Frances J. Pratt Letters on the U.S. Foreign Policy Association, 1948-1949

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j j... snd j,,y .re better end the PO^"4^" '

hourc rout than h dXdm By udrp

rfalifrr on thr day * ulpfc and iusi

STSnd finally gotten hi. ear dug J*^

Tir of -turd, *it.

Azmi and I riumd to w Tofc

, * bus## Monday night w ant to l*ud

hour, end a old oountry

SZly rooorting to tho

u4 wore amuaed to to* toe Wotropoliteo o P--nago,^ 1n^ and tho oftoruoon--

awbaay. Tueaday I aubwayad to >olu*bl. -.

B,,d W glsd thot I dooidod to m to bod

-

wodnoodoy eftemooo holly oollod o t Troddy

<3rlotta Uurot'o forty, .or
^ rueixxl to Sw Ho^itol for ^ N|^ b.d. ashing off

n owlerotory oporoUoH a few instruction ad a prone

^!. Z.inot tho poooibility of oot goiting io on

SPWndi3L had burst a

hour

m.<uy X oont .tmi^t 4/,rp"f * .^L obn^olly S4 aad k "

boforo thoy opormtod. nd i 'jni* . }

e {n day. now. Ao thy droso into

Ho ha. done beautifully end will be home in . ow j

tnT, . eono te got tho now

oaargonoy ratnoo ho lookod up . Kol ,

. , bl. wtf Mr ^xi oo roliowod to Inow

bahyt" fioodlooo to my our -* ''' *no

k*

that twonty yoorw ago d pro-

Sat was tho natter with hin. Tho doctor, frankly oaia w

bably even t#n ho would have uid

Ouring tho BIO SHOSf X talked J^th Jita^Pootor 0^1" on

hmA l?idod th day bfora Ohrlstaaa and got hi to JP*

T

haok to town to

-- 'siirns"S cTM":fs .u ~-* Molly and Jli went to th hope!I *

"^iJ^aould not wait* Tho train wor till

sea bout prs rel smd otlser anttoiw ^loh

ft@r tb loot torn of ^w foar

DW, owrono . oont he* fro. tto^fieoj^y

^ ^iv,d Mia towo-

but 1 did got up hero to got owe olowoe a ' ^ wo all got a lot of ttoop i"

port in time for dinner.

*

*

A ih Freddy* o appearance on .unday --

tatwoon trip, to tho howpital. I wao

^ liquida by noath-up

w fourth day after tho operation stoon ho w mtn t

to that tin# it had boon in hie log.

,,

tMr..-t too offioo in honor of Or.

On Jan. 6 wo had a

Affairt i the Hetharlande Snst

wan Hoogatraton, too

JTto opont alnoot thirty yow oithro

Xndioo. Ho ia a wory interesting Dut^on o

!_dU(lllr that too intransigent

in fact ainoo hit early tontio. ' '

iafluonoo and the adwant^oa a- ooep-

elamonte of the Bepublie wore lowontog in ton

1( He pointed out that if wo

oration with tho Dutch wore being aeon soo^ by

^ materially add in tooroeewory

would adwanoo toon fund, fer needed

*!!.. fai.f ,,11, m i other ooaaodltiee.

ereera* throughout tho root of too orldwith tooir fate, ^ Ma|pptaiit and pre-

TheiZpstroleum indwatry duotion mounting. Doepito too fart that

are no. unioni.J too big oonpanio. euprintendent here at

are gottinp toosg

^ jiat 24 hour, than in ewer a year.

64th St. and I hawa had better heat t

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Juw $Ldu ~ January 19, 1948

A grand weekend at J*rport and so good to have Freddy back frost th hospital*

He looks a little forlorn, but hia logs and arms are beginning t soouts norssl pro

portion n and hi appetite i coming bsck. The deCaiapa came from Garden City Satur

day evening^ and when they left we found that it had been snowing a couple of hours*

w wr >i.r ^there was si* inches of fine dry enow, on top of the si*, of several days

before, and that on tor of the remains of the Big Snow* Jay had *'Hm time in it

on Sunday. oily and T plowed through it to have cocktails with the Knohloffs and

?0e - e infant Jackie* I got back to find that the fine new furnace nan had been

oversealous nnd burst something in th furnace*...outside tearerature about 20 degrees

and inside 50*

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Tomorrow I dine wib) a Labour MF. just arrived from London , so I had better get Lady : arston'e nwm down before X start confusing the two. "Bonnie" is a southern widow, )o was working in Hew York to educate her two sons when she met, fell in love with <3rtd married Sir Charles Marstea fifteen years ago and went to England to live. He had retired from business and was pursuing his hobby, archeology. She went on excavations with him and in between times lived in one ,of her three houses, and was driven about in the three cars by one of the two chauffeurs. Between the war, Sir
Charles death a year ago and the Socialist Government and th demands it has brought a^ou she has no ear and lives in a flat in London, which she admits is larger fchan she needs. She keeps it filled with young people who cannot afford to stay in hotels and - avo no London base* She Boss not complain and insists that she does not want
to j<rdo>iso by possessions. Her lovely big Georgian house was requisitioned on ten days notice for a training school or convalescent homo or something. She thought she W UXCJ et it back at war's end, but without so much as a by your leave the Govern ment turned it into nine flats. They pay the taxes and the upkeep. She o-ae the property and get not one cent return. When both th gardener and th chauffeur announced immediately after Sir Charles death that they * ould work a 40 hour week --
and not on btnrday or Sunday and ah could jolly well stoke the furanoe of the Strat um! on Avon house where she wae then living, she decided to sell the house and take a fliit in London where she could do some useful work instead of spending her energy keeping wr<m. Of last winter1 cold she said "ry dear, if you over have u choice
between hunger and cold, take the hunger. Cold does something to your mind and charact f. I was able only to think of myself and how I could get a little warmth." As it is ch has not eaten meat for several years. Her small ration she gives to her son who works very hard and when he eomee to see her after the office, throve himself dovm on a couch, too tired to sit up and telk. All deliveries are made through the front Boor, regardless of the convenience, beauty, etc. of th service entrance. The delivery clerks feel they must assert their quality. England is frighteningly poor in material things, but have gained immeasurably in spirit. She sat just opposite the west door at th Royal wedding end had a fine view of all the royal visitors and w&e greatly stirred by the event. The love of th bride and groom for on another, the pageantry of the event and the sense that never again would so many members of royalty gather together in these days of change. The peopbe of England got a great lift from the wedding, which was don at remarkably small expense*. ialter vlnchell is absolutely wrong --the queen in not pregnant. Although it is necessary to have a doctor's certificate to get a corset, Bonnie uses the eorsetierra that the two prin cesses patronise, she sails hli*abeth "Charming" and Margaret Rose "merry". Every
tie; Bonnie has a permanent her housekeeper gets one, and whenever a new bottle of
scent appears on the mietressee dressing table the maid rushes out to We&worth's and gets some for herself. All part of the Ht em as good as you" technique. Bonnie is optimistic, while John Bewar, who before his retirement was manager of the Clydesdale Beak of Glasgow, in a letter received today is deeply pessimistic. He opposed the lean
t Britain as he knew it eould not be repaid unless we accepted goods fro.a Britain and
he was realist enough to know we would not. He sees the Socialist Government giving away an Empire,built over many years from sweat and treasure, with both hands and fears
terrific,^ bloodshed in both India and Palestine. Bougie told me that when he was in Scotland in April he realised that John had lost his fighting spirit and the whole tone of his letter indicates that.

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:o:n.lry

wor^d

two

nxgbt. W.

- hop<> ^ d0 OT9B

three hours in the office tnia '



k#d with j8hn roster Dulles on

hotter in the the telephone

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Big

unow

ggooaber 36 OBEO off last fetur
good as X had hoped,

day at the Waldorf luncheon. I'M LF F.,?,.-. , --I J T.1

and also the

We made the first page on the XLi29> ?v ^,1 *uaa paper, hut I have not

xt Sermon language paper. X heard we aleo TM

nutshell the dueelans

..en that nor th.

*^ ^ do. In view

do not went to be our '*2!

it Uht hTe a ipartZof t l lK*

of the Sevan speech of a concerted movement.

this wee;,, 1 nad one

sp; oornaful

of

pi^eaat lobster bisque when a ry P ^ ^ c f#n0* traveller

lweearren ebdeint hgadt irsetrpirbiunttesdo ftoa nthoaere. iws ho *earns in th, e *4l1tthh Settrwe ertt eunnt ra n c e^ * ( V e rM a alnsd,,. )

PI rweda es rnieokt

Dunn sure

and Theodore of our legal

rights

To'EALL
to

THE
the

PpOo^lice

and^hTaHveAthBeosaerdcahnadr'aActlearwyer

,

defaaere diepereod, so I GOT Mr.

1*" U, IA LIN8 AND .earned to

fgreotmathgereheetadkiotaMbloe.ut

of

a^eod
calling

thae

OPffice

*fthe

Muatrfoorr

oonn

it.

I atu inclined
t(j the polloe

to think I should have gotten J^k^r ae u y

j

department myself. Then I got "Id rf the aldorf

protection staff and ^.aperiod, so they

o*pUind to then that there 'eight ..

hspi-ened but one very nasty question

gathered their etaff end were on hand. Hothl^ ^PP*^

to bo pro-

To Vera. But with sixteen

i" Tba^-Tt .. the aesi.tant head

pwaarietde.r

^rone got a

ePlEsC?II*L

hot

aee^rvinnfgo0f

ehdokL4'TAwRa8TlleDr,MAE CVERwYasmUucShBfti Hche ieWfANiTnED

Byelorussia pictures of

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One point scene for



, DOCUTE

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fila--any

street

WcoPAmBOeRr

or of

rTHaEiMl-

Ly station would do to show th. need of THE peep)...

,Y H, HUD IT

who need artidieial LIABE, ot* IMPLI

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out with an official whose Una wee ^*R* *

YTF,1J0UI, WISAnnt ottothsheowtruthtoh.truTeHERturdustiha.

ZZTZZZrZl l.lTAnZ: at the !& of the five year plan."

. . n , u i , . TM > .~i;w-,25SXCTMS-.

F r a n c e a n d h a d f l o w n i n t h a t morning a * |

f ^ ^ vigorou8. T h e strikes

l y h e h a d h a d a b a t h a n d a s h a v e ^?

^ things

were over by the ti had got

freak it will be a fine harvest. In Inarch

begin to sprout. If there is

^Ltholic and Socialist workers who are anti-

and April there will be more strikes* C* *

^ ihaselves with their

Consaunist have strengthened their union andi

% m know about their demands

constituents will strike for more

. In June he looks

and will grant them with the plan thf* *]?T!!u**n will he penalised. At present

for a revaluation of th frnnc# in w the wealthiest people in France are to

thougii so far no one has devised a If blaok market opera-

method of getting this awe^^ch of it p _ y

outeome of the International

tiono out of their socks* Philip is

the .uthority^the Chamber of deputies

Trade Conference in Havana, and oleaeed with the ***IS*y TM ^

a ^embor

gave him in connection with It widle

^

Z issted chairman of it* Tues-

Of the Foreign Affairs Comities and may this day when General Wedemeyer finally declined my

invita%ion

xt o

wtjdaxJc

about

on Feb.

7 I wrote Philip into the program shifting the topic to Germany,: eystone 0 European

Peace, k telephone c^ll to James Pollack at Ann Arbor found him willing to speak

too, especially as he was to he in New York the night before anyway. He as advisor

to General Olay on political affairs in 1945-46 and again in 1947. I hope we get

a good audience on what I think is a very Important question.

tfemdsty night I went to a Town Hall 01ub meeting aftd hall try to get some new members* So far I have not h a d time to try but one m a n , and & a J us jo e

- C*Jl~ JZ-<U@^"< February 8, 1948

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Yesterday's luncheon at the Waldorf was not nearly as large as the one in January> but to me it seemed far more useful and educational. I had phrased the topic "Germany Keystone $$$ of European Peace." James Pollock of the Univ. of Michigan, who has had long terms in Germany as political adviser to General Clay made some very sobering points with which the audience were not very sympathetic. Roughly he saidt German economy is so vital to total recovery in Europe that without it the Marshall Plan cannot succeed. France and the Soviet Union have blocked such recovery largely by taking off industrial plant equipment for themselves, or as in the case of the ChjfRussians operating German plants in their zone for their own use. The French zone is now operating at a 30 million dollar deficit, which they will no doubt expect us to underwrite. Franc should coordinate its zone with the combined British-US zone. Gen. Clay's brilliant and patriotic administration deserves the nation*s deepest gratitude in the U.S. Germany cannot recovery under present con ditions. In the American zone alone there aire 2 million expellees, 2,500 evacuees and 450,000 displaced persons, who have to be supported by the American tax payer. In the average German village there are in every 4 of population, I native, 1 German from some other portion of Germany and 2 persons from Czechoslovakia, Hungary or some other country. Todate Germany's industry has made a 40$ recovery, while that of France is 95$. The other speaker was Andre Philip, who has long been a memebr of the Chamber of Deputies and held various cabinet posts and is now head of the French delegation at the ITC conference and flew from Havana to speak. He pointed out that the destruction of France was greater in World War II than WW I and considering that and the interim difficulties there progress has been excellent, but claimed only an 80$ recovery in the industrial field, and that in order to take care of the five year period in which there was no production of consumer goods they need 60$ more than pre-war# He maintain that France has no hatred of Germany, and insisted that since the owner of the Ruhr is the master of occidental Europe, the Ruhr mines should be owned collectively by occiden tal Europe. A point on which he got considerable applause. He urged that the steel industry be established in France where the iron is allowing Ruhr coal to be shipped there rather than vice versa. He urged a speedy extension of the Benelux custom
union to include France and Italy and to include a free trad agreement with Gt. Britain, and the eventual inclusion of Germany. He told me privately that the French monetary reform of last weekend was contrary to his recommendation. He felt that while it was necessary it should be done in two steps not one. I gave the audienee a chance of looking at Madeleine Carroll at the head table because of her support f the French war orphans at febr chateau. She really is charming and lovely to look at in a tweed suit of burgundy and blue and a crownless hat trimmed with beaver#
Ruth Wheeler-Bennett, here from England, was my guest at luncheon. This afternoon we shall go to the Metropolitan Museum to see the French tapestries and a new Regency room as she wants to do a Regency room in her Oxford minor. Monday night Margaret Davidson went to "Tristam" with me. I have heard Melchior in better fesra, but was simply enchanted with Blanche Thebom as Brangaene--a beuatiful voice, a fine actress and a good figure. Traubel signs so effortlessly that she is always a joy. Fritz Buseh conducted so-so. I rushed home as I had given the spare keys to Josey Andrews, who had asked to stay with me a couple of days, and found instead of a guest a note that the doctor had suggested that' she stay at Payne Uiitney for her check-up. Thurs day the keys arrived by mail from her husbands secretary without a word of explanation. I don't know what goes and am both troubled and miffed.
It was good to be with Cleve and his family last weekend and to see clean snow. (We get, at least every other day, a fresh powdering of from one to four inches, to cover the horrid filth that earlier snows have turned into. Dirtily splashed stock ings and galoshes are the order of the day.) Fran is very pretty and very social with skating parties which end up at home for hot chocolate and cake, singing in the choir at church, boring school work in which she gets excellent marks, and plane for a Valentin# party to take the place of the one cancelled in December by the Big Snow.

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Last ni#t Vera lean diatd with ma at the Town Hail Club and than took

me to edey Aokland' dramatisation of Desteysveky's "Grime and FuttiofaaoatN John

Gielguri was magnificersi no aeskolnikcff* tb poor student* Lillian Giafe mad* a pathetic

consumptive %mtorlm* I loot my heart to the German refugee Dolly Haas no Sedt and

wee greatly interested la Vladimir 3koloff (one of the fee auesixns ia the esoeileat

east) m the eamssining magistrate. totasia

the lodging house maid eee Galina Ifclva *

making: her Broadway debut ia a career switch fro being aa artist* end eery good* It

was a terrific evening but we agreed distinctly confusing* It certainly cannot be a

fair presentation of the fat Dosieyevsky book to empress It into three houre of astlsa

on the stage but it me a very exciting evening mdo more so by the gale of wind we

encountered afterward. It almost blow amy ssy Valentine delete and mutilated the

today limes I had. under my asm!

to Andrews called a in the morning and came around te talk before he took

me te lunch. Josey ie back at Payne Whitney for at leant three months* though she

dees net know it yet. lbs progress made last year seems not te have gqane

enough

ia the neurosis based in her childhood and was upset during the Christm* holidays

by a thoughtless* perh&.s madietie* seas her mother created when she publicly up*

braided Jessy. 3ince the doctor thinks it good te have 'fee hospital routlas broken

a couple of times a week, I'll do things with her m Wednesday evenings and oa week*

ends I am ia town md to is not. Heedless to say he has te spend seme time with the

srall sea tody. to

told mo that the Hussions are spending twenty million dollars

e year ia esse laboratory for the improvement of rye ee mm extensive agrldultiaral

crop. Oa the basis of a recent oonversatiem he is convinced that the primary Bussiaa

objective ie the problem of raising the level of their interna economy.

lbs trl| to the Metropolitan bast today sas tot but Mrs. togbt Morrow's

chauffeur who was driving ihtth H*eleraBsanstt bask from inglewood after lunch under-

todfcte remove the chains part my te town. They Jamto la the cold sad it took aiieoet

half en hour te eotually get them off. Result we saw the room she mated to cheek en

for her decorating project in England and mm Hes&iah tapestry* Ocyas aad clOreeoe

but the French tapestries were closed and we could only peek at seme 14th century

lovely ones through the grill. We cams back here to talk aad then went to dinner at

the Polish Xan where we had a most amusing waiter who took greet interest in our

enjoyment of the feed. Hutfc works hard at besoming a proper lady of the toor--

originally a 13th Cn&usy monastery It has long been ia the toeleraBeaastt

whichfofnedklly#intboutemviml

times at the time of Henry Gti . the residence of John's sister*

the wife of an Oxford dean. It mm realised in 1939 that the ton would never be able

te get petrel te 'go beck end forth and the Hansr wee rented te a rich Europe artist

and the dean and his wife moved into Oxford. The wife of the tenant was a strange

character md found thai she could get extra m* if they *re "agriculturalists" so

she had the bulbs end extraordinary herbaceous beds etc dug up and soldi (A tenant* mind

you.) Ifcon she had potatoes planted In the box bordered beds of the forma gardens

obviously they could net be efficiently tended and her crops were net very successful

bat she had her extra petrel allowance. Two years ago John bought Oarsingten Manor

from his sister and he and ?&tth are trying te restablish the seven acres of grounds

and gardens (the ether 140 acres of the property are rested te a cattle farmer from

whoa they get no food bissues of gevernmsat controls.) In addition to teaching one day

a week at Oxford and writing a beck m the Ifuremburg trials Jehu is English diter of

captured German documents for the Foreign Office. The Foretga Minister himself tot to

sign the authorisation for John to get mjf petrol ration te get to the railroad station

for hi stated trips every other week te supervise hie F.O. staff. Bath drives him te

Oxford end thus has a chance to do some cheeping--thou# the shillings worth of msat

per week per person is delivered by the butcher with wham they are registered each

Saturday. 3hc writes her Sunday dinner mm with a question mark for the main source

as the ration is first presented then* but is whatever the butcher has on hand* Be

cause of the iopossibilty of using the ear* Hutfa says they see more of people from

February 15 WW -- pegs 2

tends# whom ^hn bring back with him for weekends (it sounds very tougi for the tiny "joint* f Sunday dinner) Despite the austere life &uih Is already l: ;:#' alek for England and her husband* but sine he has t* p to Berlin for a eoeferenee with Dr. 3tag (the American editor far the do events) she has decided to stay a in Ohaslettesvine with her isothar until after the marriage of her youngest brother right after Waiter.

After a let of telephoning I oaaaged to get Maria to go to the Freseh

lOlglrlil dMb me on Lincoln'c birthday. (By dint of bringing work fcoiac with m

Wednesday night -xd again on Friday* 1 hare aeangod to stay away fro the office

on Thursday ^d tautrday end bcth days rested my wry bones by Indolently staying

late in bed.) Hie xtr*ordinary collection covers seven csmturiee of wortaaaeMf

and emusrleo of mHoaf ntliore. Hie variety of aanasrlws and exposition developed

over the centuries ond by different mrkr and designers is meet interestiag. Per

haps 1 should soy that I m not a tapestry enthusiast thinking of the largely in

tears of dirty browns, indifferent greens and nasty yellows, ah, but those

me otherwise. The first root: festalned those of Furls of the ISth or IHh century,

with a few figure# in each against lovely solid color backgrounds of a superb rase,,

a good blue sad a noat satisfying grey. Hieee rank. hi;i: in ay steos. F?ving ea

to more couple* design end another century there are Mhlic 1 eceaee, a beautiful

huge depletion of the festivity, a series of seller tapestries ah owing the life f

3t. Stephen, a group of decorative items with a beautiful dark blue background

interspersed wfc b iirtrient florsl pattern of the millo-fitter sbslsuut. Ihae# of the

hauls 14th period all had large borders of lalxsd fruit, flower#, ete, cad by the

time of Louis 15th these had, given wsy to something matlillg a picture fraise fer

border. Meet of them hod enehrntlng subsidiary ftfamee of auiaaals, groups of people

representing *t slews of the etdef figure. The bulk of the tapestries a bees display

ed a real eeaee of esmt&eeltism in the grouping find a sense of color values wfcieh

pleased m

fascinated Maria. Te war boil struck by the eraftoanshlp sfeieh

breast out mat skillfully facial expressions md shading**soldiers leered at a

pot of beer (?}, St. Stephen's face shewed humility, compassion and pain in turn*

in exhibit of frogm^nte shewed the almost complete lack, of fading as between front

end book. $ eevttled quickly through the several rooms of garish eelor sad modern*

lstle pattern f the contemporary example*. Varia*a eo--meat was "barely these do

damage to the eye-sight* while I wondered where in looted and depleted Farie ef

I'M5 and 1946 the mtrrinla had been found for such non-esaOatial use*

I am working hard on arraaglug a soiiiimr of one day on European deoovery Program for 1? or 1.8 eable and tol graph editors from all over the eeaatsy for the American, Frees Institute. It will bo on larch Bod and should h# great fua though also nam* weeds. y tentative pregrmas has been approved by the director of the Institute and now I'm trying to get the people 1 need to present the various points. Hits it a complete "extra" and I hope sdll not leave m limp. But if well dome should bo store than worth whatever it cats am personally*

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Leap Year Day 1948

In honor of George ./kshington I had a fine long weekend last week at Preeport with Molly and Jim, during which we had several inches of snow despite a couple of days of almost springlike weather during the previous week* Freddy
had to make a trip to the surgeon Friday night because his wound at dressing time showed nasty blister like business. This we are given to understand is to be expected after peritonitis. Re looks splendidly and is full of the dickens and loves to have me shiver after I touch his flaming checks when he eomea in
from playing outside. Ted and Maye surprised us by coming Saturday evening from Carlisle Barracks where he is now stationed at the Public Information School. The Array has adopted a new policy of public relations in which they are to give all the train and nothing but the truth to the public in the hope of mending the poor public attitude toward the Army which reached an all time low at the time of the General
nenny Meyers expose. We had a lot of talk about India and Palestine and publie opinion as the school includes discussion of public affairs. Ted is very enthusiastic about the assignment and expects to specialize in the pictorial end. He brought a
lot 01 illm he had taken in Europe and showed Dachau, where they had special furnaces for the burning of different nationalities after they had been shot. The concentra tion area ot this large German military post was surrounded by a canal and two sets of electrically charged wires. Although we have cut off the electricity it is
apparent that Fritz Kuhn had help in his recent escape. The pictures of Hitler's Bavaxan retreat were very interesting. "The Eagles Neat" which cost such a fabulous sum is reported to have been visited only twice by Hitler. It is not on a lonely
pinacle as I had pictured it but on a rise on a rather extensive ridge with higher points surrounding it. These were well fortified with anti-aircraft implacements for the protection of those at the "Nest". The salt mine where so many art, treasures looted from the over-run countries was not very outstanding looking--more like an old hotel right on the street.

Eleanor Brewster spent Tuesday night with me after viewing the French

tapestries. We had dinner at the East India Curry shop, w icb I hove long wanted

to go to. The 01 fice is in a turmoil and took so much out of me that I stayed in

bed antil noon both yesterday and today and did not go to the Program luncheon I

planned 10 attend. Nor did I do anything about the Dean of Ghichester who phoned

me as soon as he arrived from England on Tuesday. I know he expects some attention

plu3 a lot 01 speahing engagements, which I have not been able to get for him. But

I did manage to get my federal income tax off and the state one calculated, pending

legislation on the percentage of payment. The effort reminds m that one day in

every five I work for the "public good".

I also did a good lick on the matter of

liquidating the family Corporation-- the amount of red tape is appalling but once it is done my desk work will be cut down a lot.

Ai the FFA 3oard meeting Thursday night it was decided that we should have the spring, Council of Branches meeting in New Oileans on April 13 and 14 just before the big illlh shindig "Report from the World-- The Future of Freedom -- Conflicts in the
non-Russian World". That means I shall spend the week of April 12th in New Orleans whicn will be full of work but fun to boot.

:. -/\

V

x Friday afternoon Hal Lehman called me to say that he had been featured on the rent page of the WORLD TELEGRAM on account of hie NBA story in which he revealed

what benes saiu to him in m "off the record" interview two years ago. By the time I

got the paper .1 was furious. It does not seem to me that he had any right to eapiiiliae

on toe coup in this manner. It will lead to great difficulty to poor Benes who ia

steadfastly staying by his responsibility and further trouble for all American journal

ists and diplomatic representatives who have to have dealings with Russians all over the

worla. I cannot see that his revelations help anyone except those who want war and

axet: s j as The Gzech situation is, we have no grounds for war with the USSR over

that. Tuesday I had pleas for help from two Hungarians ousted by the Reds and news that

Judixh's brother had been ousted from his Hungarian F.O. job making me angry at the Rsds.

&B&- HJL;<4-- *

f Hie

"Tu

/r. March 8, 1948

flhftt uae^"ted Plea8w^0^ 1^1',tLrSe9f"eadrwiSeT^LI8^3 to dine

m. evening to myself. After ive a, p. . ekend aoar Brewster with (Jerry and Penny

had was

taojolyea.v"eRteodwlni,ngsothheerier

I new

A. * house is a

comoxna^

permanent home with profession-

^ ,g

tQ ^

al wing where Penny-

fh to d0 4are and will no longer come to toon,

day when there will oe anojn ior nor

patients had been tended

Saturday was "**ori^ cardt0 r^ry . The trees on the

wa all drove through vei .

*

rse hair, the brooks wase swirling black

erests of hills looked UM **** !!vloSdbe most of the barns were red. It

rsinbobwoendsitnhrtoheughnitghhte sanndoww,heannaw,e,_uweenta out agait_n ^onun3dUnadya^ytthheerree wwaass va^ nilla^ icing rfon

top of all the miles of stone fences, a sau

_ , ye had quite enough for this

country in the winterjxi T'-'tou"d

not get much'idea of the planting and garden

TnsmAZ tefse^c^ng

end mfst comfortable. The other guest was the colored

wo/'sere happy on both aides of th. pantry door.

ssit5sX; jrw.sattsrf.ssfaw?^r: =^*-- -.s-sr-js s- day

but

"

ft, the

gem ntlemSeemninofa/>ritohhne.

Tprrurfeettss,sdraayarnwreinvvtedvPeprryompwptsllyl.an drweeme--gmobteriu"nn*dge*rtgwhaegyvZ Iisrtietpoprts'yjT names

very nice letter, so it was worth the stress and strain.

A week ago I dined with leg Tobin end got some

JoJS of*

inner goings on at Time-Life-Vortune. _s eu a

^ consider 37.4- years

eidotrs and publishers-early thirties oe:log the <"TMS



?ranoiB u.8fitt

as the age of their ideal-average reader. It must

met several times

Pratt continues to send ne invitations to *

dditor8 does ra0st of hie work

and he cannot flatter mo by that much.. One ox thejh

kn0TM that

he

while reclining on the couch m has off"8- "n"hdfl b?ok to dictate.

Another is

is on his tummy he is thinking. ' 1 < is

"

bookshelve, which rune

very short and conducts conferences while sitting o a g

^ he claspB hie

in front of his windows. His "Get arc pub on tu I . Sees to his chest. He does not like light and on

. + fir afternoons refuses to - c go

have lamps turned on (he has had tie TM^8a

on from dim to dusk to dark.

.There nas oe

hdiscussion of the Duke of Windsor's that he dia. They

life story began with

in an

hLoIuPrS-adiddayhaendwrittheenlts,teh"ppl8edHi'teaup*wuntJU18hheeBma8TO8w%otmrking

eight hour, a at it after

day. He worked all the way across the Atlantic on the a. -r^

^ tha psp9r

hreeaadnidngth"eThDeueDlueksesagnedtDtuochtehses ^ of^ .Wi^ndLso^r ^haavvee'aarrrrivved on their annual pleaslurxefstrmiapn."

m ,a j i - ; l : , Z i

t S l n J S. f -

' .

he was working with. I guess ie w jaw

^ According to Peg, wno is

editor says the pries

J16 ^iGfe takes her into all the cupboards

doing a special job at Time Lit e-roixu

their payroll, everyone #10 has

where they keep the skel/etonsyougn a 1 ^ . vhtlv mad.

They never expected

a good job there has a tonon o- genius a

thought it pood but its success has

iira to dick with the

thj theygha,e'^pped the Saturday Svening

seared them almost out of ti ei^ . ,s

r9ad That winter", whiuh must

Post. All this makes me feel tha. I shall < -

b k

certainiy be based on these mad geniuses. 1 understand that

. LS's:TMT. ar tale is in the book. p rtl
i below freeling outside now.

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m.9

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*ust tn from Fresport

Imt 4unt and I spent the weekend with Martha ml

cam* tame Friday and w sow "Its# i'sireen" with toady Uillor, Patricia Colling and

Baeil fviihfeojie, an oneellaat play with a superb ant* that evening* Yesterday ait & super*

ier day, warn, bright ouwsMne a4 a beautiful bright cloudless blue cky. la the afternoon

*e want to Jonm Beach mA walked up the beach, finding curious deposit which none could

identify* Dee guess the backbones of thousand of small fish. in off-where breese sada wonderful spindrift fre* the aeries f choppy waves--beutiful to leek it hut difficult

to ma shunts

in# Tee of their

or thro people amtomiea. ill

went in and the rest of

out the

fqaumiitleycwmiemfclfyo,rtbhouufgfhetmcm uppseurntneoddavyt--rrtlhnesf

first time we had nil been together since Thanksgiving, and. then we did act hare Aunt Annie*

_ ,, , . , *elx, the Mow Orleans Junket is off end after X had bought a pretty print suit on SiifX.-J.t bodies hfi *ve*ry^ff ullr,lo*n*g**o*k*irtt The i^ nter*net*i*en*al*situwaittihonmiasllsoshgirtaeveptohlakta mdaontys -- of the distinguished political iarepeoa leaders who sere expected celled they could not lease their duties* Bight as I think they are, X an very disappointed* Tlis situation is certainly serious and the popular hysteria which is sweeping the country is dangerous* is a poopls we certainly do net realise that the luxury we enjoyed in the booming twenties and mmw thirties of expressing violent opinions end doing nothing about then no longer to pose*b*** Jsetber we like it or not wo hawo con# out of the war ae world Isadora and must accept the rssponsibilities sudi a position carries with it* Truesau'e speech was indeed tfc. *tro4,eot he hee ever nut., but bifi|m people do not understand tfcnt t bent there 1 nnepf reeltime leg Mwh JrenldeMtial xpr.a.ion and 3owEresieil aetlon. ae y ""V tt* P1-1** ' P**o" apaeeb I had quite * talk uitfc a Unrlna Oarpn nffienr at Kr. . Munny Srtfua'e ooaktail party for foreer Foreign Siiniator of ibraanla^-Srieore OMrfenou, author of U* 2nd of Europe-, the offieer believe, that Trviaen'a apeeoh aa political suicide--I hppe he is right. Garfeneu, aith fc I also had quite a talk, la optinietia and feala that we are adul^y aeeeptiag the ros;onaible role--1 hope h ia right too. By the way I hear that the tYoaidoat planned jurt to apeak to the Friendly Sane of Jt. strict and 1.'it reading the draft of the epeeeh 3aeratary ISarahall inalated t.t ha address the lengrmaa firat and net stake such a atataoant ta the publla, laeving the Congross to road it in iho nowspwpors*

. ^f9^ft &s*grat! eowfereneo with e Stcti Dspsrtmet mm two weeks g X wee set

surprised at

t^w taken re PaXeetlne* X n sure our iOeeies to the UU did ewefything

p0ii>l<3 to get 1.ho .'iTmbu t sek for a apeoisl eessioa of the CJenorwl Assssbly to work out

a wtiole new system rJ only did it tbsmssXwos idisn ths Axwbs would not pl*y ball* I do

sot like tho trusteeship proposal as I fsar we shall be the trustee power and the situation is dynasiie for anyene*

Meadsgr 1 lunched in the Ch^l iocs f the Hitr-Oarletea with Sir Girja Jhaukar

Sajpal, Seoretary of Foreign. Affairs of the Dominion of India, ^ho le here to try and

str^iyhtsR u the kssbedr moss* On# of his adnor Jobs in India is to help foreign govern-

hous their newly created HbdNtssise and Logctions* it have tokos a palace of woo of

^o native princes ' m its IBSH feed to get a prtcsely paleee tool Mltsr Sshwina, now

gi mr

ia ^riftw, write# that the m Information service opened its

J* ovis thero with "Sew with the mndw. The book had been translated into Polish Jit

bofmr the imp and m widely rood, every Polish wesson associated hereelf with Scarlett end

siege of Atls.oia -ith that of %rcow. Xhe movie sad# a great htt and for the first special

invitation ehows thy seemed to have packed 300 into space designed for ISOi

Incidental IntelUgeneet *iien deVslera drove around Mew York his car tarried jwtty U3 flags. ... The soon to be roloaeed Hftreh of Tim "Crisis in Italy" is o*eelltt,

ZTZu TMlW oI? 3h@t 0f ^oUni, elegant pbotogmphy, and charily portrays the

L ' ^jwwjbte* ... Johnny Hefftas reporte a aiga en the well ef the sum*a at UHuo jading "wanSchuylor Klnsey was here" ... During the last sleet ii<m a

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pest carried o.f a eoupl# of tenia m& mm to a stop with its snout in the side show wia-

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Sqaoacliaall

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^sessions m i fifteen ape,>" f *^ch

and Political SoiTM the Pole Xat-3uehy, ** *

unlet agitato*

(fhafthe na

fecUnr, during part chrril JgMSt -a

oi^fngh i.xsbJiQf.t* -ilved u ,-4lnongUninivethrsiisty

Bis 5 *

TZteU; orlUt yoU has teen

under the title of

to'X attach on US foreign policy and -"^2 delegate to the -was a

"One World throu^ the UnxtadHatl-n^by th. ^ oia froa tto grant

magnificent analysis

ie 0,,r seven hWKired

o ^ fAt hat worn by

l?&gna Carta t (*Ll * , tae been the result ^.git

it0 ^cSoutraagbeolues

mbuent

and 18 * indeaoribaoie.

vWi1a.lReu^sssia^n

political

a Ben for six years u.

^+gl bAa0tt clear-cut, ^

philosophy resemblee ft J . ia iqo years old-- Karl i;rx

1a liard working vestry r riga but rather

dnaonntloyf tSht.. xancree. ^

-me apeeches ^we^re"o-nftthhe rU^-OIfSg ^^tha^ nhiisatoiriFc rdfaty

a shortlived decocray.

describing yesterday as pro,.* y , dred million to

mlnadue sayhihstaoirrystbaencdauosne

end r iruaan

a a

g

^ bill ^

f, pox-uical

"B??,0irehi.gh'J*Russhsaiall

China for the purpose of intersex g

finally send troops, a ac

to eontintt#*

^ fire. He believes that in1^ ^

{&% *^ftuJ K~ *"---- -- l will duplicate and
bability Hussla will

tne daf^t

^ ua

^ -

^

y#ra,;baaitt

^ Mh

f Josephine toal*

,, went to Book-
]all9y on

Saturday.

n

, Uftrtha Law from Toronto

-t ms good a week agp to nave

L, the avening with E. I haven 8

have dinner and *> end in 1941--they are both

deeply

int9re,ted in organising
thffln Tery good

since 1 was in Canada,

thi

f

nke the League of their faster visit,

Jay looked at

Women Voters in ^dc*

j t to Sunday School with -a>

In fact I nearly trose

\

ay green silk d*= and sa^d ^he

^ akirt in low".
and

"l h wore buying

family fo* traiisr and

buffftt supper iiB9^er.^1t..n

driving South on IP



Heirec." and enjoyed it very

ghen Aunt Annie was here ^ ^6^,nth century psychological ^"an>

mueil, BasilPut-upon-urtiful ^u^htor. ratricia^o^^

and Bendy Ililler a nos i

t ltly. This play was s gg

played the widowed aunt very oomp

novel "Washington oquaJ

committee

rt T h d t0 shift a dinrxer date au s P

Qn the forth-

meeting to

r0'"' "to"Oreenwieh wii Brooks and Clarswe ' O

go out to

m98ting. Sinifred and the d.il -

vare d<oon8

i^c1h1orathfteCrarmoliidn-a

cao,mwineghCadouonucril doinf ner on- t.aye *

ih0

library and woiked A it U amusing that

propwtty*

originally
tc

night. The house is very attrao

^ lJhen the doer wan*

dowa>

in the aooke-el er fj>ad,g father ronained, altiiou^. 11

Pocautico Hxl-s. -

mile awaV

has on its grew

r/rpP'-x*s*r"-~nr^T!3ar-* Her brother's house

not Imvre^umXAyvdi

s 40

th

Qld 8Wim!'dng pool, tenni unpleasant subject
1 TM people were told tha*

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April 18, 194B

All week I hare been fighting a "submerged" coldwhich haemade me feel shivery and

in the late afternoon sneee and drip slightly at the nose. Then I would go home and

use the heat pad and gothrough the same tiling all over again the next day oy iriday I

went to Gerry and have stayed in ail weekend. I need to be well next week xor ^rooics

will be bask, there will be an Executive Meeting, a Board Meeting and the Council oi

Branches meeting on Friday and Saturday. Tomorrow I lunch with Norman Tiftaft, tne ex-

Lord Mayor of Birmingham-he sounds very nice and jolly on the telephone.

the week has been a total loss, so cold and wet that we nave had some heat in tne

lew --and

than we needed at least in my office exposed to the east wind. A C0P^ 0i

weeksago the Japanese Magnolia behind the Cathedral of St. Patrick started to s o

color, a little later those in the J.P.Morgan Library garden swelled to the point of

color--but they stay in a state of suspended animation, probaoly wishing t iey md

been so forwerd. It was dismal last Sunday at Freeport, where I went to see tne trailer
Cal and Theloa left for the South in this week. It is very trim and compact. We all

had lunch at South Ocean Avenue and Jay was thrilled to the core to ride bacx o w

Lena in the trailer.

Wednesday momigg X played hookey from the uffi.e for a

and "e^wertoth.

-Queen Elizabeth" to see Ruth Wheel.r-Beun.tt off. Poor dear she broke a toothe late the

night before and had to find a dentist who would do an emergency job on her early enough

to make the noon sailing. She always manages to get into and out of the most awful plight..

We made a full oar in the taxi between Ruth and her luggage, a friend, some lampshade,

rose bushes and other precious oddments beside me. There is a lovely new system on the

pier--when you pay your taxi, you don't tip again, i..is .s a cnauge cs .. ea

off on the ''Queen Mary" in the autumn of 1945. The "QR- is on the austere side its

lines are lovely, the placing and proportions of the public rooms are good, floor cover

ings are both lovely and sturdy but there are no unnecessary gewgaws to speak of. Ruth ,,

cabin had two portholes and single bed, but its walls are post-war ply-wood d t

toilet seat is plastic.

A friend in England has just forwarded me a letter he ted iron, a peitortoSraee.,
doted Athens. April 2. it readsi "Oommunism in this country is a creeping horror. Only

the towns are elcure"' Villages even a few miles from Athens are in ^^-of.udden

' raids. A raid normally means the execution of known loyalists, the hurningofcottag.s

and farms, and the abduction of young men and women. And it is^all -;cien,, ,c

f

villages are 'liberated and 'purged of aonarchof assists , the abducted boys ere tu

into 'democratic fighters' (i.e. murders) and the abducted women ='^ oncipated .

fate of these women is tragic. They are not only compelled to ao hard ^hour ter the

Communists but also to sleep with them. The severe traditioml ethics of taCMrt village makes it impossible for them ever to return to ti.eir own homes. Some who have escaped are pregnant and in a half demented state. Early this year, seven girls

escaped, but when they know that they were being overtaken by the Communists, .hey

committed suicide by throwing themselves over a precipice near oou ~.

little boa

"The abduction of children aged 3-14 is the latest horror. ^ultituda. tf

nd cirls are fleeing from it. Lerbos' ...undecipherable w>rd...station v^iicu is ne..r

Belgrade) claims that prparfctioas have been made in the 'democratic countries i ^mgary,

RwriTrt so on) to receive 20,000 of these children wo are being 'saved from monarcho-

fascism and .American imperialism'. The total number of TMfuge.s of

7nn nno
aboutB;r00,0O0

bbyv

nnooww

^ in ^ a r^ uinreddco^unt ry

awim th au.population

torfa*oj wyhere9

the>

supply

column.

of the Communists can be seen moving along in Aibaxiitui ,erri ory* -

return the fire

stantly fired at from the Aloaman side of,tne border. . *>-* ^

# ^sir .

as this would 'violate Albanian neutrality . I

t u ad9quate, ad there

spirit is amazing. Their discipline has ^ron , tneta e^ipm. from Hargos, , Democratt

are few if any desert?one, wnereas t< uie a

gastrins, vcnnine and so on

Arnrr'. I find the morale in the pubs of Athens, oalonic,., -- - >

aTMgood as it vas in the pubs of London during the BUtx-and that is saying much.

April 1S 1943**pagi 2

*ffce 0rmk irace unions, loosely organised, poverty-stricken, ^m3.WMt and inefficient have got the better of the OBI--rniiste mad there trt so political strikes and 9 ao far# there has been no sabotage in towns. The Communists, who in 1944 mnrdored mere than 100 Greek trade union leaders and, tee rears age, dominated tfee unions, have been so defeated in a series of free elections (for the congress now nesting in Piraeus) that thay have less influenee in the Greek labour meveootst than in the British ( not to speak of the French and Italian)*

'-voryoae wants peace, but none would sue for pease* There ie no * penes

party* or no * peace movement*. The Fellow Travellers are finished in this

country Everyone kaova it is a fight for life

acre than life*

/

*Bui whatever sueeess the enemy may have is the coming months, the decisi en

cannot aam

Grouse* The Geessiittern is like a v^pire with infested tesfch,

sucking and poisoning the blood of its victim * America is administering a blood

transfusion* There can be no final decision until the vampire is beaten off* *

won fens exiW'iel .atU neble rid- -tetoxa iod 9xnns1--elqoeq eirfi vjao lo xtxlxcfxe moil aiettel gtiiAouo* yiev yaw boos b *03 oris isw rid* anirtuG ff&ta* ll^^ "**
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letters from abroa^W?ism%^fmx^fiW^^4ie^^bm ms4d--in fact two minutes ago I found on envelop from him which I had not even opened. This treatment has brought forth the following, which will prove that the fin art of letter writing is not dead--or somethingi
"My dear Frances, "I am afraid I have put you in the ,mauvaise posture* of those romantic & disillusioned personalities, on the throne of the country of our ancestors, wbo were overwhelmed by a surfeit of lampreys or drowned in a butt of malmsey wine. Alas, I have asked your opinion and advice on so many things of which I am ignorantbut which I need to know, in order to help those whom we are trying to save, that you have found my friendship a surfeit of lampreys or are feeling that it resembles a butt of malmsey wine. Even the friendship of emperors, you may say, is attended with inconveniences, such as that of Elagabalus who asked so much more of his friends than they could manage that he invited them to dine and, by the roof?, so overwhelmed them with rosea (which have thorns) that, under that weight, they died. So my dear, I will try and ask less in future, even though it be not for myself, but still hoping for advice and guidance on the outstandings "

Perhaps it is the aroma of the malmsey that added to the stress of the FFA left me limp last Sunday. Thursday night there was a Board of Directors meeting, after which I went along to the Weylin for a nightcap with Blair and Mona Bolles who were up from Washington. Friday morning the Council of Branches Meeting began around a huge hollow square table covered with green felt where the delegates from all over the country were seated at numbered places and each equipped with a copy of the seating chart, so all knew who was speaking. After the afternoon session we went to the Eustace Seligman's house for cocktails and at 7i30 to the Pierre roof for a wonderful dinner tendered by TIME as a gesture of regret at not having been able to go through with their New Orleans plans. Although we had invited the TIME people to the Seligman*s they too served cocktails and a merry time was had by all. There was another session on Saturday morning in which I got in my two cents worth on speakers and meetings. It was very interesting to get reports from various cities on the outstanding projects some of them had carried on during the season. Although I had selected the things they told about it was effective for the others to hear the stories direct from the do-ers. That even ing I dined with Liz Stevens of Boston at Longchamps and tried to help her with some of her problems and generally be polite to her. Somehow on Sunday I did pre cisely nothing and even on Tuesday evening when I thought to give myself a half hour respite listening to a radio crime program before attacking the typewriter, I fell asleep before the crime was committed and was wakened by the fanfare of the closing commercial. At least I had the wit to go to bed properly then.

Monday I went to another US Mission to the UN background conference on Pales-

tinein the late afternoon. It not only depressed me mightily but Ahe news of the

week has increased my sense of impending doom. It has been apparent to me that

thousands of Jews and Arabs are going to kill themselves and one another, but I

fear that we will land Marines to protect US life and property and then the Russ

ians will have every legal right to do the same. Thursday I had a very interest

ing conversation with an Iraqi who is working at Columbia on a special government

financed research project setting down behavior patterns and other basic "do*s

and don'ts in the Near East which will be useful either to the US businessman

going into the area or to a soldier forming part of a landing force". ^ It is only

fafcr to add that this is a world wide undertaking on our part with similar mater

ial being gathered

about China, Russia and so on with the one on France already

completed. The same day I also talked with Mrs. Dexter Perkins, who is Mrs.

Fannie Farmer of today. That cookbook is 52 years old and has been the respon-

sibility of only three people--Fannie, her sister the elder Mrs. Perkins and now Mrs. Dext#rr Pejrki||o During the war she got a good many very touching letters from American soldier! who found the cookbook in all sorts of out of the way places and read it from cover to cover. (Can you imagine drooling over the recipe for lemon

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May 24, 1948

Contrary to the rumor Freddy is spreading to the neighbors Billy has blond hair and was 22 inches long at birth. Freddy has the quaint notion that the hair is blue.

Saturday afternoon while Jim repainted the baby carriage

Martha took me to Nassau Hospital at Mineola to see Molly in her

nice corner room. Fortunately she is glad that it is the first

room in the maternity wing on the first floor. She likes it be

cause she is able to keep track of everything that goes on and

loves it. The terrific jag she got from the stuff they used for

injection, which left her thinking that Jim's blue pin stripe suit

had double lines in it and saying "Hello, Smoky" to the baby when he

made his first appearance. His greatest achievement was to ~ive a

lusty burp before he was twenty four hours oldi After dropping the

immediate post-natal weight, he has started to gain. The pediatrician

has made his thorough examination and was very satisfied with Billy's

condition, but got so intrigued in talking to Molly about the delivery

and her goings on when he visited her to report on the child that

he left in a gale of laughter Poor Molly is very chagrined that

with the third child she made so much talk about herself during the

time she did not loiow what she was saying. By this time the permanent

peole in the hospital are old friends and seem to be having a wonderful

time ribbing her.

But to get back to Molly actually. She looked

perfectly splendidly on Saturday and twice while we were there dangled

her feet over the side of the bed. Yesterday she did a little walking

and plans to go home on Thursday.

The nurse they had to go home with her is not now available-- Jimsays they never have gotten the one they had counted on. I suppose it is something to cheer the mother-to-be to think she is all taken care of during those never-ending days of waiting, even if the services of someone quite different are used. Jim and the little boys are getting on very nicely, though I must confess that we all overslept yesterday until too late for Jay to get to Sunday school. Freddy went to a party on Saturday afternoon and then we all went to Martha and Cleve for my birthday dinner. Two parties in one day was quite a social undertaking for Freddy, but he bore up and helped me open my gifts. The dinner party was a day ahead because Martha's mother arrived from Charleston yesterday and they had to go to town to pick her up and it was thought that the shift was better.

Saturday, Sunday and today have all been lovely days sunny and

bright, but so chill in the evening that I began to fear for the seedlhgs

of petunia and aster that we planted yesterday. Jay cut the front of the

lpaewbnb5l

I es

carried on we got out

with my dandelion eradication and Freddy carried the of the beds off to a place where they would be more

useful.

They will of course be glad to have Molly back but are getting on very well without her. Jim's being on holiday will keep things rolling. Thursday when he had to go to town Freddy spent the time he was away with Martha . Friday afternoon Martha stayed with him so Jim could get over to Mineola. So she had not seem Molly until Saturday. Molly was listening to the radio when we arrived add looked ever so pretty with a blue velvet ribbon on her hair.

Unless something goes wrong with the currently expected nurse I shall stay in town this week end and get caught up on some of mv own affairs.

I k y 31, 1948
'rom recnet letters from LngLand* Ruth ami John Wlieeler-"tannett have decided to sell the 140 acres of farmland of Gareington Manor to most the new taxes instead of selling secur ities. This will leave them only the seven acres of lawn wid cardan immediate ly around the old manor (originally a 13th century abbey) near Oxford.
# * # V **
Harriet Monkhouee, who lived here fro some twenty years writes very frankly
from the home she shares with her slater in a London suburbs " I had a lovely two weeks during that gorgeous Spring-Summer weather in
Dorset with an old school friend. Since I have spring cleaned at least 2,000 books here, washed china, etc* and now thanks to our housekeeper the bouse is spotless, but I ar- always afraid shaf11 Login all over again as it is something she holds very dear to her heart. '.7 are fortunate in still having her, espec ially v,hen you see people of your own age struggling with big houses and no one to heir?. Whether our Government is ^oing to manage to pull through is difficult to say, but the common expense of all national!ration, new administrative boards , etc, etc, new health service, etc, etc, all of which comes out of our pockets, and the textile industries are told they must turn out more for export, all makes our financial condition very precarious. Its Ignominious that America^ thinks she must supervise our upending of tlie Marshall loan, but I quite welcome it and think it islithe only method. Js don't seem to know how to budget our expenses, and I've never got over the spending of the last loan. It largely went on pineapples, grapes and tobacco--frightful. We must be etopred from doing it again."
* * * 4' * # r * Now a isaeculine view from Tracy Philippe-- a Conservative for mny years in F.O. and Array intelligence, y-io plays around with the Duchess of Atholl and that ilkt "I am really disappointed tha t you cannot come to Sngland this summer, though as for tourists I would try to diecourage them. If all is made comfortable for then, they will think all comfortable. If all is beastly (as, under the eurfaee, it ig), they will only be sorry they camel ihat is alarming is that the Sngliahman's house is no longer his castle--informers are invited, and special police (petrol, food, building) can push in i1thout warrant . to search, and. In the new regulations a man is no longer presumed innocent until proved guilty."

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June 6, 1948

The last chit-chat date seems to be May 1 without even a notation of.Iswhom it iras sent Too much aems to have happened for me to be orderly much less fficieii. As a further indication of ay state I shopped yesterday for a wedding present for aisiefs step-daughter. The event is the 12th in Charlottesville, I'd love to go but cannot manage the time t*nd expect that ray small offering will not arrive before the event. But I did get the winter blankets, etc. stowed away for the summer yesterday--which is a great achievement. Pretty soon I shall be able to turn my mind to clothes,etc. for my trip to California and British Columbia on which I leave on the 25th. Meanwhile I am involved with Kelson Rockefeller on a party for the President of Venttuala to take plaae after I have gone.

Last night I dined with Aunt Bessie Greenwood because Aunt Mary has gone to

Manchester for a week and their age range does not set out of an evening very much and evenings are lonely. Toraight I dine with Charlotte Muret who is about to go to Franee

to spend the summer with her aged huBband. He is such a selfish old pig that I admire her faithfulness in devoting the summer to him and the winter to earning the wherewithal

fox doing so. iVed-v osapy 1 scuttled up to the Metropolitan which has adopted a late

closing to enable more people to see the 150 masterpieces from the Kaiser Freidrieh Museaa of elrin which Gneral Pattoa's 3rd Army liberated from the salt Mine in Merkere itfiere they had been stored with an enormous cache of gold and other valuable work of

art. Maria met ae there for her first and my second viewing. It was fun to realise

srys '*>. Ka4hT+ t0 "f8 TMiUinfi to d*T0*e 1638 time t> the Italian primitives paying reepeet
sha'uPt'f.li h!.' ^a?tta, Bellini, etc, to disagree about Botticelli's Venue-wbioh she 4.iked and I did not (though we agreed that his Birth of Venus which we hie ho+h

nz

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and the Klders and most of the"nineItuereV

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wa-n fur on his collar bu?Is Llv

Hol88huher pointing out the r^n^ !f

trigued me. By tual coa^Tw^ki^H Iabout the Titian self portruit whlch .o i^

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June 6, 1948

The last chit-chat date seems to be May 1 without even a notation of whom it was sent J Too much seems to have happened for me to be orderly much less efficient. As a further indication of my state I shopped yesterday for a wedding present for Maisie^s step-daughter. The event is the 1th in Charlottesville, I*d love to go but cannot manage the time and expect that my small offering will not arrive before the event. But I did get the winter blankets, etc. stowed away for the summer yesterday--which is a great achievement. Pretty soon I shall be able to turn my mind to clothes,etc. for my trip to California and British Columbia on which I leave on the 25th. Meanwhile I am involved with Nelson Rockefeller on a party for the President of Venezuela to take place after I have gone.

Last night I dined with Aunt Bessie Greenwood because Aunt Mary has gone to Manchester for a week and their age range does not set out of an evening very much aai evenings are losely. Tonight I dine with Charlotte Muret who is about to go to France to spend the summer with her aged husband. He is such a selfish old pig that I admire her faithfulness in devoting the summer to him and the winter to earning the wherewithal for doing m Wednesday I scuttled up to the Metropolitan which has adopted a late closing to enable more people to see the 150 masterpieces from the Kaiser Freidrich Juseum of BaLran which Gneral Patton's 3rd Army liberated from the salt Mine in Merkerg where they had been stored with an enormous cache of gold and other valuable works of

J^ria met me.^?ra ;or her first

second viewing. It ens fun to realise

that she too was willing to devote less time to the Italian primitives paying respect

I1

Saaaetta, Bellini, etc, to disagree about Bottioelf?s V.nue^ioh

1 dld "0t (though we areed that his Birth of Venus which we had both

have her point

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that this self-portrait was no? as

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of our attention-Maria insisting that he nificanee bit of Persian rug covering ti e

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Gerard Terborch'e "The Conofrt"

.0f,,the 3am school we also both lik?d-

wore an exquisitely done silver

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liked my favorite Durer portrait nf m

8 was Painted from the baekl Jfaria also

wtrn fur on his collj brt^S"n?v f

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trigued me. By mutual cofeTwefLSffTbfSl^9 Wtiaa self Portrait

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August 10, 1948

Since correspondence has been neglected, confined to picture post cards, for so long once over lightlv of THE TRIP seems in order. On Friday, June 25th I left the office a littl early in a fine humid heat to start west with Vera Dean a"d her 14 vear old Elinor and 11 year old Bfillv. Going bv way 0f Chicago and th Grand Canyon we all" staved at the Los Angeles Biltmore for several dav before a tearful temporary parting,
O
Through pn admirer of Vera1 we had rather special treats in that we were lunched, shown the lot, observed pictures in the making and brushed elbows with stars and extras at both the M-G-M and Warner Brothers studios. It was fun to se the rows and rows of facades of every possible +.voe, warehouses of oroos of every -*r+ (I counted 17 different types of fish nets) and actual production of a drama "The Bribe" and a musical commedy "Look for the Silver Lining". Each two minutes of finished film represents a full dav of shooting!And when we observed the patience with which Eva Gardiner and John Hodisk and Robert. Young repeated and repeated one little sequence with good temper we decided thev probabiv earned their big salaries. However I was disgusted to learn that whan a live oak tree was reoui^ed and there were onlv maples, elms, poolers, pines, red oaks, etc in th tree traakdepartment they -pant $17,000 on a reasonable facsimile! Yat within six hours motoring I "Va.ter saw hundreds of live oaks growing wild. Los Angeles seemed garish and tawdry despite its many very pre+tv parks. The tall Wadhingtonian Palm and the Data Palm (which flowers but does not fruit) are two of the three native trees. Everything else is imported. In Hollywood, Baveriev Hills, Burbank, S nta Monica and suburban L.A, all the houses &rg too large for +he plots--like a chap Paisley shawl--with onlv the tiniest, ham of grass, planting or flowers around th edge. Ger niums grow like nmd4 and are extensively used for bedding, especially between levels of ground and as hills are plentiful there is plenty of scone for that sort of planting. Many movie people have extensive real estate holdings, many in anartment houses. Even among the well-known names houses are largely too bi<* for +he plot. Shirlev Temple is exclusive and anti social * -ving keaVy gates which are kept locked at her driveway, the idle curious are further discouraged from snoo-ing through the bars bv a couole of nastv looking mastiffs.

Motoring with Phyllis from Los Argeles to Paso Robles via Santa Barbara where we

lunched TMn delightful. The monks built Missions --21 of them-- about 30 miles apart

that being considered a dooddav,' ^ravel for a ho~se and Santa Barbara has been built

rund ouite a large one. Mv distant cousins the Johnsons were greet fun and I had a

fine weekend with +hem in the heart of t^e almond growing country. The dried wild oats

and graws on the Wis we broken b" + e ruggedness of the terrain and live oaks flour

ished in many of the arrovos, the flat places on the hills hope eve called mea (while in

B.C. the r-vines are draw and the plateaus are benche.) V/e drove into Monterey County

along the Roosevelt drive carded out of the side of the hills at the ocean1 s edge --a most

spectacular region where the steep cliff sides kept moist bv fog were green and covered

with wild flowers. We passed several huge o-*l resevoir tanks on hills with pipe lines *

running to the water's edge and either mooring bouvs for tanker- off shore or piers for

loading. William R. Heafflfc's San Simeon castle is on a hill five miles back from the high- -

wav and ouite ug^v--! thought, Cembria Pines provided a wonderful lunch with abalone steak

and an unusual collection of begonias in a hot

house and enormous fuchia of several

varieties outsid. Thev claiw vear round terareratur range of from 55-70, while across

the mount-ins not more than 30 miles a^av they zoom from 20 to 110. frwauently registering

60 and 110 in a twentv four hour period in the su-ner. We swam at the Livingston's beach

house near Moro Rock and I ?m convinced that the Pacific is not as salt as the Atlantic.

A verv fine Southern Pacific train took me in about six hours from San Luis Obisoo through the truck garden area around S-linas to San Francisco where visiting the FPA affil iate and inspecting the Denfs set-un at Mills College over -t Oakland left a nrin-irmim of time for sightseeing per se. However I managed an evening with the Stouts at whose Annapolis-graduation-d?v-wedding T vms mid of honor and me": their three sons. Seeing them was a bit of luck too as the Captain had gotten his sa duty orders and wag just about to take command of the USS Sierra and the family had already begun to pack for the move to San Diego, where the wek before they had bought a house. While dining with Frd Zumw It at his new house on Seal Rocks Drive there was a short sharp earthquake--most

August 10, 1948 (page 2) appropriate since he and I had experienced several together in Japan. San Francisco impressed me most avo**ablv a*d the orchid sen+ me by the manager of the St. Francis Hotel did not impair my reaction. However I was startled to find heat in the radiator in the Council office at noon on Julv *thl It is definitely a "suit town". The Golden Gate Park was built for the enjoyment of the people and does not have a single "Keep off the Grass" sign. The public responds and it is kept tidy with minimum labor. A Scots by name of McLean built the Park on the rubble dumped from the affair of 1906 and his contribution is recognized by a bronze statue set in the grass--since he said he was of the earth and did not wish to be put on a pedestal With proper thriftiness he installed sheep to keep the l*wns cropped. The view of +he city bv night from the Cort Memorial to +he volunteer firemen of 1906 on top of Telegraph Hill is excellent and bv day the Deans and I enjoved studying the city from the "TOP of the Mark" (Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill)--superior we felt to that from the roof dining room on top of the Sir Francis Drake. It is nice that in a recent referrendum the people of the city voted not to substitute busses for cable care--where I was amused to hear the grioraan call out "curve" as we went around corners. On the level routes are being taken over by busses and I noted one bearing the legend "One of our 419 new busseir". Chinatown is much more attractive than our" here and Fisherman's Wharf proved a fine place to eat dinner and get the sunset. My greatest criticism is that only the Southern Pacific from the south enters the city--for trains to north and south you have to go by ferry and entrain in Oakland Curiously enou$i I shared that ferry trip with a Canadian from i Totonto, whose,train east left five minutes before mine for Seattle.
For over an hour out of Portland we passed through flooded territory--in places where the waters had receeded one could see high water marks of at least 8 feet and I gauged the depth of still standing waieere in several places at a minimum of 6 feet. It was a distressing sight. A change and an easy connection at Seattle put me in Van couver M hours after I left the San. Francisco Ferry House . Helen and Mary both looking splendidly fit met me and we had a fine easy, work-in-the garden weekend with just enough driving about to let me see that the city I last visited in 1929 had grown beyond recognition. The Lions Gate Bridge from the peninsular in ihich Vancouver was built to the mainland has opened up the most intensive developement of both North and West Vancouver. Fortunely "Grev Rcoks" in Caulfield where we ?/ent for Sunday dinner with Mrs. Adair and I stayed to spend Monday with her is as beautiful as ever with a dream garden and a magnificent view beyond Point Grey to Vancouver Island. The huge granite rocks and statelv Douglas fir trees thereabout hav a wonderfullv relaxing effect on me. Alas Helen came down with a cold or asthma o havfever on Sunday and was miserable, so she stayed in bed Tuesday and Mary end I carried on with cutting down the five foot foxglove bhooms to force secondary flowering, I cleared out passe giant lupine, Canterbury seed pods, cut nastursiums, sweet peas and roses for the house and generally enjoved mvself until Mrs. Adair came for tea as did Douglas Adair Dewar, who is doing summer session at the university. That night I took the sleeper to Penticton and it turned out to be a refugee train. Hie threatened rail strike made that the last train sure of crossing the Coast range and it was packed. A woman and her twelve year old son shared the upper over me and I know of several people who had to sit UP in the lounge car because there were no more berths. Douglas, Patricia and Addie Petrie, who is visiting the Dewars, met me at the station and Amv at the door of Banburv Point* where a welcome breakfast was also on hand.
The Okanagan Vallev got its impetus from the Sari of Aberdeen who upon completion of his Governorship of Canada bought 42.000 acres because he saw the potential of this drv but fertile vallev with its series of lakes to SUPPIV water for irrigation of the orchards he envisaged. Amy and Douglas have set out 450 trees ranging from apricot to walnut and oumo the water from the lake themselves. However the Province has established a fine irrigation system which carries water in galvanized semi-circular conduits raised about four feet from the ground. The hills are brown end seer in the summer dotted with sage brush and Canadian yellow pine and crisscrossed with the paths of covotes-- which howl at the moon It is necessary to oen the turkey's, dn ickens and guineafowl each night to protect them from the wild life depredations. Thev are eight rabies from Penticton on the west side of Skahar Lake (about ten miles long and next below Okanagan Lake which is about 80 miles in length). On the road to town, cut out of the hills along the lake, the nearest neighbor is 5 miles away and an India*--who

August 10, 1948 (page 3)

is reputed to have bought war bonds--$1^,000 at a crack. However his sons are not above stealing Amy's three saddle houses expecting them to be mingled with some wild ones thev had collected on the Indian Reservation and bring a good price. For tunately prompt and courageous action on Amy's part lead to her beasts being extracted from the drove and led back to the home corral. Now the war is over Amv claims that she is not working to produce food but there is always something doing that the four mem outside cannot finish. Peas were being picked for the deep freeze and were so abundant that 30 pounds were given to Mildred Craig. String beans were in sudi SUPPIV that thev were being sent to town for the grocer to sell. Young turkeys were driven to a larger pen, middle sized ducks were moved to a pond at the far side. Amv retains direction of the "farm" and still personally operates the incubator--every night we turned the guinea fowl eggs which were being hatched. Douglas serves on the Board of Directors of several companies, including a chain of hotels, a lumber company, a celanese subsidiary of Duoont with a plant at Prince Rupert etc. and is president of the Air Service which operates a heliocopter. He thought it would be useful to the fruit growers to do the soraving--but they seem conservative But the 'copter is on contra^ to the Province to sorav for a blight in the forests. Douglas is in charge of their trees and plots the planting and the irrigation. Hhile thev are beginning to bear, it will be some years before thev get a good crop.

Both the life and countrv is filled with contrasts. Everyone works in a verv

democratic atmosphere. I rant? everv morning for the butler to bring UP mv breakfast

when I felt like getting UP and an hour later might be out helping one of the farm

men pick peas in the broiling sun. A couple of days it was 90 (though there was

always a breeze) vet every night save one I slept under two heavy Hudson Bav blankets.

One drives down a canvon like "draw" with great pinnacle rocks or rugged, grim beautv

and utter wildness twisting and turning down and down to come out upon a beautiful

*

green lawn surrounded with statelv pines and enter a gem of a French Provincial house

of great charm and artistry for tea with the Carroll

s--who hoped thev mi^it(AikBns)

combine orchards and theatricals. Alas, those who could pick the fruit could not act

vice versa. A similar but less dramatic approach another dev took us to the Richard

Craigs for a highball in their charming home filled with things thev had picked UP

all over the world--though Dick was formerly attorney General of Manitoba, he now is

retired and has an orchard. Mildred is creating a garden of incredible beauty and

when the men are not busy with the trees urges tham to put more fertilizer on the beds

about the thick turf of their lawn--which is on a "bench" overlooking the lake instead

of being on the lake front as the Dewars and the Aike^s are. Despite the remoteaess of

Banbury, Amv gave a dinner for 28 for me, and I was kept busy talking as a result of

an interview I gave in the Vancouver Province. It was printed the day I left Vancouver

which was dandy--but I had not counted on all of Penticton reading the Province. Even

one of the Dewar's farm handa had read it and wanted me to help get his fiancee from

Finland--though he had not seen her for 24 years I There was a huge ladies luncheon,

a cocktail party and a tea, too, so I met a lot of people and enjoved tham all. Ger

trude and John Belvea were also visiting the Dewars. but thev were Quartered in the

Bandbox, a separate guest house and did not appear until luncheon. Strangelv enough

Gertrude's vounger sister married Gordon Crosslav who ushered to my bridesmaiding at

Helen's wedding in Vancouver in 1926 and I met young Belyea in New York last November.

Douglas, the Belyeas and Gordon saw me off on the train from Kelowna --three hours to run 75 miles to Sicamous where I had to stay the night and pick UP the earlv morning train for Montreal in order to go through the Selkirks and the Canadian Rockes bv dav. There was a fine amount of snow r>n many of them and it was even more impressive than I ramembered. At times we had two big engines to pull us UP the graces but I could not help thinking how exciting it must have been when they used five engines --two at each end and one in the middle to keep the trains from running away on that run in the old davs before pneumatic brakes1 The Canadian Pacific has some marvelous engineering in its construction--the 5 mile Connaught Tunnel and the spiral tunnels where the train raises itself UP the side of the mountain bv making two complete circles inside the mountain. I love the tale that when Canada asked General Eisenhower's permission to rename Castle Mountain for him he replied--"Yes, if it is a bald mountain!" I was impressed with the economic develooement of Canada and spirit of growth.

Rw.'fult^*., "fJL-e^ - litfi- >*1--Y *aVu-'s<^ -

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Sepieaabor 19, 1948

It my have 3earned hot to me in New York during late July and early August after the delightfully cool weather--ifista cool at all times--that I encountered in California and British Columbia. But I should have kept still about if for I hati experienced nothing and always had my weekends with one family or the other at Freeport until the weekend of August 20, when Brooke Smeny had five of us and his secre tary at Greenwich for a weekend of discussion on the FPA. Despite the fact that his wife and children were in Hew Hampshire with the household staff, he got a very good temporary staff and we ate superblybut it was no rest cure. Even if you sit on a flagstone terrace in the shade of Japanese maple and look off over the lawn at freen trees arid wear country cottons deciding about promotion and money raising is still more of the week's work on Saturday and Sundayl Before lunch on Saturday CIeve called me to report that Dad's younger brother had died very Suddenly that morning at Huckleberry Islandh-the summer hangout of some of the NY Athletic Club members, of which Uncle was a life member. Gleve and my cousin Margaret's husband took over arrangements, so there was nothing I could do but go back to the Yakety-yak. The funeral was Monday evening with the interment Tuesday morning under circumstances which then seemed like a Turkish bath steam room. Subway platform held so much humid ity that there appeared to be a fog when one looked down its length, this impression was even given in the cars themselves. But I still did not know what was in store for by Wednesday the Big Heat of 1948 settled down. Friday evening the taxi driver who took me down to the Stat of Maine sleeper announced that it was too hot to work and he was going to give up at 830 after four ?*nd half hours. The pall of heat covered the seaboard and when I arrived at Lisokin Lodge at ten the next morning, we just sat afeiut trying b oath a coil brenfch on be incoming tide. It aide it possible to stay in the water for unprecedented lengths of time and to feel cooler for quite s spell afterwards. Fortunately the heat broke on Sunday night ?^nd I enjoyed the lazy life and the swimraing. For part of my stay Laura Cox, who travelled with Gerry Wilmot and me in Norway in 1933, was over in the Boathouse so I had a refuge when I tired of being "baby" at the Lodge.
The day after Labor I&y when I turned UP at the office again after my ten day "refresher" was again hot and it still is. Nothing in the weather inclines me to look for autumn clothes --which I must have. Nor does the office provide any time for such consideration. We all worked liked beavers getting ready for the Council of Bran ches and Affiliates of yesterday and the day before. People were there from Boston to San Francisco arid Milwaukee to New Orleans. When I loft at 4i4G yesterday afternoon I was limp and fortunately was able soon after to fall into my bed. As always rnargr of the local groups are going into splendid programs and others appear to be withering on the vino. So few people s&emjd to be capable of sustained effort. On the whole I must admit to being very discouraged. However, every ship brings to be bringing interesting Europeans and Americans who have had absorbing experiences overseas* The murder of Count Bornadotte seems symptomatic of the world's troubles -- and potentially creates a situation of gaave danger for all of us. I happened to learn a little of the work of one section of the Hoover Commission to He-organize the Executive Branch of the Govern ment and am filled with admiration for the enormous amount of work going into that report which will be mad to the Congress soon after it convenes. Meanwhile their work is guarded with even greater seoreoy than the developement of the atomic bomb, but ru mor 3ms it that Dewey will push for the extensive and fundamental changes the final document will recom end. Maybe if we straighten out our own proceodureo of government we shall be in a better position t lead the world--which certainly seems to need lead ership as well as material aid. decently I talked with a German citizen (Rhodes Scholar 1934-7 and then not liking what the Nasi* were doing cane here) who had spent three and a half months in Germany this 3uianer. The US Army offered him special rations, but he preferred to live as a Gorman. He lost 30 pounds. hen he went to England for a few weeks ho started to gain. German prisoners of war who were returned from Russia however gained 0n the German diet on which he had lost. He admits that all things are relative.

-* (* +fL.

October 3, 1948

The warm, sunny weather we are having while a joy does not give the lift to one's energy which mine needs at this time of great pressure in the office. Nor does it incline me to work seriously on a winter wardrobe, though I managed to get a grey dress ysterday with green half inch stripe worked into the front diagonally and straight up and down in the back. A hat comes next but with my secretary out Monday and Tuesday for the Jewish New Year and my assistant fired because she did not pan out I do not seem much immediate prospect of shopping. An analysis of three weeks after Labor Day showed that I worked 134 hours during a normal work period of 102 -- atoost a third overtime. Looking for a little sympathy from Jim, all I got was "I always say that if a person cannot do their job in regular work hours, either they are not qualified for the job or they need an assistant."
Monday my old French friend Robert Valeur turned up from Sao Paulo where he has been French Consul General for two years and a half. The Brazilians* seem to be very casual about mail and I am already troubled about my promise to see his young Michel entered at St. Paul's School in Garden City as a boarder and report back to Lois and Robert on how he makes out. Robert reports the climate of Sao Paulo very poor, the Brazilians of the social upper crust as a group want no truck with foreigners and that it is very boring to be thrown only with the diplomatic group. However he has gained weight on the life. I was particularly interested in his comments on deGaull to whom he gave his allegiance in 1940--though it-cost him a very good job -- and whom he knows personally. He is convinced of his sincerity and of his lack of personal ambition. However he does not have faith in the men who surround deGaulle. Some of them ere now extremely authoritarian in their views and it is not altogether clear that were he to come to power that De Gaulle could surround himself with others. I gather that these men have been instrumental in keeping able young men from positions of power, so that France continues to fall back on the distinctly "elder statesmen" like Harriot in so many instances.
Wednesday night I dined at Maria's to meet Dr. Ida Bobule -- an Hungarian who was here 20 years ago as an Exchange student at Bryn Mawr. She has an idee fix that the Czech* have defamed Hungarians here and that she must restore the national reputation* Some of her researches have convinced her that the Hungarians stem from the Maggi of the Bible --she proves it from coramonroot words in Sumarian and Hungarian languages and from decorative design found in Hungarian peasant art and on the Luristan bronzes. It was a most interesting lecture but I am not convinced that it will be a powerful influ ence on US public opinion. Poor Maria was dreadfully upset and called me after I had gotten to bed to apologize* Actually it was a condensed college course on the origins of European culture. I found her experiences in Budapest as librarian of the US Infor mation most interesting, too. It is the usual tele that we spend unwisely and not enough and with so much red tape that a broken toilet cannot be repaired without written bids fMm three contractors, who knowing that only one will get the job are unwilling to botlyto estimate on small jobs they do not want anyway. Meanwhile neither staff nor publie have the sanitary facilities they have a right to expect at a public reading room* That certainly ma my day for culture as I saw in the office at the request of one of my less aware collegue, a young man who wanted to speak for us. His line is to show the influence of history on art and literature of China and Japan. A fine area but hardly up our alley when he plans to stop with the 18th Genturyi
I registered yesterday, so I shall be able to vote for President. The question is --idio gets my vote. So many people seem to he convinced that we must fight the Russians that I was particularly grateful for Joseph Harsch's broadcast today when he pointed out that while we are not accustomed to states of "not peace yet not war" it has happen ed in the world before without leading to war. His illustration of the 70 years that Britain and Russia eyed each other over the question of the Dardanelles yet ended up in two wars as allies seemed most useful to me. Patience is not a national character istic of ours, but I think we had better cultivate it.

October 10. 194-8.
Mv but I should like to POP down to Chinatown todacv and see what they have drearned UP for the observance of "Double Ten"--which is the nearest thing the Chinese have to our Independence Dev. However there is too much on mv docket right here before I ge to the job of nutting the summer dresses away even. A very busy week plus most ox vesterdv in the office left no time for the persona"* it ems <? A good deal of time went into interviewing candidates for mv assistant after Peggv Daggett had done the initial screening. The number of people over thirtv five, who had earned UP to $100 a week m executive positions and were willing to work for $60 in a job which I am at pains to paint as filled with grubbv detail? was impressive. I undersell the job and let them find out its fun afterwards as a safe oroceedure. Fridsv afternoon I settled on an exWAVS officer? with an A.B. cum laude? plus Katherine Gibbs Secretarial iRaining a^d five vears business experience. She is Mrs. Katherine Dovle Hood, has a good deal of t>arsons!it" in a trim, tailored manner and?thank heaven,begins tomorrow*, Brooks gets back after a two weeks absence and between Tuesdav being a holidav (Columbus Day) and Wednesday being a Jewish holidav again? I am not sure how much time I can spend in breaking in Mrs. Hood.
Tuesdav morning I went to a press conference at the Waldorf for Sir Stafford Cripps with Vera. I don*t think the British Information Services intended to have two people from FPA? but our respective contacts there each asked us and we both went I was delighted to see Sir Stafford looking so fit. perhaps a little less hair than in 1941 when I last saw him but actually with better color and completely relaxed -- no more teetering from toe to heel as he spoke. After an over brief statement on the improvement in the British adverse trade balance, the help that they are giving Europe toward recovery through unreauited trade even though this draws goods from the British home consumer and the ^ onlv gradual improvement anticipated in the British living conditions, he submitted him self to questions. He was at particular pains to answer those of a negro, whose questions were on the unfriendlv side. I was disappointed in the level of Questions, though most of the financial editors and manv columnists and weeklv magazine editors were there. Vera thought the auestions stupid (and in fact some asked him things he had alreadv answered) while I had the cynical feeling they were trying to trap him into some indiscretion ^ which would make a headline without regard to the possibility of creating an "incident".
Wednesday night I "sampled" seven speakers at Christ Church Forum and was troubled to hear George Sokolskv talk of the birth of a new Hebrew University the next dav--the Brandies University in Boston--with great pride of race. It seems a tactical error to me--unless the Jews here want to go back to a ghetto sort of existence. He too has learned to stand still while speaking. Years ago I had to tell him that it was dis turbing to his audiences for him to prance about. He replied that he was so heavv that his feet hurt him before he finished a full speech. I recommended that he get bigger shoes and stop being vain about his small feet--which do have a heaw load to carry.
Thursday I lunched at Chateau Richelieu with Arnold Vos Dios? a sweet little old Dutch journalist who wanted me to meet Dr. A. vanRaalte? another journalist and professor of international law in the Dutch training school for diplomats who had just arrived from Holland. Dr. Boudreau, director of the Netherlands Information Service here and a woman from his staff were along. vanRaalte is a lamb and I hope to be able to use him* A minor crisis in the office delayed me from getting back to Christ Church in time to "sample" Saul Padover, the last of the afternoon speakers so I went along to the Cosmo politan Club to have a drink with ChRrlotte Muret? whom I have not seen since her re cent return from France and Switzerland? Michael Miklowski (spelling?) a most delight ful and brilliant former Polo and filled with remarks that Paul Hoffman? Sir Stafford and John Foster Dulles made to him. Before I left Ravmond Lange. who has also just returned from France, arrived. He savs he was delighted with the general good humor and spirit of the French people? a situation he had not expected. This does not quite check with the appraisal I got from Noel. Flip, the owner of a large and verv old wool business in northern France? whom Tracev Philipos sent to me on Monday for a friendlv visit. Flipo is most attractive and I enjoved chatting with him for half an hour. He feels tha+ deGaulle must come to power and if necessary be a dictator* His wool bought in the Argentine? etc. for sale here? Canada, else where is not moving quicklv because of higdi price*

(MIS. Tu&U.

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/Kr-Ootober 1T, 1948

1+ moe wonderful to see Martha at the hospital this afternoon looking so

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to stay down stairs until Cleye got home for dinner. It is certainly she had made such good Drogress.

T+ W N lovelv day and in the morning Mollv and I nut Billy in the car

when we went to fetch Jay from Sunday School and went to Jones Beach to ge some^

drift wood for the fireplace. There was a strong

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s .s:r.,,"~: 7" butter to took at than to swim in. a *ontelffilate. Air a,,d sun reddened out feces - f-

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accented me as the ready substitute.

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old on Tuesday, has made a good deal of coor^^things awnv from himself than

diw^them to^ him. He still cannot hold ITeihach in his mouth, hut strangely enough does exert oressure on the hand that does nut it m his m u . .

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ap^^nd[eria ofthe

though I s there for a three hour conference with Brooke,^Peters^ ^^ r

agenda for the conference we are going toH"*8TM.^'tar ^ Then I went to Gerry

will last until Sunday the 14th and kill

shoulder blade. It was very

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a Jewish holiday and my secretary was out again and 1

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ago in northern Honshue

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Ocotber 26th, 1948

. 0,,J New York walked today unless they were lucky enough

to find anLemp?yWcaS,&or were able to

squeeze into the subwav, which probably

was packed than usual. I managed to pick up a cab at 62nd in the morning, but had

to walk home. Taxis had boom bmsiness and the first empty I saw between^the of-ice

and here was at the Plaze. I overheard women frantically accosting men in cars to see is they could hitch a ride, but all the cars reported that they were turning offc

The morning paper said that the City planned to help the woold-be bus drivers but I am not clear what form that proposed help was to take and certainly saw no signs ox^it.

From 46th Street up I relaxed and enjoyed myself and the windows on Fifth Avenue. The

gewgaw braid trim on the dresses and wraps in sc me of the "high fashion" shops was

right out of the 19th Century and something to behold. We are going to have to change^ feminine philosophy and habits if we are to get away with clothes like that this winteri Mark Cross had a fascinating window display--authentic reproductions of gloves of famous people. Oliver Cromwell seems to have worn beatuful white doeskin gauntlets

with two inch metalic g^ilt fringe--very chic-chic but not 5n keeping with the temperment I had always envisaged. The most beautiful were those of Celling and daVinci with deep cuffs, embroidered in gold and with beautifully colored leather appliques.

I liked them better than Marie Therese's and some of the famous French Cardinals. The

Genuan Kaiser's were prettv gaudv*

Climatical.lv the weekend left mudi to be desired with rain from Saturday
noon to a first class sale and driving rain Sufcdav night,^ But socially it was wonder ful for Mollv and I went to see Martha in her own home Friday evening and Sunday afternoon we took Billv to entertain her after his nan. She is fine and savs Dr. Bird is satisfied* I had not realized that the incision was not in need of a dressing
after she left the hospital. She is staying on her bedroom floor until tomorrow, when she is to be allowed to make one trip a dav downstairs. We are all so proud of her progress and she looks srlendidlv. Things got prettv ^hink on Sundav when a business
associate of Cleve's arrived with hiswife and 18 ytSr.old son. and Martha held court to us all. She even saw Jim, Jay and Freddv for a few minutes when they stopped^ after their trip to the under a roof merrv-go-round to pick us up. However, their
arrival meant that we had to go as Mollv and I agreed that Billv was one thing for a convalescent, but Freddv and Jay something quite too muiu (Billv's greatest activity-- and onlv an accomplishment of that dav --is to turn himself from front to back. He and I were alone at the time of the exploit and his expression of astonishment was amusing.)
I must call CIeve to see if Mrs. Sutohen, that jewel without price, leaves this weekend the next. She chhtted with us for a bit on Friday night and seemed very congenial .

The office is by no means unsnarled, the direct pressure on me has relaxed

a bit today. However the rest of the week looks prettv big to me. At least I can think back now and remember with pleasure a tale of Korea. A fourth daughter was born to the Leonard Bertscb's while he was there as political adviser to the US Military
Government. He had made friends with the Koreans and was not surprised when a group of them called on him. After the proper amount of tea drinking he began to throw out leads for them on the assumption that they wanted him to arrange something for their people and consistently drew blanks. Finallv the eldest began a long speech which in
short was something like this* "You have honored us with vour friendship* We hope we
are vour friends because we feel are and as such must give the advise that friends should give a man when he is awav from his parents. We feel that, when a man has two
duaghters and onlv one wife, when he is known to be able to afford another, he is a
patient man. When a man, however still keeps onlv one wife yet can maintain otners after she has given him three daughters, we feel that he perhans displays a trait

stubbornness. Mv friend, we know this is a delicate and a personal matter to a degree

but after deep consideration we feel it is four dutv now that your fourth daughter is born to urge vou to look to your line, and to preserve it bv taking another wife

at once."

Bertsch admitted to rae that he had some difficulty in raaintaing his coun

tenance.

October 29, 1948
Martha has been getting downstairs for dinner since Tuesday and since Thursday has been taking the sun of this lovely Indain summer on the porch. The wonderful Mrs. Sutnhen will remain another ten days which is nice.
Thursday the city was turned UP-side down with the arrival of Mr. Truman. Traffic at best is nrettv bad, but police barriers to hold back the eaeer multitude were in most cases put UP in the street, not on the side walk and narrowed traffic lanes for two days. One of the Board members got hung UP for two hours on account of the traffic snarl around Grand Central at the time of his 4 o'clock train arrival and was too exhausted to get to the 6s30 Board of Directors meeting. Most of the rest were delayed in getting there as he made a stop at the National Democratic Club on the lower half of our block between six and six-thirty. Those of us who were on the spot hung over the balcony over Madison Avenue off our Librarv Lounge and saw evervthing. During the Democratic Club reception 63 of the heralded 101 motor cycle escort, parked between 37th and 38th Streets just under us. Just before departure thev turned on their lights, which made a lovely pattern of red and white, then they warmed motors with a mighty roar and cutting them to idle, used a minor kev beep-been horn. From our 12th floor vantage point thev 1ooked and sounded like a group of large insects. Then they roared UP Madison Avenue sirens screeching and the Presidential touring car came around 37th Street and followed up to the Biltmore. (I must find out why he staved there instead of st the Waldorf-Astoria--the manager and his family had to give UP their suite, so it looks like a late reservation.) "Harpv Harrv" waved his light grev felt hat -- I was impressed with how completely silver the top of his head was. Vera was returning from a cocktail party and had to wait to let him pass into the Club and says.he looked so tired that she decided he needed her vote. There was a great crisis in the Board meeting, which resulted in the almost immediate departure of Clarence Peters from the staff and in my getting home in a state of exhaustion at 11 o'clcok. Result carried further, I either did not set the alarm or else slept through it and did not wake until after 9:30, and again tangled with Truman and spent over an hour and a half getting to the office* It's true that after I finally took to my feet I detoured to Fifth Avenue to go to the bank and deposit the salary check I had carried for two weeks waiting for a chance to get it deposited. (P.S. I collected some mail deposit envelopes so that I should not get in that fix againt)
Wednesday night Miss Ogden dined with me -- she is pushing 85 and is just as interested in things as ever -- though she did say that the world was in such a mess that for the first time in her life she is glad that she never had any children. We went on to the Modern Museum of Art to see a preview of some British documentary films which included a compilation of the married life history of King Geocge and Queen Elizabeth. The fashions at the time of their marriage, looked very funny. For years she wore hideous cloche hats to lay corner stones in. But the human quality and sense of humor displayed by the King in his Duke-days was impressive, e specially as it was almost entirely absent in the more recent shots. Another film we liked showed the education by the British Array of the children of Cologne during the occuaption. We were struck again with the spires of the Cologne Cathedral rising from an area of almost complete destruction. My recollection is that the railroad station and the Cathedral are on the same square.
I felt very arty this morning in a prewar rose satin night-gown eating pink grapefruits But I was reading "Profile of Europe" by Sam Welles, which I warmly recommend--and not only because he is speaking for me at the Waldorf next Saturday. His style is lively and clear and I like it because he thinks with skill and patience on our part there will not be war for ten or fifteen years and by that time it should not be in peoples minds.

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November 7, 1948

mh+ e wfiekl Between the weather's unseasonable warmth with a record

hi* of 71^effreee^vesterday* the elections unset and the first Waldorf luncheon of

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* T m in little pfeeoes now. Tuesday night I went to Vera Dean s for ^

dinner wi"h her mid the" Grant Huntley/s, ardent Republicans, Having gone to bda^

!"tate of oohL^e the night before at eight o'clock end hating worked the heart of

adasvt.iain.eth< 1e ocofVfLice, I left . at a mmooddeesstt nhoaumr,, tTOhOouggh it seemed paroertntiyngcleXarwhtkoenmeed vtehravt

Truman had better than a fighting chance. ****^

distinctlv

completely and gave the radio a .hxrl and found the si"' Mlrtia article

for our foreign policy*

Blair Holies our Wash:Lngtondiree^ wrote two etories vnic. e

had th^em bv ten and

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bl t hnot the Bulletin's lead artici

-5* the Office cleaning women gave me the

\VHen she told me that all her friends rare saying a v*%f".^"%nnow

swrs-vrs sss ga-^aar Hoover--and that meant thev woula ail be out ojo s^

eas

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Wednesday

the result of this election has two lessons for us as bankers. Do not he over co^.

o + J.V- bushes--there are both votes and business there.

I am a 1.

,

^ence with the "We *1ost because eo ny Republicans did not go to the nolle" excuse. That

f ooir^rt to mv mind. I give a good deal of emphasis to the campaign speeches.

Trumpn talked about concrete problems of the People he was sneaking to, wnereas Dew y

largely sorke in glowing and glittering generalities ano the oeople .>



Congre:sional changes for the most part seem excellent to me. ^ "fsfem goo^! and Ball are out. The foreign, even Russian, comments on the outcome

Vera had a verv nice cocktail larty on Friday afteraoon for the Clayton Lane's

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American Indians as very long winded orators and after I romriea

the Fiddle East in

like East. Indians in that respect. He has lived

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US Foreign ^rvice^nd^dmts^iejlad^to^a^

a good d6al of energy

but an" extraordinarily varied backgrou^--aPprentice c*; sailor before the mast, tramp and diplomat. ( 1 sense
if not gold spoon in his mouth.)

Thursday. I had a few words with Phillip, who has succeeded Oscar as head o

fenquet Department before hand. He spent five_weeks in France and Italy buying the

xsx&z&r rr^3SS Waldorf's supply of wines and had a wonderful time, Ke uses x

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as the main speakers. We had such a good speakers table that Brooks only used part

the subsidiary talent I provided-Louis 1 ischer, Alexander Boeker^omadea fin, _rp,,ion yesterday and also on the Teaxas swing he has just completed, lor mej, ivo jjc a

c e k Ta b r i l l i a n t"bzechoslovakian w h o r a t h e r disappointed m e a n d C h r i s t W ^ n asked to speak and did it badly. Weliem and Friednch supplemented each other ver v.eil

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Tr teohniiogiCftl skill in the air lift to Berlin . It was a good meeting ... small m

attendance.

November 21? T948
The warm weather holds and vesterday tfien I went to nick UP my Christmas cards and do a few other local errands it was necessary to continually moo my brow ^ though I wore my unlined grey cordurov suit without a ton cvat. Last weekend I was ft+. Freenort while Molly and Jim went to the Columbia-Navy game and had a lovelv time* She left Billv with Lib Khohloff, so I onlv had Fred and Jav, but the iormer was m
bed with a cold and some temperature.
Wednesday Maria de Kammerer had a reception at the Countess Zichv Academy of Art to show the work of some of her nunils as well as her own. I was fascinated with the three paintings that Barbara Brady had done under Maria1s tutelage--t ey showed an extradinarv progress. Barbara herself is a darling and quite as ore v as the portarati of her while Maria has just finished. 1 m afraid I snail not see it again as it is ready to move to the Brady's house. It is a ski picture with strong light coming from above her right shotMer, a new technique for Maria end one of the best things she has done. It was a nice rartv and I was g3ed to see ,,he school--in a remodelled house which Countess Zichv as recently bought and renovated for her purposes. It used to belong to the Ihelans (drugstore) family and has the most beautiful simple marble fire places throughout* Zichv herself intereste^me considerable and I am glad that Mrs. Elihu Root was successful seven years ago m persuading her not to commit suicide.
Fridsv afternoon in torrential rain, and naturally with no taxis available Carolvn Martin and I went to the Algonauin for a drink with Barbara Judkins. formerly, of Hartford and now of Montreal . and three Canadian friends of hers who were here^ for the weekend. Poor dears, they had gone out to Lake Success and seemed disappoint ed to find that all the sessions are being held in Paris! From there I sloshed over to the Town Hall Club and the dinner for John Badeau, President of Amen can Univer sity in Cairo, given bv the friends of the University The voungest son Peter, aged eight was there and sane "Three Blind Mice" in Arabic*....he was born in Cairo. I was ?ood to talk with Mrs. Badeau and loam that the Easter outfit her husband took^ back to Cairo on his last trip, which he made alone, was a great success. Badeau s-arproch to the situation in the Middle East is that it is based on nationalism winch has been growing since 1875 and accelerated by two world wars, and that the US position has been weakened through n-tive disillusionment as to our motives. They had thought us disinterested and now realize that our police is largelv influenced by political motives. The situation has been further confused bv the Russians first upholding the Arabs on the Palestine partition question and then supporting it. badeau attnbu es their switch to a desire to create chaos. The Arab world is also disillusion about the United Nations--which thev see run bv the big powers and without the small countries having much sav. He pointed out the significance of the fact that none of the far eastern countries voted for partition of Palestine, thoueh many of them onlv went so far as to abstain from voting. The IJniversitv itself prospers and is beginning a building program on a new site half way from the citv to the Pyramids. ecause the citv is growing so that the old site is practical lv the Times oquare o Cairo. Natural lv that land is verv valuable and its sale will help a great deal with the new buildings. It is interesting that the student papulation is 30% Moslem, 30% Jewish, the remainder being Coots, Ugandese, etc. including the son of the now allbut forgotten "King of Kings" Haile Selassie, I had goo talks with an interesting Armenian couple just back from Cairo bv name of Shalian, and Hugh Jones, vice chairman of our Utica Branch who taught at University of Cairo for three years. Needless to sav he left with with soie chores to do for the FPA, Stanley Kelley brought me home and staved for hours filling me in on his experiences with FPA personalities in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and Detroit. Needlessto say I did not stir early
Saturday morning!

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November 28* 1948

Thanksgiving was a lovely day and not because Martha's house needed decoration but just for the fun of it I picked Sweet Allysium and fixed it in a low silver bowl- Tom Means with his wife and small son were there beside Molly and Jim and thefcr three sons- Martha had the old wooden cradle down for Billy to sleep inr-immy Means -being a little too old to be disposed oi in that manner. The dinner was delicious and the turkey tender and succulent. CIewe is in the magic stag? but was very sweet about letting Jay perform one of the new ones for our mvstfefication, after he had demonstrated his favorite new one himself- Jay actually had double billing as he read a letter of greetings from Aunt Annieo
After the dopesters gave Army 21 points on yesterday's Arrav and Navy game? I nearly expired when Navy scored in the first quarter and kept Army at 0 for 21 minutes of play- Of course, I should have liked Navy to win but was thrilled with the 21-21 tie- However the tension was so great throughout the game that I was not good for more than clearing out a glorv hole. The job not only needed doing badly but netted me the bachelor journal of mv Mothers grand father, Mortimer deMotte, which 1 had forgotten I had- 1 reao half o it in the evening and found it delightful. Ke began in 1836 in New York v^ien he wad 23 and seems to have been a highly analytical and introspective voung man. He ^ fraouentlv accuses himself of laziness and lack of perservers.nce and admits nis fondness of day dreaming. On occasion he philosophises at great length, reviews his earlier life and education and claims that be would have dissipated far more than he did in college were it not for his room-mate, Gilbert Smith (son of^the former Governor of Connecticut). Gilbert seems to have been too good for this world and to have died before the Journal began. His comments on his travels "out west" when he went as far as Buffalo bv river boat, canal end stage conch are delightful, and show considerable judgement as most places he marked for develop ment are large cities and spots he thought of little conseouence have so remained. He sneaks of the great fire of 1835 in New York several months afterward and declares it was a great thing for the expansion of the citv because it showed merchants that it was not necesearv to concentrate their businesses in a small compass. He implies that most felt the disaster would take ten years to overcome while in realitv real estate values alone offset the loss in a matter of months. His interest in all manner of things shows when he takes a cruise to the Jest Indies to recover from an illness. The ship stops for cargo at Wilmington, North Carolina and he promptly writes about cotton growing there and contrasts it with Alabama. Yet he w a lawver. so he could not have known much of cotton beiore leaving New York. Some of the passages are verv high flown and show the influence of Bvron of whom he is verv fond (though he considers Shellev insidious). When he witnesses something on his travels he is too lazy to write about he turns it off with "it would take the pen of a Hogarth to do it justice". It is is just the escape sort of thing I needed as the office has been so heaw that I am turn ing UP wide awake from one to four in the morning from plain nerves- Last^ night I slept like a log and woke UP this morning with a better perspective on things. So"good in fact that I expect to take back to the office untouched the six or eight hours worth of work I brought home with me!
Todav I got winter blankets on mv bed, rewebbed the seat of an occasionalchair and made up mv Christmas card list and even addressed a few overseas ones. The ^ime to buy gifts will be something else however. On Tuesday we have a Women's Discussion Group at lunch, and one for Men at five. Saturday is another luncheon at the ,aldor. All of which cut into possible shopping time. Almost all birthday presents have been late this year, m-ybe people would enjov mv small Christmas
souvenirs more come Valentine's Dav. It is a thought.

Three weeks ago today I was in town and cosey with an open fire (as the steam was again off or inadequate --we had a grim December as far as service was concerned but they finally installed a new boiler and then gave me a new radiator for the
living room* That was by far my best Christmas present and now I am warm to the , point of being hot, unless George fails to keep up the steam) the smell of almonds roasting for Christmas dinner, and great busyness of the last wrappings and address- . ings while the snow fell solidly and prettily outside. It was exciting when I took some fcards out to mail about six and walked over to look at the Park* The final total
was 19*6 inches--but it turned warmer and we had a great deal melted before Christmas-.

Conditions had so improved that Aunt Annie1 s train was on time on the 23rd and we had ample time for dinner, getting her luggage home and back to "Life with Mother", We
saw "Father" soon after it opened,and I must confess that "Mother" to me was a rather faint carbon copy. I am afraid that I enjoyed the two additional performances of "Father" that I saw during its very long run, more than "Mother" Perhaps it is a subtle
reflection of the times that "Mother" should be less boisterous and vigorous than
"Father". Some time ago I heard that Russel Lindsav said that the only difference betv/een the two plays was that in "Father" Dorothy Sticknew had to take the opening lines while the audience straggled in, while in "Mother" he took them.

Friday I did not have to work and Aunt Annie and I selpt late, did a few errands-

and view the Sloan "collection" of horse brasses, in which we were greatly disappointed

as there were only about twenty but vastly impressed with the prices* (At their rates

I have about $300 worth hanging and another $75 or so tucked awavl) It was a glorious

cold very clear day* The L1RR has gotten so "big-time-RR" that we went to Freeport

on the "Advance" 3s03l The little boys were almost beside teaselves with excitement

and hung their stockings with care and went to bed in high anticipation* Freddy had

modestly confined his requests to Santa Claus to a "medium sized fire engine and a

flash light". In the course of the evening CIeve brought his family in* though after'

Aunt Annie read "Twss the night before Christmas" so ablv that she had to do an encore*

Just before midnight Jack stuck his head in the door and then brought Lib, Mary, Mrs*- *

Fuller and Jimmy Doolittle. The later is Gneral Counsel for B.& 0. and as such has a

RR pass--but elected to drive from Baltimore* Going was slow and that's what made them

so late. Joy, noise and confusion reigned Christmas Day and everyone had a lovely time-.

Frieda and Clove's family joined us for dinner--which*we ate buffet and in off moments

referred to it as "barbecue" despite roast turkey and all the accoutrezueirts of a proper

dinner. Sunday was bright and clear and streets sufficiently icy for the children to'

trv to skate in between taking pictures with the new camera, Jay got. Supper at Mar-'

tha's and then we all went to church to see all four children in the Christmas pagaent.

They all did well and Fran and Fred both snoke their lines webl* None of the others

mastered theirs$$so it was largelv presented as a series of tableaux with commentary.-,

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It was hard to get back to the office and have both Hartford and the 30th Anniver- '

sary dinner of Jan. 25 go haywire. The speakers I have run through since before Election!

We have J. F. Dulles, but lost Marshall, Mrs. Roosevelt, Byrnes, Vandenberg, Truman,

Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson--many of them since Christmas, and I planned for people

to get the announcements on January

Anv wav I tidied up my desk yesterday morn

ing when no one was in the office except Brooks and his secretary in between chewing

ray fingernails. We are now waiting for Acheson to change his mind. He said no before

Truman announced the appointment, and then we went back on him. l

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In between times Aunt Annie and I heard "Louise'" and "TrovatPre", entertained Miss Homers at dinner and dined with her. I went to a cocktail party at Vera's and dated mv four nephews on New Year's Eve so evervone else went partying. (Aunt Annie spent ~
that weekend in Orange.) Since the" I dined with Maria and showed her a letter from
her brother in Budapest telling of a night visit by the police looking for "bombs" and that in the last moment he destroyed a letter on his desk he had just written me.

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January 23, 1949

Truman's In augural was very interesting and I'm glad he had such a good -time. Some of his comments about the Russians seemed unnecessary and not all strictly accurate and must have been rather awkward for the Russian Ambassador to sit through. The second section about foreign policy was extraordinarily interesting and will take a good deal of spelling out. I certainly hope that Acheson will undertake to do some of the explaining when he speaks for the FPA. The dinner planned for the 25th finally was postponed until the new secretary of state could get into the job and really make a major policy speech for us# He is to set the date before long. I am keeping what is left of my fingers crossed.

Thursday afternoon I was fascinated at a State Department Conference when Winthrop Brown, Director of the Office for International Trade Policy, told how Cuba held up US textiles being imported under the General Agreements 0f Trade & Tariff accepted by 23 countries. They did not prohibit entry, which was within the terms of the Agreement, just wrapped the stuff in so much red tape that it piled up on the wharfs while the US shippers and the would-be Cuban consumers howl ed. The US protested and nothing happened. This went on for three months and then we referred the matter to the representatives of the 23 GATT who were conferring in Geneva. The other 21 countries chided Cuba and in three days the red tape dis appeared. The interesting thing is that the Cuban press then praised the US for avoiding individual pressure and we got a lot of good will out of referring the matter for cooperative judgement. It makes one hope that the world may be learning to live in a single community after all.

Yesterday I stayed until 6s30 talking with Eric Warburg and vonGavernitz, whowas Allen Dulles's assistant in OSS during the war in working out the Italian-armis tice and workigng with the German anti-Nazi underground. vonGavernitz, who has been in the US 25 years and is a naturalized citizen, implied that had they supported the liberal German underground V-E day would have been a vear soon and the Russians never would have gotten to Germany at all and everything would be different. They wanted me to import the widow of Count Moltke as a speaker. I shall have to read both von Gavernitz's book "They Tried to Kill Hitler" and the Dulles "German Under ground". Although the Countess is now in South Africa, they would arrange for her to go to Germany for a few months before coming here. I'm not so sure I think it a god idea, bfc shall in turn talk with Allen Dulles.

Monday night Gerry Wilmot dined with me and went to "Mignon

We both wonder

ed why they so seldom give this pleasant Thomas opera. Rise Stevens was a lovely

Mignon, if one must have colaturas Cotlow was a good Philine and had lovely costumes-

in the second act her gown was a strage but effective purply dark blue. Iftve never- ,

been keen abi James Melton at the Met ad so dfid not tart for JIY #.$n, *'"* .. r*re

both keen about Jerome Kineg as Lothario... certafcilv the term " a gay Lothario" does

not stem from this character. I must find out its origin. Today was "Mom's Day Off

fpr Molly and she had herself a. binge in New York. Her departure must have been riot

ous with both Jay ariFred making suggestions abctbt her clothes add ouite unable to

understand why she did not wear h#J heeldd shoes add her fur coat for a day in the

shoos. We had a drink together in the Town Hall bar while waiting for the dinirng

room to open, She wanted to get home in time to kiss the boys goodnight, so we ate.

at six. Let

week end I was wih Cfcve add Martha and was interested after church

to see one voung woman in a stra\?.r hat--when I hve not yet gotten mv green winter one*

A letter.from Stot, whose ship is still at. Tsingtao, tells df his studying Chinese again and reporting that reads and writes it like a native and parentheticly presumes it to fee auit.e n ignorant native. He is now convinced that the Chinese Communists are the same breed of cats as the Rassian and that we can no more do business with them than one could with Hitler. He believes tfet the Generalissimo knows tfci and Vnnww that we know it. It is worth noting that he wrote on Jan.2 and on Jan 20 I learned that William Bullitt expects to leave the country in 3 weeks.

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February 1, 1949

The North Carolina weekend is now historv --cart of which was made by the weather. The five o'clock Board of FPA Directors meetingwent more smoothly than any for several months--they even passed the new budget which contained a raise for me. Brooks, Brackett
Lewis and I took the chairman of the Board (a L.I. commuter) to the station and eventually gathered with Winifred, the four and a half year old Josephine with the Scotch nurse,
Christine* I found the Seaboard Airline "Palmland" train distinctly inferior to service on the Atlantic Coastline RR with which it competes and not surprised that it dumped us at
Sanford, N.C. over an hour late in torrents of rain. Two cars and a trailer for the luggage
took us to Overhills about 15 miles further South in the long needled pine, tobacco area.

Overhills, a 75,000 acre tract, was first a southern hunt club, then it was taken over by northerners of whom Percy Rockefeller (Winifred's father and nephew of John D.) was an enthusiastic member. He and Averill Harriman tired of staying in the Clubhouse and built their own houses. Mrs. Rockefeller found her husbands house dgsrk and not to her liking and in the late 20*s discovered that Charleston, S.C. was damping old bricks brought from Europe as ballast in colonial days into the river. She bought a lot of them an built Croatan Lodge next to her husband's house. It is a gem with a truly enormous living room, smallish dining room, five master bedrooms each with bath, a nursery and now a dormotory
on the thrid floor which sleeps five. As we arrived Lilly, the plump colored waitress , stood on the tiled entrance porch holding open the door in a most hospitable gesture. Winifred led me at once through the hall, the living room, and dining room and down two steps(with doors at top and bottom for soundproofing) to a charming big bedroom with tes ter maple bed--which I later decided General Sherman had passed up in his three trips through the country because its looks belied its comfortl There was a fire blazing in the firepaJLce, windows on the north and south and on the east a door to a large sleeping porch
with twin beds, a huge bath had the enormous closet with heaps of shelves and hanging space.
Certainly every promise of comfort and peajce. As soon as we washed we assembled for breakfai

It seems that when the depression struck all the members except Mr. Harriman gave up their memberships. Mr. Rockefeller quietly paid the taxes for five years and upon his death his five children discovered about 1935 that they owned the Overhills property. They* settled with Harriman, razed the old clubhouse, transferred the overseer-steward, a rare character by name of Bruce to the Harriman house, leased timber rights reserving the privelege of riding and hunting over those tracts, and rented thirty arable tracts to tobacco tenant farmers. This seems to bring in enough to carry the place including nine or ten saddle horses, the former 18 hole golf course as a 9 holer and three house servants on a yearly retainer and the understanding that they keep the house available for such members of family as care to go there between November 1st and May 1st. Mrs. Bruce does the marketing and presumably each family only pays for its own consumption while there. Some lend was sold to the Army for the expansion of Fort Bragg, which adjoins on the south. Lfe is very infpmal with the most casual of clothes. Food is put on a side table and we hopped ^up to serve ourselves. Josephine arid her nurse at at a table in the huge bay window half an
hour before we ddd.

Although it was showery Winifred, the three men and 1 walked^ over part ox the golf course Friday morning to get an appetite for lunch and then we all retired for naps. The work session began in earnest right after dinner and lasted until midnight vSaturday night

we kept at it until after 12i30).&fofcday was a lovely morning, so after a short session

Brooks proposed golf and since it was evident thpt he wanted to nlay I said I woula go

around in a mid-iron, mashie and putter game, sc Levis vho offered to caddy me, he could not play at all, did not have an arduous time. Power who had &en on the train

in Washington actually was worse than I and Brooks #10 only plays at Ove.hills ec^ ^ is so bad was our star. Tou can see that it was not a matter of form but exercise. The

fairways are heavy Bermuda grass now a brown nat._ The Sheensdeer had been.

manicured brown earth, which make rutting very tricky. At theif -



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Before we started back I knew that I had blisters or both'my heels and when I got back
I discovered that I had worn down almost to the bone--or so it seems. I did not have proper protection and by the time I got to the office in New York, the poor heels were well passed bandaid treatment. Good dressings last night helped a lot and I begin to
hone that I may eventually grow new heels.

When we got back to the house we had Madeira on the south terrace without hats or coats and started to work there after lunch, but clouds soon came over the sun and drove us in. That was fine, though, as it permitted the juncoes, cardinals, pine sparrows and so on easy access to the feeding travs at the edge of the flaestoning and we could see them through the living room windows. At four we called a halt --Brooks went fishing on the lake for a big bass with which he has been flirtidg for a couple of years and got a grass pike. Lewis, Power and I went with Isabel $$$$$ and her two Barnard classmates to look at Fort Bragg--a tremendous establishment made appreciably more sightly than most big army c^mos bv a rolling terrain. Isable Lincoln is Y/inifred*s niece, .lust turned 21. She had been given a Kaiser for her birthday and permitted to take this first independent
motor trip. Evidently her mother thought it best for them to have an objective with a chaperone, and I think they were supposed to stay with people the night they were enr-oute-ach wav It was plain that the Emenvs felt put upon to have the time they had carefullyreserved for themselves encroached upon and I fear the girls found us very dull. They rode
the horses and exceo* for being sent for to .loin us for a cocktail before dinner kept very much to their third floor dormitory except for meals. Thev were all'sweet and I liked them.
Actually we saw little more of Winifred than of the girls. Poor dear, she is very shy, and
3rnlc- told me she was very tired.

Sunday morning was the big shock when I woke to find a dusting of snow on all
the bushes. It seemed chill and dull outside, so I suggested that we get to v;ork again . right after breakfast and bv eleven it had started to snow again in earnest and kept right at it until just before we left and it turned to rain. So we worked after lunch too, until after four when the men took a short walk to the stables and I begged off. We packed and were driven bv Ahe wonderful black Douglas, v/ho had chauffered the ladies from the station, badk to the 7:41 train north. Douglas was over seas and learned to speak ouite a bit of* French and some German and is doing his best to keep up in them. One of his best friends -r is "dean of French" at St. Augustine College in Raleigh and he gets a lot of practise with, him! Many of the negroes thereabout intermarried with the Croatan Indians and the resulting
strain is very good. When it was balmy on Saturday we enjoyed the camellias, the jonquils, forsvthis (different than ours in that it has a trumpet) and flowering quince and almond in
the planting near the houire. Jfnen the snow fell thev looked xorlorn and the recx berrieo. nandeema seemed more appropriate. At no time did the clusters of little yellow flowers on the holly attract me. By mid afternoon the long needled pine had collected quite a bit oi snow in the branch end clusters, so as you looked across the golf course the trees seemed^
decorated with great tufts of cotton surrounded bv s green frill. I longed to bring some of the big pine cones back with me --and also some of the highlv scented "lightin* " wood. It was an experience"- we travelled thirtv hours and "conferred" xor about eighteen. Last
night I just died when I got to bed and slept the clock aroundl

Last Monday I had a note from Ruth Wheeler-Bennett saying she would arrive thai dav on the Oueen Mary and be at the Bristol. I called the hotel several times and getting the report that Mrs. Bennett does not answer left tender messages. Finallv about six on -
Tuesdav Ruth called me and I agreed to meet her et seven for dinner and "Good-bye, mvfancv"--after I kept <* quick date to meet Mac Hoslev, Peg Tobin1s new husband, whom I liked
though found him quite unlike what I had expected and very different than Harold Eobin. I
must see more of them. After I met Ruth -he confessed that she was at the Seymour and we both wondered who the other woman was and how puzzled she was by mv messages. Ruth lelt tor Charlottesville the next afternoon urging me to plan to spend mv holiday with her at Gar-

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Vera leaves for Paris to deliver a series of lectures at the University of Paris, and^ will then go on to Prague, Germany, Warsaw and London, The same day Rosl Zumwalt arrives from San Francisco on her way to Vienna for a month. Meanwhile Eleanor Brewster will be here from Hartford. What a lovely lot of visiting firemen I have coming up--but they certainly are going to interfer with letterst I have a sneaking suspicion that Walter Schwinn, 1st secretary of the US Embassy in Warsaw, will turn up this week too.
Because of a proposal that the Countess Freya von Moltke come here on a lecture tour to talk about the "good" Germans, I have recently read Alien Dulles* "German Under ground" and Gero von Gaevernitz "Thev Almost Killed Hitler" , It was a most depressing experience, since I seem to have come up with the conclusion that the anti-nazis were few and far between and almost all of them were killed and therefor heave nothing to leaven the loaf of the German population to bui!}.d a democracy on. Further that they were not very effective, many of theji were courageous but more were motivated by selfishness * So far I am disappointed in Robert Magidoff*s "In Anger and in Pity", which will be re leased soon. It*s very personal and not very well done--at least not in the first five chanters.
For the first time in my life I have been "sampled" by the Hooperatingt It happened that I was listening to Elmer Davis and his "comprehensive coverage" of the news. The gal on the phone seemed disappointed that I could not report owning a television in use. It did not seem quite cricket to say that Molly and Jim love their new one and seem to enjov it themselves as much as the children do.
Yesterday we had a Waldorf luncheon--this time on China with Stanley K Hornbeck, former chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs in the Department of State, who recommends that we continue to help the Nationalist governmeht with both moral and material aid, including military advisers. Nathaniel Peffer, who has long held that the age^ of imperialism is dead, advocates that we pull out and come home on the grounds that the Communists have China and any attempt to give the country back to the Nationalists would not better the lot of the anti-Nationalists who are non-Communist. I am afraid I was left with the Reeling That will be a trouble spot for a long time. In the evening I dined at the Cosmopolitan Club with Miss Ogden, where we ran into Vera Dean with her sister and brother-in-law, Eric Larsen. He is an engineer and is promoting an attach ment for record players that will cope with Columbia's 33 and 1./3 r.pra. records, RCA*s 45 r.p.m.s and the standard 78* s. My conclusion is that Columbia is the leader and RCA was caught asleep on this developement and is now indulging in some pretty sharp practise to obtain a position in the field.
We have gone back to record warmth and humidity -- which ought to be good for the shops now blossoming with spring clothes--the hats as always at this season much beflowered but many of those in windows, which is all I know about, are rather larger than- r early spring hats usually are. Later I went to go to see the articles from the New fork car of the French Gratitude train--which I understand are very interesting and bring tears to strong men. My favorite story is the little east side school bov who was released from school to be part of the demonstration greeting the train's arrival. He said "When the French were hungrv I collected food. It was not hard. People were glad to share. Now I get half a day off from school. A good deal. I call it."

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The pftermath of the fatigue from the North Carolina journer was a cold that-
never really blossomed but which made me listless and anti-soial. so last weekend I de cided to stav in bed as much as I felt like it and generally do nothiner. It was a great success and I had a lovely time and even filled two scran baskets when I redded UP a couple of glorv holes. I was a little embarrassed however when Aunt Annie telephoned that she was in New York for the v/eekend to sav in effect that I should be glad to see her, but that she would have to come to me. It pa,fiN off though#, for die not only came *>nd we had a nice liesurelv "catch-up" talk but I have felt a different person this week, despite a good many office pressures.The past few days we have had crisp,bright,cold weather--which has relieved congestion in my sinus. Another optimistic factor was that I cleared UP my series of visits to the dentist The good Dr. Lewis who first looked at my babv teeth has retired from PEactise this winter and I have used his "young man" alas

The day that the Russians announced that Anna Louise Strong, after so many years

of sympathetic interpretation not to sav out and out propaganda for them, was a spy and

must leave the USSR, I had a chance to talk with Robert Hagidoff, who was charged too with being a US spy and invited to leave last Anril. Magidoff, who represented McGraw Hill, the

publishers of Business week and a chain of trade journals and reporter for National Braod-

casting Go from Moscow, commented that when he lefit he knew that he was not the first to

be sent awav now would he be the last. He married a Russian woman, Miss Strong is the

widow of a minor Soviet official. While I never liked the woman, I don't think their

charges based in fact and feel desperately sorry for her as I think at aver sixty, she

will not get over the blow. She certainly will never be happy here. Perhaps she will

spin out her years in China as she has great admiration for Mao--the Chinese Communist

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This has been Hungarian Week. Several weeks ago I sent an excerpt on life in Budapest and how they found so much satisfaction in listening to Voice of America from a letter I had received to the V. of A. Needless to say they were pleased with this fan mail and Szabo (former second secretary of the Hungarian Legation in London whom I had given a push to in the direction of the V. of A. wHere he got a job)called to thank me in person. We had a nine talk and then were joined iay one of his former collegues, a
charming young man by name of Harrach, formerly in the Hungarian service in Paris Yes, the idea waswhat job ideas for him'. The next day it was a man who was here a year ago on a special Hungarian mission to find out I\ about US dairv methods and now as back as an immigrant. Nationalisation, which amounts to confiscation and often makes stockhol ders candidates for prison, was the cause $ of his leaving with his wife and a small handbag with only their nightclothes, theirp passpotts and transportaion to NewYork, $10 each in cash and enough in Hungarian florirts to cover meals and tips to Paris. He had
been shadowed for weeks, barely escaped arrest and left behind his aged parents and two sisters without visible means of support. He planned to leave his watch and other per sonal valuables for them to sell for food and was stopped at the RR station from taking clothes and a few possessions which he had laboriously gotten the economic police to approve by a trick which would have prevented his departure. Although Hungary is author ized to have an Army of 50,000, there is a political poliee numbering 70,000 and already 70,000 political prisoners are in jail. Industry, which this man knows, is being so bad ly mismanaged that he feels many factory workers will be out of work soon for lack of raw^
materials. It looks like a repetition of the Yugosalv pattern--a USSR attempt to make a wholly agrarian economy. One cannot help wonder if those fiery Hungarians will take it.

Ten days ago Vera had several of us in to hear about Greece from Ernest Hediger,

a Swiss economist and former FPA staff meraeber who is recently back from the UN mission-to

learn if the Greek guerrillas are getting help from outside. They are, but the mission

could not prove it. His picture of the country is depressing in the extreme--a devasted-.

nation with few resources, torn by civil war and seemingly without spirit to do more than

accept what is sent them. He made one doubt if they were worth helping--fishermen who get

their catch by dynamiting with no thought of tomorrow and so on.

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Maisie and Jim Cash, here from the U. of Virginia and hunting for a man for the

Pathology Dept. lunched with me Monday. We all shared heart shaped cookies and I promised

to visit the} soon.. Douglas and Amy Dewar arrive from Vancouver next Saturday. Sunday

Vsra .u eaves - -'fins and Rosl arrives fro'h'i 5"*%. ?*.

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fere leaves for Fori* to deliver * mrim of lectures at tea Ibrilvarsity of fario* and *1X1 then go o to Frogee* iaim^jr# iimt and London. The mm my lieol Zwmmlt &rriwee rm San Fnmciaa on fear way to Henna for a aonth. Meanwhile Lleaner Brewster will bo bora fron Hertford. Ikei a lovoiy lot of vioiting firman I h#99 ooaing up--bat teey certainly are going to interior with letters. I have & sneaking suspicion teat flu. tor fttewisa* 1st secretary of tea us ;,tibaiaay in Hhrsaw* will turn up tela wete too.

Because of a proposal teat tee Countess Frays von ~eltle eom hare on a teclure tour to tali about tho "good** Germane* t have recently rood Allan Mies* "Gerssan tfnder*

grtvM* and Gero von S&ovwnitt "They Almost KUlifl- 11tier" It wo a aeot depressing

tarorAaneo* since I seem to lata cosae up with tho sonelunion that tea a?tti~aaia wore few and far' between and almost all of the# wore killed and therefer leave soiling to leaven the loaf of tea QmMja population to build a der.eorsey on. Further teat they wom not aery effective* p*ay of thefl were courageous but. sore wore motivated by oolfichaooo

So far I am diaa;-* teted in teeri Fagidoffo *Xn AUgor and in Fitf* teite will bo re leased aeon. It*a vary personal &ud not very wall done--at least not in the first fire

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For tho fire I time in y lifo I bare boon *sapledH by tho Koeperatingl It happened that 1 was Uotoning to loor .Mvis .mud hi* "ewprebenive eevevage" of the aooa.

the gal on tee phone eesnsd disappointed teat X could not report al,ng a television

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luaoteon-^thia time on China with Itanloy t* Hons*

book, fw chief df the .jivtetea of -ar s'ootorti Affaire in the hipartcoJit of State* who

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old# iatXadlflg military adviehre* l^teaniol ie^r, tea ban long held teat tho age of

imperialism ia dead* teveoatee that we pull out uSi eetso hOMO en the grounds that tho

OiMBataloto have 5biau and *m> attaint to give wio country bask to tho National i*to would

not better the lot of tea ante- Latieiialisfco ado are aen-Csswunisi* a an- afraid I ms

loft with tee iaeling XLat iii be & trouble spot for a long tine. In tea evening I

dined at tea Cegoapelit&n Hul with dies dguea* teore wo ran into Fare Ceaa with Lor

oiotor and bro teorittlaw# ^rie Larson. ho ia an engineer nnd l praaatiag an attach"

wont for rooord players teut sill aopo site Sdluwhia'a 33 and 1/3 r.fo. rooordn# >!CA*i

45 r.p.tt.o and tee otundard ?S*o. Ljr ttoaaluoion is t ait dbXuabie is tee tender and <1CA

woo oaught asleep on tid. dvelopent and is now indulging in e pretty- sharp practise

to obtain a position in tee field*

be have gone *i is record mur&te end hiwddity white ou^t to bo good for

tlio o^iopa new lloooo&iag ..it*;' spring elctno*the bati at always at this ownson ffiuoh bo-

flowerod but many of tlioeo in windows* white is all I know shout* are rather lergur than

early spring hats usually are* Later 1 aKt to go to owe tee arti.ele# mm ibs Mew fork

ear of the French Iratitide iWkAm llUte 1 uadorotaad ore very intorootiag and bring tear*

to tslmm,

Ly favorite atcry is the Utile test nite ooliool bey tee wte roloaood

fmi eteool to bs part of ten doKonotrsiien grortliJg the tr^in* e arrival* Ho said *$*

the %ate were hungry I adLlocfcte. food. It was not hard. People wore glad to share.

Sew I fret half a day off fro** steoal. A good deal* 2 call it.^'

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Yesterday Amy and Douglas Dewar arrived and are both in fine health and spirits. I was lucky enough to get them for luncheon at Longchamps and then for a very hastily pulled together dinner here. I particularly wanted them to fit in a stop here so they might see what I had to offer, since I proposed their camping out here for a few
days over next weekend to husband their rigidly restricted US dollar o Because of foreign exchange regulations it is perfectly apparent that the longer the supply can be stretched, the longer they can stay and I am all for two weeks instead of one. The hordes of people they want to see and who want to see them ase already preempting a lot of time. I did not have the bright idea of their coming here between a cocktail
engagement in the neighborhoold and seeing "Edward,My Son", until six o'clock. For tunately I had the telephone number of the cocktail people, and they arrived about
half an hour afterwards. There were sad omissions in the larder--no gingerale for Amy's cocktail, and I plain forgot to make the coffee! Nevertheless they politely liked the potato soup(made from my supply of dehvdrated), the roast chicken (From a Diplomat can purchased two months ago for an emergency and this certainly was it), the carrots, the whole wheat bread and butter. Amy settled for some stale lady lingers t while Douglas and I ate grapefruit. Their tales of British Columbia's winter are hair riasing. Last Tuesday when they left Vancouver, there were not trains in or out.
Hestyv snows in the mountains, followed by rain brought floods. They had to take a ous to Everett, Washington. The Twentieth Century Limited was late leaving Chicago and it rocketted along with such bouncing as to make sleeping difficult. When they left the house at Penticton early in January there were 24 inches of ice on the Lake and had they not been able to get a tractor to keep the road open, they would have been snowed
in. While the attitude in their valley is a little more than 1,000 feet, snow and ice or rather sleet is not unknown, but this year's performance is unprecedented. The
snow in Vancouver has created havoc--few people even own chains ~or their cars. At least we had a lovely crisp cold day to greet them here and even have sunshine today. Lately we have had a good day and then one of rain. Washington's oirthday was solid rain all day. That evening I weant to Maria's for dinner. Hank was there seems to
be bearing up during his mother's absence in Paris with Larry very well* He gave me^ a recent letter of hers to read. She seems to be enjoying being chateleine of Larry s rented chateau at Torcy very much. (Chateau, I gather because it fras a park of 25 acres). The studio is filled with the works of Maria's pupils, some oi them not oad.

During the week I had a long and very interesting talk with George Fielding Eliot, who is going to speak at our March 19th luncheon at the Waldorf, he is a for the North Atlantic Pact as a re-establishment of the balance of power until tne the final peace treaties can be written and the world can further educate itsel o cooperation. He admits that in dollars and cents it is costly for us, but less so than the alternatives and feels that it presents to the USSR a statement which they ,, can understand and will heed. I raised the Question of snorkel submarines, which I do not like the sound of and found that he had made a couple of dives on one and-agrees they are a powerful instrument and that the Russians have 14 which they snatcned. from the Germane. (We did not go into how many more we have than tne one he inspected.; I was shocked to learn that the Danish Sound is still being swept for mines and that charts show safe channels and danger areas. It occurs to me that as time drags ci more and more mines must drift awav from know fields and I begin to get somewhat squeamish about surface ship travel. I pursue that subject with someone else when I
get a chance.

Friday I had an interesting talk with Charles Davila, former Roumanian Asaoass-

a dor here. His greatest claim to distinction is that he was first de-nationalized by

the Roumanian fascists and then all over again bv the Communists -- yet ne feels t a -

we must have a "one-world" system and not try to let the USSR make a world of their;~

own with colonies on the European continent of former sovereign nations via. *

Tus try to live in a seoarate democratic world.

I had not expected to nave these

hours today. They were saved for Rosl's New York stonover on her way to Vienna^ The

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The Sundav afternoon where the last chit-chat stowed changed tempo soon--but
perhaps I should give some background. Freddv Zumwalt of San Francisco was one of the several 19 veer old bovs who trailed around with me in the Orient in 1929--probably because my practised Bis Sister attitude put them at ease. Ail env rate he was one of
0 trio I saw much of From time to time over the next six vears he, his mother and
sister all saw me in New York. For vears no word passed between us but I had a de lightful evening with Fred and his Viennese wife, Rosl, last July in San Franciscoo Recantlv he wrote that Rosl was flving to Vienna and would be in New York from Saturday to Tuesdsv. I replied that of course I wanted to se hr(even if I had never done anvtMns: about his verv good friend, Arndt Guasti, as aspirins playwright, who came to New York in the autumn to get a plav produced and was given a note to me ) Fred wrote
again saving Rosl would arrive Sundav instead of Saturday, which was fine with me as
bv then I knew the Debars woliA arrive Saturday and go to Westchester Sunday. The Constellation from the Coast is due earlv s I gave Rosl time to breakfast, bath and rest before calling her hotel onlv to find her reservation cancelled. About three she called me and exolaingd that s^'nce Freddv has spoiled her so badlv bv waiting on her hand and foot thev had decided it would be better for her to stav at Arndt1s hotel where h could keep an eve on her and hadn't I gotten Fred's letter about the shift? -- and of course I knew that Arndt was her first husband* I gulped and said--something.
Rosl h*d not been well--lukemia--and I was not sure how well she had gotten--so I pro posed going to the hotel and picking them up for dinner at the Town Hall Club. I had a most amusing time. Guasti was a .iournalist and as such had travelled widely in Europe.
His mother, I guess was a Russ of California and the familv owned all of Piedmont or
Calremeont (bv this time mv head was spinning over a difference of opinion between my two guests as to Mrs. Guasti*s age--Rosl insisted that her ex-mother-in-law on her^ birthdav the week before had confessed to 82 to her son Victor, #>il Arndt maintained
she could not be more than 78). Victor and Fred had seen Rosl off in San Fra,ncisco, Arndt met the plane here. Just before I picked then UP, thev had called Fred and found
that Mrs. Guasti was with him to see that he was not lonelv. If you wish to, please feel free to draw your own diagram! I'm nrettv sure Rosl and Arndt were married in Europe. She arrived bv ship in Los Angeles as the wife of an American citizen, probably in the earlv 30fs, and I think she and Fred were married earlv in the 40's as she told me in the summer how she chased from West Coast to East with his Navy assignments. Rosl knows a great dal about music and musicians. Arndt about writers, actors and critics. He loves to talk and does it well and I suspect has acted. Among other oits of gossip 1 learned that Elizabeth Bergner is a kleptomaniac, cruel to people in a sadistic way * and currently broke in New York. Also that Sir Aubrev Smith smoked a pipe continuously but if the first one after breakfast did not taste good, he went back to bed for the dav-
and hence lied to a ripe age and would have lived longer if he had not refused to slow
UP.

The office week was enlived with the suggestion on Wednesday that the Secretary of State might make an important statement on March 11th via an FPA dinner in NEW fork if we could manage it. T scratched mv head--it would give us five working davs beside the weekend --so I said ve^s, lined UP the printer and the addresser for a rush .job,
got an option on the StarLight Roof at the Waldorf when I found the Ballroom unavail able, drafted copv for the invitations. At five minutes of five I was told that the
decision had been made against a dinner, as the State Department was still not sure that the 11th was the right timing for the statement. So I had to notifv all^ the people I had lined up that the partv was off. No-one but the Board member, whom I had gotten
to -^reside in case Brooks decided not to fly back from Denver for the partv, knew who
the guest of honor would be, so security was maintained but I was flat.

Friday I went to Freeport for the Jim-Jay birthday. Right after dinner Molly and Jim left for "Where's Chrlev?". The little bovs and I entertained a couple of their friends at a television program and after they went to bed I went back to see what the public gets on video. Saturday six little boys had luncheon, more ice cream and blowing out of candles and singing, and then went to the movies. The snow of Monda.v, still 4 in melted rapidlv over the weekend, but the air was soft and lovelv. In the evening Martha CIeve & Glevee came for more "viewing" and birthdav cake. Today we all went there for
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which went on until lis30 one night. However the Dewars not only had felt they did not

want to use my apartment, but that thev should stay on at the Barclay until last night

when they left for home* Douglas had taken a nasty cold and had to have a couple of big

shots of penicillan, but was all right when they departed. It v/as a shame that all the

parties arranged for them last weekend had to be cancelled* Monday night we had a gay tins

over a drink and then Amy went to the Crillon for dinner with me before "Falstaff" at the

Met. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and the music of the 80 year old Verdi, which may not

be as "tuneful" but is more sophisticated than his more popular works. The NEW YORKER critic

quarrelled with Leonard Warren's acting anddostume for Falstaff, but we liked him and his

voice. Reznik v/as a beautiful and able Mistress Ford and the costuming throughout was very

effective. As a day Monday was only marred by a cable from Winston Churchill that he

would not be able to speak for us. He aniwer disappointed but did not surprise me.

Tuesday at five I had a committee meeting with the members of the Board espec

ially charged with my work. They were amiable and not very helpful. I went up to the

home of the chairman for it -- an attractive Park Avenue apartment of Mr. & Mrs. Andrew

Carey. Afterward Edward Morris, who had coBie from Philadelphia for it, dropped me at the

Council on Foreign Relations House, where I picked up Ruth Savord for dinner before we

went to Margaret Davidson's new apartment with a nice view of the East River. She had

gotten the place through pull with a mutui. friend after a year of bitter experience of

moving about after her return to the Home conomic Department of the Ladies Home ffioural.

The place is sweet and filled with things tfier parents have sent from Ghina where her

father was doing an agricultural engineering job for the Chinese government until Novem

ber when it looked as if the Communists would take Nanking and the US Navy evacuated the

Americans. (Our poor Navy seems to do this regularly every twenty yearsI) Beth Black was

there with a few tales of life in the advertising agency of which she is a top person. It

would almost seera as if business had stopped for a Mle so the boss could play Pyramid

Club. She thinks that the craze has died and that few people are continuing on the theory

that they might win two thousd dollars add onlv risk " Ibsing a buck and two friends"*

Gerry Wilmot came in late--alas with another dose of poison ivy -- her glove seems to have

slipped while she v/as putting the vines ina pit.

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Wednesday I had a nice letter from Vera Dean and Paris* She had a good flight was comfortable despite the cold weather they were having and had gotten over the initial nervousness of delivering her lectures at the University of Paris in French. Now both
she and her students seem to be enjoying the experience. She tanked me especially for asking Larry Harris, in the Paris ECA office to be nice to her. He seems to have done a good job and she even expected to go the Harris chateau to spend the weehe nd with Mama
Harris add Larry-~who tell her that they are so anxious to have me visit them this summer*

This week I have had a Czech, a Swiss and a Hungarian who hoped that I could push the outton to give them wealth and fame. Each one is appealing, the Czech is an able international lawyer who worked for the US on the Mumberg War Crime Trials. The Swiss is
a charming and rather handsome youth, whose father is the Swiss Minister to Ireland and who lives at the Savoy Plaza--i told him to go to college and finish getting his degree. The Hungarian is a woman and I suspect a psychopathic -- but I wish I could help her*

At four on Friday the chairman of the FPA Board of Directors called me up in a . great dither because some important person, name unrepealed had just belabored him for
my having announced ICatz-Suchy, the Polish Permanent Representative at the UN as a spekker for next Saturday. It happens that I had told the Board I was using him and no one turned an eyelash. But Thursday Katz Suehy called General Hodges a "gauleiter" in the Security Council and Stinebower, who was representing the US walked out. S,,o someone gets the w.ind, up Monday we have an Executive Committee meeting to decide about cancelling the meeting as I implied I would not disinvite Katz-Suchy, whom I personally consider a heel, and get some

one else. The Nofcth Atlantic Pact is designed against Russia and I think we ot|hi to^ know wha Rus-sia and the Sat kites' t^frf'abduVlt and for that' Katz-Suchy i s a good ex hibit. Its up to him if he acts in character and threatens us, and alienates sympathy A n y w a y t h e f c a m s d e l a y e d m e i n ,g e t t i n g t o t h e B a r c l a y t o s e e ' - t h e D e w a r s b e f o r e t h e y l e f t .
' After s'6me: dela!y with thiexr other guests, %e fishily 'got; to the 'Orehicl Central Ohster- Bar frr sorae supper before thev^took' the I-Iorth Star. It has 'been good to have then here.

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1 went dowa t0 st- *"*' (**<* ia celebrating its 150 anniyersary)

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on spiritual faith in the atomic age'. In 1800 there were 100,000 horsepower

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power, tnerefore af we are not to collapse we must now control material cower fey spirit

ual power. Through our new understanding of the atom wi are linked to the entire- uni

verse. We must adjust ourselves to the new philosophy of time and space, v&ich scinece

has obliterated and realize that modern science has returned us to the core of religious

truth, that the universe is finite. Afterward he and I went over to Mrs. Beal's aps'rt--

ment lor half an hour. Her east windows overlook the church and its grounds, her guest-

Street, her bedroom at the back of the house. Between there is a lovelv , x00t drawing room with east windows and most charmingly arranged. They thoroughly

enjoved one another and it was a joy to bring them together. Don had to get back tothe

recotry tor dinner, and after Mrs. Beal declined my invitation to dinner or lunch or

something I chatted a few minutes more --she will go back to Linekin Lodge as soon as it

opens--and then came home only being slightly delayed by some sort of Greek parade which

still blares along Fifth Avenue*

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Last weekedd with Gleve and Martha was really cold with no melting of the snow-which fell on i'iidav. I tremble for the flowers which the ice and snow covered# The office has had morethan its customary crises, most of them succesfully surmounted. Tuesday I was lunching at the Stockholm with Barbara Hayes of the British Information Services and idlv raised the question of doing something for the British Foreign Minister when he is here. To my great surprise she was very interested and raised the auestion with Sir
Oliver Franks, the British Jlmbassador. Result I have composed a lovely letter to the St. Hon. which Sir Oliver will deliver and second during the week, meanwhile I can onlywait and pray. Wednesday I finally had Vera's sister-in-law who is taking care of the chilrden in Verafs absence for lunch. She is nice--but not much like her brother, Bill Dean, Hie next day she telephoned to ask me to use my influence with the children to get them to write Vera! Two weeks ago I had a happy surprise when Peggy Huntley asked me to go to "Marriage oi Figaro" after I thought I had had my last opera. In a last minute shift
Brownlee sang Figaro very well after being billed for the Count1

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April 26, 1949

Palm Sunday weekend I was with Gerrv and Penny at their place neat Brewster and did >
enough gardening to make kneeling at chruch a little difficult* It was lovely with the first primroses and daffodils out and I had a very pleasant time. They taugnt me- "Can?-
asta" the South American version of "Oklahoma"--a very good game* We thought it better for three than four. The Easter weekend I was with Mollv and the "men" and although it was chill we had a fine time as always. Poor Jay was broken hearted because he had a^ cough and was not allowed to go to Sunday School and use the new prayer book Aunt Annie had sent him. Their forsythia was beautiful, magnolia passing, daffodils and narcissi
flourishing. Freddy was being groomed to have his tonsils and adnoids out the next weekend and'seemed to be looking forward to it. I have just talked with Molly and he is fine--very good in his overnight stay in the hospital and doing beautifully at home.

Last Tuesday night we had an evening FPA meeting at which Vera reported on her seven weeks in Europe. She was in good form and the capacity audience loved it and^I was
very pleased. Brooks and Winifrbd Emeny had Vera, Tom Power, a visiting English pedia trician friend^ of theirs and me for dinner at their apartment before hand. It was a very nice preliminary for the evening. The excellent Passy restaurant does room service xor
the building--superb cuisine, beautiful service. While we had a "Pick-me-up" Brooks read the menu and telephone down our choices, before I had finished my bourbon on rocks (I introduced this to Brooks at Overhills dnd now we both take it all the time when we are together) two men had set up the table in the dining room and we went in. Dr. Weir had never eaten frogs legs, so he and I had them. I did not know what Pear Sultan was so
ordered it. When desert was served, one of the waiters put half an avocado with two slices of lemon in front of me and I thougjht "Maybe, this will teach you to be curious!" when Brooks reached over and took it from me. I was then served a mound of vanilla ice
cream topped with a bartlett pear half --fee whole covered with chocolate sauce.

Wednesday afternoon Brooks, Tom Power, Bcfekett Lewis and I left accompanied by two secre taries for Cincinnati. Over my protests we travelled on the Pennylvania Cincinnati Ltd.
and slept very poorly . The Conference h^idquarters was the Terrace Plaza Hotel where we had all day to get organized and accustomed to its tricks. The decor is modern and pla.n unique. The first eight floors are mndowless and used for air conditioned, arti ficially lighted office space, then the hotel begins with lobby, skyline terrace dining room and huge bar, newsstand, etc. We had two conference rooms a short flight of stairs up from the lobby gloor. Our bedroms were on the 17th floor. A huge windovpl covered the whole far wall, two divans, two chairs and a low round black table gave the feel/ing of a sitting room. Flipping a switch caused the divans to move out and become two beds. From built in cupboards you extracted pillows. Also built in was a radio panel with six stations controlled from a master radio room. The french phone hung on this panel. A chest high series of drawers presented its back to the room, so one stood in a passage
to the bathroom facing the drawers with onefs back to the two sliding panels which had long and short hanging space and a couple of shelves. 'The catch was a sliding full length mirror. I moved a panel to get into the other half of my closet and v/as confronted at short range by a stranger in my room, until a closer examination showed it to be my own reflection. It is siljy, but we all continued to startle ourselves with these strangers! Three spot lights, a hidden flourescent wall light oner one of the divans and an indirect rosjr ceiling light provided illumination. Die rosy item was over the door and lit the "dressing area". A hide/ous bright yellow panel in the back of the chest pulled down
and made a writing desk with its own inside flourscent light. The bath room was grey tiled with yellow shower curtain and a rose shelf in which the basin was sunk , but which extended along the ide wall mirror and made a niCfe dressing table. However I am used
to seeing my head while I brush my teeth and not most of myself as I step out of the tub! (The rose shelve covered all of the side wall on the right and part of the wall opposite
the door, where the basin was, but the mirror was only on the side was opposite the tub )
Brooks had a large corner room with the same divans, a couple of more chairs and tables two huge windows and a small entrance lobby which for reasons unclear to me could be curtained off with a bright chartreusey yellow drape to hide a iong walnut table,' but
you could not leave unsightly litter there, as anyone coming into the room Yrould have to
pass it. His bathroom was out of this world and we included in the "fifty cent tour".

April 26, --page 2

While mv towels were plainly in view on nice chrome racks over the wash basin his were discreetly hidden behind one section of a completely mirrored wall. Bellboys are supposed to explain everthing to guests when bags are brought up. But they do not alwyas do it, <>s I sot no demonstration of how to work the gadgets when i was taken to a temporary 12th floor room and of course the boy who moved me later to the 17th thought I knew all. 3o a distinguished guest in a room like 3rooks' was turned loose unenlightened. ne took a bath and dripping wet looked for towels and in desperation used the bath^mat, dressed, called for tov/els and went out. It was summer and Cicinnati's valley is hot so
he took a shower upon his return and still could not find the towelsl

Friday and Saturday we had sessions with people coming from roundaoout, Minneapolis, to New Orleans to Boston. The sessions were interesting, stimulating and tne delegates oil claimed to have profited thereby. So as this was done # for their benent we are content. Certainly the number of imaginative, enthusiastic younger people who are aomg the work locally was very heartening to me. Late Friday afternoon we all got into a chartered bus and went out to the home of Mr. & Mrs. lames Shouse for cocktails and a buffet supper. (He is chairman of the Board of the Cincinnati Branch and President oi Crossley Broadcasting Company and also of Station DLW and operates the shortwave trans mitting station which sends out the Voice of America radio program.) Their suburban home is charming and the party very nice. Mrs. Shouse told me afterward tnat her cooc had said "That was the fastest warty you ever had." Because about eight we all piled, into our bus and went to a High School in another auditorium to witness a neighborhood panel discussion on the North Atlantic Pact. We got back to hotel about eleven and had a steering committee session in Brooks' room . Actually we only had a dnnx and conver sation as a couple of the steerers got lost, and I v/as cross eyed from exhaustion before I could get away. Saturday there were more work session and a serious conversation lun cheon during which I got Shouse's enthusiatic support in the presence of Brooks or a brainstorm of mine. Margaret Carter who was to speak about the State Department in tne^ afternoon did not turn up until the last moment and gave me the jitters, as I had promised Power I would take care of her. That evening there was a dinner at the Queen City (it was Longfellow who gave Cincinnati that name.) The Club is very swish, I suspect,but it left me a little cold. The filet mignon was delicious but the rest_o.i the dinner unimpressive. Before hand over cocktails we watched a television program in which Broo a participated -- a fifteen minute skit plugging the FPA and a Cmcinuti Br^ meeting coming off this Thursday. After the Shouses had taken Brooks and rae back to one hotel, he retired to work on the script for a broadcast he was doing the next day and the rest oi
the staff and a couple from Hyttsbugh had a small party in my room.

Sunday I slept late, packed and joined Tom in Brooks' sitting room to hear the broadcast

which was very good. He came back and we had a strategy conference ov< up to us. The man from Buffalo joined us at three and when he left I went to talk^with

the man from Milwaukee in the lobby until almost time to go to the tram. fne train was

crowded and we could only get roomettes and one lower. Mrs. filkie from Poughkeepsie

joined us in the lounge car and then moved to a roomette--which four certainly crowds^

for a while before dinner. (Ohio is completely dry on Sunday.) be had planned to work

in the evening--particularly Tom and I -- but we were all pretty tired. I played with

the gadgets of my roomette and tried to sleep. Those foam rubber matresses ar = SOJ. - u

when the train rattles along makes one feel as they he were on a vibrator.^ No one s.ep

much, but somehow we managed to get through the day. I went to^bea last nignt wi .

even reading my mail. Something happened to our Diesel engine in the mountains and we

had to get a new one at Harrisburg--result we were late, which added to daylight saving

in which Cincinnati did not indulge it was almost eleven before we got to the ofuce.

Despite rav good sleep of last night, I'm yawning my head off now and suspect I woula nave

done better had I not attempted to write this tonight. However its now Tuesday andI

have a Bo*rd of Director's meeting this week and dinner at Maria's when Vera will

a

full report on Mrs. Harris and Larry in Paris, so it looked like tonight or not until the

weekend, which I hope # will be the first one here after four consecutive ones away.

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May 15, 1949

We are having a beautifii sprig and I am getting a lot of comfort from my skipper blue wool gabardhe suit. Elm ad gifabo leaves are a little better than one third size and life is beautiful. Last Sunday at Martha and Cleve's we had a lot of sunshine and
Fran's gang went swimming, though little was said as to how long anyone stayed in the ocean. Good sunburns were acquired however, and my nose was brilliant red through Mon day.

The office is quiet as Brooks went to Canada immediately after the very successful stag dinner for General Marshall. We hope that the gentlemen who were invited to that party will give us a lot of money which we can /ell use. The Rockefeller Foundation
said "no" this week to a request we made for a sp ecial grant. Personally I am getting a little fed-up with the philosophy behind the "Timid Millions" tied up in foundations. Tomorrow I begin t break in Mrs. Williams as my assistant. At least I am less rushed and can work with her more closely than I could with the ex-Wave officer--who imagined
she had stomach ulcers and actually seemed disappointed tfien she found she did not and gained eight pounds in the last six weeks she was with me. Things may thicken up a lot quite quickly unless General Lucius Clay has more sense than I think he has. We have asked him to speak at a dinner in his honor, but it would seem to me that while
the Foreign Ministers are meeting in Paris about Germany, it would be very unpolitic for him to talk about his administration of our zone of Germany. We shall see, soon I hope.

Yesterday and today I have done home chores---getting the winter blankets put away, clothes in new garment bags and so on. I declined to go to Brewster with Gerry because I felt if I did not get some of that done this weekend I probably never would
Probably I would be smart if I stayed right here this summer and did all the things I keep putting off -- but I am going to Maine instead. Linekin Lodge will be ooen and Mrs. Summers has said they would like to have me . Brooks expects to make the Town Meeting of the Air round the world trip, so he will be out of the country for almosi
ten weeks and will then have to go to Canada again for a couple of weeks to rest up. This is 110 time for me to take extra time.

All of a sudden T am having a lot of theatring--tomorrow I see "Mr. Roberts" and

a week later "Anne of the Thousand Days". I feel very frivolous. Somehow I have-not

even gotten much to the movies this winter. "The Bribe" part of which I saw filmed

last July in Hollywood finally made the neighborhood and I was enchanted to see the

scene I saw them do had not been left on the cutting room floor. They worked so pat---

iently doing the same little piece over and over again that I would have been upset

had it

omitted. So for T have not noticed the release date for the story of Marilyn

Miller's life which was the other oicture we saw being made.

A shop on Madison Avenue has a scarf in oale blue with the pictures of Father* and Mother and the four Day sons orinted on it in dark blue with carrotty red in the appropriate places of hair and mustache. "Mother" seems to be looking at her engage- -- ment ring, so it must be commemorating"life with Mother". It amuses me every time I see it. My purehases however have been confined to more pratical things--a tailored white nvlon blouse and nvl on rants of the intimate sortc I still want to get a dress that is good for cocktail rarties and possible for the office and a cotton or two. Maria is having an exhibition of her rurils* work on Tuesdav and I should like to have whatever I get for then, because unless it turns verv warm I do not want to wear mv new
Bemberg sheer.

Billv will be a vear old on Thursday, so I have taker my grandfather's silver mug which is a! readv marked William Tudor Pratt to be engraved 1847-92 over the name and May 19, 1948 under the name. It is bv far the orettiest child's mug in the somewhat extensive family collection excert rav mother's mother's which vears ago was made into
nd extra cream Ditcher. We shall have a family barbecue in Billv's honor next weekend*

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June 8, 19^+9

The Memorial Day weekend started early for me when I took the 12:55 train to Harrisburg and auspiciously when I found Charlotte Muret in tne ainer. We talked almost all the way to ### Harrisburg where we both detrained for Carlisle. She to stay with Frank Barnes who teaches at Dickison College and I at the Barracks
with Maye and Ted Brett. Maye met me and we shipped the IS miles to get to the cocktail party of the Post Commander ---- General and Mrs. Sddy and Lillian lic^av/.
The valley was beautiful in spring lushness, the Post, one of the oldest in the country is most attractive and has on the grounds a wine variety of trees including many beautiful willows. Maye and Ted live in half of^a huge old white painted brick house, which was formerly the quarters of the commanding generail During une war a bachelor was in command and felt it wicked to use so large a mouse ior one and he cut it uo. Sheet rock is not very sound proof and the Thompsons, (Lt.Col. in Air
Force) can hear in their living room every word the Bretts say on the down stairs phone for example. The Post claims to be one happy family and from the way people dropped into Maye's lovely big kitchen for a cup oi coxj.ee and a dish ol dirt at alL hours (if not to borrow some eggs, or silver for a party) it certainly^seemed to be, but as wife of the General's aide and confidant of Lillian, poor Maye is on a spd. The cocktail party launched me most auspiciously and the MaGavs insisted that we remain after everyone else left, promptly at seven. Saturday ni^ht Maye gave a ^ buffet dinner for fourteen and immediately two different couples dated us lor dmxs at noon on Sunday and Monday. Sunday afternoon Maye had about twenty more people in for a drink and as soon as they left we scrambled uo tne Cxi ice Mess fc& dinner.
Afterward we went to Carlisle to go over the line of march for the next days pom ade. Ted, who has added command of the Military Police to being aide, was leadig the parade and Sddy was reviewing it. Then we went on a. tour ox the local cemetarys including the one with the statue of Molly Pitcher (her real name seems to be some what in doubt with favor given to McGoogle or words to that effect) and an attractive
one called Ashland where there is a marker for pOQ unknown ouried in a com .on gray e
possibly victims of J.E.B. Stuart's raid. This plot of^land has beenmade a nation
al cemetary and contains other service personnel. Carlisle Barracks is charged
with its maintaSte.ce and sends over a power mower once a wefek.

When we got back to Quarters 2B we started serious getting Ted^ready fcr

the parade. He wore cotton drill similar to that of his men and changed his patches
to agree with theirs--though he is assigned to the Cheif of Stafi personnel and has no connection with the 2nd Arsy. The crucial moment was when I discovered I had stuck myself and gotten a drop of blood on the shoulder of his shirt besiae mis ^ ^ 6"3rd div. patch. Fortunately we were able to get it out. his leather was polisxieo.
highly, his white lanyard was spotless and altogether he cuu a xine xigure men he drove"off the next morning in a freshly painted white jeep. In the aosence of fee

Public Information officer, who had had a death in his family, Ted was acting fw hi me which involved taking pictures of the parade. Since he could hardly maicn and photograph^ he entrusted the job to Maye and me. She used^tne movie camera
while I manned a totally unfamiliar still. We hope we did a gooa joo, out I was
too busy taking the M.P.S to see them. The rest of the parade was the usual^ community thing with Boy and Girl scouts, and school children after the American

legion. Bddy said that tehy deteriorated pretty badly and beforeit was over

they passed the reviewing stand at the end 01 tne line ox march singly anu. in

groups.

In the afternoon we went to Gettysburg and drove all over that

very mixed up battlefield. It is confusing that the Union forces approached from

the south and, the Confederates from the North! Just outside the xlauional Cemetary there is a. wonderful typographical map (I guess it is called a reliex
map) with quantities of colored light bulbs. They take you through hie ^n^ee battle explaining the engageemtns end making it all seem comprenendaole. lor tag first time I understood that Seminary Ridge and Cemetany Ridge were not just

invented to make American History harder lor meJ Then we went ever oo tne

plane where Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg address. All the graves in the

Hational part# of the cemetary were decorated with flags and -lowers, even tne tiny numbered stones for the "unknowns". It ourned very nox during hie c.,fte-j.-

noon and we felt for the commander (Ted) of the July kth parade there. We went right to

Harrisburg for me to get the train to New York.

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The drought has lasted fpc three weeks now and the press is yowling, but the hamidity is high and I am melting. However the trav&l weekends have been fun. The first weekend in June 1 went to Hartford, having dim's r on the train, so was ready for an evening of conversation with Eleanor Brewster (daughter of the former Bishap of Connecticut) and Christian Rendeiro--a former Portugese who was in the AUS during the war and ended up a major. Saturday morning we went to Faraington to go through I-Iillstead Museum, the former hoiaee of Mrs. Riddle, who mothered Brooks Emeny after his own mother died. The house was built and furnished by her parents--the Popes (of bicycle fortune) at the turn of the century on a bare Connecticut hillside. Theybrought large elms and other trees and did a beautiful job of house and grounds. Travelling widely they then filled the place with too much. One over the door shelf held three Ming vases where only one should have been placed. One blue grey Roman pottery bowl is valued at $6,000. Exquisite lawn bedspreads are^ embroidered with the pattern of the carving on the four poster. The walls are covered with "valuable paintings, sketches and etchings many of them lovely. I was especially in terested in the sketch oi Millet's "The Gleaners" hung on the stairs with about 75 other small pittures, sketches of Whistler, Drurer, etc. One room, actually the one where Brooks slept tie first summer he spent there, had a lot of Japanese prints, which may Ipa^. rnen?'1^ere. had/iA?+ft'eoi-r^M?ros hiadieddjnieidjgtnroroeme ayteaGrsreaegnowicthheanhdouaselsowahsalsesfet vperreacl isinelythe as it v/as a;.;d is opexi fco^t/ie public to see three afternoons a week. Poor Brooks is family trustee and worries about fire and the cost of maintenance when the Av/on School which she also built has no endownment to speak of to carry on with. Mrs. Riddle seems bo have been a brilliant eccentric and I suspect a snob and egotist.

rhat night Eleanor had three couples for dinner and from ten of seven until ten

after midnight we talked about the Hartford Branch of the FFA. It was useful for me to

see how confused and inept they have been locally, but nothing I could do beyond make

^eanor ^af angle, though, and let me sleep late the next morning,

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^a my f before she appeared {Annie had gone to mass and left

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of tlme nurslnS hi* and finally fixed him up in an ice cream

an~/ T! F naPkln wedged in the branch of a copper beech at the edge of the

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JfMl f0 "" parffts led klm and then must have knocked the "nest" down and taken him

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f 3llr^ mple at th6 edge of the property. He was ambulatory, if not air

on Bill "s-ell nS+hei"Pflthe

thr ** th nest* Sunday afternoon we went to call

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^'St Friday 1 'snt on the Southerner to Charlottesville where the Cash fafflilv met

drove'in thFf, ii j!0"**

and the glaam t fireflies were particularly lovelv as we

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t'i-IYb" r*' d +' ,6-* Saturday :isie and I picked red raspberries and strawberries for ' nefahpf -T+ ! areei6rC Lately they haye Pullsd out all the apple trees, Planted more and nf +h staHd some berries. Jim sold 12-1500 ouarts of strawBerries. It'was the end ox the crop that i picked and such lovelv deep red highlv glazed fruit spoiled me for

ddiinnnneerr tthhaatt nniieghhtt. GCiibGsonneisralth&eMsorsiW. PohfilCiphaPraletosnDaannad Manrd. &nepMhersw. LofanLgahdoyrnAe sGtoibrs,onandcamfaermtos

a leveli' "lace at Greenwood where we went after church for a drink the next day. Jim's

daughter ires married just a year ago in that church, which was built largely by Lady Astor

i memory^ of her mother. A week after the wedding a defective fuse lead to a destructive

ire. Maisie (greatgranddaughter of Bishop Doane) headed the committee to raise the money

to reconstruct it. Gibson wrote Lady Astor and asked if she had any US dollars the? shT

would give toward it and she replied that she did not and "if he and his family would stop

drinking whiskey, they could afford the restoration themselvesI" I am afraid X drank

some of their whiskey! In the afternoon we went to another farm "Brightberrv Farm" to see

Jacxie and Jim Hadon on their first wedding anniversary and his parents

Dr. & Mrs. - -

He 18 retired from a public health career in Cleveland and is now farming the ancestral acres^ In Septo Jackie & Jim return to Yale where they have rented the Notp stein house for the period of the professors absence at Oatfordc

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July lo, 1*48 Lei*s juso put down utfe weauuer as ins reason why I haste not written since oune 1^ I however pei-naps x snoulct aaa xnat tue rouuu ox weekends has kept up unabated-- to Molly and Jim , and then to upper Westchester County with Gerry Vilmot and Penny Dunning and , then over the Fourth with Billy at West Lena Avenue while the rest of the family went to Carlisle Barracks and then to be with Martha and Cleve. Week days hummed with activity in the office with Brooks leaving by air on June 25th for London to go around xhe
world with the America*s Town Meeting of the Air (and as the result of a little lobbying on my part with Chester Williams whom I knew going to the Orient 20 years ago, to do a series of broadcasts on Saturdays on NBC under the Heading "Americans the World Over" on the Public Affairs program) and Vera Dean and the children getting off by air without me this year for their stay at Mills College where she will teach again* Many things
hck had to be decided before they left and many more were left for Tom Power and me to struggle
with meanwhile* I am several jumps behind my self imposed schedule because of the rs spent holding his hand, yet I accepted nomination for a sub-committee job on the Citizens1 Committee on the observance of the UN Day because Margaret Garter of the State Department and Malcolm Davis of Carnegie Endowment recommended me. It will mean flying to Washington for a day next week and perhaps going again after my holiday* It may be fun even if I can ill afford the time--especially when we are getting the recommendations for a rather complete revision of office proceedures* Although the Speakers Bureau seems to have gotten a clean bill of health, a lot of other people are having to change their ways and most of them will probably want me to sympathize with them. * * time taking but good for office relations I suppose* It may even be that I shall come back from my holiday and find that I have inherited a few more administrative jobs!
I would rather not go into a blow by blow discription of the inferno we have been living in which has been made dank by high humidity. Suffice it to say that the weather box in the Herald-Tribune has gotten to the point viiere it said on Monday "Warm and sunny with pleasant humidity"--when the latter was 84/b. Perhaps I should add that I have not use lip stick but once in six weeks and thai Douglas Adair Dewar #io was here for June and seemed to be having an awfully good time could not take it any longer and went back to British Columbia. He lunched with me the day he left and admitted that it was as hot and hotter in the Okanagan Valley but dry and bearable and wished that his plane left earlier. It was nice seeing him, but I wish I might have done more for him. He is very poised and delightful young man just turned 21.
Friday noon I went to Franklin Simons to see if I could pick up one one summer cotton and walked out instead in a black nylon. I am ever so pleased with it and expect to wear it the rest of my life--it dresses up with the beautiful pale pink hat with the exquisite roses of deep velvet that Penny gave me to an important costume* or with the big black milan or the black sailor (from last year made gay this year with the white sweet peas from the tricorne of two years agoO) is perfectly appropriate for the office. My only concern now is that New York does not develops those nylon consuming fumes. If it should I may be left standing someday in black pumps, my pearls and a hail It was good to swim again at Jones Beach over thw weekend* Saturday the ocean showed the effects of the heat, it registered 74^ very obviously too hot to bother with waves of any size or power, but good for swimming* Sunday morning we took our breakfast to eat after going in a very different sea. While it was still warm, a thirty mile and hour breeze had made for a rapid succession of vigorous waves. After one had succeeded in getting through the breakers, swimming was always with a weather eye lest a wave start curling oefore it got to you. The contrast was fun. Molly has been practising to play an invitation match at Cherry Valley --she went out Saturday morning to play around alone and very nearly ended up with six men--two threesomes She played through the three young ones but bogged down with the three old ones because one's game reminded her of her father1s and she could not refuse to play with them instead of going through!
Friday of next week my holiday begins and I go first to Fort Miller to be with Aunt Annie for a week and then we shall go to Maine with Miss Funston and Alberta Hutchison They will stay a night with me at Linekin Lodge and I'll be there until August 21.

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September 11, 1949

At least as far as the office is concerned the winter rush is on and I am ill

f th+ suT took more ut f me than 1 "*"*<* * ^e time

mv stav ?n Mainf L ? 7 a downstaxrs doorstep completed my undoing. I even extended

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Mdasyanse abnyd fouro* going twice a week to have diathermy on my poor

move^ bv iTM

^ T -rid^"th8t there are n boae fragments to be re-

" " a now 1 8Xa BPing "that the course of the next eight weeks I shall

cease talking like an old lady with a joint that tells the on coming weather* I so ent

Ji^ B^wy,

M\rtwheaekM endd 0Peve and Sunday of the

before with Molly and

time,

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^ tne childre are less t^an than been so hot that they could not bee in

they should be at this the sua as much as usual.

Tuesday Brooks got back from his "round the world in 67 days" though his Saturday

n C aontaa"e ^ ther

He lost 15 pounds but doS not look af

badly as I feared he might from a picture I had received taken in Vienna. He averaged

four hours a night sleep but somehow found time to buy presents for all of us. I drew

for^hfFPArrthSk6" Sfsteff^ PX fr0111 St"U ^ trP mS V6Iy Sd for him aad +toU ld V some of tttieo/^hsiBAligiih,t^So fI htaT d gT ott,en"Psom8ePoSfrtyit ffrromhimhimonaTt hluursndc*hyeonaftoenrnTohounrsdanayd he o ough this session 01 five of us at his apartment lasted until after four^-thirty and was

toS%1ne1iL\rmanrXv:rerene- ^U!!day niSlt he asked Blair Bolles aad 2om and me

thir+v tX

" SOme more of the questions and that session lasted until ten-

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also.prdfar5r day in Ke Yrk and I was elected to the County Committee,

and everything ^,"^1

did_aot know that my name would appear on the ballot

because^ teve'lonE felt th^T fTMf elective post and I accepted to be nominated

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X to 'lleeaarrnnaTlloXt TinrLthee "cM ourse of my politict0al WedfuicraSttiom n.e6ting on **"<iay tght and hope

Maine was as nice as ever though one dya the record of 1364 was broken and we all

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-bowers when I am tnere, so we got away with our tardiness. I must not rive the

xmpressxon thax xt was only hot one day for that was not the case. The water was waXer

vweenntt boa,cckk ttoHxttrs rbePx6nrgiSoToledde" nougThrtoabtaUkte8yW ou6rekbarnedaththeawnaythewrheenwyaosuafidrisstturgboanince. Z Z

novelfletoFrineT?+hV!r +T Prt,,'ilUr' where 1 spent a week Playing Canasta and reading

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riXeTlleH

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in the Hay Mow of a most imaginative and attractive

the neri nieht at^ff6"* ^ u frXviae throueh the Oreen and the White Mountains we spe nt

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. . ^llsv.orth, aaine, so as to have a whole day for Mt. Desert Island. The

trxp up Mount Cadxllac was memorable not only for the wonderfully constructed road, the 'rook

xormaexon outvie view of the whole island split by the fjord-like 7 mile long Somes Sound "

l"nd''"one'o" us'T7' iJ mJ'rlad 0i islands and the extensively indentated coast of the nain-

than*Bar Harbor.

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,T^iX a-^^on u0 everything else at the office I'm up to ay ears over a dinner on Oct. 19 r - Bru, with the slim possibility of one before that for Bevin. Sir Stafford Cripps must return beiore we can do anything about him.

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The last chit-chat of four 7/eeksgago should have been dignified with some sort of recognition as being number 1, of Volume IX--please pardon the omission!

The dinner for Nehru plusan almodt ineffectual & attempt on my part to keep up with normal work has kept me hopping-# for a while this week I have been on an eight to eight schedule# At the moment weir have more reservations than we can seat and must decide tomorrow whether we shallG offer the late comers tables where they may not be able to see the speaker, or return their money# In the beginning we pledged ourselves that we would not use those tables# With ten days to go before the event
you can see that we have a problem.

Fridev Vera and 1 lunched at the Golden Horn at the expense of the Turkish Government'. Our party included Ernst Jackh-- authority for forty years on Turkey-- the head of the Turkish*Information Service here newly arrived from London, nis assistant and a Commander in the Turkish Navy. Since it was a very warm day it was very hard for me to work with the necessary speed the rest of the afternoon after so hearty a meal# (The food was actually Armenian rather than Turkish as I knw from an English fried of mine who livefi long in Istanbul, however it ms rich and filling .) Nhrens is of an interesting generation. He remembers as a boy seeing his mother greet men who were family friends from the balastrade with a message to a wife of one guest and a query about the health of the child of another, but not mingle with her husbands male guests. 'Then in a few years after the Revolution t-ie mother received guests with her husband and presided at the table# Shrsns grand father was a Muslim priest and directed the education of his grandchildren but never talked dogma to them nor asked them to accompany him to the Mosque. Neverthe less^ Ehrens considers himself a good Muslim acknowledging one God, his father however is an agnostic. Plural wives in Turkey were .Limited to four provided the man COUIQ afford them. Divorce, of course, is easy and the woman leaves her husband's home and returns to that of her father, who them supports her presumably from the money received from the husband at the time oi the marriage. They are very proud of the record of the emancipated woman in Turkey--which I understand from other sources is justified. The Turks because of their Empire tradition feel more akin to the Brit ish another imperial power--however they expressed great adniration and gratitude to the US. As a non-Arab, Muslim, democratic country Turkey is an interesting place
to watch.
Alas, another engagement makes it necessary for me to decline an invitation to be the guest of the French Government on Tuesday! One of their quests is Andre Philip, former cabinet member, who arrives on Monday and whom I shall see for a couple of hours even if it means I have to breakfast with him as he is an old friend and at the moment again rather indebted to me for a job I have just done in setting up a tightly packed three week speaking trip.

Jay's class in Church School has been without a regular teacher this autumn so today J5.m began as their regular teacher. It is very good of him to do this and I think he ought to be very good at it. I can't help wondering if he/ will carry on with the same group of boys or if he will stick with that age range and
have Freddy in due course.

Last night I dined with Maria and found that her painting classes have already begun. The personality problem and the difficulty of teaching some dills,tantes who have the time and the money and refuse to listen to her expo sition of b<~sic principles no matter how often she repeats them must take a great
deal out of her*

Now I must decide what to wear at a reception for the Indian delegation to tne United Nations and get along to the office. I must block out a formula for an impasse from which we must be extracted and know that there will be no time to concentrate on it tomorrow. Perhaps an hour there today will do something wni would take two hours tomorrow--two hours which. I do not have for tms problem.

October 3, 1949

Mm I got in about eleven o*elc4 Friday night I found, another letter rm Xfceltaa, postmarked Dot.26. It follows

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Xednead&y

J'uat in eafr Cal is still carrying the net around with him that I wrote you last weak I will wrlta a few lines again &?{$$$ in answer to you letter received this Morning*

I m still quite nervous although I feel and know I cm much better. If the doctor had released vm I am sure I would get back to normal much faster
Gal is working wry hard with this advertising business. I think he is doing very well, but h& has am ef those hard driving men behind hiss who is never satisfied* Kid the goal he has set for hi 1 so high that we would be able* to retire in a few years if Gal came anywhere near it. Cal is most enthused, but Im mam quite tone and that worries so. He talk advertising almost every minute he la awake, ami I feel that it even iaterforu with hit- sleeping. I sincerely hop for bio sake that everything works out well.

X have hem thinking about a new ear, but if and whsn the little pup goes I am afraid both of us will haw a good ory m it seems a part of the fmt&ly*

*Mi love from us TlMJiA

,,*ell, I have Just had fourteen hours natural sloop tc celebrate xhe end of the Ccunoil of branches meeting and hop to blear away the accumulation of routine correspondence, do the chow I promised the Ooafloil delagate, eiesua-up the Nahru dinner and edit the record of the Council sessicno fceforo November ID *hm I go to Virginia to vieit the Gash family. Since I have lost ten pounds I knew I have dipped deeply into my energy reserves and Armistice Bay is set for the beginning of 3Wlihiwg them. 3ie weight I do not mind, though it is a low level--almost to yaer I as after the bout with infected tonsils in Xaris in 193f/, which led to the third and final removal of those troublesome itme from my anatomy.
After an all day Council session on radio on "Xiursday, we had the national hoard of Directors mooting and then Brooks asked rm to host# a small dinner party ho was giving for ewm of the visiting delegate at his apartment. Some of the were very late In arriving, but at lOtlO I roe and sheparded the females out. Know* ing that I needed *11 the sleep 1 could get I took one of the slid pills Garry had given Ami fell into bed, after winding and setting the alarm dock. With the aid of a taxi I got to the office in good shape at 8*SO. There mis no let-up all day, we had eaisdwlahes, ice or&m amd ooffee in small "area1* groups and I talked subjects and speakers between bits. After the afternoon session, Worcester and I had * private conference, I did what I could on sodding telegrams about the day's tail, which my staff could have handled or consulted me about if they wore endowed with the setiso God usually giv^ geese, clanged in tlw office and went to the Council dinner at the Tom Hall Glub. To say great relief -Carolyn Martin took over running that as far as housekeeping was conceded. '.#3@n I got horn another pill seemed in order but this tine I forgot the setting of the clock. By a miracle I woke at 8s55 and act as all time record by arriving at 9t25. The morning session was to start at 9s SO and I was the first speakers Fortunately it m& a little late m4 I had a chance for pri vate .vorde with two Branches beside the on with ifeicfe I had a 9tl5 appointment. 3 hope 2 never do that again!

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October 30, 1949

The dinner for the Prime Minister of India on October 19th was a great success and while I shall try not to bore you with the petty details, the stresses and strains I want to tell you the sibrv because it meant a great deai more to me than a terrific work load necessary to put over a big function. So to begin at the beginning:

In the spring when we learned Nehru was coming Brooks wrote Mrs. Pandit whom he knows well and she accepted our invitation in her brothers behalf. He replied that when the Embassy could set the date, I was prepared to carry on. One nice sunny day in Maine, I was called from the dinner table (lunch to you) by Tom Power in New York. The Embassy had issued an ultimatum ---FPA could not have Nehru alone, we would have to combine with the Council on Foreign Relations and India League of America. Tom and
I knew that the Council would not co-sponsor, and I voted to go along with this if we could have the additional sponsorship of American Institute of Pacific Relations and The East and West Association (the Pearl Buck outfit) With consumate skill Tom set this all up for October 19 at the Waldorf and saved the FPA the distinction of having its president as presiding officer. We admitted that we would have to do the bulk of the work to be sure that it was up to our standards and gritted our teeth. This was the situation at Labor Day, by which time Tom had already had several stormy sessions with Sirdar J. J. Singh, President of the India League.

Nov/ we must back track to the early twenties in India. Motilal Nehru (father ofVMrs. Pandit and the Prime Minister) was a Brahmin lawyer of great influence and con siderable wealth in Allahabad. He was active in the cause of independence and a follow er of Gandhi Motilal took a brilliant young Moslem university graduate, Syud Hossain, as his personal secretary because he recognized ability and because it was a good polit ical gesture to show his conviction that Hindus and Moslems v/ere united in the fight for independence and could get along together. Nan,as Mrs. Pandit is known in the family, was a headstrong girl ad deeply involved in the independence movement. She and Syud were thrown together, both very attractive and anKh of an age* Hie inevitable
happened, they fell in love, ran amy and were married. Papa Motilal found that his . liberality could not stand the strain add went after them, dragged Nan home and arranged for Syud to go with an Indian delegation to the Near East Disarmament Conference. Not content with that he then used his influene with the British to keep Syud from being permitted to return to his homeland. Syud eventually made his way to the haven of so many political refugees. He spoke and wrote and edited a very fine magazine "Hie New Asia" (I think that was the name of it) and managed to eke out an existence, which was also useful to the indepexiene cause. I had met Hossain through the FPA and began one October (probably 1928) to go abott with him a good deal and thereby learned much of India, of politics and comparitive religion. (My poor father never understood the level of our friendship and was dreadfully upsetc) Through Syud I met Tagore and became intimate with Sairojini Naidu, the great, in more ways than one, Indain poet ess. We were always running into Singh at Indian functions. It was plain that Syud considered him a climber and a charlatan though I never knew the basis of their enmity. In the intervening years I have maintained a correct but chill attitude toward Singh when I saw him and felt that he hated me with all the warlike vehemence of a Sikh. One strike against me in having to work closely with Singh I

When I decided to go to Japan and China in 1929, Syud gave me his blessing and *. flowers at the station to the indignation of the assembled family! After I made the mmaikde-naigshetndtiemciesnotnalinjouSrhnaenyghtaoi tAollachomabeadhomfoerbSyymudy. oIf tIncdoisat manedaEwgyeepkte,nId dweicthideTdagIorwe ould and put me on my own for several days, but paid off unexpectedly. Upon arrival I sent a note to Jawaharlal Nehru and had a very nice talk with him. In the course of which he asked where I was going to end since Gandhi was to be in Agra \h en I was, he arranged for me to have twenty minutes with the Mahatma. (Gandhi and the Taj Mahal by moonlight all in the same twenty-four hours was a pretty heady experience.) 7/hen Sarojini went back to India she left Syud in my care as a parting gift, but during the years 1 saw less and less of him. This past May I read in an Indian publication of
the deaths of both Sarojini and Syud. Both holding important posts in the new gov ernment of India, he was Ambassador to Egypt and I never knew of his appointment. I

October 30, 1949 page 2

should have so loved to write him a letter of congratulations! But it I correctly

remember what he taught me about the Moslem faith, he is happily esconced in Nirvanna

and probably knows how delighted I am that he lived to serve an Independent India as a

Moslem in a Moslem country, and I might even add that the powerful Nehry family again

recognized his worth either through honesty and forgiveness--or necessity. He had

never told me a word, of his blighted romance

Nov/ you understand why this was more

than a job of work with meI

Let' skip lightly over the drafting of the printed announcements, the letters to the sneakers table, the invitations to the "small, private" (150) reception, the innumerable agenda for dinner committee meetings, the people who called UP at the last moment who simnlv had to be given seats though checks for reservations had been re turned to other people for days and all tie rest of the operational details. Tom was at the Dinner Committee meetings on policy, and I for operations as mv function gradu ally developed into coordinator between the organizations and responsible for relations with the printer and the hotel. At everyturn Singh was on oui vive to point out that I was wrong, but gradually that changed or else I became too tired or toughened to notice. (Brooks tells me that he has had a letter from Singh speaking of me in warmest terms, but so far I have not seen it*) Tom was very sweet in his offers of help and in fending other members of the staff (FPA) away from me. The representatives of the other two organizations were verv helpful when we were at loggerheads on a matter of principle or prestige with Singh* It was a wonderful educational experience in cooperation and was close to being my physical undoing. I never had time to buy a dress or get my hair washed even. In fact I was still writing place cards for the head table when I should have been making myself look presentable. However, I got away with the Paris biukck satin-circa 1937-- the Indian tiger claw and gold necklace and earings--and one half of my hair combed! The corsage Tom gave me provided the final touch and some badly needed assurance.

Eager beaver Indian guests, and other arrived at the reception half an hour before

they were incited! Bulletins were relayed to me from the Prime Minister's suite that he

was running half an hour behind schedule and gave me a bad ten minutes, but he seems to

have done a ouick turn-around and arrived on our receiving line within fifteen minutes

after getting back to his suite from an important political discussion involving his per

manent

Seereatrv#General for Foreign Affairs ---Sir Girja Shankar Ba|.rai, Mrs.

Roosevelt, Philip Jessup all of whom were to sit in the fron tier of the double speakers

table. It -fook the others a little longer to change and we were $$$&$ about to go in to

dinner without them--but they all turned UP in the nick of time. The press photographers

interest in Mrs. R. did delay us a few minutes --she wore bouffant black net with silver

embroiderv, large pearls and a beautiful,old diamond and raerl drop. Mrs. Pandit was

exquisite^ in a white sari with a wide gold band and the orchids Brooks had sent her. (if

she wore jewels, I did not notice them, which is just as well as she used to be critic!zed

far wearing too many.) The Grand Ballroom looked very pretty with dim lights and a very

tall white taper flanked by small India# and US flags at each- table, We fed about 1575

people and had about three hundred more come in for the speaking. I had ordered spindle

chvrsanthemums for two low arrangements of flowers at the head table -- and got a different

variety in yellow and bronze and did not like them. However it was my own fault as I got

so bogged down toward the end that I did not have time to go to the Waldorf and personally

select them. Indian "^ests were asked if they wanted vegetables instead of Turkey. The

desert was Baked Alaska, which Brooks loves and I hate, with the Indian colors inside-

orange ice, pistachio and vanilla ice cream. We began the program 4 minutes ahead of

schedule to the great delight of the Security men from the State Department, with whom I

was in freauent communication. Brooks presided brilliantly, Singh had his moment of glory

in a welcome in behalf of the four organizations and did it well, Jessup di owed his delight

ful sense of humor, Mrs. Roosevelt spoke well and gracefully moved into presenting Nehru.

He rambled informally for one hour and five minutes and gave a fine insight into the Indain

mind, warned us that fear is destructive and must be avoided, admitted that India rejoices

in not having the atomic bomb. He looked tired and probably was His voice is soft but the

amplification v/as good. I think the whole thing was pretty smot&h and displayed none of the

organizing difficulties. Stanlev Woodward, chief of State Department protocol #io had been

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U*-o~.lt thtj November 5, 1949

This can be written now because I am in the most curious position--a full weekend of
work in pulling together the report of last week's three day conference sessions into a
helpful state for the benefit of those who were not there--and no glasses. As you full well know this is batted off with great informality as things pop into my head. The window cleaner is supposed to cane this morning so I cannot go up to Vera's to get my glasses, tha gh Elinor has said she would drop them off for me* The nice girl.

Last Februaru when Vera went to Paris I asked Larry Harris, who had an important spot there in EGA to be nice to her. He was more than kind and opened many doors to her and -.
also had her for the weekend at his Torcy chateau. Now he is home briefly between his resignation irom EGA and the beginning of a private business he is setting up in Paris and she wanted to entertain for him. We set up a little dinner party last night before she was to take of! lor Buffalo where she is making a speech today* Larry rushed back on
from Washington on the Congressional, and joined Ifaria and Hank and me at Vera's about eight. In the middle of dinner Vera left the table and I assumed that she had gotten jammed up and was doing her packing and carried on as hostess indicating to Julia when
food was to be repassed and guiding the conversation. She reappeaxed with the dessert and announced that she had retired to her room and quietely fainted but was all right. :ifter the toffee was served at the table, she again disappered and we went on* At the
seemed to me to be the right moment I put a drop of water on the candles and we returned to the other end of the living room . She and I had arranged that at 10:20 she would go to her room to change her dress and leave for the train and I would continue with- the guests. But when she had not reappeared at 10:10 I began to wonder if I was goina to
have to cancel her train tickets and start getting someone to fly to Buffalo this morning,
to substitute for her and excused myself to check up on the situation* Julia reported that she had been quietly sleeping so I sent her for the purse to check on the tickets but she came back to me with the news that Verasr was now awake and I went to her* She told me that she was refreshed and wanted to go and then revealed that she had not slept all the night before* I knew of several upset*fp.ng things and her great fatigue from putting the finishing touches on a book which were enough to make anyone pretty low to say nothing
of a mecurical emotional temperment usually kept pretty well in check by a fine intellect. The final straw on Thursday had been a let-ifcr from the insurance company reporting that in September she would get a lump sum from her husband's insurance estate to finance the children's education. The relief that she no longer had to carry the full load herself,
the realization that he had planned all thfes for his family and so on brought back all her thirteen years of lonliness(this must be jsit about the anniversary of his death$ was just too much for the Russian characteristic of self pity. I hope I made the right decision when I comforted her and urged her to go toBuffalo on the theory that if she did not, she
would be overwhelmed by a further sense of inadequacy She changed while I had a word with Julie, each of the children and finally the poor guests. Mrs. Harris was using Hank's car so I took Vera to the station and put her onto her car, while the others fended for them
selves. Now I shall have to see Larry tomorrow as I never did get the story of his new undertaking which was one of the major points of the whole business.

Tuesday was quite a day beginning at 9:10 in the office things popped right along at
a fast tempo. Tom asked me to lunch with him, so we could clear up some things and then
he dined with me at the Town Hal Club before the FPA meeting at the Museum of Modern Art at which Owen Lattimore and Stewart Alsop spoke on "China and South East Asia*' What Next? " They did a good job, made a nice contrast in personality and the session was considered fine. Ve all went up to the Andrew Carey's for a buffet afterward in the pouring rain which made taxi getting a skilled business. Brooks, who had gotten back from Hartford
just in time to preside and relieve Tom of his Stand-by-ready to pinch hit as chairman role, and Tom brought me home.

At four in the afternoon I went to the TJS Mission to the UN office for an off-the record conference with Assistant Secretary of State George V McGhee. He was a little"
late in arriving on account of the dreadful plane crash in Vashington just ait his takeoff time. I liked his presentation very much as a combination of the broad problems in the

HwV.P.

npcre ?

i impassive responsibility he has in presidijfe over our foreign policy toward one
sixth of the world's population stretching from Turkey to Ind-ia^ nr! the smell

graphic illustrations he gave to drive home his points*

he enumerated the major

headaches* which ie diplomatically called 'funresolved problems" of Greece* Palestine*

Kashmire, the former Italian colonies* questtions beforefc the UN and the application

Truman* s Point 4 in Africa and the diddle lii ast. He does not feel that communism is

a basic problem in his area---that people there are much more concerned with the question

of whether or not they eat He warmly favors technical aids to improve the basic

economy and cited that $100 spent on research in the University of Beirut had resulted

in the control of a tomato pest and saved a $2,000,000 crop the first year. Also

that the malarial control instituted in Greece in 1945 had resulted in the annual

saving of somewhere between thirty and sixty million man days for labor. As soon as

the session was over he came to speak to me at once. Je each congratulated the other

on tie loss of weight. VThe last time I saw George was when I dined with them the

day Truman had appointed him to administer aid to Greece and Turkey and I had chided

him on his increasing weight.) He claimed he had done it by hard work, while I allowed

that Nehru, who had also been in his hair) had taken it off me. Then I skirted the

crowd and sought out Gele (his lovelier than ever wife) She said that someone had

given George and article on weight control that had gotten under his skin ,>nd he began .

to act as if he had personally discovered that butter is fattening'* They had to dash

to a Near Jast College dinner at which he was making a speech.

And speaking of dinners, the Near Cast Foundation is giving a dinner on the night before Thanksgiving (poor dears) for the Shah of Persia. The director of the Foundation* whom I have known for years, called me Thursday to give him names of people to send invitations to and asked if I would help him with the seating at the head table and other problems he will encounter. Such I suppose is the price of ixy Nehru fame.

Just as I reached the bottom of the page without realism up it yesterday* Sllinofc arrived with my glasses and I turned to the real weekend job, which kept me irom going to Molly and Jim as l wanted to 1 had told Tom that I would pull together the report on the Council meetings and since there was not a moment during the week, there was nothing for it but the weekend. I know from experience that it takes about ten hours intensive work. Perhaps I am obstinate but I am determind to polish off the Nehru dinner and the Council before I leave at lunch time on Thursday for Virginia# The call for the final committee meeting and my clean-up memo on the dinner went out on Friday. There only remain a few details of the actual expenses as contrasted with my budget to reconcile before we cut the profit melon.

Gerry has given me clearance that unless my knee retrogrades time rather than she is the answer. I've had my flu shot and know what vitamins I'm to take this winter so now I only have to hold the weight loss achieved from overwork of 12 pounds since myreturn Irom Maine. Gerry was depressed because of the death of Helen Hockinson in the Jashinrton air crash of the previous day. She was very fond of Hockey, who alas had hot told her mother that she was going by air. Another difficulty is an encounter with a skumc on the part of her sweet black daschund--Maxl If j can get to a shop before Thursday I shall send her some perfume for her birthday present ahead of time.
Now I must write some careful letters of introduction for Larry to use in his new business. He and Maria and Hank may come here in the course of the evening. I was supposed to dine with them, but Mrs. Harris brought her 35 year old brother back from Pennsylvania, and today Uncle issued a new rule--he will not meet strangers. So I was disinvited for dinner. Frankly I need the time here and I understand that he is an egotist of the first water and dominates every gathering with his extremely boring conversation.
No issue of chit-chat next weekend.. . From Thursday night to Tuesday night I'm in care of Mrs. James 1. Cash, Crozet, Virginia. Goody, goodyJ!

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,t & c -- o ?( th g g ! j j f i i r _ November 27, 1949

si/hen x wad a Cij.ila ve alu&ys eagerly consul"ted "the calendar on "the day of the first snov; fall to see by the number 01 the date how many snows w could look for
ward to that winter. ^Today I am rather grim to find nasty little business like flakes falling, and b.ne promise oi. so many more snowy days! Two weeks ago I was with the Gash xamily^ m^me foot nills of tne Blue Ridge. I had not gotten my hat off from church when the first of the fourteen for lunch arrived. They had such a good time that they stayed until quarter of five, so that was the only day of ray five there that I did not geo out io bask^in t le^ sun. It was a wonderful interlude and a marvelous combination of stayihg lazily in bed in the morning, sitting in the sun, gently walking about the land, a big cocktail party^of what is known as "county" society where I lost my heart to the Iniversity of Virginia proiessor oi Greek who loves the IT.B7'7 YQRK3R and reads every - word of it because he admires its style, a dinner party at the Battle's where Langhorne Gibson ad I won at Canasta at least at our table and lots of good easy conversation at ho.'je. f..e 0j. nee was so glad to be rid of me that Vera gave me a Vogue for train read ing and Tom donated a bottle of very fine Bourbon.

Yesterday x had lunch with the Greenwoods and was delighted with the improvement in Aunt .cessie since election Day. She really entered into the conversation instead, of putting in a laborious question or caimett on a topic I thought we had disposed of. Aunt Mary and j- vent on to see Katharine Cornell in "That Lady" --a late 16th century romantic
oiama by nate 0 Brien. The critics panned the opening on Tuesday, but we thought it had mucn &o recommend it and I noticed that the full quota of standees were there throughout. Cornell was excellent and the male support very good.

fednesday night 1 blanched almonds and Molly started the stuffing and the gravy for

the turkey we had ordered on Sunday. Right after Sunday School we went to two turkey

ferns before we^found one that would take our order. The little boys got a terrific*

bang out oi seeing tnem "on the hoof". Teddy and Maye, who were driving from Carlisle

on inursoxy in their new Pontiac, were held up in the Holland tunnel and arrived after

v:e

-linished. .ltoh twelve thirty when Billy had his steak and baked potato until

eight w en we finished eating cold turkey sandwiches someone was eating continuously.

Xt was slightly mad, out I an sure everyone had fun. Xn the late afternoon my four

nephews and 1 took a walk and perhaps there was so sensible conversation during that period!

Tuesday there was another FPA auditorium meeting at which Tom presided, so we dined together at iown Hall again and afterward came back here to talk. He came forth with the idea xvac x ought to be relieved, of some of my work and take on representing the Associatiai ao conference and on committees. The latter would be fun but at the moment I do not see sloughing oax enougn "stuff" to give me the time for the representing. George Fielding jjliot and James F. .va.rburg discussed "Arms for Hurope" at the meeting while they hewed to the political and economic implications pretty well and exposed the problem effectively, they were drawn off into the by-way of when is a division an effective military combat unit until Tom yanked them back.

Moncx y leggy Huntley, her step-daughter and husband, and I had dinner at the Algoncuin before the opera opening. Pdse Stevens was even better than usual in the title role of
"Der nosenkxvalier", there were three debuts and altogether it was a first rate performane. Long white lur wraps are very popular, green for gowns is fairly good, but there were a great many off ^white shades which ended up by looking plain dirty. I also deplore tlie trend toward lifeless shades of yellow and tired,undetermind light greens and strange mauve-purples. The social season has certainly started and from my standpoint poorly
as far as women's clothes are concerned. The conflict between long andshort skirts does dot help very much either.

Friday, the 18th, I went to the funeral of Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting in torrents of rain at St. James Church. They had' four priests, one a negro who read the Dominus Illustrahius in a beautiful resonant voice, full choir, good hymns like Jerusalem the Golden. It was p moving service for a grande dame of the old school dicing at the age of 94.

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* ^December 3, 1949

illils ongnt ,,0> 00 called "Vive La Franc# Day-- since I lunched with Charles llicaud a French born^ S citizen at the restaurant on 55th Street owned by Rene Dreyfus the

Fftench automobile^ racing driver and have just returned from a cocktail party given by the

Raoul .oglions# ... remember so well when they came in the dark days of 1940 after the

fagl 0- - rtuice and she took a course in hairdressing and worked so that they mipiit eat

while he worked with the Free French. He im now head of the UN Mission on Greece and

living m Athens where life is too grim with water only for an hour a day, etc. for him

to al.:.owJher to be with him. She lives in Paris and they have been together for the

period oi tne General Assembly. They are Ufa both very able and attractive and seem to

have returned to their pre-war economic status. She wore a dark red velvet hostess gown

sias,iea in M,e oacj- irom tne nape of tne nefck to the waist line, short sleeves and white

xish net long mite nd an exotic 1 envy oriental chain chocker necklace, Ficeud told me

about a scneme oj. ms to

put over the establishment in French jest Africa of a pl-nt

to moke a synthetic wool-like material out Si what is left from peanuts after the oil is

extracted. Inad happened to mention Vera in the course of lunch raid he said he would

lixe to meet ;isr,so j. said I would arrange it. Ve had not gotten half way to Fifth Avenue after luncn when i spied her on the other side of the street, v/e rushed across end I made gooo. my promise in record time!

Yesterday I erraged for Alexander Boeker to come in after tiie regular Friday morning research cor,erence md share a simple sandwich lunch with us while v/e picked his br-insl

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Gen,eny giving an objeotive picture of German attitudes under the occupation. Last April

-egot anoohei military permit from the TJS Army end has meanwhile bceome a member of *

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years ,d get a further permission from our Government to go back to his nob. I was

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has a vested interest in

some of the traits which one thinks of as being Germanic and even lost vear

FF a apparent are very much in evidence. He points out the inaceept-bility of the

internationalization of the Ruhr, the folly of our regulations as to who is a Nasi d

union ink'hich^eraa-ov 1TM

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FRF Vi . \ ? F o'jll partner with opportunity to manufacture and export the

k Z T f o m r ^ t z t r: * * < ^ 2 ; t i t " - " can S8ST" proouoe. He feels that Comm1truonnHisa iosmp6is most unattractive to the test someone vmchas esca"pe"d fr-om Sv;"o10vi-eotugdhotmiiniiateRdusesaiastesrund (bW rouaghyt hoormheaas vbeerenv epxopoorserdeptoorta ic-nnvr

returned prisoner of war who has been in the hands of the Russians for years! llthouR there

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us who t^k^d wKS feel

that we nave been alerted to the vanguard of the German propagandists.

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December 11? 1949

Last night I went the New York Ballet with Vera as a part of broadening my education. She is very keen about ballet and goes whenever she has the chance. I have never cared much for it feeling frustrated by it. So it seemed a fine chance for me to get some tutoring on how to behave. Thar did "The Guests" --concerning the patterns of adjust ment and conflict between two groups, one larger than the other--as the program warned me. It was beautifully costumed with the girls in what might be described as modest brilliant red dressmaker bathing suits and the men in black tights topped with bright peacock T shirts. The music by Marc Blitzstein was modernly unmelodic but Jerome Bobbins had done a beautiful job in the choreography. "Firebird" was the second offering with Maria. Tallchief in the title role. She is the daughter of an Osage Indian chief and is a beautiful slim creature with a, crisp style. (I wish most primiere danseuse gals did not have such painfully thin arms and torsos! I wonder why.) The last was "Bouree Fantasque" described as Classical Ballet^ but to me utterly delightful. The- entirecast was in black with accents of gold, peacock or red velvet. The evening was a great success. Afterwards we stopped at Hicks for the inevitable round of office gossip.
And speaking of the office four of us were there yesterday morning to attend the Annual Meeting for the election of the board of directors. The officers will be unveiled at the January Board meeting. I have been unsuccessfully politicing for the officers and Committee Chairmen to be made on Thursday at the December Board meeting, but take my failure with grace and understanding of the present difficulties. This is probably the last chit-chat before the new year as Friday morning we begin the famous long-view-strategy conference involving six Board members and four of us from the staff, which is scheduled to run straight through Sunday. I fear that if there are any breaks in the discussions as such, the staff members will have bull-sessions.
Tuesday night we had another FPA Auditorium meeting. This 'time on "Germany's Future" with Hans Simons speaking and Tom presiding so I took him to dinner at the Town Hall - Club. Afterwards Vera had a dozen people for a snack at her apartment, Tom stopped hore for an hour -hen he brought me home , so I was short on sleep but very long on talk. Simons left Germany, where he was governor of Pomerania at an unusually early age, with the ad vent of Hitler. Therefore he was especially pleased when he was given a very important role by the US Army and was essentially responsible for the writing of the Bonn Const!- .. ... tution. He and his wife are both delightful and give one pause when they take a dim view of Germany runninp: a smooth course. Curiously enough he feels that the children who- "Heiled Hitler" had done so without appreciation of what they were doing and can be taught to be democratic far more easily than their parents. The latter had to adjust from the Kaiser to the Weimar Republic, then to National Socialism and now are skeptical and unwilling to make another ideological shift. Amonfe those at Vera*s were Blanche ICnopf (Mrs, Alfred) who shares the authors published by the firm with her husband and is a disillusioned, hard disagreeable person. (She has recently been given the Legion d'Honneur by the French and' gave a cocktail party of celebration where all the guests were those who had been similarly decorated and were told they must wear their ribbons. The house was done up in red, white and blue flowers, the guests were faallenged at the door to be sure they had their "Proof of decoration" -nd the Egyptian head in the entry stiffly wore a huge facsimile of the medal
around its neck! I'll bet the French Cultural attache cringed. Champagne fbowed freely and Blanche was happy. This of course is rail second hand since they have not gotten around to me yet with decorations! I)
Now I must put myself in a creative state and produce g promotion piece for the FPA I stupidly volunteered to do it ten days ago and now I must deliver. At the moment there is no one 011 the staff who is skilled in that direction and wre cannot afford to let the job on contract, hence my "noble" offer. Woe is me if my collegues donft like my effort.