertising great sales, yet they all reported greater volume in holiday sales than ever before. ^\The office cleaning woman was given a fur coat by her aoni) I don t know yet ^at these reduction and .alo. mean for the future. Though X incline to the notion that women a olothea are redueed to clear the stock and that there will be a major style cnange in longer flkirts. FAFF^ **** CQ} lA-a- - K awHMB ^ r-ii,19^^^! in tcotsrday I mi lunch"ni this fhoa sitfc ;3ogrosmm tibm Mrnsflcli of tiwf tana & mt up with hiif the basis for bis to dp a good deal of Qr^aUi^ for Us to tli# background of Isl recent tour of Shim# liereo# Japan and lbs ionacr Jsjwmeee & d^i^d f slund*. 'like aaade "-the trip as a repras^atutive of tbs Fercdgn Affair CoaBlttw prabnbly toriftisd he h~d bom on 'a #solid isl^ioa to ttlut for P*M$chI ?&ds*r&* two your* Wert He is quit a feller and very such otftteeyjfcwf about our crnfreitt qpr.thy ieiwupd tlit Far cut* la iorld :mr I is lied about his sk# end did brief bitch#* in the Amy* Hi* ;%vy end the Marine Corp* (today h# wears ih* discharge sablen of the latter*) Upon ;d* return bo went into Mining# went through college and after using hi# Mining engineer degra^ for a i&lle switched to professcar of history and latora&tioool relations specialising in ike For East *e*d Latin America* Ude laoatb he began bis third Congress* Banstine I nuet mak bin why bo switched fvm teaching to politico* 1 too --used too* bo told that the boot tMtt it Chita today** it Tfarfans Sua Yat Ben# tboujdi h# toot tbo General issiro #ip the only 1under currently la pi#t* After X got bone X listened to tbo loot balf of the ".currier" la it* world premier at the Metropolitan# which 1 did not ear# for particularly# while 1 did much needed thing* like putting clean eheete en ny bed end turning th -strces--a detail which Lucille sennet so# -- collecting the laundry to go out and packed too food parcel* far Hungary* Ifcrougb eew freek of miure both the Uecfoiwber bowl of n&reiec! end the January bonl art blooming net! 'Last weekend X use with Glcve'e fatally and not a very good gueot a* I was pretty tired# coughed more then wms attractive ;iid stayed in bed until after they went to church* X was cuppooed to go bask with then yesterday and decided that the weather sweftniille imde it desireable for m to hav a quiet weekend at hone* 'Despite sunshine and staying in bud until aftor noon today# X guess I will not go out today* Tbs children were very disappointed laot Sunday that there still me no opportunity to try their Chrletmui skatee# so we took it out in putting en the. skates end steading up on then to strengthen the aatt.ee* I am knitting wcSX socks for the actual venturing onto the ice* * bare all been greatly interested in the Marshall appointment# wbidb took no quite by surprise even tbou^i X wondered wfay Marshall ens seating bask to this sountsy* kbr* iogers knows Uarskall very well and says that bs is a book person# s scholar at bsurt jisrd parmmlly would like to run a school or a college and help to "wake ibsh*# Ibis sidelight amre than offsets the sue pioiou on Hie part of om that he will "Militarise* both Hi# government d tbo foreign policy* If Symes Lid to go be selected a very good 'time to step out* Tuesday noon X lurched with John S* Badmu# president of the Arisen College in Cadre# at the old Murray Hill# TnmsAtlantie flight ^mve ham m delayed tlmt he urrived earlier than expected* rmd I ma spared going to Jbe iiirport to newt bin Mdt was part of the publicity in coanectiois -with out January 18 luncbasm sines that is the first scheduled ouoech. lis i full of energy and infermuiion Mbm X asked him if he bad h d atudcat diifioultics on his oiimpus# be pointed cut that our press ggive a distor ted vus -w Over a period oi* moinb^ students (not bis) my have butted six trams# net Yb caw wickii>t* Furti^itnore the students never riot after four in the afternoon. One of bis ^tude^ta started a bemmgue in a olamrmm agitait iiwiruoticn in E^lisb and was told to sbat-wp by a daoeoaie# who- lben took ili floor tunK explioned that their Instruc tion -us not in Jnglisb but in American# "lbs King sew e great deal of American officers during the war und in &n hour* ccnvwrseticn with liadefeu used a let of Amrlcanissi quite unssnsolous'y--*! tolling you" "XdeoH want to butt in# but* etc* Bademu feals that iim ml-Mle eastern people generally were nudi inrrmsed with our soldiers# their knomhew and that ..e have a very grc^t oPi-ortiMty ri#it now to solidify and build on those gains* La&sis is working hard idth .dissatisfied dsnents qnd there is possibility thai tbsir imlu o# ../ill effect rssponsiblo quarters* ihunsdsy iiigbt X went to a dinner sponsored (X don*t ^ulte sn why) by tbs ,-4iivr:,c?v..i !.jcoiatio for the United Motions at tbo Biltnore oelebrating Carrie Chaycstn A u -v-V* --r Jl 7%- (fefct'f GM Myt&dBy# MeorMng t o tfca zmtxmmxy lite* (kit alxsgla h&i&aodXy got iha francos for tmrnkmrn wmm, *A mm to loater of all goof forward looking *>rte 4# Wfrjr rid axoept AoatralM# tfflw teOaad .ate Xflfllflte Wl hvrsolf m* fcrl & world .hod U 41mod* a mr w iaovit&blo if say mtioa w tU i^rlthal* 3h told a aico otcrr about bar first suffrage noting haX4 .la a om oaadiiioa thai Urn mte&aUr oould opm the soasioa TO iteyir# iftar flfcw hi mi Iw wojoh# ^ -agdUs-^to Lord# oat mM all this yooag mid# sat it aside mm forget It#* tr soXli) ^ i &' ere to* AY*** **1 it! md&4M lain? 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There never has been much time to do it except on the weekend and last Saturday 'after "being i'h fni o-fico id the morning I went to Freeport to stay with Jay and Freddy while Molly and Jim went to a church supper It was such a balmy day that Jim and Jay had gone to Belmont Park with the other family for a picnic and after Freddy's nap I oily and I took him to Jones Beach for a lovely walk by the ocean. As the large red sun sank into the hori zon atmosphere the ocean and the Bay took on wonderful pale blpe, green and grey tints. The sort of thing that made one long to put it on canvass, but realise that memoriy was the best medium for no-one else would belief the beauty without having seen it# Sunday afternoon we drove over to see Gal and Thelraa at Horthport without finding them at home. The children were delighted with the pigs--the first that either of them had ever seen. Hie weekend before after the FFA luncheon at the Waldorf* which went well because of Badeau and hot through the dull description of the decay and fall of the -Ottoman Empire to which Floyd Black treated us, I went to Martha and CIeve for the weekend. This time I did manage to get up in time for churcht Monday night Molly came in and we went to "Traviata". I had the feeling that the tempo was too slow and in the first act a decided lack of cohesion in the cast. We both enjoyed ourselves and Bjoerling, though his voice lacks the fluidity which characterized the Italian tenors who used to sign Maurice. Tuesday night I was to have dined with Gerry and gone on to the AWA to hear Margaret Bourke-White talk about her new book "Rest Quietly, Dear Fatherland". Because Gerry's mother died the week before I took another of her proposed guests to dinner at the Crillon instead. Mies Bourke-ltiits is very troubled about the determination of the yoi nger Na*is to keep Hitler on a pinnacle end to adher to his doctrines. I have not seen her in several years, she is as glib and attractive looking but there seems to be a lamentable coarsening. Actually she talked much more about IndlA than Germany. Miss Morgan was there and looked very badly, but I did not stop to talk with her and sip sherry, being completely exhausted. The office is in a dreadful mess and I had had a major upset that morning Just when I thought I was going to press with the February 15 meeting a telegram csme from Mike Mansfield saying he could not come, and 1 had to even excuse myself from dinner to telephone Archibald MaoLeish in my attempt to build another program around him and UNESCO# Fortunately it worked and the substitute topic got to the printer late Wednesday# Poor Mike has been in the hospital with the * recurrence of some Asiatic bug he picked on his trip# I hope to heaven he gets straightened out to do a series of meetings I have arranged for him in the Southwestern BranchesI The office is in a dreadful turmoil over the lack of a president and inability of the staff to get ideas approved by the now very tited and discouraged Board. Al most every day we have long and exhausting strategy sessions in my office with greai secrecy because we cannot afford to let the staff generally know how bad things are# These take so mud* time I stay late to keep ray cwn desk moving and crawl home to bed where I have been reading Shoiera Ascfc's "East River"--an interesting treatment of the Jewish immigrant situation, the exploitation of their labor by their own people in the garment industry twenty-thirty years ago. At least their troubles take my raind off my own! A week ago Vera used my apxirtment to hide out in and get her conclusions pulled together on the book she is finishing for the Harvard Press -- at least she was not subjected to constant interruption hers and & aimsjjf it was hslpful. A week ago the French Jbabaas&dor kissed her on both cheeks and gave her the Legion of Honor# Ihida reminds me several weeks ago we had a little party in the office to give General McCoy his by-bye present . Poor dear he hoped it would be a chess table but Mrs. T#W# Lamont selected a very beautiful Sheffield tray, which anyone could exist without. She made g very graceful presentation speech and in replying he made referrence to having been decorated by a French General and gotten kissed, so he promptly kissed her on both cheeks# Wiy do I never have my camera when I want itt David Mitrany has recently come from England and says that after observing our I , *. . jy ll, >.<***} * 'pfc.NV - y a .j A J |VfrrCv . y.rl -- 'J C\ current standard of living he is convinced that Britain cannot hope for dose ties with us. They are so poor and so far behind us that the two economies cannot supplement each other. 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Tt is 64 degrees here now- and was so cold that 1 went to bed with the electric beater last night and stayed there until noon today# At le^st X got caught up *on sleep, which is nice# This has been a busy w" eek and X "neeHd-e^dV'I th1e extraA# #' ws? r: ir.ulx'r ' x.Ln .--u:.. Mu e,rj dsi'xfr* eof.-,-! x.... . Monday night Carolyn Martin went to wilKHRlE with me. It was i good per formance and enlivened by Melohior's accident* I thought him a little stiff in the jointa toward the end of the first net when he climbed onto the table to pull the sword from the tree# Evidently he caught his sandal shod toe on the table as he jumped from the height end went flat on his face# He never missed a note, though one phrase was muffled while his face was down# I noticed that his left knew had a great dark spot end feared for a substitution when the intermission was overlong# But no he came back with a bandage on both knew and great toe and sang Siegibund with his usual finesse--though it was evident that walking was verv difficult for him# Fort unatsly he gets Hlied in that act and could go home. Thebora sang Fricka--a part I have never liked, but did it so wehl that T not only liked her but the role too# Wednesday* s snow made me fear that Josey Andrews might not come for the night--but she is a hrdy eoul though exhausted# She recently ran Baltimore's street fair for the rehabilitation of St# L and raised ^12?000. We Had a marvelous dinner at a little French retaraunt, which turned out to be in celebration of her birthday? and came home to talk in front of my own fire. The next morning I put on the news a few minutes before eight# When I got to the office I discovered that kr had missed eoamont about a prophecy of Don's by a matter of seconds# It seeros that he believes it possible in thirty years to have subway trains from New York to San Francisco travelling a thousand miles an hour? powered by atomic energy. For me-- I prefer to see the scenery# Josey moved over to the Cosmopolitan Club end lunched with me at Town House# That afternoon I managed to have my very dirty head washed before going to Maria's for dinner at seven# Maria's portrait of Lowell Thomas turned out beautifully ana she has come to like him very much# I only saw the first sketch and the proofs of the colored reproduction for Town and Country# The actual portrait still being with the reprodu cing people. She has been not only very busy painting but all involved with the daughter of a school friend of on of her brothers# Ellis Island telephoned her on Christmas Eve to ask if she knew Marika ^hrman (or some such name)# iJaria came very close to denying it but while she stalled for time did son deducing and decided that it must be the daughter# The child and her parents walked from Budapest to close to the .American Zone of Austria, hiding by day and travelling at night# The mother broke her ankle and at revolver point the father ordered the girl on alone one dark night when they heard a Russian patrol nearing them# Of course, the parents was picked up but after incredible adventure the terrified 18 year old crossed the rifer and the Americans shoved her on to Paris# Here she was lucky enou$ito to get a scholarship for the Sorbonne on the basis of the extraordinary "mature" sfc e had made in Budapest# This carried her all the winter of 1945-6 Someimte this autumn the new Communist# Minister of Education in France decreed that Hungarian refugees were reactionary and the scholarship was cancelled# She cane here on a transit visa to go to South America*- her fare paid to New York and no further funds# Maria financed hor for a month, got her a "Student visa" and now the child is at Connecticut College on a foreign scholar ship left vacant by the marriage of the original recipient. I well remember oitat the Monday after Christmas was very cold. Ellis Island by that time had taken tier ,aa re and released her for two weeks--that was the first day Maria saw hwr# She - ^ssed in a tweed skirt she had made, a clean while cotton blouse and a sweater she had sal- aged as cast off in Perls. That ws her total wardrobe, let ehe was unooisplax ng. ':?ijrz sars.*y2rs,..=- ----* -"~a the lines and situations very entertaining. Tuesday tetter tetainn * to say goodbye ^fore he jailedJ|Jj* is to slis* the i'oles ttat a line *M* of nae'relisyje 'lermany--Hahdto ^ S3csus.= * rr.rss:.fs FiSSfti&r directed -on taking of many ot tA? vuh Cur'1- which X reviewed a while o&ck cane m A . m -w - orrost rn. aay other tilings hi w-fc+fnio- ~f +hd Munich race track, which mi one and half millcn marls. 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Ed. Lumley took Jim ever to the Professional Building in Mineola. .somehow? Jim got to Nassau Hospital and ifolly believes that he spent on hour and a half on the operating table, as he was Just in his room at 5t30 vhen she got there after leaving the kidd with Martha for their supper. (Martha and Cleve missed the excitement by driving out on the Island to get some miles on their new blue hash on which they got delivery early this week.) We are not sure-why he was in the operating room so long with the three head men, for Jim admits that he was out before be got on the table. He said he 3aw the x-rays and it was a good clean break of the big bone. He is in a cast to his fk\nie0e. Molly thinks it will be two months before he can work, and suspects that he will bs in the hospital for at least a week. They won't 1st hiia either smoke or drink any water tonight. At 5i30 he was veil doped and frankly told Molly he wanted to sleep and for her to come back. She went home, got the kids to bed, Martha sat with A&mm while Molly went back to the Hospital. Jim was still asleep, but was waken when the nurse came to take his temperature and pulse--in the cheek. Then he was full of beans and asked Molly to bring him a Weary mile Cake--which she said he could have when he got home--begged her to turn down the thermostat when she went to bed and generally acted quite normally. She is sad but not worried. Anyway he will get a good rest and since he did the work of three men for Travellers during the war and drove for the Red Cross, perhaps a little rn-t won't It is curious that ths only bod in the hospital is the one which Maybelle doOazsp vacated At noon today! Jiai wanted a semi-private room so that ho would have someone to talk to--but they only had a private on# Jerry deCarap will visit him tomorrow morning Molly in the evening, and agin on Friday when Minnie is at the house# Clove will go Friday night# 1*11 go to Freepori after the FPA meeting on Saturday to do what I can about baby sitting while Molly goes to the hospital and maybe getting over to see him myself# By Friday he will have a telephone of his own# Freddy is crazy to see hie father in bed with side beards --like a crib--so he can't fall out, but of course he can't# Ths address is Hoot 308, Nassau Hospital, Uineola, N#Y# jpltnai eldl Is# Ii&qsi # em bmwwkfelei ^IlUT |ii bfls Xdiiob ae isiisi edi ybfeet^ bet* y*-b dilw Itad .u. - XI rl* mmd mn oi a*& tieI had d8 *aX eld ed<*> ma nod is#c edfr iilfip ioc lo *o oko *io'; lHS#ftiofseo**f al jpfifc fltrE XsnoieseloiH edi" oc 10vo mil* jfool yeXmuJ #bZ .biiolol # 00 hffs msd so ietiKje d Is# veiled ylleM bite XsiiqaoH usssaH # log f#ib tpmwlsmS ieg ede rwiiv 0C is sseev eiii al ieufc seer ed as Xdsi aoliaieqe odi as IXad a veXD bos adlrtaM) vaqqu* *iidi to! jtditsM dilw hbii edi gnivoel w^ aterii *t* iter!* JO seXJb* ewos tea oi brtalal odi no luo ^frrttl yd imMiioxe o# beset njBBi ad 01m fios US H (lissv sidi yXtss yteviXeb log yedl doxdw no AmK ei/Xd 55v,: ed iarfi #btc rib t ,-js bi-od eaa:L edjr rfilw gnoX oe moot puisne ? ^ *A |so| s a ii fins ts^nt-x edi was oil bi.au ef #eldsi I ao log ed wto'lsd iuo ,:j XXixr H eittidl vXXsM aid oi iesc e nx si j ,sac-d ilo' srfi lo iaavd Am *ot XaiXxgted sdr si ed XIlw ed Jell eioeqtwa baa ,ihOW :?eo ed smifted si* now owl iA" #4*rfaiaoi yjpBe i&ivb **0 sisss tediie mid ieX i'now yetfT #ieew a isaeX i led *xol has qeels ot beiixew ed yllsU bXoi yXaUsirtl bfie beqob IXew esw ed QGifi vIXeM Xld* zk&1 dil tea adiycCi ,bwd oi bid ell tog ,efod irtew edS .iaacfamso MM* eeruja edi astfv aaiaw saw Jud qesXsa XXlim k? mlb XaliqsoH edi oi* dead his* lux^i mmd lo XXol mm ed nedT deeds edt al--caX^q has srwl'irjeqmei* eld edao ed made svsd bXiios ed bias ads ilsldw--edsO sl' fM t*sae a aid phdf # ylXoM beiea * yXXavettea bns bed oi law tie aedv isieosncedi #! sarnb twl ei "ted bexaed eaod iog fw% hoea a ia XXlw ed yavynA #bslTiow ica lad has el edS #yXXanraoa mfbtp heisa $st saroyb baa use edi pt%b eyeXXev^vT tbl ^issi ee^a# lie Itow edi bib ad mwtlm baa . ii0SV eXiiJU a wgadteq #ea^st) feefi tii rI' . JU, February 25, 1947 MnA<\t( Wall, it is a long time since I wrote last on February 9 end rather hard to remember all the things I might have chattered about. Lute in the evening of the 12th Molly telephoned that Jim had broken his Aajg skating and mo in the hospital, so I went to bear her company over the weekend. We had a nice time thdugh we did not gee much of each other as I wanted her to visit Jim as such- as my presence made possible, Sunday afternoon 01ewe took Jay and me ovor to the hospital in 'his new Hash--very nice it is too, vim looked very well and seemed fairly comfortable, though getting restive at being kept in bed, I invited myself for the next weekend and said I would arrive in time for dinner on Friday. Taking his duties as "man of the family1* very seriously Jay urged me to come earlier , eo I promised to got there just as soon as 1 could get away from the office* To everyone*s delight Jim was let out of the hospital on the 18th instead of the 22nd* Late Thursday afternoon our blisaard began mid kapt right on during Friday so m decided to close the office at three. Although it had stopped snowing I left at 3:45 for the 4*13 train* Of course there were no taxis and after waiting in a biting wind for 15 minutes decided that the #4 busses which go to Penn Station had given up o I rode to 32nd and Fifth and sloshed over to Seventh and arrived six minutes too late for my train* Lots of people had been let out early and the crush for the 43b was qua:, to that of Christmas Eve, Finally the gates were opened and wo got on the trains which started fifteen minutes late and reached Jamaica in reasonable time* After a long wait it wae announced that train had been cancelled and we wore all to take the train on the next platform. Docilely I tried to follow instructions only to find it impossible to von got near the door* The authorities changed tnen and order ed my original train to go only by that time there were no seats* Eventually we left and then backed up* pausing briefly at Jamaica, as far as /oodhaven* 3y xito and starts we went forward and backward and by a circuitous route eventually got to .reeport l-\ way of Far Rockaway and X reached the house at l'0145-- seven hours from portal to portal* Fifty thousand dinners we re delayed or spoiled that night but ths people in my ear were good humored and made the best of the delay even though hungry, uncomfortable and tired. (A train hud jumped the track and ripped out the third rail on three of the four tracks servicing the line* Cleve was lucky enough to be en a train which me put through on the on remaining track and was not materially delayed* ) Saturday Jay and I worked on a sncw house and warmed Freddy s hands when Jack Frost bit themM and had a lovely time in the crisp cold. That evening when he was going to bed Jay commented on spots on his chest, w: ich turned out to be ehiexen pox upon examination, Freddy had a bump on his forehea/d which we gloomily decided age more oi same, but discovered next day was not. The sitter was engaged so we went along next door tc a Steak-cooked-or-oh&rcoal-firo-in-tho-living-room supper at the Kenney s, xhe wind had blown the snow practically clear on the lawn between the two houses, so *. im had no trouble hobbling along on his crutches. It was s pleasant party and e ad a nice evening* Sunday Lolly organised th hospital with breakfast ireye for Jim and Jay celling Jim *ih patient in 308"(his room number in the hospital) and Jay "310"* He however has just learned about hundreds and thought it dressier to be '110 ' we agreed not to submit menus for them to check, but for the rates they were paying just to send up what we had* Send up is inaccurate-- she carried one and I ths other* Meanwhile Freddy was full of Mexican Jumping Beans and was into everything* In the middle of the morning Jim got dressed and took over playing Old staid and reading Thorn ton Burgess books to Jay and Freddy and I went out to jfcy* The Wind had drifted the fine now into the paths so I had a chance to loosen the muselob stiffened by St-turd&y1 s shovelling. Very early Monday morning: Jim developed very severe chest pains, but the pleurisy we feared was rot confirmed by the doctor who arrived before nine* Molly went oif for medicine and to do the shopping while 1 tried to keep Jay who was feeling pretty frisky in bed, Freddy under control, and keep an eye on Jim, in between answering th telephone and the doorbell. It kept me busy for a couple of hours* Martha tock Wee Man for the afternoon ana supper, ad it seemed safe for as to leave for the office, T*J+-e,t Harsh It, X47 imi n long ppsu## h#taca chit-chat*! f##k#.!sd# at Trmmpwrt have hmm th# largo#a mtfifettiat factor. Jla will b# la th# ai to his hip at la#t until April 1C. St baa att may 1i th# tMHrt, but thm ar ttritinly ciea# mouthed with "tin in a###>##ry** im ibtir 1##&. La#t weekend I at at South 0#aa Areas# getting *-- agist up with tha. Beth 02 eve "re had been hmwsd with cfildb but war# mil again* k# had pou-Mim gam# of QftaMl while 6iH wad Martha, west to town far itlllfir "111 th# theatre. Sunday a* temoon *li#n w# west t# a# Jim ve fcinad him on th front lawn Xesmiag on hi etuiohm playing hm with Jay. Freddy had broken out ltli chick## p#* and *,# definitely indoora, do-Ii^hted - shew hit #o#t# to call#r# B# i# going t# b a heartbreak#? if ha #t|tiu## his ptiMMUli t#a#~-b rushed at a# saying *Attt r*nk, X aleaad you a# much!" lit# ##k before shes x a# with that* a# had a fily cocktail party to which $sl ami tticlna at*# a a premature birthday party for Jim. On Tuesday Jolly had a children*# party for Jay-- at^J'ieh all the guest# had had chicken pexi Bjjifgf th# v#k Fran mo elected to the ;:l'> - - .-..v.l Junior Itol soMetr--Id IMkMMi SS T r it Ml th## to lgni (L#t ay# r&# b# it# own rfct :'t# Kappa. T#sierdy Hi te,td our last luncheon at th# iald#rf for ilk# &#* oa.th# Far :a#t. Jit.# Masai'leid oaii# hp fro iaehingtc and did a very good job--but our public aid set P', ort^u vary wall and * shifted to th# Starlight Roof because of th# small trod. is sway and I used Frederick IMn HI## a# eMail*.?! which added 'to th# itnit . H# if a gvnnd portion and a good editor of Barpaj^a but l!;vn amm to fe# d##lr#d as a t'drefijfi, Mtormtitd X ##rt^bl#d has# fc##r4 a onatoh of on th# x^di# r.g I aUagod ay dro## to go to Oraag# for 4imwr with Mmdm #lX#a CS#t HlXiaaa dr#y mm out feith hi# wif#t J. Haymo#d -aXsh-th# r#sarafe dir##t#r of th fublis Actios Crrattt# af 0X0, .-ad ^r. rad 're. larlo# lalm#]i#a. i# i# a a#@t &ttratir# Baliyiaii dlpl-.rah 16, im---{2} shaming apartmat ftr n eun of tea before "lea '^rd toek m hmr Xwggage and went to the sleeper for mahingtas. Mine ^,mr it out of torn lnt her built up the fir# and hrvugMt 1* ike ten tray* and *.?is 'Wagd put her foot up while X peered the tog ant lot her relax. igfatewa meatbe age the get a a&srty bug In th Eafcr *fcioh bo* reenrrad and sMl she yearns to eat mil the oftrue fruit and other tteig# aha Imi act been able to got in Ibglanl for ye*rf sbndnM*t dafffe I hop % the tig aba goto to California she will have built up & "taint****" s that aba &s got bar fill* It w* m fuw and m law# not te soti M dUo# g, mmuae-WtiS * aai bod ay tuturday lkjafe Ot thrftft* Xbft Day PftiMte* r at loat the M of it* Ml tliroagi %tb direst ftftft flwloyod ay gotting hftngft> but X nov la bod. and aaloop by &ix 0lop| t until %i~& dbUdma mrmlmgt (Hwm mi 7 mtt ikafilm md tm ii tie higbtXigJata of ti-oir trip. tb%*- got la trim Saaurlofttoa ^ ^ aft^raooa I wont to ihr mrmm?/ im mth Um "'orb turned tor tbo deed iho oito to Try-gyle Lie* I&tyor 0*9yr iwrfi a very good #r#ch rather bottor miliar ..arrow .luatia' or tiofft hrohbiol^p SpoUiaBa, iavoottloa waft Ift&osnt&ahlo* mmmrmMmly im f foi;;g dolaptoo tumod up* t.-.o only one I roeogai^od acai I-hialuok 1 .'^otrtiXlsi# It s ^voffer u mmt intorooiin,.. eoeauioa on uhioh the ity diu it# beat -to a^ko Mtrry ami bad grout# of ftbUdron fr toe ptdilio pXaygrousads duaoo in ooatuao Frftufth* aiin#og !-:udiaa and folk du..oes# Fyrthemoro it %am ploau-^4 t-;> tit la tint aua for a e^ugXo ftf biuro* la#t l#4 X obeyed Luju# in -mm mmn. * t a. & a, S, *>1 ,, 1UL.C Mi/t f-r lV^>'' Mb* 18, Titers i no point in trying t g back a month and try i catch up Ngread saying that ur Spflsg is strange-**still cold, damp fill depressing. 'The theory 1 like beet is thai veleest mctlois i Iceland Is tfce cease, thougb I chuddar mi the conclusion I tile idea, notably that it will last tor two year*. brook ..meny spent the w*ekd of iprSl 26th 1b slew York. I talked with hi until 4iiS en Saturday afteraeo and after" the special Beard iseetiisg en Monday night declined to hat# a. drink with &im at 10i45 in the internet* of getting hens ie bed# Testmrday afternoon Jessy Andrews picked we up and we enjoyed "Carousel" together and dinner at La Chauiaiere. I had planned to spend the rest ei the evening at Hp desk hut last net went to bed to get war the trues of the pas* week. Thursday ih * A enorcrnted with the Che-aber of Uemmerec of the State of Few Torts in a four o* clock mewting in honor of Slpidio uulriao, vice-president i the rkilippinee and concurrent ly Minister of Tormim Affairs. I get the speaker and had all relatione mih the Fili pinos!* The C.of provided their vojv lovely Great Hall for the even end half of the audiuna*. It would take throe pages to give m blow by blow description of TttlpplBM"- in-my-Hoir". First T oh coked with the oonaulst on for for the Invitation and mm told thnt they need "The Mtogt*&g* and "Mr. Vice fresident" . .liter the several thousand invitations had been printed. Adetfea, the consul, telephoned we that Tyteaam has issued en lixviiaiicmtfer "His Yxo.ll@*scy,s md that they could not be so niggardly ee to disregard the tone he set, therefore for the Jtoteriefca stay Quirino would be "His Igeellenev* and return to "The Honorable" when he get heme! (Sens clerk in tic State Department protocol certainly slipped on that ens.) There were o&apli cations about rrt-fge, whether he weuld answer Ciueatioisp, *dvor?e copies of teat for script and news* neper release i*w police escort On the iaiu angle--X esked *r it to be in ay bands on Tuesday and. got it e.t fly on Thursday after the speech ems oyer. On the -solice escort* I wee prepared to arrange it* but assumed that it would bo accorded feb for his whole toy. The 1 orger undertaking being a waiter between the lists Depmriaeii nd the Office of the Mayor. Periodic enquiries? from the Conoul rrve&Sred only that it had not beo notified by tfeo Office of the Mayor, it puarter before two the Ooaeul told ate thai I would have to arrange it myself. Maturedlp I should have liked mere time but found the Felice .Department unite willing to ee-operate, as the Chairmen oi our Board whom X had arranged to pay his respects end escort 'the V.F. down to Liberty Street fromi the Waldorf de the trie in lees than tea minute-- which is just mm well as they were fifteen minutes late en leaving. It segill 1llgrlgila a full length f Thomas Kdieen which ha liked so well that fe< I si it tHiitS brush and wrote - -..-Us 2% o fill length of Oadwallader Golftate (?) she mm Lt. Gov. of the colony when the King of "ngland granted the S.efC. lie charter* luring the occupation of Mew York the Hessians used It for bayonet prae* hie but It has been beautifully restored. After It was over, it being Ascension SU>v> want csvor to Trinity ahich is ohkebra- ting 5 Rl 'innivcraary. Been galeired aseslas are in window bones inside beneath all the id do etaifiod glgMHi eindewa end lovely colorAil Huge frora the pillar along the nave. I hmvti aluavs been fond of Trinty. but warsdv noi?rnv of the offset of thin listening up of its interior. Then I ent to (ftiiiiatewn for e apeeial dinner whicli Yiae Hemii# had hl ovderod by a man in the Sank of China--seven eouraes. Just irv fried iMlgk^r and Lobster still in hell aitb chop etloks? The general wall-to-do atnoeph^re and appear* an me of the isfcnbita&ts m* noticeable. I wan amused at a sign in a Bapard Sir mt hep "Antiques, jade and. nyloBe". ^ednesdey night Profsear Chmmbarlin asked me to dinner to meet a fersian by name of Aa was fascinating. A mmdber ef the fariiais at he was made Governor of mm c* the out ier 'provinces nt the ago 2&--*i rest y@oo.liy ^c '-l^^cd mt :":-D. 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Meanwhile his article signed "Mr*Xw and hi apnoial trip to Europe for iirshall to make Ms own appraisal of iiuropean needs did a lot to rmke him impressive and interesting* is chairman of the State deportment1 n Policy Planning Comn&itee lie certa;'uly h; s his hands full* While Germany * g the center problem, the next ton weeks will tell whether or not the very serious situations in France and It- ly will through those countries into chaos or Communism* The long tern problem of Brit.In is a real poser* It would seem that in a way we are paying for their luxur3.es, for oxyaple our coal miners work longer hours than theirs do end .yet wd have to send them coal* On the other hand in two generations the British have lost the fiercer of their young manhood in ware in which re later became involved and the British held the line while re prepared* Among the delegates were some very interesting people--the men who went with Stansoil to Loscow and interviewed Stalin, told that Stassen had used his not3 for his release to the oreR before the diplomatic OK had been put on the story by Stalin* It was rather flying in the face of Russian practice and we cannot blr.rae the Russians for objecting to 3t,asii, breoch of faith* Another man, ILayton Fritchey of New Orleans interview* the Pope recently and on the basis of that folk look for r, Vatican gesture 11 not blessing to Communism ond agestime from the Kremlin i6 Catholicism--both in an attempt to win the peesents of astern Europe* Oh my, whet strange bedfellows politics makes* Charlotte Muret 5e back from France and was coming to see m this afternoon-- but telephoned she could not make it* While 11 noerned silly for her to come in from Cedarhurst where she is staying to see me, it would have boon nice to got her tale today* After Wedesday I do not know jvnf where I vbr.ll stay for a while* Amy and Douglas Oemr arrive then and arc bringing Helen wit! them# About a month ago Sydney was murdered in his Vancouver bank when he resisted a Aucsian hold-up man# The crim inal has not been captured despite the biggest manhunt the Royal Gaijadiaii Police has staged in the history of British Columbia* The newspapers and radio are playing up the hunt so much that the prostrated Helen * being brought East to got away from the publicity and strain* I have oeked bar to stay with me, after all I as * brides maid wnen she and Sydney were married* I don't know how long, .if at all dt e will be with m and 1 do not know how long they will stay* Douglas has finished up his wai-time joo, so it may be a fairly long visit* He must have money her, so that taa exchange restriction will not interfer. At any rate I hove declined L'leinor Brewster's invitation to spend the Columbus Bay weekend with her and shall see how tilings work out with the visiting Canadians# iu order to have somthing to wear at the Branch Conference T bought a "* suit-- 100,* virgin wool black garbardine with five "silver" buttons " ioh match ray silver earrings* The riotous thing about it that eft^r epending hours lengthening everything I own, I had to shorten this suit almost thr*e inches5 A trunk or box at Hep port yielded some black sort of bird of paradise feathers wMch I have stuck iM an old black felt with a very smart result# My only fear is that they arc some kind of feather now bated from use* It would be embarrassing if they were snatched from nay head* Pretty aoon i am going to Maria's for dinner, for a special dish cf scallop* < $4 * * tUa - fotalUj _ J iJLta. - October 5, 194? I ant simply exhausted" This afternoon X lietoned to that killer-dillor World Series game and could not hare come out of it in worse shape if I had been there myself* and pitched every ball. Helen and the Dswars came Xate Hiursday after having spent eeveraX days in Virginia. Hie Demurs are fine and Douglas has gained some weight In the poet eight years despite all his hard work. Helen is in a highly emotional state. She took one look at me on Saturday and buret into teare and spent a good deal of time tailing me shout the last days of Sidney*s life and Ahe details of the attempted hold-up, how by a fluke the robber went into Sidney's private off loo and & ot him at close range when Sidney overturned a desk to trap and distract the man* Hal on haa always dramatised herself and we can only hope that for her own good she will soon get hold of herself. Since she did not want to be alone and did net want to play bridge with the people who had asked Amy and Doug!as* I stayed with her in the hotel. The neat time I am alone with her perhaps we shkll go places. Naturally she had to have thle eession with ae--but it ie not good for her to go ever and over it. Any tobd me it was a godsend to her, to get away from it for a few hours as Helen talks eonstantly. I hsve gotten an awful let done this weekend even if I stayed at the office until eight on Friday. Ihe slipcovers are all wished* mended and back on the Chesterfield--I can't spare thms long enough to ed them to the laundry. All tha chair covere I put on a faw years ago have been taken off, cleaned with Henusit and takked back again and the hem of my last year's black wool drees has been faced to givqd another two inches length. The thing! am meet proud of ie to fit a strip of upholstery material over the broken baek of a chair I inherited from Drew Baker. It was broken when he left it and X had it repaired by a cabinet maker. It broke again and X thought X would have to part with it--but hove parted only with the wood and eon still use the chair with the material b*ek reat. It will do as long as I stay in this apartment. There hae been another campaign to cell--but X got my October rent bill. Oh, yes* and X wrapped three parcels of food for overseas shipment this afternoon but did not take them to the post office. Friday ws had an interesting Indian at lunch. One of the greatest problems of India today is the two and a half million soldiers to demobilise. They were accustomed as peasants to be thankful for one good meal a day--new after six years in ths Amyon the average, they expect to continue eating three square Army meals a day. Those who are still on occupation duty in Italy have gotten a taste for Italian wine and Jfeerican movAaw. Mr. Shiva Ha shrugged his shoulders end said where shall they find them in the Punjab. Also they have all been trained in the use of modern firearms--the native princes bought large quantities of surplus war goods--in ths recent riots in Hew Delhi Bren guns wars used on the part of the civilians. Tomorrow Ifoe. Bidault is coming to lunch with us, tfcich reminds me that X brought some stuff home from the office that X must read before X go to bed. I am more than six Jumps behind myself in the office and we are having a reception for Brooke T&sny Wednesday which will sake an awful hole in that day. p)~hB- tye/W- fWRE* . - Wvc- Tmitowy see to first todorf luntoca la wicto ay eolXoguss outvoted a* on doing a #aour%porionall*iao'etir aai9M| it of us nitfc people fn to delegation* instead of a bard bitting eee&laatloa cm the il&rshall proposals* it to line to deoisioa mm ^ X begged Brsfeka iM era to bold tonsalvee in readb noos to party to pragma ton tin prtmtn rtoneaa failed to turn up* In to first in* stose wo mm disappointed not to got fleeter iietol or Herbert 2v*tt nod wmt to preee ulffe Urs* todtt, Shtoaryk, lto of tin Presets delegaties and Amelia as proof* tot of tin toml toesbly. Sfaaaxyk has bod 11 hvmkdmm frm overwork sod on fXiuiotey annouaoed tot bo 00s sot permitted to bo present 00 doetor1* orders* it noes on -Saturday# jt es X *00 looting for tin hotel JUmabm tolophoood tint to fog bad delayed tototl** arrival *t iafeyttte Collage# hold up tin stmsr is whidt ting oi both getting degrees and tint in wmld not got book in ttot dust before that Vijaja Pundit bad her di#jter telophase tint aba s booing spoils of dissynase to boffigod to speak first and leeva* It mo all pretty upsetting especially as Bruee Lew, ay aviator* ind b#ea out oil week with s bod infection to X bad boos doing s lot of stuff hiss to have serried* fkweever it all worked cut very soil even to tin arrival of fosm's fog bound plea Pros tin wast so that she oould sit at tin Jpmkem Htble is the place of iirs* T*$ Umrnt to photo about eleven tbat aba bad too bod a old to bo eitb us* bees mklsg ia the Brtobee# so got Kelson tokeieller sbo arrived balf as hour lata to toad tin Uvto ststeueat, Pandit bad ens t of her staff tain her plaee and aaosur quasttorn {%# it sos not to ens so pisxmad on doing this# bs never turned up ot all and 7 bod too ospty pleee at *y table*) and hajpie me ansellest with ostsnordiaaxy good Bnglieh for 0 rratoaaa* h'rs* ftoit sad I boss o oomsko bood liiiob wo do mt matioat tbsugb I bast roasoa to boos tbat sbo too is emre of it* Abaut nineteen' nl sat son sin olomd wltb hyud ^loemta^ tins bar ftbor9s (kotilal i-dbru) dsdUsi soerotary* 3n Brabsda fathor ox uld mt tabs it, bad the sarriags a^mlledt and %ud sen seat abroad* ^ariog ^n lata twoatioo bo soa is Mao Toik 021d paid as a good doal of attastlo--^i^i I kmm sexrisd Ded md iust Oerblim^ iaoidautly it sas through hla tbat X iem^ larodiai :idu sina aha ma bars and dm I sas is India bad breakfast wdtb Hsbru (tin ess wbo is mm * staler} and bs arrasgad for en to ass Qaodbi* Sira* lesdit is lovely idtb fisnly obisdllod features osd a oils figure*** n ears a gold bordered 4cm grey aari witb am rim oad a five pearl pis at bar threat-- a great ostmst to tin iretmisdoua auouut of Jswslxy oba used is sear 0 ooupls of years age* 3bo eaa feaftto abott tbo riots is India and triad to explain tbat tbe Benlsisa of India en0 doing & enmdleat Job is vise of tbo look of preparation for iipaliag tbe ooopleat and tpoacmdmn preUlotas left em tbeir laps as sddsaly in August* 2bo pointed out that oosiitimn is Asia em pavbaps aore insidious tbas is Xarspa tb#u# mm the loss eatable of asplosiem* Inpi-tp who is nputy front ikmey, pointed out tint Freme bos aade great stridss is reoonstimotioa under groat diffieulty of eaori&ge of itdrinl9 eto*f people work as hard as tiny ess on short diot, as seen as supplies equal damned lb# ItsB leaves tbs blank market, he emits to set a rwoonstrue* todjerm osimmiy, dag eitb tbat of fbrnnot not before tbat of FPmaoa, and ogpxeoood that tone of the /1b3greaslotial visitors to -mp tbis ewaor pit a very true picture* 1 point m ^iob Xtddy Brett just bask fma being mi eeeupation affieer is toi meHaas Xono of Zmmmy (be mm stationed mt far t*m Stuttgart) eaiody oneure. fn feel* tot the Qemmm are right nben toy assert toy beve **een the osculation" to ia oomrtoed tot to Iheie etill flourito Joseph r^ilit-abooar tm o mpim oeteksieearetinIkgitbsttuodenAt efymItosni lm^veeavneratXtvsneaettivuep to to see teaedtilled amttoaft for a eaektail to i# Join to Ommm to Melon* Hie four of us seat te to Orillen for dinner to toe te Vto loves lbiy a oost eitong to tol toe oaedy* ifterearde eo ototo et to oteye y.^retyl toMtoroe o is sftoirllagdrrieinfkrifdinddsasoorntdtasleksa*sdItteispasytliiltltlseo hot tot so* attention to io to play vhleb eas lottood to divert bor* AUt^ : , ,v_ McuVe October 26, 1947 Yesterday when I got up I put on ay oouutry(non-run) nylons bsc&use I expected to take on afteiraeeon train for spending the night with Molly and Jin* However, a telephone cheek on the Dswar aituatlos rm&Iid that M*i sister-in-law 2ms cabled that she has air passage and sill soon arris from England, They ar not sur yst of th date or whether sh# lands in How York of Montreal* At long last Douglas 2ms gotten a reservation at ths Gideon Putnam and is going to Saratoga for the baths and yesterday afternoon would bs my last ehanee of sselng him* Holly 1st me put then off for another weekend and today 01ere and his family earn in after church* ,,* saw the parade in oonasetion with the return for burial of World War II dead from isy corner and had dinner together at three 'Meek. On his way hems Douglas is going to got a haloes ptsr to uae in the Okanagan Valley to spray the apple trees. He hoped that the various growers would finanoe it and use it eoopersr tivaly on the eight operations per season. However it has ended with his putting up most of the money and knowing that he will take a beating on It the first year or twOf but he hopes that it will help the area. Friday night, 2m went as a retired senior partner, to the 50th anniversary dinner of Peat, Marwisk, Mitchell Ath whieh he had been connected from 1904-39, and had a lovely time. It sounds to me as though his retimed status was primarily fietional as he seeas involved in all sorts ef things in British Columbia. He was in hi# feather at their ooektail party yes* terday bemuse he had Just won $168. cm a long chance in the afternoon*s raeee. (Tfcsm as has, gets.) At the platform lunchaon to which I went yesterday because it is cms of those functions Aiera I should see and be seen although I would much rather have been out in tho nice sunshine* Fadilla the former Minister of Eduoatlon aid later Foreign Affairs of Mexico andtatbassador to the U.S. and defeated presidential candidate said hi* situation in connection with English was like that of a man with a young and beautiful wife--he could appreciate it but could not control it. Aside from chatting with Fadilla and getting a little publicity for the FPA--the time was utterly wasted. Friday we had Fazmikker, prime minister of Benlker (former princely state of India and now pert of Hindu India) at the infernal staff luncheon. Brooke mentioned that several years ago Pannikkor had worn a very Astlnguished beard and that he had had difficulty in recognising him a couplo of weeks ago without it. iknaikker said that during ths Hindu-Moslem riots he had preferred to live without a beard than to death with one on the assumption that he was a Moslem. He lias great admiration for tfeuatbetten and ths job ho has dens, but paints out that ths basis with with ths British turned over the administration to the Indians bad bssn the source of ehao&io conditions. Ibis was especially true in ths native state Atere the msharaja had undertaken all sorts of agreements with the British Grown through ths Governor General concerning communications, transportation and irrigation networks AfcLoh knit tie Urge and small principalities to British India. The British seem to have counted on the Prince retaining their independence and act Joining Ather Pakistan or India. Lountbatten called the Council of Princes together less then a month before the Aug, IS independence day and said in effect you and I both represent the monarchical sys tem! you must remember that this system only works if ths psopls are behind you you must also think what would happen to you if India did not exist, thereupon Trecaaoore and some of ths other principalities decided to risk carrying on alone and even went so far as to ask the US to recognise than, then the people rose beat up and chased out prime ministers and such (one of them is cm Ms way hers for plastic surgery to re store Ms beauty) and the maharaja announced the state would go into the Indian Feder ation. By Mid an hour before the deadline all by Mysore had joined the Federation and agreed to establish democratic government within six months. Mysore will Join as soon as they sen agree Aiether to oall tho document a "Treaty of Aeeessien" or an "Instrument of Accession". Pannikkcr told ms that my old friend SorojiM Maidu is making a wonderful Governor General of ths United Provinee# and agrees that it doss not msttor what sh# says--h*r voios is so wonderful cue just listsns to it. November 16, 194T Perhaps It 1* just *0 well that the Gsumdi&a visitors get off lest Sunday ni#t as things thickened up in the offiee Bruce Lev and I parted company* He is a strange person and did net fit in at all* Ike trial parted ended while he vae eat of the office for a week --one of the worst of the season just before the first luncheon at the Ifeldorf and soft heartedly X said I would give him longer to eee if he could catch on. He left Thursday without tears on either aide and I have an antra steno grapher while looking for a real assistant. Tuseday vae en office holiday but I worked seven hours trying to get squared amy and find out just what hew had dons of the things X had assigned him. Early last Saturday morning just before the dreadful tornado burst Addis rstrio arrived by air from London. Another half hour and the plane could net have landed at LaGuardia. Sales of wind and torrents of rain kept en until midafteraoon. She ie a dear* older than Sydney but very like him. It vae very hard, en Helen emotionally and they spent the morning on the killing and related sorrowful subjects. In between bouts of packing* and while Amy was playing bridge and seeing people* X shewed Addis the sights. Helen went with us Saturday night when we did Hadie Center and "The Great l&ite ifey% Addle me especially impressed with the number of shops that ware open -- no-one In England would work eo late--and the brilliance of the lighting--it ie dear that we do not have to conserve fuel. i&ile we were almost blown off the top of the BOA Building* it vac wonderfully clear and the lights wars lovely. Sunday morning Addle and X went to Staten Xslandon the ferry ae she wanted to see the Statue of Li berty* and had heard of kills Island*too. We did lowor Hew York ae far as City Hall when we had to take the subway because Amy had asked people for lunch. Later Addle want with ma to peat a couple of parade (Amy wanted ae to leave thee with the porter-- but X wanted to shew off our twenty-four hour a day sevan days a week P.O.) Ve got ae far aa ths hldorf and X made her look at tha front and the back of tho Public Library* since the rear ie particularly beautiful to me. Seme one had given her a packet ef views of New York and ve managed to show her ell of them except the Fhat Iron Bldg. After they got on the 8i05 for Toronto* X scuttled up to the Barnard Club to see some movies takes in England this summer with Mice Margaret Gee. X mis* Helen and Any a great dad hut find they made great inroads in ay time. X m supposed to eee them all this summer in Vancouver and the Ofaanagan. Xnddcntly X have gotten straight on Douglas* war service--for over three years he ran foreign exchange control in western Candda and than went to Ottawa aa deputy chairmen of Wartime Price Control Board. Ha dedined being head of tha British Purchasing Mission here because he fdt he could not return te Hew York after having resigned from his flm "for reasons ef health*. Monday night Molly and X assisted in the opening of the opera-- "The Masked Ball*. Sometime X must find out shy the Metropolitan always does the Verdi one and net Auber#a Jan Peers# a# the King and Leonard warren as Bsnate ware both excellent. Danism Xlitseh--a new (late last season) Yugoslav is s thyroid sass and almost round* but she has a lovely voice. Xt is a pity that bar Amelia costumes wars net mora flattering. Giuseppe Antonicelli made hie debut as conductor--and did not seem anything special to me. The performance was enthusiastically received and there were a good many "braves*. The house was brilliant -- white both in fur wraps and gowas being ths most popular. Cans* Walska wore a quarter of a million dollars worth of her *Jpolsonic emeralds. The opera makes one think of things in the fine manner and certainly Ddmenleofs had a reputation for good food and X always thought expansive. But X have just some upon s facsimile at the Ddacmieo menu and find * Cup of coffee 1 cent* Bed steak 4 fmto Veal cutlet 5 cents* Boast chicken 10 ccntc.* Perhaps you should knew that this was ths first restaurant menu printed in America is 1834 and a foot note explains that six dollars a week was a good wage* and a man could keep c country hemic and a tcvn house* staffed with seven servants (and save money to boot) on $3*000 a year. Of Lorense Delmeniee they eay he arrived at tha age of twenty-one aa almost penniless 3iso (migrant with * .rt*t. h.lltf i 8<* *"*. "Hb #ar* Norasebr 15* X94T--p&ge 2 cleanliness--and imagination* HI* first place sat en fearl Street and in 187S ha moved to Broadway and 26th Street which was then the center of the thetrical district* Thursday night Vera dined with Mayor G'Bayer went he entertained Mre. Pandit* A# soon ae she said "Greet# Mansion* to tho eb driver he began with a heavy Italian assent end volubility to tell her about the plight of his son who had to live with the eab driver# while the dau$iter*in-law and grand child lived with her parent# beeauee they could not get en apartment. Thie despite the fast that the Gabby owned a f tar room apartment now occupied by a single eld nan* It wae impossible to oviet the old nan in favor of the family of three bemuse the tenant wae a friend of ifaroaftfcenio* Would Verm not apeak to the Mayor* !?, she could not because she did not know* But if she was going to dinner* the must know him* Finally Vera took the man's sard and said she would do what she souBd thinking to ask questions in other directions* In waking conversation with Mrs* Paul 09Dwyer *ko acts as hostess for the Mayor# Vera mentioned her experience* Hrs* 0' Bwyer replied that it happened all the tic and that she never gave the address when she ms going to the residence of Hie Honor-but asked to be taken to Doctor's Hospital serosa the street ami just walked over* It not only saved a lot of complaints ahd requests--but the drivers invariable suspected that she ws about to have a baby and rushed her over in nothing flat* There is a lovely story about the voting on the Interim Gcmiesien (Little Assembly) of the UK* At the Caaaittee nesting before the vote was to be taken en the next day# Svatt of Australia announced that he would vote against it sines In his estimation it did not go far enough* 3c Pearson of Chnada was slatsd to speak first in favor* Someone in the American delegation knowing vatt's vanity and passion for holding the torch first for a cause* went to him during the evening with the result that when the vote was sailed for Svatt# to almost sveryens*s surprise lead off with a most enthusiastic endorsement and an affirmative Vote# Fortunately Pearson is a good guy and did not mind throwing away the speech he had prepared* I feel very dressy today for I managed to get ay hair washed* It is appalling how routine and necessary personal things seem to be aqueeted out of ay life* There never seems to be time to get the laundry out# end as for having the windows mashed* lire morning# I have had appointments* twice it rained and once I had to go to the office before the man came up* I hate to think how doe# it is to Sirictmae--though I have most of my cards at least* Sons attractive and inexpensive ones from Young Books# around the corner* One night while Any and Helen were here they went to dinner with me at Gloucester House# where I was overcame by having a bottle of white wins sent to us by the proprietor---whom I met the first time X want there with Gerry as he Is a patient of hero* Then we went to *3ong of Love* at the tiusie Hall--a moot delightful picture of the life of &tra md Robert Schumann and Brahms with a touch of Licst* Ks all enjoyed it very much* especailly the really superb playing of Artur dublnstein* 1 could find no credit to him in the program and only learned today alio had been at the piano for the sound track* 1 warmly rocomasn* the film* Maria wae an angel md let me take Helen to the studio one night for dinner# when Amy was out with friends of hero* Helen has been painting some since she gave up her war job and had lots of questions about how to do this and that--and was filled with admiration for Maria's work* We went over the old scrap beck shoeing photographs ef portraits she had done in Hungary and England# and Maria had a lot of wonderful anecdotes about many of the sitters* It was an evening of great pleasure for Helen# though I fear not too mush fUn for Maria* 3*6- JJLsCo4 ('V, i ? , ,, - 1 ' I Deeember 7# 194? Six rmi after Pearl Hufrer and more then iw sine# the cessation of hostile seems to leave m la vary muddled world# Surely after tfea terrific devastation f ilia war w were prepared fear pm economic readjustment sad turmoil from hungery and fraetraied people* but were we prepiied for the confusion la the minds of people as to what they really mot and what prises they are willlag to pay to obtain ttoeee objectives? It is interesting to note ths emmnts en the Oil's wis a wool age yesterday to partition Palestine as being the final proof that tits tM is Jnetlflsd as a foroe for world organisation# Personally I hare always fslt that the Jewish psopls wars wrong ia wanting a pelitisal stats# oo it was especially iatsrssting ts us to hare Dr. and Mile# Otoeim 'del man for on# of our informal sandwich staff Xm%ekmm at the offlas on Friday# Both of thorn are Bueslan bora and speak excellent and me* accent English^# So is a powerfully built max of groat force of character and con siderable Sham and wit# ids eye sight is wary poor tad ho has a o rious trick of mntiisg to fool *hat ho doso not dearly soo# X ep-drs to his whoa ws roso from ths tablo and ho put his hand m w shoulder# and then a aiauts lstor put ths ether hand on ths other shoulder# 3sms peolfcs think that ho will bs ths first Ifssidsnt of ths Jewish stets# He made som very interesting statements# Hero are a few of thorn The Jews must net retaliate against Arab violence# though before things settle don several m&tH thousand young Jews will be Silled# The Jews made a bed mistake in ths past thirty years# they were ss busy pioneering is Palestins themselves that they did not do enough for ths Arabs in raising their living standards# See at least two centuries separate thorn# His tenants of m Arab ladlordffeo centrals BO villages# ess the schools# sanitation# eto# in tho dosm Jewish eesmualties nearby and asks his landlord for the same benefits# he landlord considers sush modernity silly and refuaea# ths tenant are angry and frustrated and jealous of the let of ths JSw# The British have supported ths feudal system and when they leave the Arabs will be further confused# Consuniuu may well crop out in Iraq# gypt and other Arab states as it flourishes where they find great wealth living beside groat mass poverty# It sill never take the Zionists la# sinse they are progrssive and do not have cash seeaemi disparity# In the beginning he does not want tee ousb democracy in ths Jewish State as this makes few slew going government# i&thia their ems ranks ths Zionist* will have diffisulty with ths "Bsligiouo*# Two centuries ago a moveewnt started among ths *Religious Jess*1 ts go back to Palostino to dio# The dssooadeat* of these people# very orthodox# and those who have migrated to lalesti * for the same reason assert that had it not been for them this* would have been no Jews in iilostins md the sirrwl vistory could never have bean aehleved# Imest 8Sfl hates intellsstuals end so baton ths Jews# He saw ths possibility of detag ths Statist* in by getting an adverse .report from a Gsmmlssiss and achieved a great dlplemstl* victory nkmn he persuaded President Truman to associate the IB with Palestine# by cooperating ia ths Angle*Jhaeriean OmnaAtsien of Inquiry His was bitterly idsap,o- ated at ths Charcots of their report and east it aside# Hsvor dreaming that ths ISI would api revs of par* titien he then proposed putting tho prsbelsm before that body# Mm*is oonvinesd that Sevan is a very disappointed men now# end also that tIS troops oust not bs used in carrying out ths partition of Iblostins# Wednesday night 1 dined tho Marietta Hurst at ths Coftpopttlitsn Club with Charlotte llurot# who feels that deOaulle is not ready to come out and take charge of France but will move in the background and iki the present Schumann Cabinet may lest quite a while in view of the strong tomd being used by ths new prime minister# Sisnday Jessy Andrews sums up from Baltimore to go to "Tmrabanser * and stay the night with me# It was a good performs** with Han IHCHfg in ths lead-"he had a niss voles# Blanche Thebo was an assailant Venus# but Astrid Varmy mods an indifferent aisabsth# His ballot was Afcstly# even worse than usual but ths orchestration is so lovely that that Z a$|C8 om is wise just to listen and not look. i'erhap* 1 sn unfair but the first Dwaahaouser11 1 ever heard was in Vienna with Jerltea and tliey certainly did a better job of staging and ballot# Josey md I went firot to the Kennedy Gallery vhoro Jtow 'Jeagmroth was opening his ejd-iiMtica--espeoially interesting beeause it oovwrod exiles of sixteen years work# Mmoy of the prists are no longer available and the examples tkmm were leaned from private eolleotlens# It is tee laid that his father and mother eeuld not have bees there for the opening# but it was fsared that ths excitement would be toe much for ilr# vengenroth*s hmrt# J <4*4/& _ SoJL'c^ i -c:> -- *]u+** 3c~+i ~ Deeeober 13, 194? This is tit# one month anniversary of WJmr% Fmrsaghiaa's besoming a US citiioa. to oldsters in to office to s little luaohces for her last month after to was sworn in--for m ore all very fond of too former secretary of wine to cam* here so s student to worked for me wr to yeare after to to completed her doctorate--a it was her mcsterh degree. to l*?fi for Hextec to stay until 4s sotdi re-enter, when stir tot efforts in her behalf failed to seeure further extensions for her here# As an Amnion to could not look forward to aueb in going back i her too in Turkey# l* are now having a new flood of political m^grtm from countries behind to I to Ourtaia, may of ton have permanent visas, son toe Jobs, few toe uoosy* It is something ef a problem as V The early Christmas eards have been easing the laet few days. It is nine to find more from England to much liurger--evidently their paper tortafi ! easing* lu feet sards are so plentiful Traey sent two--one by surface moll and then fsarins it might not arrive in time, another by air. About a month ago to shops began to put up Christmas decorations to Fifth Avenue is new a burst of glery. There are so many lovely Christmas tree glistening belle of the meet lovely, scpbiaitated shades to used with Intelligent generosity. One is tempted to look at to dieplays instead of tending to to businoss at hand of tnqrlng gifts, to emphasis on luxury leads to comments eueh as 1 heard on to bus this morning "toy are going to take an awful beating with all tot stoek. People are not buying up to antici pation." Maybe I mm got a fancy evening bloueo for o eong ton to mask downs oonol Monday night fsggy Daggett went to Traviate with me -- a good pevfemaoce and again a very enthusiastic audience. They hav# some lovely new sets sinas I Iwi heard it which add to to eye appeal . Greater ease is to fabric fcild has greatly improved the costume# of the chorus this season--but they use tee much of a veyy bright brassy yellow satin for my pleasure. It appears in several dresses in every mob seene. iUtoeee, who sang very wall to is an excellent actress, changed to stage business in to last act. Instead of crossing from the dressing table on to right to the shales long on to left to die, she collapsed gracefully en to floor midway between to two. Breaks Snsny got back today tvm two weeks in to Southwest branches, tired bat pleased. I ham been getting very good reports from Texas on tot h# has been doing, to excellent examples of publicity. In jferovepert--the Mayer declared the week in whish he was tors Foreign Foliey Week. He got back ia time for to so called Annual Meeting which sensed mm to work again today, though I did not get tc going through the applicant folder to see what 2 could find there in possibil ihtigihespfriocredmyfaarssciustrabnutd--gtehto.rnsMImh*aFvreisdaeyeswsoeafraerhdaavinmgetamesatsaufrfeCufepricertnamreepmtretcy to discovered that the rental price ef a Santa &us costume il &$ to little 23p gift we each give to person toss nemo we drew will not pas through dressed up $t# pish--net *t