Frances J. Pratt Letters on the U.S. Foreign Policy Association, 1952-1953

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Well, here we are bravely into -(lie New Year and finally today I have gotten .:!V Christmas decorations down gnd packed away# In honor of my 25th anniversary with the e PA I a Ivered some greens and used them with fir in a horozontal swatch on the mantel
with a pendant cluster of large Christmas balls and two of my huge brandy glasses filled with small multicolored balls# On the doors I h.ad fine needled pine (which by the way did not drip as badly as the customary fir or spruce ) with huge red ribbons holding
silverea short pieces of fir and bos. It really was most effective and comparitively easy to do as a wore plastic mittens to do the silvering# the bathtub will carry a long silver drip for some time I suspect unless I get arround to attacking it this after noon,, As I have most of my Christmas thank yous to do, scrubbing the tub will wait#

Yesterday morning it was raining when I woke, so after I had dressed in a 11# nice black crepe trimmed with tier after tier of black two inch fringe, which was 'Wini fred Emeny's I phoned Judith to see if I could pick her up for her Town Hall lecture. The operator worried me a bit when she reported that thei^e were instructions not to ring her room until after lunch# 'Hie thought did cross my mind that she might have mistaken the day and was working on a pice READERS DIGEST seems to have commissioned on Mary ?dnnison-Woods, but I trundled down and found Left Davies alone in the Green Room# llith mounting uneasiness . left my coat and went to the front door to greet her# Fortunately she arrived seven minutes before eleven and did a very good lecture# Then we went up stairs to luncheon with Mary Allen and Lefty acting as Host and hostess. I was delighted
to find Mr# and ..re# DeViTitt Clinton Poole (Committee on Free Europe) and Dean and Mrs. Malcolm Pitt (he is of Hartford --Trinitj?" College and an old friend of mine) but she a recent acquisition was Julie Thompson, whose mother was deskmate of Aunt Bessie, so she too is a courtesy niece of the Greenwoods#) Lady Gosford and Dorothy Norman (publisher
of the NEW Y ORK POST) rounded out the table# Then Judith and I went to Alma Savage*s office to hammer out a three week tour for early 1953# Miss Savage has an agency spec ializing in the Catholic platform and given three decent weeks ought to do a satisfactory job--in one week of useabl tine I have gotten <p75Q dollars for her moh pays the expenses of the trip and enabled her to do some valuable work for her publication EAST EUROPE AND SOVIET RUSSIA

There was time to balance my check book and find to my joy that the bank and I agreed before going to the cocktail party Mr. and Mrs# Charles Hester were giving for Schnidt-Pauli, the ex-German officer who spent five years in Sussian prisoner of war
camps. I had a most amusing conversation with Derraot Yates (or perhaps Jones for all I know)who was a close friend of Dudley Pratt's at Yale and who persuaded his lawyer father to take Dudley into his Honolulu firm afterwards# It developes that Dudley is now senior
party of that firm. It seems justifiable to call yesterdya "My what a small world day" 1

Thursday night Vera had the Harrises and me for dinner# They were half an hour late in arriving and Vera with encouragement from Elinor and me was just about to call
them and say "Remember, you are dining here" when they arrived# Mrs# Harris had recovered from her cold and Larry v/as in fine form--gayer and more fun than I have seen him since 1944, just before he went overseas. He may have to rush back to France on Saturday. It is again being taken for granted that I shall visit them there in the summer.

Curiously enough ~Azme Hester has just telephoned me so I found out that "Dermott's name is Stanley#

New Year was damp and warm, marred only by the necessity of keeping Jay in bed because of a slight temperature and a cold# Fred bemoaned the absence oi snow and ice which kept him from using his new ice skates or his lovely big sled. l olly and Jim ha funat the Hempstead Golf Club New Year's ISve dance and she looked lovely in a brigrt red strapless withbouffant skirt. Bill tried to soften me up on something by calling me "Frankie-girl". Fred amused me by cataloguing a particularly garish OhristraaB-nou.c-aecc.
ratine as "bar and grill" and that is exactly vniat it did look liket
Churchill is here and we are not doing a party. I'm both sorry and glad.

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the- man. .ihile I am uncertain of the chain of cdmraand end etL,veiti. oM ^ituatipfci^ which I find myself-- Gerry sent me to Raisbeck as a diagnostician, to9 get confirn&tioh^ on her judgement having seen me regularly for twenty years and this autumn having gotten b lot of blood chemistry and x-rays done on mes Raisbeck does a lot of checking on me including electro-cardiagrams, etc. etc, end the "Soft tissue x-rays" and then he sends me to Snapper after getting my permission and Gerry's. Snapper announced this morning "If you want to get rid of that pain in your leg, stop smoking. Take the capsules ordered in this perscription, ..rite me a line about how you are getting along when they are gone, so I can send you another perscription. Gome to see me in two months. " It certainly will be fine if I'm fixed up as easily as that--I have not had a cigarette for four hours and shall start on his capsules as soon as I go out to pick them up from the druggist
am nor clear whether he reports to Raisbeck at once or after the second visit.

I know rom past experience that giving u.p smoking increases my capacity for sleep. I dread the awful waves of sleepiness ti at engulfed me, even when I was talking to people. Perhaps iSll keep a little note book on the experience of doing without cigarettes and maybe get time to write an amusing little piece about it. Already I realize that lighting a cigarette was a stalling for time-^^^e devise, vhile I decided what to do next or what to write next. Do you suppose that I diall find time as well as money is saved in not smoking? This is going to be very interesting. I have not yet decided how I am going to handle this in the office on r.cc -unt of the silver cigarette case aid lighter. Of course, the Snapper diagnosis may be wrong and cigarettes may return to my life after a test absence. His advice is that I should never smoke again. On the otherhand -when I reported honestly a little over a pack a day to take into account those exchanged with other smokers, he promptly decided tnat my consumption is two and a half packs a day. fell, we give him a try and this is the latest from the medical front.

onday was quite cold and Carolyn I artin went to the opera-~Cavalleria husticana and Pagliacci. It is an easy music to listen to . Delia .ligal was quite badly off as hedda , especially in the first half of her role. The office had been hideous with most unexpected things happening all day so that the planned things did not happen. I did manage to get up to Pakistqn House at 4s30 to hear Professor A.H Hakim--a philosppher with mystic overtones. He has a lovely voice, deep timbered and rich, and a benignly cheerful expression which made me think of one of the more genial versions of Buddha. As m exponent of Islam and pleading that the caluianoup literature of seven centuries portraying huslems as fanati cal murderers must be destroyed, he might mot be enthusiastic about the comparison., As .Hakim was in the bast portion of his speech, the chairman Aneari passed rae a note asking; me to "speak on beaalf of the audience" I sent it back with the comment that this was a British custom little used hero, but that if it was also a Pakistan tradition, I would be happy to comply.

Wednesday we had a record attendance at the Off the Record luncheon to hear Judith, and after tiie Sommitte meeting the word was passed to me that they were happy and enthusias tic and all was well, yet on Tuesday afternoon they were supposed to ready to give the series up. Thursday night Judith rushed from the Congressioanl and her air force officer lecture at Georgetown arranged by Admiral G/illiam Dietrich, to our Evening with the Experts Series. She rid very well and afterward we settled some of her affiars and had some food before I took her home. (Despite his holiday, Tom's back is bothering him and I presided. )
Bins low Last night Judith picked me up herrand we went on to Natalie .ales/Latham Paine's penthouse at 1175 Park Avenue. The whole tiling was appallingly done. .Judith is asked to give thenames of some peole she would like to see before leaving, in other words to b the guest of honor. No definition of when Judith was to get there and when finally n Friday

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U , +pTo days without cigarettes and I am still in one piece
1E any Tetter. To Te honest I cannot say that I

thought it would he a miracle overnight cure. So long -s ? stiU we^to re .erne; not to smoke there huet he accumulated nicotine in ray system--if that is t. e a s wer. I am not at all sure that Gerry has much faith in t.us -neory. Sua is

rooting hard for me to take a touple of weeks sick leave and go to trie Vi gTslnd w with her. She and Laura Cox were there last February and agreed t..a vou relax quicker and better there than anywhere in the world. Of course, <everyone

considers that I am a miracle to have abstained so long, but

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has worn off. The satirical piece I write when I cannot sleep seems to be petering

and out and to me no longer seems funnye Very sad, as I had hoped to sell it .or

enough to pay that particular doctor.

The weekend at Greenwich as not bad* I expect to freeze and toon a wrap *o

wear after dinner as well as my sweater to wear during the day time, A.

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really need either. .Barbara '.Tells, lorn and I went out on the train cod mrooks

met us at the station. They waited while I sent a tele grab: to Larry .iai..s no

sailed the next day back to France. After dinner ve played Samoa---he .xrst nic.rt Tom and I beat the"others and Saturday night Brooks and I were tne winners, it

as odd though, each night at the end of the second hand tne score was ei nor

exactly even or had a variance of only five points. Allport e,eot a.1 oaturdaj

TetIt ith us ad even went along at five to the Avery (and Anna ) Aoe.,efe.ler nouse . 0. gave the impression of being a topsy-eort-of-juet-growed comxortasle nouse.

There was a nice arrangement of mimosa and greens in a pair 0. tailored metal con-

tiiiners on either side of the mantel and a acouple of dozen Lavender .lags in a

s quare frog in a large rectangular ceramic dsn on a low uixiu&v s~ll

room with too many oil paintings. It was tea, which is what we had ^ ^eQ

and a black uniformed rather frousey maid passed tne toastea mnglish muf.ine. .ou

is highly critical of Brcroks, and I am very out of sorts with .011, in fact ^eca^se

I ->m quite frank about it vdth him and with Brooks about Tom being m my nair,

Brooks "came back at me, "OH, so you an Tom now have a mutal_annoyance societyJ I

vieh I thoutht Tom could laugh it off too, btu I fe-r that is too much to hoi;>~. I, lie is* not able to change bis attitude toward Brooks, I suspect he won e with us

much longer#

Vera had dinner with me Monday and we went to Mozart's "Cos! fan tute^' in _ Bnglish. Alfred Lunt came in between the end of the overture arx ;-c ra'sing ox
the curtain, .fith infinite style and grace he-lighted" the .ootlig-its as a ea6. Lunt staged this production, -hich was made possible by tic.Otto hahn children. The music is delicate and graceful, the acting was excellent, but fc..o -tory xe so
Silly that I felt it was not worth the talents of the really excelled cast.

I've been busy all v.tek fitting in the details of a luncheon at the hotel Astor on February 14 for Kanly Floischmann, Adminstrator of Defense - reduction (j8.> between ue Srroko and I got ourselves off the hook with Governor Bewey). ^riday T worked late and thin went to dinner with 'arabara ..ells and a .r...end of -eif* "tra i f-e all tired and pledged not to talk shop . ./e went io Lane s in reenwich Village Sd had a very good dinner and a heated argument about "Sisters ana Brokers have T noie , This man's father is my father's son", .iho do you_,.hink 1. is, afy ,. resorting to diagrams we did not agr-s. Later we_went to the Peacock .affe at 14
est Fourth Street. A fantastic place serving various Kinds o. Italian conee, ca.e and ice cream. V/e settled for coffee. I had both-esspresso" rhicu was so st.ong
that I had to use a little sugar and later Cappuccino, which aao. stewed milk an ^ cinnamon in it--absolutely wonderful# The clientele ms entertain^ ^ consider
the place a real find#

Last "lies day I was elected to membership in the Cosmopolitan Club --pleasant but I am sorry to have the initiation fee at this moment, however they

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February 2, 1952

On Wednesday Martha was called to Charleston with the news that her mother had

suffered a stroke the morning before, though it had not immediately been diagnosed as

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condition deteriorated progressively, before she really regained consciousness at five o'clock this afternoon. Clevee has .a deep chest cold, which Martha

wants to keep from going into the long drawn out thing Fred is just getting over, so

it has been decided that CIeve and the children will not go to Mrs. Newton's funeral.

Cleve feels that Clevee is coming along pretty well.

Thursday morning i went to Anne Morgan's funeral at St. George's. Although I had not seen her ior several years prior to her having become an almost complete invalid,
her vitality, enthusiasm end energy came back to me as I sat in the church waiting for tne service to begin. Ten years ago I saw a great deal of her when die was the president of the AWA and I was chairman of the executive committee. The choir sang
tne livelier h^mms, there was a delegatioi^ of French men with tricolor arm bands who were honorary pall bearers. She did a great deal for France of course, but you must give the French credit for doing the graceful tiling!

The week was pretty frantic as after opening the UNSSCO conference on Sunday night 3 went to as many sessions as I could, but had that very unsatisfactory feeling w en j was at Hunter College tiiat I ought to be in the office and vice-versa* Mon
day afternoon K OY/ard Cooke from San Francisco talked to several of us in the office abouo what the NCDG ininks about how we should operate. I mu3t say tha.t I am pretty conf ised and fear that my eollegues are too. So I am quite determind to get that complete break that Gerry has recommended. Monday I'll lay it on the line that Gerry
and I have our passage on Fan American the night fligit Thursday, February 21st to San Juan (Peurto Hico) and then on at noon to St. Thomas, where we shall be at the Galleon ..on.se (unless we can get other space in the very crov/ded town) ,,7e return
on Saturday, March 8th in a day flight. Its a little more than eight hours flying time and with the four hour lay over in San Juan a little better than twelve hour elapsed time.

Tuesday night I dined with the Alan Filliamp he is vice consul of Britain, in m\ new^aqua chiffon dress. The ten yards skirt billov/ed in a preety strong near zero wind when I got out of the taxi at their Fifth Avenue at 100th (or thereabout) atreet apartment house. Of the ten at dinner, only three smoked--my hestess, who
wore a coral chiffon with which my aqua looked lovely, the Consul General a ratther stuffy old bird who v/as on my left at dinner and the Canon of St. John tie Divine.
The Canon xsreally a most amusing person, though I suspect he knows it and is quite willing to let everyone listen to him. Mrs. Hobson, wife of the CG, told me while
the men dallied over port , that there were some 600 small "blackies" in institutions in woriolk and Suffolk whom she says are American citizens by virtue of their faihers
who were there before the invasion of Normandy and adds that'they seem to have diffi
culty vatn establishing this citizenship to the satisfaction of the State Department. Her sister seems to live quite near one of thse orphan homes and is greatly interested in tne problem.

Wednesday night I went to a buffet supper and movie at the headquarters of the

mgoslav delegation to the UN in a really lovely Fifth Avenue mansion which they

have tanen over at^67th Street. I had never been very "in" with the Yugoslavs and

thought it a good idea. The company was very odd, several blacks, quite a few, Yugo

slavs who did not all seem to be official, Guy Smery Shipler editor of the Churchman

wno is very pro-Tit/o, Mr. and Mrs. Ira. Hirschmami (manager of 31oomindales) were the

only ones who dressed and were made much of. I got there quite late, but after I had

some plum brandy-quite good and did not seem as strong as reported, thou* I sipped

7 _ ,r Ala^or^ instead o, tossing it off as is proper--and so me food roast turkey,

beef wrapped in cabbage, "caviar relish" which seemed to be very young string beans

and iinely chapped green pepper with a lovely dill taste and well'laced withWlic



> P^e-t0 salad, pickled beets, lettuce & tomato salad, etc. "dinky" Moore

founa me and got tne chesse strudel for my dessert. I saw no coffee. The movie was

almost two hours long and proved that freedom, truth and love were the most valuable things m the world- l did not go back up to the bar afterward*

' This has been a lovely freshly-washed, cibean, bright-blue day with some wind but higher temperature than I expected. I progressed my preparations for the Virgin Islands by getting a permanent. If I don't keep having lunch with Tom, because his back is acting up again and it seems a good ideal to keep hi mind off himself, I'll buy a cotton dress or two in a lunch hour and that's all I have to do. Gerry lias done the transportation and the reservations at the Galleon House. Charlotte Amalie (that's the name of the Town).St. Thomas (that's the name of the island and I have yet to find out how e Thomas qualifies as a Virgin ofi the fourth Centring in Britain, Virgin Islands (that what C Columbus called the group--1,000 miles east of Kiy VGST and 1300mil"es south east of New York--when he discovered them in 1492), UcS.Ao (be cause we gave the Danes $25,000,000 for three islands end some islets in 1917 for strategic^ reasons.) The underscoring comes out with my address --airmail is 6^ for letter, just like domestic US. But is wise to use USA in address as there are other Virgins belonging to the British. They are the most northerly prt of the Lesser Antilles. I wonder where I ever learned that Cuba is "t e pearl of the Antilles". * . a description which comes to my mind whenever Cuba is mentioned and a more useless "nugget" never cluttered mind!
At very long last I got to "An American in Paris" and was highly enter tained, but could not help wondering whether it was an absinthe dream or what that produced its frills. Delightful, but I just cannot picture anyone sitting down and in cold blood concocting the motif of the ballet for instance. ThaT Toulouse LaTrac was superb inspiration.
Tom's back is causing him agony again, so I presided Thursday night when Schmidt-Pauli told about the Russians he came to know when he was a German prisoner of war in Russia for 5 years 1945-50. I had not slept very much the night before & was terrified that I would doze off as I had heard the speech twice before. But a strange and sinister character appeared in the front row, navy blue shirt, egg shaped hairless head. He certainly was not an FPA member end could not have come for any good reason. le hdLped me to keep awake, watching him and wondering when and in what form his violence would take* Actually he was silent throughout the meeting and in leaving so irritated a "regular" as to inspire a "Well, if you don't like it here why don't you go back where you came from". We which our character replied something about there being no freedom bf speech here, etc. etc. and then someone eased him into an elevator. Later I discovered that Hiss Lusk and I had no male staff support at all, and I made terrific speeches to Tom about it the next day. We have not renewed ouur feud, nor have we gone to the bottom of it and cleared it up. On the surface everything is very buddy-buddy. Perhaps it is useful for me to get mad and demand that he stick to cases and not go dragging red herrings across the face our of discussion!
Tuesday I was too tired to go to D'arcy Edmondson's for a drink to meet Nr. Barraau, and assistant Editor of the ECONOMIST# I don't know why, but I was tired & thought it best to call up and beg to be excused. The next morning I learned of King George VI 's death, so felt badly at having let down the head of the British Information Services the night before. However I was fresh as a daisy and in spite of a hard day went late to the reception Lauri Shaffi (Pakistan Consul General) was giving for his departing Ambassador Ispahani. It was done beautifully witi Lauri's superb organization. I chatted with several people including the Italian Consi 1 General who insisted that I must be English because "you look so completely English". He turned out to be an old friend of Brooks', who did not drink but kept throwing nuts (whidh he did not offfer me, though he did offer me cigarettes) into his mouth. All the official Pakastani wore black neckties. VHis Excellency" has done quite a bit of speaking for me so I had a special chat with him, thanking him, wishing him well in his new post in London and then murmured what a tragedy that he was going to a court in mourning. To which he replied "I still cannot believe that the King is dead. Last night I went to "The King and I" the actor who plays the king was ill and the understudy took the role. This morning when I was was told 'The King is dead', I said 'No wonder he could not play last nig/it'" That same evening a friend of my secretary's sent a telegram from the Western Union office at the Waldorf and asked for a confirmation copy. The clerk replied "Ordinarily we woulhdbseahglaadpatrotm, ebnut ti.tnodthaye "whe.iadroerf efxTh,oawuesrtge)d^ The Duke of Windsor's brother died." (Windsor

February 20ih , 1952

This cannot be a chit-chat--but is a factual report If' v/eather, which has been threatened for the past several days,does not finally set in tomorrow night Gerry and I leave tomorrow night from Idlewild airport at 11:30 on Pan American flight #205 for San Juan and after four hours there, presumably while we breakfast at the Garib Hilton, we go on by flight #26 to St. Thomas at L2:15 nono. So fro m
lunchtime on Febraury 22nd until $$$: G a r i b Air ilight ,,-23 takes us back
to San Juan on Saturday March 8th the address is^ Galleon House, Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, USA
The flig h t back is ;206 due to leave San Juan at 3:15 in the afternoon. Me idea is that we get to Idlewild again about 10:30 in the evning and home in time to get a good night's sleep, then we have Sunday to get caught up personally and return to our respective offices on Monday. (I spoke to Gerry Monday and found tnat^she is frightfully busy--all her other patients are indulging in all manner of things ana she expects to stumble onto the plane tomorrov/. But she has gotten a new hat to
travel in.)
It did not seem necessarj7" to take three pair of vihite shoes, so after whitening them'I only packed two pair. After all this is supposed mo oe a very simple and restful holiday, lie are not taking evening dresses and I am not even bothering to find out if I know anyone official there. Should we want to do something fancy I shall just have to pray that I have a "clean dress" to wear. (After all 1 once acted as Halsey Powell's hostess for a dinner of eight or ten in Harbin viien all^ I could do v/as to change my necklace as the only other dress I had on that leg of my jaunt was in the laundry.) On Lincoln's birthday I got a watermelon^pink^dress --shirtwaist type with a multiple narrow gored skirt of Nylin--combination of nylor^g and butcher linen and a full skirted cotton with a sultry sort of blfcck and peacock green print. The rest of the v/ardrobe are all old friends. He are supposed to have no humidity, trade wind breexes from the north east and temperature in the nigh seventies. I have packed a light flannel coat and a sweater--oh yes, and a sport hat just purchased from Franklin Simon. It is an"import" from California wrich explains its $3.50 price tag for a slightly larger than gob-type hat with stitched turn up or turn down brim This one is made of blue and white stripe bed ticking

This past week I was with Holly and her - en. Porr Bill was neitner well

nor sick with a cold. Fred seems to be quite over the nasty bout which kept him

more or less down all January. He and I had a fine time working on his newly

started stamp albumn, we went to church with Holly to hear Jay in the choir, AS

he gains in confidence his voice is developing quite sweetly. Clevee was crucifer#

Sunday afternoon Molly and I called on Martha and found that she has a areadful ~

cold, but I was glad to see that she seemed to be bearing t,~e shock o-

j.ioi.-.ier(s

death pretty well.

Lincoln's Birthday I went to the members luncheon at the Cosmopolitan Club and verv much enjoyed a urogram in which five members read, and very well indeed, little
known and most' delightful bits about Mr. Lincoln. On Thursday we had the luncheon
at the Hotel Astor at which Manly Fleishmann spoke, well,ably, authoritative y, i e
:? sisr. Ks w o r k e d v e r y h a r d a n d h a d a n a u d i e n c e o f e x c e l l e n t q u a l i t y b u t p o o r q u a . > q ~ 5u8 * -

more than fifty years.

March 12, 1952

Flight '-206 was two hours late out of San Juan and a little over tnree hours late at Idlywild, but it was a calm. Almost a third of the passengers were Japanese who had homsteaded in Brazil twenty-five years ago and wdre going back to Japan for t..s first time. They seemed to have done very well raising rice and coffee between Santos and Sao Paulo. As it turned out they had so much luggage all ready in the plane ne. * ere was no room for ours. After quite a delay we left with only my hatfeox which
primarily carried sea fans, white shoes, bathing suits'. I got home to bed about 3i30 Sunday morning. As Penny was to leave early Monday for England, uerry hau to go out to Brewster early and I suppose was in a sleepy state when jsne called tne airport c. found the missing luggage had arrived, so she just had it all seirqto her hew -ork address. When I called San.American somewhat later, they naturally did not nave my fituff Oh well, I jot it Monday, only to find that someone had stolen a bottle ox brandy, which I had bought for $2*50 and which costs $8. here. St. Thomas is a free port and things from Europe are very cheap, but food and things irom the otates are
equally expensive.

I thongughly enjoyed my visit and,when people say how well I look and how becoming

mv tropical tan is, I have to explaint that only because I acted like a mid-Victorian

and scuttled to the shade on all ocassions did I avoid returning in a rea ni

g

state. The Virgin Islands are a lovely place to visit, but J would not care

there. I was almost constantly conscious that I was in the minority, first because I

am entirely nordic, second because X was not in the V.I. to get a divorce, third because

X am not a lesbian and fourth because I was not a "cloak and suit wife with a

mink. The islands are largely of volcanic origin and so have no natural wa.er supply

under-round or springs. Each house must have a certain amount of ram catching roo

and a cistern, then they also have grdat ugly concrete "catchments" on hillsides to

collect additional water, which is stored in great sisterns. In tne dry season this

public water is made availabale at certain hours to people whose own supply has ru

short. fe continually saw lines of people with anything from a laru pail to a xive

gallon tin waiting to get supplies from a public cistern, yet tnsy had had rai

weeks before we got there. That sort of thing made me feel I should use tne merest

tr'die for my shower, lest later on there not be enoughto drink. Because t..e soil

is poor" and the rainfall slight on the southern side of the island, there is practically

no agriculture on St. Thomas. The hillsides have a good many organ cacti, centurj

plants, and the common disc-with-little-discs variety. Roadsides, especially at t,i .s

aboundWith snake plants. Of the three inhabited 03 Virgins St. Croix is the least

mountainous and most agricultural.

we made the twenty-six minute flight from St. Ihomas to St.Croi_the first Tuesday

we were there. Dot Kemble, educational director of radio station ./OR, met us a

o-rnort with Bruce Miliirr and they immediately began a tour ox the island ~ "

tVfileds of sugar cane in the lush plateaus and finally to the barren eastern end

throu^iCramerPark to the not easterly point in the United states, where there is a

i nv<=lv bleck rock formation that "smokes" beautifully every time a slue vav dashes itself whitelTagainst the rook. Ih. land is dotted with the to me sinister

looking bottle cacti; Stopping in the mid-13th centruy Danish port of Christiansted

.,a

+o nnrk next to Nancv Boyle Knowles, who was just backing out. Je nao a

gew words before she apologized for having to rush off to the other end of the island

and added that she lived in the deeppink house with the ^uminumroofandwaskeepin6

house for her cousin Don Downs of Philadelphia. (I

heard .r^.^y Ailen in Jan.

ifr Hssrs ra:-w t h a t K a n e y ' s h u s b a n d d i e d 1 3 m o n t h s a g o a n d t h a t s h e h a d a n a p a r t m e n t m e w - o r x ,

choice of this house or an older plantatio . *

^ drawing room furntirue

self to a small hotel with most people 1*

swaRg and hands of

was made stering

for a_ Danish exposition. .-ahagW d silver(a good inchand a half wide).

Mow tne

1 can hDee woodIt is a

oilieda a*nidu charming

asnC Jdi-lJ v-dV eWe*rligp-- notxul

Xlshed without oil being smeared on wood I do not know.

March 12 page ^ 2

establishment with pleasant peopie end en^ir/,jrelnone of the^

a good many kinds of palms, coconu s,

^ affect. The swiraaing at their oeac -

Vdndswept feel that many of the St.TM u6Ually Swam. After a luncheon

did not seem as good to me as at - - _

Predericksted rtiere the ouilaon^

of Danish fish pudding

lobster sa^oe, ^^ ^

^lie, a n d frequently

- oterial favors word,over stone as 1 j

wood work in screens# Alexander

indulged in elaborate, almost Mediterranean sc=rollLed,ood vor^ ^ ^ he k d

Hamilton's mother (levine) was onr-e < -

never married the motner,. .hen

*,, a young man. (Lord Hamlton gave hxyon^nxs^^ ^ ^ mountaine and a wonder-

"did"the north west part 0- t-.e .

+PP= that send "ropes" down toward tne

ful re vine with tropical growth inducing tne trees that

P

though they are

^ronnd. ,'e saw several cocoa trees h e r e . Both islands ^

lieorice, tamarand,

srsvsfs.'S'^'fti -1 -- not indiginous, mahogoay, papaya,:mango, cue"tar. ^

^ W3,, unahle to get the

Life at

If""

it r^stVou(itg( though they hart TMrked

piece three months ago without a -P

j

ey peve us breakfast and usually

th their partners in a restaurant

pranged for next door with Mrs.

" ed sandwiches for us to eat at tne D SA^ . Yfeltor 1 aguire at Hotel 1829, where we

stav unless we gave tnem word oy ^ ^epster froffi the Tropical Inters

noon. After a few days were were a-e . , company for $35 weekly and so were more x. p -

atie to go where and vaen we ^ ^ hiilside above the post

pleased. The view from our bedroom

" District Court which granted the divor-

offioe, so we saw only its rooi and^ v.-. -

^ more secure by Hassels end .later

ces, to King's wharf end the blue of ^tne

_ cQuld see the Southern cross

Islands on the west. ,ven witnout S^2 0-."1faCt there is little on the islands in

brilliantly. Our windows nad no gla-s (

heat of the day, but open the reso o-

frapes) "but jalousies, which were c .= --

conditioning provided by the trade

the time to give us the benefit of the "aturel^ ^ equipped with heavy solid hurri-

v-inds which comes from the n<r tn east,

-

on hay 25 everyone goes

or no' shutters. (The last reel one they had was 1938;

tlank8 that they have

to church to pray no hurricanes come a-,d on Oct jt best to make as few changes

been spared.) '.Then the o ooug- ' '

^

free port theory persists. This

as possible, so traffic goes to the

jhile wo were there both

makes Charlotte Itoalie a fine pert o. call -

9ach. The passengers ran through

the Mauretr.nia and Stelle iolorie a

Cities" of liouor, and some of them bougr.t

the to, almost everyone bougnt fea ^i?^neclrtieE or ysrd goods, for some strange

th& lovely Danish silver and gits.-, J-



., + Hew York jrioes. Along the main

reason the most of the French ^^f'^^/^ehousee with huge metal doore (if petals

Streets shops have Been made out <u theol< _*

wooden doors so tne

were too expensive the merchant ted a oheatning of metal

^ ^ goodg). In the

pirates would not burn the doors down end take is -o-

lovely outside stairways

PoW days the mercte ts lived over the wareho,use,^* there^ th be^tiful iron work

openeing from courts, never irora t ie siree

^ geveral hills, in many cases

reminded of me* Hong Kong) -one sudi street is 149

steps.

/->

firnce clubs in Italy decideo. sue

H elen CahiU,a Continental

jn iJew York migrated. She works for

did not want to go hack to being a noei; - ^

gohool luncheons for St. Thomas c

the Department of Ed'ucation and at .John. She recently rented a

supervc.seP small house

" from

natives, her south boundary is natives,^ ^ ^ ^ detaehed

the
cook

^

northern edge of Galleon nouse prope

~

^ th6 43 steps between our

house. The first time we went to see rte.e.

another houSe and up the 99 Steps, a

gallery and the road, walked past lot el 18^

another strret of steps, going down

hundred feet along the road brought u B to^the top of wott^ ^ ^ ^ gatg Qf the

at right angles to the first. Down fh.s a ^

dHye 6/lOths of a mile &

Cahill residence* .hen-ve wen

Ydifnot have the heart to ask how her re:, rig-

still had to go down the l&sx sxep^.

March 12, p&ge 3*

e_+OP TO8 delivered'. This kind of thing is in no way unusual. Helen has a cnarming view, quite different than that of Galleon Mouse, without lookingout to the open oar.obean. She lent us a thermos, so we could picnic (all water must oe boiled 20 minuses/ auonsored us at the Content Beach Club, lent us her goggles ana snorkel so we could enjoy the beautifully colored fish while swimming, and suggested that we go ontne gover nent*picket boat to St. Johns when she went to inspect some ox the schools. ..e were

delighted to have this opportunity and interested at the first port of call, San .ruz to nick un a soft spoken gentle policeman. He w%s going along to check in at several settlements in the e astern end of the island to see if anyone tad anything tney wasned to report to the law on the honor system which operates there, -ms islana 0' y as
police officers and I doubt if they get to Calabash Boom, Coral uay am iast End mor-
t'-u> once s month. He told us that one man had sometmng on hsi m nscienee ...tun _ past ten days and had walked to the policeman, probably a fifteen mile lake and probably up 1,000 feet and down again. At Coral Bay we watch Dr. Anduze, who had gone along with us, eive tvphoid injections to all the children in the school ana as^raany ox i adults as could" be rounded up. Mr. Prince, the handicraft teacner wrtn xour beautiful store teeth in an oh so pink plate adorning his upper front jaw, sold us some xiiie sturdy baskets. He said mine was not worth jl, so if i agreed he would consider t rest a donation fo the school as he had no change under the tamarand tree were tne deal v.ns pulled off. Helen says that the value of the hot lunch has been demonstrated in

the improvement in health in the ten years it has been done. But that Uncle Sam odes

not lavish money on the schools--they are alwyas doing things to raise money for so-

necessary operation or repair.

had an-out-of-the-can luncheon Hueitn miss i t-rva

Harsh in a new cottage within sight of ruins of her old plantation home --she is a

cafe-au-1ait product of mixed marriage. It was amusing to be there, one cou-.a no

recommend her place as a guest house, though it is so listed in Allan Hurray s hand

book on the V.I. (He was as drunk when I met him as Christine -romv/e-1 of frnn \.as^

the night she oame barefooted into the Donk*S> Shop with the pianist from the Ccoolooo

or was it the Patio.)

The day Dot Kemble was with ms we went on the glass bottom ooat^ trip with i-r. Hi rmon, (they are no longer living on the "Love Junk" but her book by tnac name is selling fine) from his base in Cha-Cha Town. The d ctor fish with tneir breathtaking blue were my favorite, but angels with bright yellow were pretty, whole families o sea urchins" sat on the bottom of 4-0-60 feet of water, various coral formations became dull from their commonplaceness ( it is all white, or specoled with pink or^ye owbrov.nish as in the stag horn variety.) Sea fans and various kinds of iungn or grass were pretty or weird. The remains of the sunken ship were fascinating, especia l}' as barrel staves and hoops which had contained tlia cargoe of salt fiish had acquired a good coral encrusetation in the 50 off years.they had been there. J tnink 1 enjoyed x.ns
as much as anything we did*

Louisenhoj w. ich Mr. Fairchild built around the ruins of an old Danish house on the top of the mountain (1500 feet) direct?.y back of Charlotte Amalie^ with view of the Atlantic to the north and the Caribbean to the south is amusing, inis woman natmg
eccentric^ died a year ago and left the house and the huge acreage to Homer ,/eaton , a New York investment counsellor kh om Gerry knows. Mr. Wheaton got down before we l e t o. asked us up to see the place. I think the old gentleman had claustrophobia in reverse. He made so many barriers to the distance and set up a lot of snort, contrived vestas. The furniture is largely Italian, only the drawing room could accomodate twenty people. All the bed rooms are singles. I fear Homer has a white elephant.

Another day we went to the Agricultural Station and were disappointed tnat so much seemed to be done with the ornamental and so little with the pay crop.^ I elthrop was formerly overseer at Louisenhoj* and had worked for a time a Bronx Botanical C-nraens.The Cha-Chas (French who have rigorously kept aloof from tha blacks and too muc.i inter
married as only a comparatively small number of them rebelled against t ie general govern ment edict that all French colonists return to France when they decided tx^t tnis was not

ABB, TjEC, MaM*,

1952

The last day of -. inter asserted itself in a most disagreeable manneron Wednesday with alternate spasms of heavy snov; and driving rain, which had the advantage of not allowing the snow to pile up and be a nuisance. Since then there has been high hurnidi'^y with rain yesterday andtoday--on the whole sleepy-making weather* On the whole this
suits me fine as I seem to retained the completely-lacking-in-ambition attitude I acquired in the West Indies. Yesterday I had a wonderful time reading the Journal of my great grand
father Mortimer deMotte and his comments on the West Indies formed while he was twenty** three years old and making a cruise to regain his health. Although he did not particu larly like St. Thomas and was far from his best in writing about it, I811 copy "those entries when I have a chance.

Yesterday I discovered that Mfcs Harris and Bud were in a dreadful motor accident while en route from Los Angeles to Palm Springs in February and only just returned to New
York. Mrs# Harris sounded vigorous and optimistic on the telephone yet this is the second serious accident she has had within 13 months--she had a conoussion of the brain, broke five or six ribs and gravely injured her left eye. Bud broke a leg and knee cap. Yet she talkes of joinging Larry in Paris --obviously I did not ask when. I have just called again and find that she feels quite up to have me in to see her for a bit this afternoon* (Wish I could remember if she was 84 or 35 last November0)

Monday the Belgian Information telephoned that their were now certain the S3 Veendam would not arrive on time for forraer/PierreMJlgny/ Minister of Colonies/^ / to speak at our Tuesday luncheon at the Town Hall. I was annoyed with them ror ever having agreed to the date because the director of the bureau Jan Albert GoYis seemed to have known from
the beginning Jigny came by the Veendam and that it always took longer. In fact he had insisted that Jigny send his mms.in advance -- so he read it, and very well, though he did not agree with some of the view points. Jigny is a friend of Tracy Philippe ("though Tracy warned me too late Jigny is not a good speaker), so I shall be curious to see what means of apology and restitution to me he will make. The paper was particularly interest ing to me as it dealt with the Belgian Congo, about which I know nothing. But the Virgin Islands certainly have a colonial status with us without being the source of production or income, which colonies traditionally are supposed to provide.

On 'Wednesday Jane Carey spoke at the off-the-record luncheon oil Displaced Persons and made some very interesting points. Many people think that these new immigrants are
all Jewish--actually only 19;;' are. The composite D#P. is a Polish, Catoolic, male with a wife and two children. After they get here with all the legal safeguards of a job to go to and a sponsor to guarantee that he does not become a public charge, they are apt
to behave like native Americans....they tend to move to cities from agricultural areas, the gravitate to the north from the south because of higher wages. Many of them have
relatives who are established here and write letters saying don't stay on that plantation in Missiissippi but come to Chicago where wages are so much more. In many cases, the Chicago cousin pays for the move and has been known to pay also for the return to Miss issippi when the DP did not like Chicago or failed to get a job there0 However unless the law is changed there will be no immigration from Poland , the Baltic States,- etc. for
a long time. For example on the "borrowing of quota" basis, the quota for Latvia has been mortgaged until 2053.

The doctor who took me off cigarettes is away, so tomorrow I go back to Raisbeek to find out what he has to say# The teeth extraction notion favored by two dentists has no currently admitted bearing on the pain in the left 3B g, and is to be checked by a Dr. Jack son a week from tomorrow. Maybe by mid-April I'll know better where I stand, but mean while do not feel that I should do anything very concrete about my summer# I do hope that
I can do something special with the two months I have coming to me.

The weekend with Aunt Annie at Martha and Sieves is called off because Thursday
morning Martha's doctor put her to bed -- phjrsical and nervous exhaustion. Thelma writes that die has been hospitalized in an attempt to locate the source of extensive nose bleeds, which go on for hours but stop just before the doctor takes a look. This certainly makes P lot of us in the clutches of the medicos!

, lij ,

, io^^tI fit"*

After the rain and heavy cloudiness we have been having today1s brilliant sun is welcome without it beennig a really warm day* It is iaroastic 10 t ^ink of ta^ results of the terrific snowstorm they have had in England. Especially when I had heard withinthe past two weeks of primroses in Scotland and many spring blooms in England. All this seems to be a fine introduction to my sharing at long last the comments re the King's death in two letters from England. Tracy Philipps:"Thank vou very much for your wicome sympathy on the sudden death of the HUG. My mother's eldest brother, Sir Francis ffolkes, was Chaplain to five Sovereigns. This placed us more close perhaps than we otherwise should have beey., especially as, at oanaringham, which my uncle's lands adjoined, the royal famil always liked to treated as countryneighbors, relieved of ceremonial. At the funeral, Britain's mounng banners waved bravely in the wintry winds confronting the faceless millions in the East." He wrote t is the day of his return from the continent a week after the funeral, so I am not sure that was actually at the funeral. Judith Listowel however was* "It was the best organ ized and most impressive spectacle I have ever seen. You have seen it in newsreel,so there is nothing I can add. Mien the news of the King's death broke, the grocer put on his medals and got drunk, the batcher's wife sobbed. It was normal for many quite humble people to sob aloud. Like many others the foreman at my printer's made no attempt to hide his tears. We are all in Court mourning, even my sister-in-law. At the luncheons of the mothers of girls about to be pr esented at Court you never see anything Dut black -perhaps some Farma violet^tes or some white lace. All parties even regimental dinners nave been postponed."
Monday I was discharged by the diagnostician back to C-erry and as soon as she has his comments I have a session with her4. At the moment I do not feel x have been greatly benefitted by all this, the most concrete tiing is that i have gained seven pounds since I first went to him and must take it off. But this weight is largely on account of having given up smoking, I feel distinctly "put-upon". Tomorrow the third dentist looks at my teeth and we may have some progress in that department soon. The one good thing Paisbeck said was that he saw no reason for my moving to a place where I did not hove my stairs"--which is fine as any move would probably double my rent I Temporally my urge for"spring activities" has been answered by titavating two straw hats, which I have not yet warn, and washing three lampshades'.
Brcoks has been largely away, with his brothers in Ohio, and with Faith in Florida during the period of the anniversary of Winifred's tragedy. Now he is back so Miss Jell at Tom and I dined there and played Samba on Tuesday evening. He was quite ready to have us go at el even, after I iss Wells and I had quite thoroughly beaten the men, w ich me.de all his protestations about our staying all night rather silly. The Greenwich house was sold to people who looked at it the January weekend 1 was tuere last. Now he is very absorbed in the arrangements and decoration of the new house in Princeton. Chester Williams, whom I knew in 1929 going to the Orient,and have kept in touch with ever since, appeared at the Board of Directors meeting on Thursday and made a very good impression. He joins the staff on April 15 to "make a survey" for two months and will then take a couple of months leave and if everyone is enthusiastic about everyone else lie will sign a three year contract to be program director or community developement director of some such thing under the Ford Foundation grant. The situation remains very iluid, not to say interesting. I'm on the verge of getting very involved in a political meeting at which the candidates will answer questions about their foreign policy plans,we hope. Or maybe everyone mil say "no" to me the way people did to Tom when he tried to set up some meetings while I was away. It is really all very interesting.
I have just talked with Martha and she says she will give up most oi her outside committments and feels that she will not get overtired again on such a greatly red,iced regimeo Tomorrow I shall take Miss Lusk to"Aida" and dinner--this is supposed to be some sort of a compensation to her to offset my having gone to the 7.1# Wednesday I am going with Aunt Mary to the "Constant Wife", so this shapes up as a week of great outside interest. I may even go the an audition of talent put on by the czar of the commercial lecture agents and an evening of British films. But than again I may not as I still indulge in an enormous amount of sleep, and seem to need it.

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April 6, 1952

'ell, Friday efternoon Gerry pave me the final results of all this medxca

hocus" polo's including Tednesdayfs cholesterol count. Naturally with al t,e teati:ng

that h-- teen plenty of things which are not completely normal fe ve teen discovered.

S i suspected it has been a"veiy long winded .nd expensive way to learn authoritatively

n'-at T - j not superman and probably never was and that my years oi pretending ..

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Th. pain in my lea will continue, but should not become worse or

spread to other'areas if fm2d i. -used by poor circulation in both legs

(they think it sligvtly odd 1 have pain in only one leg).

as my cholester 1 o



!,, in points T m now forbidden milk, cream, cheese, eggs, bacon and fatty meat.

X have fheart" mumur.lsT a greet many oiher people, but there are no special admon-

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Thpv wpnt me to stay off cigarettes but encourage a couple cm "is not to'benefit snv more by the enormous amount of over-time

TvSe done" Presumably if I 'C !

Wednesday i*t X am not to go to the

office until noon Xtorsday. That us going to throw them for a loop and I ' m not aire lh0ooowkIs nas"goifingI twooualndnobuenicne"voiAt+lv.ed withrrn-ap +copuptphleb^ ousindeesnstiisst, sqV.u.oi_rte.a_aegenssoother thiG-negrryandquiitte

Tell agrees with me tht the seven pounds must come off. Since I'm not to smoke and net much my only "treat" will be liquor. In view of the perscript on or t ^ ^

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the6end found considerable beauty in certain ranges of her voice.

as ^ern^s

please the more than capacity house, who alec just loved Richard i

sang the

Ethiopian king despite the fact that he had been married only the da. e~ re.

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see these, but would have done them ra net

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English, but it would have added to the^0TM2il*d the 'streets or who filed through

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should ha ve 25 minutes to wait looking Tor a place -to wait m found her al*efcdrtfc*

ihile Peggy Huntlev was still in Mexico we arranged to go to Parsifal on Good Friday

afternoon and later when I triad to get out of the arrangement was unable to do so. So

iunt Annie went allong to Martha and Oleve's on Friday afternoon, i went to Parsiaal ana
iVd Peggy for dinner at the Town Hall Club and to spend the evening here. .ie got up at

crack of dawn and went to Long Island on tlie same train. Tne little boys were boister

ously vocal when I drove up to ./est Lena in a taxi. Holly had everyone for a delicious

dinner Saturday night.

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Tuesday Chester Williams officially arrived in the office, brooks was Dallas

where he had flown down for a speech and Tom was out sick--1 think it pschomanjsic ratner

than virus induced but the situation is difficult for him. Fortunately I rast Gfctet a

the front door by accident and could make a joke about being there witn the red carpet

for him, after all I have known him longer than anyone else. We met going to tne

orient in 1929 v.hen CTnet was still liung in Southern California. He was quite sadly

crippled by polio, but has a brilliant, incisive and imaginative sort 01 mind* i sus-

pect'he is better at creating than following-through and having worked ^ior government

for 16 years will have to make some major adjustments inic our penny-pinching ft or

Until he does arrive^ at that adjustment, we shall have to keep track oi mm. 1 was

c reful not to acdept his invitation for a drink before he was on tne payroll, bat d

go with him on Wednesday. He has projected his mind into what we can do m program a

,"ear hence said is prepared to start working tov^ard that--a grandiose ecneme vwich I ao

not think has a prayer of succeeding and which I trust I can persuade him no^ to talk

much about until it is more than a brainstorm* He seemed to like

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which I steered him as a quiet place for talk and drink.

II rgaret Davidson, my Ladies Home Journal friend, had Gerry and me in to see her pictures and those of Dr. McCoorab Parkinson . Since they were such a snort time on StThomas their pictures were largely of Venezuela where they stayed with tne Phelps in Caracas and in Trinidad where their host was William Beebee* he results in both color and blck and white are lovely. Margaret's apartment is delightful and happily reminded me of a mutual friend to might be helpful in getting me an apartme t with an elevator as Gerry has not come out in open disagreement with Haisoeck and said she thought I would be better off in another building. It is sad lor I know I a,all Have to jay at least double my present rent and have to give up a great many of my good features here--sun, good ventilation, great convenience, pleasant neighborhood high ceilings, large sitting and adequate bedroom, fireplace. I d like not to move until autumn and from the financial angle to put it off until next April ifcn the o-fice moves
and this place will not be particularly convenient.

Friday I went to Philadelphia for the American Academy of Political and 6oc'-f-

Science annual two day meeting. It is a fine place to sample speakers, to see -nd be

Seen As usual I knew several of the participants and had a good many_ friends sni accuaintances in the audience. It was good to hear from Fatemi thatnis brotner, e

danutv cp the Iranian Prime Finister who was shot at some weeks ago,is now well enougn

to return to hlf^rk. Fatemi offered to drive me took to New York, but he could not

leave until ten o'clock and I had had enougi of speaking and was sxippmg one wu

sseessssiioonn,^ }r,iacsiiiuun.ug5 to be at home and in bad at ten. At noorrnpqXeiynepn-t vteory19w2e1llPaxnraommaaSt.

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case of phlebitis, vhen suddenly a clot broke away^^vered fust of men to

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A lawyer of twenty-four year of age de Motte sailed from New York on February
10,1837 on a cruise to the Wet Indies to regain his health, he seems to have been tne^ only passenger on this sailing freighter. The vessel put in at Wilmington, north Carolina on February 14th where he was so bored that he went by stagecoach xo Payetteville to spend
part of the 16 days. March 30th they were are Bridgetown, Barbados. April 5 after six days quarentiye he landed at Kingstown, St. Vincent which he thorougily explored^including the volcano, visited the sugar plantations and seemed very much impressed rut, tne island#

April 26. Sailed this morning from Kingstown for St. Thomas. Lay all day to the windward of St. Vincent windfeound. Towards evening a breeze springing up, we soon bid adieu to St# Vincent#
April 27. Made Martinique at 8 A.M. in the distance. Had a wholesale breeze both yester day and today. Had a most beautiful sail. Saw a number of isalnds in the perspective.

April 28. At sunset made St. Thomas#As you approach you pass several small isles with

shores abrupt and bold and on the left far in the distance you may see Santa^ Cruz

presenting reguoblong oval surface. In St. Thomas as in the otnere, ohe haroor is

in the south western extremity and you cannot see it until making a projection you

come full upon it. Here you see flags of all nations, it being a free portB here

a small clean looking craft rather dark and frowning smells of piracy, then^a Spanish man-

of--war, here a Dutch galliot as broad on he4 bow as her stern, then a Baltimore clipper

with her stars and stripes. How my heart beat for joy as I saw my countrie^ sp well

represented. How good seems land again, though the prospect here is by no means as

pleasant as in St. Vincent. Around the foot of the harbor is situated the

capital#

The main body of the Town lies on the level but a portion of it is built on

the side of three distinct hills and runs up in the form of a wedge on each# The top most

building on one of the hills is the Governor's mansion, on another afar the splendid

country residaice of a wealthy English merchant. As you view the Town from the Harbor it

presents a striking and somewhat picturesque appearance. The shores on either side of tiie

Harbor are neither so bold nor so prepossessing in ii eir appearance as those oi tne warbor

at St. Vincent. Indeed, the whole island presents a rather sterile appearance, which was

in consequence however of a drought that had prevailed then for near six months#

April 29. Went on Shore. Reported myself to the commandant at the Fort which is situated about the center of the Town and commands both Harbor and Town. Visited Mr. Penniston (v) . Found this more of a city than I had anticip? ted. It is the largest town in tne best Indies and was formerly a place of great commerce. During the late was the thoroughfare for American and European trs.de. It is now going down. The main streets oi the place are comparatively wide. There are a great many large and wealthy mercantile houses here# Of all nations. Their currency is for the most part specie. This is the general place of resort for vessels to obtain cargoes# A steam packet runs Exom here to Santa Cruz# Sociein, here much the same as in the other islands. Ten thousand inhabitants and not the one
tenth married#
April 30. Spent on board the vessel, it being Sunday. Bumboats along side every half hour# Bought some si ells# Read, lounged and slept.

May 1# Arose early. Went on shore. Strolled about town, beginning to tire wished myself at home. Went to a cafe. Played at billiards. Visited the graveyard and saw some
fine monuments. Pennister invited me to dine with him tomorrow--accepted.

| Lay 2. Dined with Pennister. He had good nines and I drank. No ladies present# $ should not like to live here. Am fond of ladies society--onee in a while

lay 3. Spent the day in staring and being stared at. Their market is held along the

deliotte J ourn&L--2
street and in an open square in Main Street. Hegores and bandanna handkerchiefs Hie negores here are not so intelligent looking as in St. Vincent and more phlegmatic in their appearance.
lay 4. Ashore* Played billiard until late with the captain of a brig. About two went on board. Brig captain and myse f rowed about half a mile--now against the ship> now across a hawser, now afoul an anchor. Now the captain rowed around me , now I rowed around the captain.
May 5# Dined with Mr. Pennieter--a small dinner party. When wine is in, wit is out. Spoke too freely & out the yankees (deMotte is a New Yorker) and hurt the captain's feelings. He did not get over it during the whole of our voyage home. I fared the worse for a too free expression of my opinion--though a just one.
May 6. Set sail from St. Thorns, fair winds and plenty of them. Spent my time in en deavoring to make my pets comfortable. They consist of two and one parrot, having paid $7 for the parrot^St* Thomas is by no means as pleasant as many other of the Vest Indian Islands. Its nsequence arises from the fact that it is a iree
port. It belongs to the Danish government. The inhabitants of the capital are a mixed population mis. ng in turn with the negroes. The Vest Indian frankness and hos pitality combines the selfish and calculating politeness of commercial places generally. Hie place itself is generally well built of stone and brick.
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By May 13th they made Turks Island where he seems to have been entertained oy the American Consul and a Mr. Gibbs and carefully studied the salt industry.
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May 17. Set sail for home with feeling of joy and I must confess some little mere anxiety than I had experienced during the whole of my absence. Ve had very pleasant v/e weather, wind sometimes favorable and sometimes unfavorable, but made something every day until the 25th when off Cape Hatteras we had a regular gale. Stiffer and stiffer set in the breeze nd thicker and faster came the rain and sleet. The sea rolled its huge waves tumultuously around us now they dashed agaist the vessel. Now they rolled over her deluging her main deck with a sea of waters. Harder still it came. Away went the square sailboom. All hands aloft to furl the squaresailo It was done and as we^ stood looking to see how she weathered the gale, the wind veered a little and took tie foresail aback sending it around with the rapidity of lightening. Away went the fore sail halliards and down came the foresail with a crash upon the deck. ,/ith some difficulty it was fastened, the topsail double reefed. Now the wind seemed at its height. The sea lashed into fury, dashed, roared and foamed around, the wind howled through the masts and rigging. The masts befct, the cordage creaked. The vessel pitched and tossed. Now she laid over almost on her beams end, now rising on the topmost wave
Now diving down till meeting an opposing wave she receives a shock that shakes her fore and aft. In the midst of this I went down slid went to sleep wondering how long it would last. Hie next day the sorm was past but the wind was ahead, beating us off. Ve met nothing of particular interest until the 30th we were boarded by the pilot.
Hay 31. Hie ship anchored in the East River off the battery. To my great joy I went on shore raid found my mother, my uncle and my loved sister and friends.

u-WtfZ X&<k Excerpt from the JOURNAL of Mortimer deMotte for 1837
twt ki_, Acn.rKa^; ThT. A New York lawyer, 24 years old, deMotte sailed from Few York on Febraury 10,1837
to regain his health in the West Indies* He seems to have been the only passenger, a sort of super-cargo* The sailing vessel put in at Wilmington, North Carolina on February 14 and stayed for 16 days a Mortimer was so bored that he went by stagecoach to Fayetteville where he learned much of the problems of the south* March 30 they arrived at Bridgetown, Barbados. April 5, after six days quarantine, he landed at Kingstown, St* Vincent, which he thoroughly explored including the volwano, sugar plantations & homes.

April 28 . At sunset made St. Thomas, passing several small isle rath shores abrupt and bold* On the left far in the distance you may see Santa Cruz. In St* Thomas you see the flags of all nations, it being a free port* Here a small clean
looking craft rather dark and frowning smells of.piracy, then a Spanish man-of-war, here a Dutch galliot as broard on her bow as her stern, than a Baltimore clipper with her
stars and stripes. How my heart beat for joy as I saw my country so well represented. How good land seems again, though the prospect here is by no means as pleasant as in St* Vincent. Around the foot of the harbor is situated the capital. The main body of the town lies on the level but a portion of it is built on the side of three distinct hills
and runs up to form a wedge on each. The top moetbuilding on one of the hills is the Governor"s residence, on another afar the splendid country mansion of a Y/ealthy English merchant. As you view the town from the harbor it presents a striking and somewhat
picturesque appearance, though somewhat sterile in consequence of a drought that had prevailed then for near six months.

April 29. Went on shore. Reported myself to the Commandant at the Fort which is sit uated about the center of the town and commands both harbor and town. Visited
Mr* Fenniston (?). This is tha largest town in the West Indies and was formerly a place of great commerce in the American European trade. It is now going down* There are a great many large and walthy mercantile houses here of all nations. Theri currei cy for the most part is specie* This is the general, place of resort for vessels to obtain
cargoes* A steam packet runs from here to Santa Cruz. Society much the same as in the other islands. Ten thousand inhabitants and not the one ttenth (l/l(>) married* The
streets of the place are comparatively wide*

April 30. Spent the day on board the vessel, it being Sunday. Bumboats alongside every half hour* Bought some shells. Read, lounged and slept.

May 2. Visited the graveyard and saw some fine monuments. Dined with Fennister. Good win.

May 3.

Spent the day in staring and being stared at* Their market is held along the
street and in an open square in Main Street. Negroes and bandanna handkerchiefs. The negroes here are not so intelligent looking as in St. Vincent and more phleg
matic in their appearance.

May 5 Dined again with Mr. Pennister--a small dinner party, ./hen wine is in, wit is out. Spoke too freely about the yankees and hurt the captain's feelings. He did not get over it during the whole of our voyage home* I fared the worse for
a too free expression of my opinion--though a just one.

May 6. Set sail from St. Thomas, fair winds and pi nty of them* Spent my time in endeavoring to make my pets comfortable. Th$rconsist of two and one parrot, having paid $7 for the parrot. St. Thomas is by no means as pleasant as many
other of the West Indies Islands. Its consequence arises from the fact that it is a free port. It belongs to the Danish government. The inhabitants of the capital are a
mixed population, mixing in turn with the negroes. The West Indian frankness and hospi
tality combines the selfish and calculating politeness of commercial places generally. Hie place itself is generally well built of stone and brick*

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fsompt from the j&ssmal dt Mortimer da^ette tor 183Y

A Hw York lawyer# 14 jrr eld# donatio sailed from Boo York on Febraury 10,1837 to regain hie health in tb* feet Indies* Be aeeatn to In ire heen the only passenger# a mr% of super*cargo* Hie sailing vessel pat in at ^Uadngtea# Mertk %re!ia*s on February 14 end stayed for 14 days* Mertiner ma ee bored that he vent by etageter<eh to Fayette* ville where he learned meh of the probing# d the south* Murcfe 30 they arrived *t arldreiot-m, Barbados* April S# after six day# gmvnntl** ha landed at Kingstown# ft* Tineeot, which be thoroughly explored including the velanne* en gar plantrtione 4 henee*

iprll 28 * At eunaet isade it* Homes# passing eeverel mmll isle with shore* abrupt and

hold* On the left far in ihis distant* yeu any see iaai* dma* I it* Thome

yen set the flags of all nations# it feeing 8 fro port* Kere *&*!! clean

locking graft rather dark and htmhif ensile of piracy#

a iysnish *mof*mr# here

a Dutch pilllot a br&srd on her heir m her rtera# than a Mtimsre slipper with her

etere and ftripe#. Hew ay heart heat for joy an 1 saw my country ee wall represented*

Mew good land seane again, though the preerect horn ie Say tie mean* a# pleasant an in it*

Vincent* /.round Ifet font of the harbor 1* & tuaied the capital. The- mln body of the

town lies on the level hut m portion of it Is built en the eld# of thro# distinct hille

end run# up to far* n wedge on eaoh* Ho top ttostbuilding en eao ef tm hills la the

Governor*s residence# en another afar the splendid country nanelon of - wwtlifey nglieh

nstshant. in you view the ievn trm the berber it proomto a etriking una m*se#it

picturesque appearance# though so^eeiiat sterile la soae^qyeaee of a droupM that bed

prevailed thon for near -six n&sihg*

April 49. "?ert on there* flaperted asyealf to the ^eiwaaudemt at the Ferfc s&tefc i# itvoted about the center of the teem end eonaande beth harbor end fawn* Ytcited Mr. PosnlfigM (l). Jfcig is tha largest town in the beat Indies and ma fomerly
m piece of groat coraaeree In the j&erieaft fSoreptg* trade. It is now getar dewn* '"here are a great may large ?*ad walthy mrsaniii* houeea horn ef all aetlese. iWi eurrwejf for the aieet part Is cpeeie* Ibis is the general, pli.ee of resort for veesela to obtain eargoee* 4 rteaa packet mm froa here t* iaota CJrua. ioeiety much the earn ee in the ether Lei rude* Ten thcueend inhabitants and act the one tfcenth (lAM married* The etreote of the place ere cooperatively i?ide*

April SO. Spent the day m beard ike vessel# it hei^ ..uaday* Msdhoats alongside every half hour* Bought teas shells* lead# lounged and slept*

May 2* Visited the graveyard and saw cone fine no

Bined with hwittr# food vinw

Mey $.

Spent the day in etariag and being stared at* Heir nerfcet is held along the tr*.vt sued 1p op^K square la aia itroet* degrees md badapaa Siaadkerchlafn* He negroes here are not ee intelligent lookinr a In St* fl'Mili'll and more phl9* actio in their apfoar&aon*

fiay 4 Mtnid again with Mr. eanlnter--a ^sall ilnaer party, dm wkm le in# nit is out* Ipeko too frooly about the- ybsheoo rusd hurt t>ie eeptisiPVs fosllngn* *Ho did net get over it during the ^iele of our voyage heme* I fared the veree tor
e too free expraeaion of my ffisioMkoi|l a just one.

May * Shrt sail fren ft* Hems# fnir winds md pl-nty of then. ret vy time irt enda&rorlng to 5^i.e my p^U sonf^rtebls* rh%- cua?ist of two and ens parret# having paid SV for the parrot* Si* H#ws le by so iaeae as pleasant as naay
cthsr of the f#1 Iodder Xsionds* Its aenoeauoso* arises fro the feet that it is a free port* It boilonfm to the >nl.oh gcvemnent. The Inhabitant# of tfcs capital nre a ninsd popular"oa# wixlug in t^m with the negreaa* He #eet Indian franknaas and hespi* tality eoflMln^ the eelneh and oalenlatlnr politeaesc of fsnsnoroiil plates geaewilly* The pines iteslf is generally roll built of atone awl brisk*

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4 Tew fork lawyer# Z4 year* old, aaUoite smiled from Saw Verb o Fefer&ury 10,183?

to regain his health 4 the fact Xisites. Ha scans to leva fee the only passenger,

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sort of super*serge* Hie sailing vessel put i at dtlnlngtoa, Hortk Parolla* an February

14 and stayed for 14 days* Mortimer ma no feared that he sent fey stageseadh to Fayeitn*

HI sfeere tie learned aweh of the. problem* of the south* ifordh 10 tfeey wired at



Bridgetown, imrfe&dos* April fe, after aix dys ^toroatine, fee loaded at Klagrteoa, St*

/latent, thick. fee tfeoreugsjfey explored infefeadias t'ie volcano, sttgsr plantation 4 ho&cs*


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April 88 At sucest asde St* lhaaac, passing several aaoll tale with shore* abrupt and fecldU Im the loi'1 far ia the diet*** ym may *}* lanta Cr*. I "it. Thecal a you fee the flogs of all ant It*, it fesing free Tfort* Hen e snail data
looking eraft rather dyfc and frowning saslls of piraey, then * ftpssiah xu%xbef**rc here a Dutefe galliot as brward on br boo a* her stem, the a Bsltiaci* clipper with bar stars end stripes* Hoe my he&ri feeat for Joy m 1 saw agr csnstsy so ***11 represented* Mo* geod Mad seen* again, though the prospeet here it by as mens plstaaivl no ia St* Vineest. Areuad the foot of the barber is l tuatad the capital* Ifea anl* body of the tows lies n ifete It vol but e portion of It is built or, the side of three distinct hills end runs up to fens a cadge on easb* The top stoatbutIdlag a sua ef the hills is the Governor*o resid*st on another afer Pfee sp&andtd country seasie ef a wealthy Toglisb naNfeant* A# yen vl av the tan fm- the fe* riser It present* a striking ard oewwhst plsturc<ju ai^aaanwaat ibsngh sxmesfciat sterile in aaaaa^aaaaa of a Prittpd thet feed prevail then for near rin awsnthe*

April *9* feat e shore* isperted fayself to ths Oesaaadnnt at the Fort which ia sit* tinted vbect the center of the toon *nd eoamnds both harbor end town. Visited Mr* Peaaistatt (1} This is the largest tee in ths Seel ladies sad me fcmerly
a pisee of front soma ope in the Series fttrepesa trade* It ts no* gainf dean* There ere a great stogy large <j **lthy nsrsantil# hone#s here si all untiebs. Ti*Md au.rvssy far the neat part is si esie* This ie the gnserel fiaae of resort for vessels to btala aargoes* A stena paaket nta* fro bare to Sauta Irus* ^oeiety sxuch tl;e aaae as ia the other lalsade* ton thou*?nd ihbsbitaata nnd not tfen one Ptimth (1/lW %rrisd* lb# streets of the place ere cespsrstively aide*

AfidU 50. Apeat tae day . board the vessel it being fcmday. Ihsibeefea ala^galde every half hour* tsagpit wisn? shells. :ie*dt lounged sad slept*

May 2. Visited the gravaywidead ana sce fins acnwseats* Dined with 1 eaaieter* Poad win.

Mmy 3* ftpont ths dey is tnri? tA being stored at* Their tasrfeei is Held alcuc. the

street srd in a open squsra in Hsia Atreat* negroes r^ad feaatena kundkin^dfeiafa*

r%e negroes hers arc rot ?io

iga?r% laobior as In H* Yissswt ^.nd crr pfelf*

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axtle ia their sppenranao*

May j<i?ied again with Mr* 7 eaodster--s snail dimer party* *tem viae M is, vit is out* dpdbe too freely s^boit tho y^ilr.ses awi hurt th# captain* fseliiys* Ma did net gat over it during the idaele of oar veyugs iios# 1 fared tne vsrsa for
s too fr** espres-sio of s^r opinion**th ous^? e> Jnat one.

May 4* 3<*t evil fro ft* Dxmast fnir dad end el sty ef then* %sat vy tins In

mdaitverlag to mk* my oeta oenfsrtabla* Unpaanalat of tvo and so pwrrot,

hvir^ fnid 7? for the ^errot. ft* 1b.nns Is by mmm es plesasnt as nasy

stbsr of ths aest Irdies Islurds. Its csnegtjr.ee orisas froa the fast that it is a

fret port. It baleor o to the bsridfe gnmnnant. The inbebttsat# of tfe*. earitsi are a

adxad pep^ation, sailing in turn eitfe

negroes* The -cat Indtan fr-Tr^ss and hespi*

tslity aonbinea the aid.fish snd csleuletlag palitansca of cowsersist pis sea generally*

Th# rimes Itself is ftnamlly ^sll built of atom ^d brisk*

May 4, 1952

C..A/V* 5 Tt seeris re\her^ ^od idea to try to bat something out before we get too hopelessly involved in when was what. A weeke ago last Wednesday I took the afternoon Congressional to "Vashingtonto fo to a conference about the UN day observance held in the Dept.,. of Statefi It was dull and trying to rain in New York all" day and long before we got to Baltimore it had started with a grim determination# In Y/ashington it was teeming and I never saw the sun until the following Wednesday# The thing I went icr was accomplished and I had time"to go to Georgetown to have tea with the McCoys in their house near Dumbarton Oaks for which their house is supposed to be the original farm house and moved to its present site in 1790. The General gets a lot of fun in his researches , though I would hardly call it a "farmhouse"--downstaris there is a reception room, a drawing room, a sitting room beside the dining room and kitchen, pantry set-up. It was good to see them, but he looks thin and admits being restricted in his activities. I'm afraid he is beginning to be an old general and fading away* 7ith her usual generosity Mrs. McCoy insisted on driving me out to Chevy Chase where I was dining with Jim and Henrietta Green so as to hear about their winter in France and see the three girls--ages 6,9 and 12# I^also had a cnance to do some very useful telephoning and become acquainted with people m a section oi tne State Department with #iom X should deal most -- X had been on fine terms wi n lem un a recent" turn over of personnel, I also had a fine interview with Mr. Butterud o* MSAr-all this in the pouring rain. Friday morning I managed to get to the National Gallery to see Captc Molyneaux1s collection of French Impressionist and Poet-Impressionist pictures from
his own apartment in Paris.
At six o'clcok Friday instead of talcing the train to New York I took one to Charlottes ville and joined Maisie in the Albemarle County Court Room when a League of Women Voters Meeting was going on as a preliminary to the big meeting in Cincinnati on may 1 when tne candidates were all to speak on campaign issues we heard discussed and voted were tne most^ important. It was fascinating for me to see the local minister, banker, teacner, etc poured into a panel.Before I was up the next morning the Cashes had word that their neighbor^. Dr. Russell Hadon, who was also a classmate of Jim* s and Jacqueline Cash's fatherinlaw, had died in Cleveland as a result of a heart attach he had while delivering a paper on blood diseases on TV at the Clevelenad convention of American Medical Association. Between mat news and the continuing rain the weekend was somewhat subdued. However I iwd never been there when the dogwood was out--perfectly beautiful m among the other trees all up ne side of the mountains--it reminded me of a quotation I have not though* of or tv/ei ty
years something about dogwood being like fairies dancing in tne woods.

Monday I went to a luncheon at the Cosmopolitan Club at which Mrs. Roosevelt told
about her visits in the Near and.Middle Fast. It was very interesting and she^did a niwe iob. "Vednesday I went back to a much smaller luncehon at wnieh Josephine detain told of her just complete eleven months in the Pacific area--she went as far as rakistan, wnich m somewhat beyond the Pacific1. One evening I went to a buffet supper of Pakistan fooo. at the Consulate General, I had no sooner arrived than Laurie (the host) dragged me off to talk with Begum Iiohamed Ali, the wife of the Ambassador--wnich was sometning of a cnore. I would be very much surprisdd to find that sne was not in purdah until aoout fi e years 3r'o. At any rate she is very quiet and shy and I worked hard on her for a long time. The food was very good, very highly spiced and the menu accompanied by some recipes so that vwe
could all go home and make some more.

Thursday we finally got squared away in the office to the point ox uecj-ding that

I should attend the State Department conference in Washington on May 6,7 ana 3. I got

off my reservation for a hotel room and the registration form and tnen began lose my

voice and be very sure I "had sometiling". Sure enough I did and the next day Gerry put me

on pennicillan fdrrthe first time in my life and I spent the weekend in bed instead o~

with Martha and Sieve. Monday I was still pretty subdued, but I packed to go to Washington

end stopped at Gerry's on the way to the office, she thought it would be justt as well :u I

delayed my departure for a day or two, which was quite practical as tne ofiice nad tola me

the hotel had reported they could not accomodate me before Wednesday men I got to t.xe

office I found that my secretary had cleared four other hotels without turning up a room--

beside the usual spring influx there was a Transportation convention.

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where I should stay he strrted to throw hims^

g^te DepartmeitTwae calling

frx. About that time I begcan gettinS^*Xd to 0,air ft round

Sd?F^ had a loon icr a +,,,.,,n,r

things hot to that level it seemed a good idee to

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the building long since had lost its newness then.

,x -i 4- 4-1*1 imo i + ri-iri not rain, but I had taken my hot pad and spent a long even-
'airlti'tS syfyy TM"rfs %isrfir*i

B light,T li .e aei c-~ ei . ^ ri
best he hrd doM in ovsr^a yes^

\vorell Hnrriman, \dio followed was at a

^ ^ he vmg not rekindling the warm interest and

;

rtta-t^on o'"theV/dience and seemed petulant. (The biography of him in the current tsv

Y orker is very impressive, when one see^s all he has done from a sense of puolic service

ITthfpast dozen years or so, but X have great reservat:ion about Jua in Wow YnrV'q f-vorite son for the Democratic presidential nomination,; he next a j -

Roosevelt just delighted the group even when she talked for an hour and twenty-five minuces

(during which time many people stood) end knocked the schedule for the morning in o . . -

hat! Wedne dev afternoon Mrs. Tobort Low Bacon invited us all to her home at 21st St. end

fl' JTfn

the garden, which is wiled in and gives a sense of great intimacy. Her azalea

while not very large were a good color and it was very pleasant. I scarcely dia more tnan

^keVn ro ironce, though I had a good talk with Mrs. Dexter Perkins, who now does all the

work on the Fanny Farmer cookbook, with Dick Howson from Providence and exchanges ay

words with half a dozen other people. As I passed through a small sitting room to J-'-*

I heard one of the women guests say "OH Mrs. Bacon, you dog bit me and there is blood, fl a

shall I do?" Mrs. Bacon started off upstairs for disinfectant with tne woman trailing

I murmured to a man vuest that I'd leave with out saying goodbye to Mrs. Bacon and hurrie ouf TM !et a taxi toto.ke me to the HayAdams house where X was to have dinner with Lrnest

and Louise Clough.

I did not really unpack but went right along Friday afternoon for the weekend with

lrartha md Tleve. Fran, although she has done very well and is on the dean s li.rt, has

Jo decided that she does not like Catherine Gibbs and does not want to be a or.tay. She ;i7tn to college next year and of course the question is rthat is available witn sc _

r application? Elinor Dean was not only admitted to Radcliffe but given a scnolaisiip

go?

yeterday. (I hod bett.r confess that time drifts along and that it

is now May IV. Lost Sunday they took me about to see the spring bloom, wnici is

-

fMSous"." A good deal of cool weather and several warn days and then more cool has brought

t: i-r s out ahead of time, but managed to hold over a good many things so ma. tneie is a

variety of bloom-tulips, wisteria, lilacs (but not snowballs) azalea, primrose,

flowering almond, bleeding heart (but not columbine) and such fulli.loWe^^d^0g^i +he" had in Virginia nnd Washington when I was there two weeks oefore. They are getting

resdv to move to their new home at 53 Miller Avenue about June 15th. Martha already las

*11 the living room ornaments packed. I looked over my things stored in cue cellar a d

feoided thev would have to be put in a local storage until X movedintomy new apartment

andlaw how much I could take care of. There is a Chesterfield and a chest ox drawers

/hioh I inherited or bought along with the carpet from Drew Baker when I movec. here and

they niix stay behind. Gerry r.nd Jim Cash disagree with teisbeck so l m in tne market for

pn "apartment without stairs. This week I got into the swing of tne dentists--iCany ^acted three on the up ex- right and. Jackson filled a couple. The process is repeated next week r nd after that I hope Kany will only scale -he resw Oa my teethe

Tuesday Dr. Jackson put in a couple of fillings and in the evening I rent to the Cosmoploitan Club to hem- Spofford teaks about his recent job in representing us in NATO. It was a careful mms. succintly diagraming the history of the Atlantic community from 1945 to date and blueprinting the career of the Treaty Organization. I take it that he has now returned to his legal work in Hew . ork. Certainly there was notning veiy original in it and the elderly male guest who sat in the row ahead of me slept almost continuously. It was warm enough to walk around to the club in the dark blue sheer crepe afternoon dress of /inifred without hat or wrap.

Wednesday was much hotter but Brooks had thoughtfully brought the Hudson
Hornet to town and drove Hies Wells, Tom and me out to his new house at 211 Him Raod Princeton. Tom had given Miss Luek some work on Tuwsday and I was so polite in my reprimand to him that while we exchange hot words about it that afternoon, it was not until Wednesday morning that my barb really pricked him. Jhen he tried to assume^I nad not realized what he then understood I had said, I warmly assured him that I had indeed meant that he was not to give instructions to my staff in the future* I should oe dolighted to do chores for him, but that X insisted on deciding vhich of my etaif did such things end realized that there would be a delay in the work thr were doing xor hb* He hit the ceiling, so it was amusing that we had such a fine opportunity to talk^sitting together as we did on the back seat for the hour's drive--the ITew Jersey turnpike is ex cellent. It is as evident from the raod as from the train that industry is spreading through Jersey ata lively rate. When we arrived at Princeton Tom suggested that Brooks drop the three of us off so he could show us the new chapel and library..* we aid a bit of sightseeing of the buildings erected just before the depression set in, and wal e across the campus and out beyond Hassau Hall...it is a pretty campus because M-e trees ard beautiful and many of the building individually are, but few^bear any rein .ion to any other as far as architecture is coneerned. The new Smeny house is most interesting An architect,Kasler, built it for himself about fifteen years ago and while this was frankly a sightseeing tour I am sure I did not take in everything. It is built oi cement blocks and painted white--the wall is not smooth as the blocks in every other row are from a spe cial mold with a protruding bulge. There are a great many windows and Kasler used a lot of glass brick raid Brooks took much of it out? Kasler invented a window vdtn panes in 30 x 15 frames , every other one is removable and slips into the frame oi M e pane below --there is some hocus pocus which I was too hot to follow about screens and storm sashes, the ceilings are sheet steel, so is the floor but that had a cork cover with caroet on top. There was a breezw-way from the "drawing room" (w.ach 1 think should ue called library or sitting room) to a two room wing, which Brooks has taken fro nis oedroom and study with a day bed in the study, so Tom shares his wind. This breeze-way has been made into a small music room with a concealed bar. Dinner was set J.or tue errace "M a thunder storm threatened and we were shifted into the dining room-where chest, table, chairs and side table were all made for him at Gump's in San Francisco to msten 8 cm.ee table modeled on a Chinese bed. Brooks fell for the coffee table when he was Jest m December --it is lovely in line--but he says it is walnut but I think it has a trarious grey-tan of walrus e nd sealion fur when dry and fear it is ^ going to mark very oc. .y. Tlie overmantel is a map of the world mercator projection wliich a woman who nas colored maps for the Army spent two weeks doing in oil colors. It is really very attractive from the standpoint of decoration and takes a well concealed spot lignt admimely... out it does make it difficult to put things on the mantle. I did not like the soap stone elephants and Chinese yellow porcelain small bowl any better than he did, so we tried other things. I was not satisfied, but he was nd we got down to playing Samba.

Faith's room and bath is over the drawing room, Nana is over the dining room

end Anna a Friend of Hana's who acts as waitress is over the pantry. The guest wing

where Miss Wells and I each had our own room and both is down a passage

_.i,c eherv

Dr--eries wereverv pretty and unlined cotton. My bedroom has been added and has a board

in'the floor which" can be pulled up to let in the cool air f

%Hr Mir JHrJomfsti

four steps which lead down to the guest wing ore hinged so ge

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r"; curious to know how Faith likes it-she arrived from college the; axterncon MTMay.

thSgs from Gre.nwicI end

June 6, 1952 -- 2 things from the Lowell --the bureau in my room is a most interesting modern chest with the front of the drawers covered with leather which has a gold Florentine border--"she mate is in the drawing room -- they used to be in Brooks bedroom in the Lwell which doubled for dining room. Somehow? I never got them in proper perspective before. He has gone mad/ about plastic in lovely color and a very fancy weave-like surface. The dining room chairs are covered in it and I sat in one for cards and found it dreadfully| hot. The headboards of the twin beds in my room were covered with the same material in a tangerine sort of shade# The glazed chintz curtains were spice color with a delicate white fltrwer tracery, the walls were painted a light brown beige to which I find it hard
to describe a color.
Brooks had brought a lot of holly, dogwood, etc. from Greenwich--si* truck loads to be precise because he has cut down the size of the lawn by about half by a sapling fence and planting-~he says if necessary he must be able to cut the lawn himself. There is one twelve foot rhodedendron which not only withstood the vrip, out .as just t rst&ng into bloom u d \ thrusting out a great deal of new growth. Across the lawn are two^ small buildings, also white which now provide back ground for some of the garden furniture, but can be pulled together to make a separate house of a couple of bedrooms and a sitting room for the servants. Nana sails on the Isle de France on the 20th to see ner family somewhere near Verdun. Should the health of her sister or something else prevent her from coming back I don't know what Brooks would do. Nairn is an excellent cook, but trained as a children's nurse and went to the Bmeny's in that capacity some iour months before the tragedy. It was she who had been sent to New York and found the house filled with gasoline fumes upon her return# lifter she agreed to stay on and take charge of the house, cue stopped wearing a uniform. Y/e always shake hands with her wehn she opens the door and she always asks me to come soon again. It is a stnange and interesting situation, but won derful one for Brooks and she lias worked like a Trojan in dismantling the bag nouse in Greenwich and organizing the Penthouse and Princeton. She had great difficulty getting a berth nd is just as thrilled as a child to be going so soon now. I gave her a box of Schappereilli disposable scented washcloths in addition to the usual tip.
',/e watched the Abilene storm better poor Eisenhower about until we had to go^ in to dinner and then we continued to listen to the speech. We were all disappointed in him nd the speech. It seems to me that his chances for the nomination are shrinking# He has been more revealing of his views in the subsequent press conferences. Tie repub licans are in as tight a box as the Democrats. I was fascinated to hear the report that^ an astrologer has come through with word from the stars--Harriman will pe tne next presi dent. He is strorgwith labor end if the democratic machine supported him I think he wo-uld be elected --a prospect which does not please me as I feel he is erraticI
Thursday afternoon Holly brought the three boys to town while Jay tried out for a spot in Joe DiHaggio's TV show -- he qualified and comes back on June 17th to be kinescoped# They dropped in to see me at the office, and made a wonderful impression on everyone. I would have liked to have gone out for a soda with them as it was very^ hotagain but Vera was in a dreadful state because Tom had told her he heard t.iat puolica tions were to be discontinued. She had been to Elinor' s graduate xroui urearley ; >.a j.elt it sadistic of him to blight her happy day with such trumpetings of doom. So I let tnem go and went to soothe Vera before dashing to Dr. Kany for the last of the scalings. I may have helped but got back to her in the evening after the novacain had worn oif and I could master my tongue. She told me the next day that she would not have slept at all if I had not ca,lmed her. I do think it was stupid of him to talk with her in tnose terms but not malicious. Just as I wish he had not told me a lot of stuxf, inclu .-.mi., nip assurance in the autumn that the Board of Director's were going to give me at least one thousand dollars. He is unhappy about the way his job has been cut from under him that he has little time for the feelings of others. If he tells me I'm upset and uncertain about my job much mere I'll begin to think I am. I shall certainly oe glad to get
away from it all on my holiday.
Yesterday I went to see Charlotte buret up at Butler Hall# Poor dear she had stroke, at the top of her spinal column and not in the brain, with some paralysis on the right side. I am desperately sorry for her as doing for others has always been her satisfaction and now she cannot do them. Maurice may be 84--but he is d-e._,d.ul .

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June 22, 1952

This seems to be the season for hearing the story-of-my-life, for tne SunuaML. after Charlotte '. uret told me hers, I Irs Harris came forth with a lot more tna.r sle had ever told me before and this afternoon Bud Harris's "girl" talked to me lor C\er two hours* There are so interesting tlicit I'll try to fictionalize tr-.era into an mdiyb .harton sort of novel that goes on for decade after decade! All I need is t.^e r i.lit and the tineIi Thursday night after the FPA Board meeting I_went up to say "Goodbye^ to Mrs. Harris She had gotten a cancellation on the "America" and Bud was seing - % back to Paris. Larry had succeeded in getting the apartment ox Colette Dunamel s grandmother for three months and Irs. Harris was to have her own suite cu sitting rom, bedroom and dressing room. The only disadvantage being tnat the oath was et some distance. Just as she was about to go to the ship a ca le arrived trom Larry (who must have been beside himself giving a very different address. I hope her
three months goes smoothly.

Hjbeanor dined with me at the Sosmopolitan Club the night before sre sailed for better than three months abroad. leally I am a great stupid for not having made plans long ago for some sort of junket acress the water. If I had the commit
ment I am sure I would find the money and the strength to go.

Wednesday night I went to a buffet supper at the Yugoslav official residence for the head of' delegation to the UN. They did it rather better than the last time I was there, but they still could do with a little coaching, h they cannot get linen napkins they should have much larger and firmer paper ones J. or example. /era was there and we had supper with the Julien Bryans and a ogoslav couple,Tomsniuch. He is a professor of law at the University of Lublanja and a Slovene, while nis wife is Groat (or vice versa), neither she nor their eleven year old ciild prodigy pianist daughter can speak any English. They are both ANsorbGO. in trying to get free musical instruction for the cild during the four months they are here. advised she be given a holiday! I can just see some teacher here having linguistic
difficulty and being accused of ruing her talent.

Evidently they are not going to take out any more of my teetn as Jackson is beginning fix some new ones for me. Amy and Helen are most hospitable in wanting me to spend my holiday with them in Penticton and Vancouver but I cannot get tne tickets as I am dissatisfied with the way I feel and Monday when a was having Gerry look at a cut on my right foot, I asked what she thought of my going to the hospital - or ^ ten ^ days. It is a treatment that Br, taisbeck spoke to me about, m thout recommending i. The legs are wrapped in cotton batten for ten days and the body heat does something to the arteries so they let more blood pass In some cases it kelps for several months in others for several years. Gerry thought it splendid idea and said she wouldalk to Baiabeck. As I saw her early Tuesday morning (not Monday) I did hope I would hear by Friday. If I do not hen? tomorrow I'll pop. I spent a lot of time yesterday
and today looking for my hospitalization record.

Last weekdn we had an FPA regional conference wrick I did not ohink went very well. The rift between Tom and Chet ,/illiams was all too apparant. In fact if I thought things in the office were at sixes and sevens last year, they are at twelves and fourteens now. I did not get to Molly until six o'clock on Saturday cut she^haa
a barbecue for Fred's birthday and we had a fine time. He had tilready had some^ooys for lunch and the theatre. Sunday we all went to kayport to try 'one coy's new^i.avy surplus life raft in Great South Bay. It was such a hot day that x went swimming,too.

-.'/ell, tomorrow I8m applying for tickets to leave for British Columbia -"I want Vto let the July 3rd crush get along. Hope to,leave Kgw ork Friday, July 4tn, leave
Montreal Saturday night and get to PentictonTMSSBT^ming to stay the rest of the month with Amy and Douglas Dewar. About the first ox Aug. so I_>11 go down o Vancouver and stay with Helen Fetrie, her sister and mother until the 11th o Auguro IS11 be be.dk in the office on the 13th, but plan to get to Newjork onlineJ.otn, +^x-ry
and Dr weeks for a

mTM 1ranees J. Pratt

Itinerary

Juijr 3* i95ii

July 4

wn Sex Yurie- 10s40 P.H.- A.Y. Centraland i.uA a. train

July 5
July 7
July 9

Arrive Montreal- 8 A.M. eave iontrwl- 8sl5 ?-- Canadian J'acifie. irain

7

At iKitt- ?:15 ?.!'-traf.r to ...U.S. Drain-* 11

Arrive Penticton

Hail:

c/o Mrs. Louglaa lewar

P.O. Box j~3 "?

?eticto. B.C., Canada

Late July -ShifMtailtjo coasct/owhMerres.aWdadlrteesrs Au.ntAialeiArugust 11 is: drey locks Cauliielc., B.C., .-anaaa

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Leave Vancouver, Canadian Hational- Irain

Aug. 15 AUg. 16

Irrive loronto- 7*00 nK. ave loronto- 7:^5
Arrive 17 ^st 6-th Street

Air Mail to Canada is 6?

FJPscc

p!o |V\.<uJfcb G(3j9

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My holiday officially began at 4 yesterday afternoon, but I got amy from the

office about six in time to keep a dinner engagement and this is the day of clearing

up the odds and ends and packing. I have washed my hair and done sd mucn running

from bedroom to living room, where for some strange reason I always pack it is good

to sit down to tap this out* I may go down to the station fairly early and go to a

movie and then go aboard the train as soon as it is open* The early part of the week

was onderful-- clear and cool but gradually it started tc thicken up. Yesterday was

vey heavy and hot--today is worse. Tomorrow I'm with tne ludors in Montreal-- y ou. will recall that we all had breakfast in the station when I was orfmy way to two

years ago. Here is the way the rest of it looks!

July 5 Leave at 3s15 p.m. from Montreal on Canadian Pacific t#ain ft / juit 7 at Hegina transfer from one car to anotherat or after 7sl5 p.m. and after

T'edicine Hat I'll be in CPR train .-11

July 9 Arrive at Penticton at 7 a.am.

address c/o Mrs. Douglas Dewar

P.C. Box 237 Penticton, ffc British

Columbia, Canada

(in late July I'll shift to the coait, where the address will be

c/ Mrs. 3. S.Petrie Grey "locks Caulfield, B.C., Cana.da
(unless I decide to leave a few days early stop over a few days at Jasper Park)

August 11 Leave Vancouver on the night train --Canadian National train #4

Aust 15

Arrive in Toronto 7 a.m. leave by sleeper (New York Central)

after

spending

day

with

Evelyn

Mc

Don

an l

d

if she is at home.

August 16 Arrive 17 East 64th Street

August 18 Back to the office*

Air mail to Canada is 6g amd letters will take at least 48 hours.

Ever since I decided not to go to the hospital everyone has said that I have looked much better. Jerry forgave me and demonstrated her forgiveness By asking me to have dinner with her, and go oil to the movies. I begged oif as there were a^gooa many things to do. But I did feel sufficiently "unpressed" to stop at the idtz Carlton to iook in at the "Little Studio"--this is a deal in which some theatrical people^pay wages to promising young artists to pay in a studio with all materials supplied; they also maintain the Madison Avenue showing and selling place. They go on the basis that pictures would be purchased more frequeitly if people were not scared off by the manner of the galleries --so everything is marked with title, artist and price, more thzn half the things are less than $100 and there are a lot of amusing small things for as little as $10....or was it $15? At any rate I have been wanting to go in^for months and finally made it. I know the project is going well, but most of tne things are too
modern for my conservative taste.

Everything was fine at Vest Lena when I was there last weekend, ./e went ^down to see the great progress Martha and 01eve have made in their new house^at - illar Ave. They have used a lot of white end a nice blue downstairs and rae.de it into^ a cn.arraingly cheerful place. The former owners had given a distinctly somber none witn all tne woodwork dark. I suppose the little boys will be out of sight when I next see toem. Thev go to Mattituck the weekend I go back--so I shall not see tnem until lue xirst
weekend in September--actually they will have started school 1

Now I must finish paying the bills and get back to end ox the packing. I hope everyone has a good summer--and has the wit not to do too much wnen n is hot.

July 16, 1952

The journey out was interesting. I had a good day in Cartierville with the Tudors. Never have so many small children "been on any public carrier as were on the train. Many left at Winnipeg, but I was particularly interested in several groups from England. They had just arrived on the ship and were in some cases coming for the first time and to live here permanently. At Eegina a few cars were added to the train and I moved into onp of them. The next morning I awoke at Lethbridge, trie train nav*A* divided itself at Medicine Hat at 4 a/m. This^new train was going through the Kootenay and Kettle Valleys gave views of many glaciers --some I 3uspect on Glacier National Park, which was not more tnan sixty miles away. The service was excellenton this untouristed route and I enjoyed the day I went via Lethbridge and Nelson ^stead of by way of Calgary, Banff and Sicamous. It was worth a gooa ^eal to skip that hotel at SicamousI
Amy was at the station with the stationwagon an&Douglas an(j Pat arrived in dressing gowns for breakfast with me, i consider tms all a great mark of attention as Douglas and Amy have trays upstairs usually and somewhat later than 8:30. Three very interesting wome friends of Amy's from Vancouver were house guests, out aid noL meet them until just before lunch. I took over the flowers for the house at onceand did not go up to my room even for a couple of hours. The roses are magnificent, petunias are rioutous in the ^ ionb seel alone the drive and below the terrace, sweet wiLliam, zinnias, mastui si^ums cosmos, dahlias, and a yellow daisy are among my raw materials

Douglas Adair will be married to Patty Henderson of Victoria,

whom he met at the University,on October 18th. When tne Ooner gues^

left Monday at the peak of our heat wave, Amy got do^n^ lO m^vin^ up

lists for announcements--something of a task since it includes Lev

York Vancouver, Penticton, with many ramifications in loronto,

London - Glasgow. Yesterday mroning Robert, the butler drove Amy

Pat and me the other side of Penticton to Arnold s to pick sour

cherries, we also got some lovely sweet peas. Poor unee, tne

is still stoning them for canning today. We must have gotten almost

three buckets between us. Their brightredness against an equally

bright blue sky waB^ a sight to remember. The evening before we

picked ielly.

black currants to send to Vancouver By Friday we shall probably a-1 be

for hTw. Aaai in the orchard

g^et ttttni .~^

in the apricots. They have come along is such a rush that profess

ional pickers will probably not be available

My bedroom might as well be a sleeping porch. When I ant

it I ring for my breakfast =nd then read in bed or SO^ntc'at flowlrsi room to write a bit before going down to nave a look atwhat flowrh

need doing. We play Samba, in the house every nig", but.'iL>'

Jg*

alone we stay out in the beautiful I came we went across the lake for

COOJ. evening cards and got

home

T V tnree abouttmee,

. a

Paw rights later people came here and left aoout tne same ^oui . 10

^^h? wfare goinf?8 Lzel Knox and hope to leave at a more seemly

h^ur After a lte night the reading and the writing ao not get done

Between tea and cocktails Pet and I swim in the lafe, which is colder

than I recalled its being. The canapes and ice are put out aoout ^ :Vc but its nearer 630 when I get to ay peeprandial drinking. - ve

been'spending part of some afternoons helping bouglas in his uoghouse

1952
Although this is the fhirth time I've been in British Columbia it is the first time I have ever seen it sain here. Yesterday after lunch I was cutting some flowers,because we were having people for cards in the evening and we had picked apricots in the morning, when I usually do the flowers, and was^driven in by the rain. It kept coming down in a very matter of fact manner until sometime early this morning, but it was too wet in tne orchards pick until after lunch. Tom, the foreman, took hike, a former prize fighter whulhas been domesticated to the point of being the henwife and vegetable grower, and Robert, the butler,pressed ioto service,off to the orchard with tne tractor ana a trailer to oring back the picked fruit in the boxes, which have been scattered about for several days* Soon after lunch Amy and 1 overtook then in the car as they were picking half way up the hillside. We did not do verg
much before the clouds swooped down the lake and over the mountain We drove more than half a mile up to the old trail to the eouth^ to turn around and found the men huddled under a tree with the pieked fruit in boxes on the trailer covered by a tarpaulin. It was plain that it would not be possible to pick again,.so we came back to the house and in the evening we went to town in the car of the Honorable Justice Herbert Wood (called your lordship in court) to have Drambuie with Col and Mrs .Doitghty and then to the movies. We aimed for the second how and had to stand in line with about three hundred other people for about ten minutes. X felt that we were very conspicuous-Herb wore a blue polka dotted bow tie and- was the only man I saw in line with a necktie.
Jjily 24. It was cloudy this morningbut as it had not rained since late yesterday afternoon, the fruit was dry enough to be picked. I had not imagined that would be the case and only rang for my breakfast at ten o clock so did not get a great deal done. After lunch Tom took a ton of apricots to the packing house at Kaleden His Lordship and I were anxious to see tne process so Amy went down with us. Six conveyor belts move down the sorting table in one diecti ion with an elevated one going in the opposite direction. Women ex amine the fruit oil the belt aarest to *$j\em, leaving the greenest on that first wide slow moving belt, they toss the slighlly riper and the almost ripe fruit onto two other belts going in the same direction and the "Culls" to the elevated conveyor. When the fruit has passed the examination of about eight women, a couple pick out the best looking and fit it tidily into the bottom of a box, other women place the box at the end of a cut-off and allow the rest of the frit to roll in and fill it. Another conveyor carries the box, which now weighs about 22 pounds, to a women who weighs the box and grades it that is stamps the type of apricots, the grade and box weight. It then moves along to where a white haired old man places a top on tne box and lets it slip into a machine which nails the lid on --actually the bottom of the box, so the "facing" layer is the top, I went back to the head of the conveyor belt and while we wait to see our own frmit come through did some culling. It was rather fun to sit on a high stool and have a rod to rest my feet on, but I can imagine that doing it for two hours at a time between ten minute breaks for five months in the year can be monotonous. The Kaleden Go-op. handles cheeries, apricots, plums, pears and apples. We have already sent Ttwhoe Ctoanr sswoeflls' c oact sroasnsd tnthee lafokreemexanpetchti nt W k s thhtma rtLa pewa itlol nbse, ahadt o1t a2 l ,toofns^i^x .'

Cfife,faAft,ft*,^***-

August 17th, 1952

Tike the little fat pig that went to market, I4m home againand I regret to cay

five pounds heavier than Len I went away. So now I'm out to drop eight pounds to be

vhere'l was when I gave up smoking in January. I do not temember about the pig, o ,

tTl lovely time. I made the experiment of using the Kootenay-Kettle Val.ey branch

.of ith, e

Ognanneaddeaiinn

PPaaccilfiiicc

w..eess^t

of

Me^dicine

Hat. It was had just

abceceonmcpulits-hienc.

vTehrje

sjicmepne,,ry

via



&

t ssjrssrs2asiskssss fZ - mTyetlhubgrgtdagpee aenlud tHeealsoant ihs.egnmoat ias iompressive as t,h, e i a.m TL4iMnfei tthhrronuugehh BBea.nnfnf aannda Luea.ke L, ouise

at' the Debars' yitli me a

^tSX^Vho pick

trouble ever ex,nee they SgheTM

1^onT^rtTttem in the conxaunity, so I am

S2.\f

on the problem.

lovely wild norer. nl]. along the

%^.e perched on top of

Any met me at ## Penticton in her station wagon at what was A ght o'i

daylight" and an unheard of hour

^bt^tv'Tae! +hree rtheTwomen house gpests

Patty meant

and Douglas that 1 went

appearec into the

to , c north suite

* instead

ox

the

+h -Du^ j shifted S^^leTlrs. D'C^ly

five days tech.fort)

later and

ar^r sJ=^3asrt^ir-sTr*&~sSrzS^tSiha,& T^s.rsristes

she vpg the chauffeur ox the party* t. t s e na - I flowers for the house as the bulterts wife wno was wait on table and do general oddments like the -loveis

. -

undry aui u&iv

^ a grange ailment,

t(J the dootor for

which after a week's absence from work pbfjeannetto, I'm afraid she is not quite stable,

tests never did seem to oe diagnose .

'

servants with strange careers or plain

s.-4"Sss tzxzr&i:s\r..w--

The night of the day X arrived we went aoross the

Ilyrtle and Duncan Carswell of .-xeXlinghsm to

J TO8 roady to collapse. Duncan

handed Samba. We got home is an Eye, Ear and Throat

amtan^ who wants t to rj etirree'ttoo

the

Okanogan, but ^J^on. u

has
the

to go
hou86

on working and

as i'yrtle seems to have wde some dieu. "twenty tons of cherries that they got and the

extension of the orchero.

t.a. . .

ig the 'cot queen of the world with

estimate was two hundred tons ox apricot..

.

more acres in apricots than any other one orchard.

The

brrlng^their

water

in from the e3Leven the

ridge behind them where they have built a re^ervci c

hig vMte unlfora

next morning when X rang for my brsakf,

one 2d sometimes Tom or Chee

and tall, stiffly starched cook-,s

"

v +,, _ table at the edge of the lawn

carried a variety of sandwiches, tea, )rui :uic

trees which banded the point *

?ftbe shade of the pine and accecia (locust to jtoertcanw^

,,orth sun-porch at

Unless we were out, tea was served either on the -st terra.ee

^ to b0 ^ ven

ft: XC

^o^poSrsfx/^t and X swan between tea **

the canapes were

August 17 --page two

pre dinner drink--which because of the great dryness of the climate was highballs^instead ofi cocktails. Usually we had coffee a d some of Chee's very special crisp cookies or

cake and/or sandwiches around mid-night. Yet I manage not to gain t ere. I did YL o..ers^ and swam vigorously every day, until I noticed a piece in the local paper about not swiraraig too hard in the heat wave--and of course we had unprecedently hot weather wmle I was -fiiere

official readings of 95,7 at the airport on the strip of land between the 90nu.le long^Okanae-an Lake and the 12 mile long Skaha Lake. The Dewar's place, Banbury, consists of 5p- acres

in a point jutting out into the western pert of the lake. It has a gentle rise^on w^ich Amv built the house, so in hot weather they get whatever air there may be stirring up or down the lake, and there is generally a pleasant breeze from the north. The land rises
a series of ridges behind the house to about 2500 feet. Al though there was once an oi-
chard there the trees died during Jorld Jar I when Banbury was killed-- there ware.ourteen men with orchards in Kaleden, fourteen rent to war and fourteen were kl^ed. rnose uho .Y wife and children had their families cared .for by the establishment cu tne kaleden -eta- , where a community .water supply, expect administrator and common equipment maintained the orchards. Their trees are very fine and well kept even now ana they are tne backbone,o. Kaleden Fruiet C-rowers Cooperative Packing House. Douglas and Amy never expected to nave an orchard--but little by little they have gotten into it and hoped taat their 24 year old

son would want to take over eventually. The Dewars now have 7u acres -part o- vnicn tne

had to buy three years ago to protect themselves from a roadside dance hall. It is jpe^

to irrigate and cultivate 30 of these acres --though the 1300 trees do not use it alias y

Since Douglas knows nothing about being an orchardist, he has e l r. Law come down iro

Summerlnd onee , week to lock over the situation and discuss it with Douglas, then he stops

in Fenticton on his way down and telle Tom Tarren, the Dewar's foreman

is very nice and

- near renins with engines and excellent at mending desks and Venetian blinds but no fruit

UT-Yt to do next. Douglas pays Law $3,000 or $4,000 a year for tms advice and is very

hfiUBV "bout it. Before they employed Law, all the 1800 trees had been set out--aoout 5 acres in Delicious apples, jin Badtlett pears, 5 in cheeries both ling ar.d Umoert,a re in prunes, and more in both peaches and apricots. For the first time thpy had sent cheeries

to the pseking house and this year to ever/one's amazement and delight seemed to deliver tt-oondnnssPooe.ftrfatenpcrit-iiooon-ostsa.reIghoeoldpfejdamtoan*dpicakrethsemablel aauntdifu-r.orltuuvInitfdoi ,orptmavoreckepn, rroaofseie^b,ssii.go. naapsi&lspegpauochoevse, r tfhhee Rorocyhaalrsd HK-ree times to pick opricots, but we being new to the business and an thusiastic must na\e gone over most ?rees tS or twelve days. The first day Banbury lad,72 apple boxes more than o ton of fruit to go to the packing house, Judge Wood who was staying at the Dog.iouse ( n_ little house of silting roomloffice, bedroom, kitchen and bath, with a front porch over *h<* lake which was Douglas's exclusive property where he could runaway .row people) ior week that Douglas was in Vancouver attending Board Meetings, had never been to a house so he drove Amy and me over to Kaleden after the truck had gone. It was so interesting

+ n cee the seven conveyors with workers on both sides, actually as it. was an oJ

9

there were oSJMTsrt of workers with the near wide belt,into which the fruit was poured,

,-articul rly l' rge fruit was put on the second belt, end riper fruit on . .o t.nr . - < * , ^ltTM elevated and carried the culls in the opposite direction. There was an empty place m" - he 0 d of the line, so after X had been through -the process and seen the crated fruit resly to be put Into h e freight cars for the east r * e trucks for Vancouver I ^tdowna^ sorted for half and hour until they crme to our fruit. That was so good there wus practically rtnthins to do. But I learned a lot about what should Hp sent to tne packing house and win .
v. riii 'bAe carried into Chee for him to preserve or make into jam. .Then I was m t.E oo department of Joodwards (department store) at Fort Royal, the JKcrth Vancouver shopping area which remains open on Wednesday when all the other stores in Vacouver are closed, I nearly ^Yht Hase apricais with the Kaleden label, in the hope that some of the 'cots would ZTto me! I've sorry to run on so about the fruit, but that is the life blood of the nc ^ountr-r" as that part of the province in called and I certainly sweat over t,ie Jevar crop. Finally we got smart and instead of picking in the bat of the day, Amy woUld do a

H with Tom that they would leave on. orchard or prt of a. plar&g for us to d-'nner. Je could pick from three to five hundred pounds after dinner - ore, uie lig.
I must confess that one night I pickedby feel-size, place on the lime and texture

OX skin rather than by that bit of orange color at the base.

Wither at home or elsewhere we played Samba practically every night and I ^ had such YrdY It oTM point 1 me very" glad that 1 had my ticket home! A couple of times we

August 17th, 1952--page three

we had peope to tea and a couple oftiaeej*

come at 230 so as to enjoy the ooa.t-ous<a a

- -

were all gone by 5.30 so Pat and I could swimat^our p

Toll tol Kwf

policy ^

hous. The tea away I most

?r6ndl pwvineiP type house,

endowed was with Catherine and Oaroi A~ >

lonF the lake front, and more ox

o?native stone and mansard rood, an ejrteneiv. uea wall along^e i,, ^ ^ ^

h

the same grey stone walling around an enormous rose



where their orchard is

down a very raid canyon

marguerites against the grey stone

is very dramatic, one breatntakin - f

|aivtiful green turf lawn among a few gooo pine

walls. The grey stonehouee set in a -uge .

^is tine) Juat over the stone wall

trees--cmyhe 15 dfc 20 in all---it.* was another. They are v e r y civilised people

_ 5.

,,e6n several times here in ew iork appropriate as 1 had been trying

as well as in

varol oOlu -l-1- - .

. ^"t announcements of the Octobei 1-

_

to hel|Mr with the list of people to >e o.n,i^ _ t>; " raF n the University of Britisn

wedding of Douglas Adiar to Patty

^^clPhailWB* prowling around Birk's (Canada's

Goluhbia with him. It seems tnat Sir Anarew Lac^aii ^p.b x^ ^

up & beautiful

leading jewelry store) and spied a

c. over to "Janet" with it in his arms "Good

large sterling silver punch borl ^ tro&*J-^ like this for a wedding pre-

^nnSh'eU,asS'LnH"oingto get it. I have not been invited to the wedding.

reside the three women from Vancouver who ^frejbsere ^^ogtious^for a week. Hie wife

Herbert 3. *d, who is called "Ky Lord in court, was the ^ ^ dwm f

tT weeks

had died within the year and he was \en l0i- ^ loVelv salmon trout. He arrived just in time

fishing at a club at Parnash end orough us ^

Vancouver for a week, presumao-.y

to speak to DougLas at the station as tne later was g . to sly a week. However^ Douglas had told urto

keep him as long as possiole ^ he ,0uld stay for t^o days,

so we were on our metal when ..e L

Douglas Adiar and Pattyat x,i30 Ab..

jell^ this was Sunday evenings Douglas go ^ p ms' stunned Sunday morning to hear soon

q turdaV and we had a big party Sautrda,, - -^ Ifter T'had my breakfast that the Judge was

t

, managed to get down to say goodbye

mnagerfto .

noon ard could

to him just before noon. I hod a pro

faegaveMe of his resignation rather

not hang around. I ratner suspect t,^ ^ - Annual Share holders meeting I guess ox Inter-Ci

dramaticly delivered at the Board . eei^g - flep,,rture. i gather that common stock went

Breweries had something to do with tne ha.t,^ -. 1_

baord, Amy was busy

from 1 a shore to $4 during the time that

SougLas seem, to have had 2,500

calling uo everyone die had advised u

PaiHBrv. It would be fun to folio tnat

snareeand was offering them in 500 ^

We I has in Vancouver,

onel His Lordship dated me up .or a but he went off to Victoria to play in gel.-too

t En(J s0 j v.'ae spared, what sount.s - afternoon and an evening and tnere

like a smelly business. Lydia and Pick Carter

dng, Carter is an African

were people invited for a buffet U.JI o.

-

rho either sells or installs grain elevators o .

nmiries or in the port cities 01 tne ^ Vanc0UT8r. The 1- st night I was

Oanadainaaid US northwest, they eem to pr - e , . -

^ hftd buffet dinner on the terrace,

there Florence and Peter Kidd came ior t;.e

freezer in town, served cold witn

one of their own turkeys which we nad go

good fare for an itinerant fruit p'iieZKeetrt,r i

s

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family income.
Themis no flower garden as such but from the hijhway is 9/lOth s mile " Jtoh itself has a lil> pool in it. 1 had double in E wide variety of color,

^

^ house (the road in

> on three sides of the terrace, tiful roses, holly hocks both angle and
nastursiums both double vellew'eiwmer chrysanthemum fhich SIqprecred

that J went i the bird foTeeve in a Rmvx d.id, not, ,,us,,u,,aelnlyv rnipave flowers j-

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August 17th, 1952-page 4

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vin a sheet, and only had the blanket up a couple ox mgnxe* x gave

, T7f .. , .

^rk out, but I slept- and ate a lot and had o0> fresh air and exercise to justify

had a wonderful time.

ZTZT LTTL'TfJTco^ ,, . ,r

4th Amv drove me in the station wagon together with Haiel Knox, whose

husband lain ^ghnessy

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O

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d of a shll |ob as caretaker for the

Sen they are "up country" he is in town and "does for" andyo.* .-lo a-

?

SiS^SiTSs. -=c3-'ST>-r t K-!St" r,.K'.As"" Douglas Adair is there all the time as
which his lather is a oireei&i l.rs -W.i. * --- w

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pnd tw> sisters)

* t cter Hazel came bac| from

...

v . + i , ,, . . n i ' t x v a a ? ? h p r i n e h e r r o o m , a s u e l e n w a s m C u e n w e - .. i

ed the window in our *"throaa anaring '

^^ aot include a open bathroom

Hazel in Hatv,s loom) e - n

-

window-ao we cloeed it. About lour ne..en ceu.e i*

.. e..tf v-ere on tne phone again &o

^

^ ^)at the trouble

say that another open circuit showed, .nould

morning and see wnat was wrong-

wo3- Helen consulted toy

"b J <,r*hnmia rct--ie , onlv this time Amv had a ohone

The next night we went tnrough a sit

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involve-'.

Adair save

Plugged into the eoovat or our night t-bio ^

^

^ do,,r,,t ,,

she would rather h-ra mn

- -

and she would sk him n ic* c^-fo co fti i. porf aetl" wonderful, fueed-w

_
lGertrude

.,,r.lv B^jee

B+.BV

,,Tv.. she will b 80 or Sett,
i4'++1a lunch for ra t tVi Then

Georgian Club-* moat attractive jo-en a club o^c ^ Qoyl)rmmt Hou-e be 1 on the 15th.

w wr.t +o Hun?e s R^d got s Oor

^

.

-hrrr 'pr*?'' on the trnl ars ton

^ ^ : hiacv eri.neiine with great a.oi flower, elto ^^ro ^ ^nt^ ^

nnd wultirle iawarad -W.rt over a duetrv r .^

Bf+.Br having

/

-Ihat night *mr,pi.rnd Fttv end i t nt had a drink at. hTM fi at to pi cx us

^

hfi^ ,,ep+ Amv .terding for

^ ^ +>_fi ^ell wa got teek

aero a the Lions

OVov pn v-onv, l,:.rS* Ac o.j. 9

:

G"te_Bridge -M r had more ^naat^

mv nicturp and it enrvsr^" in p

^

VANCOUVER SUN t>hotngrf.bhr cme to take

th. next dev with a aanpy

oe)x ^x.

frnnda t^as her

comment, whioh X ,-

gave Hro.

^ **^ uw and in the

notes for the aooietv pexe. Tthe U- Get. Brida. to

Ptmv

mf+.*rrmcv> r* --nt G*r^*nn nj-mt Vane ^

^^ br sister Helen lierearet

KcKeuziw, Me.r*' * ;"v e^'est daughter a->. ^ -

F^ni.c0 0 we cover lot f f?-oun.d

pbd her IferV 8:ld )G r:Jr

t:^,u:;;he1d whpre Helen ad U-rr Hv* dewnts.irs end 1 rso

befor> go^ns on to Grey Rocu in Cat.1 -

o

nr^Art

T woe last there end

4d,- nd

Mr.

^l^^^^r'houee. 8hoW Hrv leave, e he doee from ti- to

u eeemed wise for/'^n

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time to visit married deue-tars i

reallv alone. "#t ahs nBintainaJhe^a

Fronrtio,h nr somewhere in Canada, Helen is not 4a^r,^^c. ps doe eTo h^ mother,

^

kn0Wf

Yfiprs

l>. w-ir teane

vsrv

: r. Power, cotilH - ^ n i

a

.^v M,, hom0 Pwar'a home between tnM-nnw . r.

fond Of him and a*-' he co^

'+rv. mere twins and fo- eomnanv an" use he is to

^::."Siia:.'c_ : r;.r,,s s AHflir

k *-* ** *"n Vf>"

A l n

of Ha nrnic+rd wnrid tours. I gather from

his own home. It wo. not 30 -am " ;

at tow's.

I too- th-r to taa at -^ui01C;

t,.av toftV en to aae their bast north aid.

^

150 Rimive-m- nitohar for hao colls

s-owine aroo and X got . s. Adair n

. .

^ ig 80 different than the trees

tior as a birt.'-dav orasant. The oad--

d x-



liac"' Was la--cai-- UP countrv. Thera are , H ^^

IJZ,so-lv trunks. I love to sit in Helen s .ittinn

laith beautiful reddv th.ir warden

August l 7th rage 5

which i R pi mass of col orf brce'TO H1 <r cannot bear to Dull out weeds even if there is a gey blonroT ^nd henv'l v scented with a good blifl from good mn^tr hydrangea bushes^, at
the lateafternoon light on the arbutus trunks between the garden and the rocks at the waters edge* Friday we went to Phvllis mid Laura's for dinner and cords with Ilomh Maedonald making the sixth* P^wllis ^ave us p. delicous mvst.erv roup. She never tells anything about her reoires, v can only agree that it is thiner than puree o"d thicker than most cream sours and that it hs currv in it. Some ssv tbe^e is the flavor of bay "te af, others of elm, Norah thinks c'&hery leaves play a nsrt. Me I'm going to do bit of experimenting when it gets cooler* Douglas Adair end Patty cme for Sunday dinner a"d also Gertrude Belvea'--the later bearing a bve-bve for np in the form of a little ribbon and flannel
travelling case for ear rings.*someone made her gome for the Svmnhonv Bazaar she runs to finance tke Children's concerts.

Finally I made speech and said that I loved to be treated as family and it was

fun to HOR>E that when I gave UP the FPA I could spend a large portion of each vear with

tkom. but here I had been in Vancouver four times and had never reallv been to their

femeus Stanley Park, which -s v,l 1 known hv ell tourists* So Monday afternoon thev all

took me to hear me oh and eh over the huge Douglas firs, the homes of the Indians whose

reservation the park i9 the "ine oclook gun, the Victoria momument and the Capt. Vn -

couver strtue and the grrve of the Indain poetess* the Siwah Totam pole at Prosepct Point

etc. Jell, I d:'d

but I actualXv was mo-<-e interedted the afternoon we took Helen

Margaret househanting and saw the tvne of house Douglas Adair had expected to live in (Amy

vm. giving them the $1800 dnwnpsvment for a wedding present and thev were to rev <P52 a year

until J9,000 3iad been paid* two bedroom, one bath, livingroom with dining alcove, cor

port. laree eoongh that p. utility room could be mde at one e^dc Jo trees ^nd on a very flat

area sure to get a lot of fog and ground moisture in the wet season* The way reonle had

rainted and planted the regimented house to make them appear different was positively dizzy

making.) Douglas' ^irra is sending him to England for two vears, nrobablv risrht after the

wadding or too soon after to bather setting UP a home in Vancouver before they come back.

Thev will have a fine time abroad as Douglassenior took out a $100,030 life insurance

oolicv for D.A. which is now poid UP, but as it is in England ind the regulations prevent

their sending the money to Canada D.A and Pattv are for spending the $10,000 cash value

in there. It seems a mistake to me and I suspect will burn Pans UP.

Hie route back on the Canadian Natioanl through Jasper is lovelv. the mountains

are more massive and higher than on the Canadian Pacific and enought of ihem are far enough

a1wa.y to give a good perspective. The Candain Pacific via Banff and Lake Louise coils around

and burrows through the biggest mountains in great

feats of engineering, but who

like the semell of train smoke in tunnels? If I to n't forget I*m gping to writ Donald ,

Gordon, the CNR president, who is a friend of Douglas' and suggest that I would do a bit

of publicity for his line in hew York for a pass on his rail read. The food was unlmaginativ

and repetitious--the s *me soup was Poiage Alexandra for luncn and Mulligatawny for dinner.

"Pie" was always listed on the menu and whenever I asked it was cocoanut creme and I

prist hr re rs'~wd f'r*** timer before I grv i.m hope for r good berry pie . Not na much

of the J?.arvst

5.r. OP the rircri fis R a I thought. Ontario from 1k is line

a full of

lakes and trees as from the Canadian Pacific. Mv last dav in Canada wp with "ivelvp He

Donald in Toron+oc She gsvA p limchc^n f~r "a at, the Toronto Tennis Cluh for ten, which

delicious and delightful

comoanionshi.p. I was glad to go to the Club as it has

been so large a nerf. of her life for fortr veers...in 1933 Evelyn played t Ji^bi^don and

ve an ardent- tennis placer before -r-1 "fto-1- that. Afterrard she took pi to her books? OP

where I got. bewfctiful ly bo"r>d cw*ire

Oxford Dietlrnerv for Douglas Adair and Pattv*-'

she wants to write. And an Armada! fcr re in a utili+Tr binding. Then we went to see

one of the IOT"1 ir<?t ~rdcns fv Toronto and. cf*at with the Bri eke11 s, old friends of "Evelvns

X took a ereat shine to a lovely d0"* i C"t rink

if

epr r Ladv Bettv.

;v' ''Vret day in C reds res srnt with the Tudorg in Cartiervi 11.e, SveTvn was good

enough to go i n to Montreal to meet ma end guide me o"t. John

at the4 - station with .

bunch of beautiful de">-Mniur which J had the pleasure .of arranging end later cooked the

mogt delectable meal thet is John did As I was more tired thn I then rerlilted I was glad

to sit and chat with with all of them in their nice cofel living room.

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August 23, 1952

\

A beautiful, freahlv scrubbed very bl ;e sky tod^v and a dry cool wind. In fact the weather since 1*gt Sunday has been so improved over what it had been that I am credited in the office with having brought better weather with me irom Canada* However I was worried the day after I got back for what I would find in the office besause of what
barrelled on one radio net work, which out of common decency should be namelesse One program which did not originate in the studio was fifteen minutes late in getting started oecaise the engineer never turned up. Later as part of a very lovelv Mozart program wnich included

the score of "The Abduction from the Seraglio" thev olaved "The Iraoressario". //hen it was

overthe announcer said "Va blushinglv admit that the two records of this last commedy oners were olsved in wrong rotation." .All this added UP to me that oeonle were bemused from the lon^ hot snel1 nd making mistakes right and left and probably should not be

hold too much to account.

It wee ver" useful that I had come to this conclusion as I arrived at the office

find that rav new little secretary whom I had only had three weeks before 1 left on my xiol,idy

had received a French government scholarship ($75^r month, which is not gpxng to go very

far in Paris) and is leaving. She is fortunately gettiaie some hel" from her family- However

she had been sick since Thursday and did not want to go on working anvrny and when she was

still unable to report to the office bv Wednesday I phoned her that she had better build UP

health for ive hr401* and not bother to c^ie infr It was not until Thursday, however, tnat I dug into the historv of the thing end found that no-one had bothered to do verv much aoout

finding me a new secretary. But I remembered my Sunday lesson and only went part way to the

ceiling. While I was away Tom wrote me that the Ford Foundation had given us another ip451,rrr> over a. period of three years end sure enough the first installment of Bl /5,000.00

arrived. After o many ve-rs of Pinching every pennv and worrying as to how we could do

anything like what we wanted to with the money and sometimes where the raonev was coming

from for the payroll, it is almost paralvzing to realized that we now have to worry about

what to do with the monevi --Ho, it is not so plush we still do not stop and think but it3

a great thing. Alas* Chet VHll.ie.me and Tom Fower are not hitting it off verv well and I

suspect each is spending a good deal of time in thinking UP ways to embarrass the other. Tom has spent so much of my week "alerting" me to the d--gere and looking lor svmpatny i or

fancied or real slights that I have had to bring home great gobs ^ of work to do over the

weekend. One of his "alerts" is that if Chet has his

he will sweep all of us out

onto the street. I am not wasting any of my energy worrying about r state of unemployment,

but I do fear that the next four months "i"M be pretty grisly. Chet admits that there is

a great deal whadtdwill have to be talked over and argued about before it can ue nut into

operation nd vat we shall have to keep the usual operational job going --ay department

is especially operational--so he admits tht we shall have to do r lot 0f out oi hours

discussing.

In view of that promising orosrectl have decided that I had better hang onto "tnis apartment and not get mvself involved with active house hunting rnd packing and settling at this stage of the game. The office does not move until sometime in March and any new plede on the Mast river would be frightfully awkward forgetting to the present office ouiu this place Is as simple as anything possibly could be. Also, I near that Chet does not like the proposed building, hopes to get out -f the contract and at worst thinks he would take other space elsewhere for part of the staff. I might turn out to be smont those sent
to the loft space--who knows. Tom could also be right and I mav be out. So I horeJE can stick it out here until some of the imponderables become clear. It is much more xun ,,o remember that two weeks ago Helen took us to "^innian*s Rainbow" inthe Theatre under tne Stars in Vancouver's Stanley Park. The setting is lovely and between the acts I enjoyed tPp r>5Vas of the huge cedars which silouhetted around the edge the the enclosure, me p!v
was well done and we all enjoyed it very much.

Maria and Hank are back from Paris said they say for good. Tnejr were to have haa dinner
here on Thursday, but Hank had to be in Washington then --so Maria and I had dinner together
and he came along after SOtS because the 6 of clock train was a little late --it was when J rump on it +oo. So Hank had cold chicken as well as cold soup. The second version of ray attempt of Phyllis' Special soup I had decided to try cold anyway, its iun out no. it.

fiffejSa# fiU&C-,

' J- , e 7c*r ' .**', ** y
September 1, Aoe>?

Hur Ic ne "Able", or something, built UP the huraidit- 1 sx week to the point

where T<38 *o*ifided th t he wee e^ 1 in and wit1" anv encouragement would be gLd^to

declare Frxdav a holiday. Unfortunately the speakers bureau was too busy getting out

t^e tonic -nt spe*krs lists," but I did encourage a 3*30 closing on Fridav. x a

still dripping when I got to the New Miller Avenue house for the weekend with aartna,

CIeve, Fran and Clevee. It res good to get away froTM the office for three days, as

I'm right back in the rat race -- Wednesday afternoon about five (the OIL ice closes

officially at 4s30 during July and August but Miss Lush and 1 with a

^

stenographer were determind to get the lists out and keep up as much of the routine as

possible so I was more likely to leave at seven than at ioai-t irtj-^ - A- .

n,"vinrpa

the he-d of the British Information Services telephoned. Ages ES .'A/h^question that Anthony Sden wuld head the U.K. Dei egatidn to the UN -so I raised the.que,rti,in

fnforrallv would ,r. ;jden give us the soeech we missed m Januarvafter ,.lect.on as 1

aSI,Jed he -ould follo^ the British tradition and not 8t>eech .during the CWIPB:IGN^

/ell, D'Arcv

calling to say that my assumption was correct and in -act ui. .d .

r probably would not come until November 10th, but that any time I wanted to
formal invitation to the foreign minister would oe approniuate. .ie ^r" ^

has gone straight to him and so once more X am encouraged tnat i diall be running a

;.r; ..d0 for Anthony Eden. (X am so glad that I go in my query early and ages before

his marriage to i-iss Churchill.) This on top of the special fuss t.at election maxes,

and the confusion and tensions of the office "reorganisation . Ah, me.

Clcve isfine and busy doing things to the new house, Eartha is having a time

vetting Fran ready to go in two weeks to Endicott College. Sue a: been working at

Jones Beach during the suaser and thoroughly enjoyed it. Clevee is up to nu ears

in football practice--being now six foot, three and ahalf incnes ne .ins give., up aii

idea of going to the Ifeval^ Academy us they have a limit of six four on midsnipmen

and Clevee thinks he will grow another inch. Molly and uim came Pack a tay anea o

time from Mattituck because Fred wr - running - te-- era+ure -nd because of tne

iclv

bad weather. Tliey had had beautiful time on their holiday and gird to nve y day

together at home on Wednesday when the boys go to school. Nolly said to Bi.,1 t^.t sne

would like to have him go to school too this year. He promptly replied wo, 1 can go

to school. I can't read."

The American Le^on behaVod itself very well as far as I was concerned this year...'.and I have not heard the complaints of rowdyism I heard before. Carolvn and I watched the Tuesday oerede for a bit at lunch time and were yreetljr amused at the Iowa contingent--each had a. com artrIk over his shoulder --good healthy lookxnc corn witn the tassel bobbing--made a pretty impression almost like a soarsely planted cornfield moving UP Fifth Avenue. Two window washers who stood on their buckets to get a belter view as the crowd of people out from offices and chore for lunch made four deer on the
curb*

.Wednesday I w/ent to see the Greenwoods and was concerned. Aunt Mary looked

tired and said that she had no energy-"Aunt Bessie only wsntpo. to chat for p few min

utes in the library before she went oif to ner room and we wenc DO the diavii\-.. i oom.

The heat of the summer was hard on both of them. Aunt iv-ry feels tnat sne did not

benefit from hor* month at Luke i O/ionk and seems to fear that Aunt nessie felt very

<.n0rd ur pt Doctor's Hospital# Louise the cook found a place ~b*rp

could take

painting lessons on Gene Cod and took Nary the waitress al ong with her, Aunt ifary

said that she had to look at two se^seepesso I gat. er that Loui ne.s more enthusiasm

than talent.

Vera gets-back to the office tomorrow (we have just had a long talk on the telephone -.id she had a superlative time traveling with Mlinor and when she was in Italr with friend staying in the-hills hmTuuni (?) an hour from Home where medeval copes stayed and across the lake from Ca^bslfiorre or whatever where the none now summers.

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Freeport ---September 7, 1952

The big type is by courtesy of Molly -- and I sit in the sun on the screen porch. Yesterday afternoon Molly and I sat in deck on the back lawn and I soa ked up a little tan --maybe. Later I baby sat while they went to the yacht club dance at Amityville with aboufc fire couples of friends by way of celebra ting their wedding anniversary. Bill is the one who has changed most in the two months --at four they develope quickly I guess.

The first page stories this week about George and Cele McGhee swimming the Bosphorous amuzes me very much indeed. I doubt if the matter would have gotten so much attention were he not the US Ambassador to Turkey and were he not accompanied by a US Senator. I rather suspect that the McGhees, or some of them have done it before and probably will do it aga in being that kind of hearty, enthusiastic people --and of course swimming from Europe to Asia is a stunt. Brooks got Into the offide Fri day and said he thought they had the benefit of a very strong current -- he and Faith had been to the McGhees summer home on the Bosphorus. Brooks and I bo$$feh met the McGhees at the same time in Virginia at the Farmington Country Club about ten years ago. Brooks was pleased with some of the t| things I told him I had been doing about meetings and sigpdii a couple of letters I had dicta ted for his signature. He is a little thinner, vfcife pleases him, though I would dobt if his doctor would a 1together approve. He reported that they had had a fine time, but that he was disappointed in Faith's endurance a s a sightseer. After all this trip had been'arranged to have her see a part of the world--the Near East, and whereas he would want to go to a 11 twenty mosques in a given city Faith was only interested in going into one. She had bought a French poodle in Paris and he had to take her out to the airport to pick it up on Friday afternoon, so he could not get back to the office. Evidently Tom was not successful in getting over much of his tale to Brooks at lunch even.

Wednesday I began going to the dentist and fear I shall have an appointment a week for quite a while0 My new secretary, German Barn Margot Loewy, came here when she was IS years old. She is a graduate of Barnard and has had several years experience in socia 1 work, but feels she would like to be in world affairs and so is willing to be my secretary for a while. Gosh I hope she la sts a yea r. Even having a new one each autumn is hard enough, but is it worse for Miss Lusk than for me as she really ca rries the brunt of the breaking in. Loewy is slow, but turns out really good work. She is attractive ia a quiet, soft spoken way. A good deal of my time during the week has gone to Vera, she is just beside herself and in a very nervous sta te. I could see her knuckles white from the tenseness with which she had clasped her hands at staff conference on Thursday. She seems not to be sleeping and to be generally distrait. I hope that her Russianism will assert itself soon and she will begin to enjoy being sorry for herself. Meanwhile I do what I can to keep her more of less right side up. Romance half thenworld away is upsetting but I hope the bitterness from the recent parting will seen abate.

Molly is having niur autumn bloom on her roses. The best

bushes are going to be in the way when the televison room is added to

their housel I fear for them.

The clematis is making a nice scent,

but the bloom does not seem as profuse a s usua 1 and most of the chrysan

themums have disappeared a ltogether. The more I hear about the heat

of July here, the worse it a ppearx to have been.

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Lest I stor, auije suddenly, you must not thank me rude. -Then I could not ge^

from Holly's as early as I cleaned I deeideo that I would not oe aUe to write

!'t '.11. It's after eleven and 1 am waiting for Vera to telephone me when a caller

leaves he~r. I suspect if I go to bed I'll fall eeleeo and then^get va^ -cde^w.^.

y. vcu cruesssd ite Things in the office seem to oe costing xo . of rumors of threats to resign unless someone else is fired, ^resignr-to cms,

1D*9

and so forth and so on and both Tom and Ghet telling ma nox oc oelie e ,

save

It

wonderful to her this week that our distant cousin .Ulan Johnson who was

stricken with nolio in San Francisco a few weeks ago has improved to tne noint

ne

has been nut into the nolio ward. His lungs and anas were not oemlvzad ana one of j.s

i ecq has made a good improvement. It -mil be a matter of three weeks m t^e nnopital,

eo he is

to b in the *r as most of the other Patients are children since he me

Til ,

little crirls of his own and is verv fond of youngsters* It is ironical tnat he

be encour^n, hia fel-w

-rd c--in, theTM w to he3- themaelvee -hen

he was supposed to have b*en here to read part two of a n^er he started to tne uoll >g

of Surgeons four or five years ago.

After delightfully cool days the early ort of the week, the to ^ dTM f fn cn ,'ednesdav and we started to sizzle, Friday wee something lake Vo n/o . ,id broke a record for the day. Saturday was even worse and everyone in both Pratt nouseho s iust finishing brenkfrst preparatory to going to IdleviTd Airport to meet melma ond pel ,, plane from AtLte *. a telegram wa. delivered warning us that the plane had been unable to bond'on account of fc at the Atlanta airport and that they would be along
in the afternoon. By that time the energy of some of us had evaporate so only p , Frptt end Olevee and I went. It was rather fun seeing seeing the neonls wuo had ]us arrived from Burope on a Swissair and a BOAC from London. Then they called a .ranaOanada

plane for Montreal, a PanAmeriean Clipper (sueob as I went to Puerto BieO on) fr '

Aires, a terrific fuss mr mode .bout the passenger. for a "lone for Jmra and .mIx*.

who seemed much less inclined to board their plane than those wno were en route: f Gander and England. Then they announced the Silver Falcon (a two motor job) from Atlan a

there they were both looking much as they had over lour years ago.. . .

-

had kept then from travelling on a Constellation. He had a_family bssoecue ior ,

twelve Pratts at Holly rnd Jim's which I "gave" though Holly did most oi the wor a"d

Jim"cooked the chicken on a charcoal fire. The big ice cream cake said lelcome ,

Thelm- -nd ,>1 It was Frn's last dinner before going to college (her xather and

mother drove her UP to Beverly, Ifassachusetts this afternoon, but we rut the snumasxs

on "rrivols not departures. Tomorrow Thelma and Oal will come to stay in town a couple ^

of days before going back to G1eve's. I must remember to climb out of dinner et Man,-, s

and one or two other things.

Fred keens running alow grade temperature and coughs deenlv, but the aoctor seems unable to do anything about it. I m so rleased about rav Turkish born Armenian exaecretarv who was sent here from Istanbul with a scholarship xor Oarleton Gollege, rna then ot her II. A. at Tufts in international law. I managed to stave on tne mumigra ion Service and had her work for me for all of two years in in-aervice-training and tnen she went to ilexico to wait for her ouota number to come udo iien sae^canw in as an i.*migrant I got her a good post in another organization where she has aeveloned nicely-
now she has gotten an appointment as assistant cultural attache in Bomhanv m ,ie o Foreign Service. I am simplv delighted and very proud of her success.

September 17th Thelma/ and Oal dined with me Honday and then came here for the J.X I had first gone to Gerry's and irie.se be my back te. d stayed in whack for a week 0 She is sure that'mv "high" blood oressure (130) ie the* result of my not smoking and is deUrhted* Of course, I still threaten to go beck to cigarettes at anvj.io.nent. Last night Tfcelmr was with her sister and Oal w*s here; but not until about xen. ^ offiQ
is .c confused this Ghet is supposed to nave aeoimc

-s3K?r

M J , September 30, 1952

' T h e e x t r a n u s e between c h i t - c h a t s i s a s you guessed, i i indeed you noticed o. e

omission, by the presence of" Thelma and Gale I've been w.tn holly and oim for foui

weekends in succession--one to see how the boys lies grown in July and August and then

to be on hand to greet the visiters from Georgia, to see tnem on the uninterrupted middle

weekend and then to go and see them off. The airport seemed even more crowded when .

tl ev fe ft at ten o'clock standard time on Saturday night.there seeded to be a groat

mrv Feurto Idcans. I could not make out .whether thev were there to travel or "Assist*!"

in arrivals and departures, my guess is that the ratio was one traveller to ton "assie-

t6rsM. It was wonderful to have them here, but even driving back to Freenort with xmrtha

01eve and 01evee 1 started to think of the things I wanted to ask or say. My great dis

appointment ms that the office was in such a state of tension end confusion that 1 was

fearful of making any plans, so instead of taking them to the theatre I se^t o-ieta ko s

matinee by themselves. Old as it is I thought they would esoeciellv enjov South Pacific

on account of Gal having been there with the havv during the war--sad I gnes they did.

On two wekends Ver has called mo at Fr*eport and both times I have ban out and ran up

R big telephone bill in calling her back,- diet has resigned--technically declined to +.0 nem^nent status front the temporary tost arrangement on which bo eerae 1 aet harcn
Tne Gxecutiye Committee meets tomorrow to take cere of several items includng the adver

tised resignations of Emory and Power. liy guess is that Breaks will be Id eked Ur to chairman of the board, and Tom's "ill be accented to be effective as of tne appearance

nf a a. new Preside it. He is shattered at being sked for his resignation, and. I cennni

understand his willingness to stay on. I fear the worst in the line ox aoeus-pocuso

le have just, had a simulated air-r-id test under an almost full moon-- milch Ed

burrow discribes "Bomber1 s Moon". It wee for the training of the air moid nernoanel

so I could look out the window and watch tie search lights sweeu ecross the sky like

so manv fumbling fingers* A large bomber flew straight ur Fifth Avenue and I doubt ii

the search lights agar did nick it

three smaller plans flw from ME to SW

pcross the citv the lig ts onlv plowed on tneir c"1 ose formation flickeringlv, io-^

morrow there will be a plea for plane spotters to look for rlanss, which might come in

under the -adr serpen. Tith the develooeraent of jets, I'm fatalistic* Thev could

coTMe in undsrthe erren so fast that a dosen spotters' reports would not do any good*

The big F

filled with Christmas c*=rds and wraopings--they even have sever

al window displays featuring fireplaces and holly wreaths. But it all seems so "Oti er

Jv" er one realise that tne perspirctione course down the broTM is qu^te iwt'iral

with a humid m? Weighty temperature* It is ve~y pleasant but I find the weather does

not heir me at aU. In fact, yesterday I went to Gerry for my annual Flu snot yes

terday and found that gha had clean forgotten to order the serum. So In go ageon in

two weeks- I got weighed on her scales, which always gives me reassurance about mine--

Iv lost six rounds since I got home and a- a round less than w en I left for Britsih

Columbia, nd h-ve two rounds to go to whore I was w^en I went off cigarettes.

'jjhile I

dressing Sunday morning Bill came ur to heLp me. rnd talked of go-rig to

church. I discouraged that end suggested that he would not sbl e to sit till long

enou^. 'F-ereuron ha climbed ur in the chair, held his br*ath end with downcast eves

8-t perfectlv a+.m until he had to take a fresh breath, After Sunday school .im came bnck for hollv and me for Horning Proy-r. Clevoe le-d the procession as erutifar, he

was followed bv two youngsters, then Fred with another bo", followed by Janv and hie

rrtner. lien Fred knows the rroceedure better he will immedi-tel tr foil nw Cleree, but

for the first two Sundve or so he was rut into the rrocesslon in front of Jay, so ne

would sit beside him the choir s+alH nd could be heloted. Tney ell oehaved very

well and looked angelic, perhaps that is not p rrper adjective for tne over six foot

01 evee, but he is ^ood looking and hd a-fine cressel ess cotta over^hio long blac

rnvm. The little bovs in the choir wer Buster Brown colh.w end bier black taffeta

Tows over thai r cottas. His is the first time I bed seen CIevee go inside ti cinc4

,rP.i " e offering plates to give to the ushers end then receive them in tne elms

brsin end give foe whole to -the rector to raise before the altar while we sing tne

DoxoHsv. It

-M's first tim -4th th-

twre'; it but

too .wed t~ contribute more than hisnreeene*. he has * nice voioe to , uou i t,

not \e surprised if ho solod before long*

October 5, 1952

Pray, forgive ray appearance but it seemed a good, idea to combine chit-chat writing with drying mv hair on this my first weekend In tcm since just after I got back from the Coast- I had planned great many things which had been allowed to slip over six weeks, but I am compelled to admit that only a verv few of them are getting done. The situation in the office quite exhausts all of us who are involved in it* I think that we are in sl ght of the corner around which things are going to be better* At any rate John Ch&pm&n, chairman of the Board,had Carolvn, Vera and me for a drink at the Biltmore on Friday* He cleared up a good many points and gave us a constructive
twist to -things which had been presented to us by Tom in gloomy not to say alarming overtones. The three of us "gals" hove worked under four heads end helped to inaugurate three of they* Ye are confident that we can adapt ourselves to Brooks' successor. .Ve don't kid ourselves that the next three to six months mil be easy, but our morale is now better . I have also been told that the Board is getting to work on a limited pen sion plan which will do something for the three of us at least. However I have heard about pensions bef<r e and will believe this one when I see it* Heanwhije my fingernails
are gettingverv 1 ort as it appears Anthony Eden will not commit himself until October 15th, which was the date I said myself I should need to know by I

The hot, humid weather continued and climaxed on Thursday afternoon about six

with a crackling thunderstorm , torrents of rain driven by a strongwind which became

very cold* (Yesterday I did manage to get most of the summer dressed put away, though

I heve worn -fli em almost exclusively since June. I am in a curious position as I have.

two suits,one soring and the other winter, the skirts are just a mite snug. I intend

to get to the point where I fit them and fear that my determination mipht slip e little

jf I had them djusted to

so I rm dependent until I can get around to buying a new

winter office dress upon ih o old rods and the one I bought in March.)

Friday I had dinner with Marie and Hank and found t^o.t they have survived having

the entire piece painted. Jit must have been terrific, but the improvement is wonder

ful- (Makes me real ire that w^en I move into fr^sb clean .quarters I, too, shell have

to go in for a lot of improvements, such as new lampshades') They are busy as

beavers--Maria is teaching classes four days a week but Theodora Hoel doea all the

work of record keening, model engaging, etc. Hank protecting the interests of the

Air Force in a contract they have with a firm which makes the presses to stamp out

p wb.cle plane f usdive or wing. It sounds like a difficult middle man job where he he

to act es buffer between the two.

"Ye sot into a terrific arguement about the

election--Uaria is convinced that Eisenhower who is prectioallv a saint in her mind

will be defeated. I'm not sure that rbe opposes Stevenson so much as she cannot bear

to h"ve her hero defeated. This is extreme!v interesting to me as she has formed her

opinion from her class, all of whom spend erApt deal to time in ienublican campaign

headauartere as volunteers. Personallv X think they must be using the "g!oom" approach

to stir the workers to greater lengths as I am sure that if the election were tomorrow

Eisenhower would win. Yhen they get going on that fabulous project, of selling him like

a toothpaste with short commercials on radio and television, it seems impossible for

him to loose. Maybe the gloom campaign is what it took to raise the incredible sum

necessary for the commercial plugging project. To me that is revolting and the Eisen

hower Michigan speech in which ha suggests that we should not hove sent troche*-to Korea

strikes terror to my heart* Gosh, I can only interpret that speech to mean that he is

ready to support isolationism of the sort that Taft lias now moved away from to a degree*

Since Stevenson will not rae^e sectional speeches or cater to special interest groups,

he must be getting* the respect of the intelligent voters, but that will not win the

election for him. I must confess that I like his forthrightness -- for example in

Richmond Eisenhower had his meeting out of doors and so avoided the issue of segre

gation. Stevenson insisted that his stand on civil rights be put into practical oper

ation. He had his meeting An an auditorium and for the first time in a Richmond

political rally whites and blacks s~t side bv s5.de* Its honest but I doubt if its

vote gettingf Thelma and Ca! fpv that Southerners "lowed "Yillkie" but voted t ie Demo

crat!o ticket. She feels that similar!v they "love Eisenhower" but will vote lor

Stevenson --time will tell whether habits have changed in Georgi and a" swhere in cfce

South snee the 1,7a! Xkie^Roosevelt days*

IO*., - ' ' '

I C o l u m b u s i 1952

It is i onderfnl to hove three day weekend ss I m exhested (.but probe.ol\

ot ne,,riv'- 3 tared ss I shall be next weekend after the council ox FPA Associates

beginning vith dHuer on Thursday. On I onday my sedreta.ry

out nd ve a:, scoyered

fiat she'Was in the hosoitel in isolation ~ we have had her only since Labor Da.-.

The opening of the Vital Issues series at the auditorium 01 the museum of modern Ait 1Si night with Vera r nd Brooks reporting on their respective summers in

and the Sdai-eest. Vera was very tired and begged off from dining before

it'.W tth me. Since To* is too hurt to appear in public I had to scrabble around to

get a chairman--not e4 -.hen most of the Board members were dining at \.+!. ,, nrespective new president! So, I caught the Honorpole James , . ..cDorala, ne fj' ' t .-j-ofessional head of the FPA and more latterly the first I S Ambassador to Israel,
j'invited Carolyn to balance my dinner table as I knew that ileoanald hr.o never 11 i . :f? -i+v rooks. The envening went off somehow nd Vera was of course all stepped UP sfiervv'rds! so I took her to the Wow Brr for a drink. I'm troubled about Brooks --he wee courageous in his speech saying somethings which needed to ye sax... in Lev. foi .

though I suspect that he made more enemies than friends that m#Jt--out .or exsnol

.f ,,

' jjii ree times when he m ant cold mr. He told me he to uld be in th,

office the next dav, but never turned UP. Fortunately I cleared all the tilings I

needed to discuss with him Thursday evening. Vera was in excellent iora una often.* i

told me she h- d been very nervous rr.d fearful that for some str-vipe rea on sne *

last her newer to sneak wall since she delivered the Commencement Address rt Radc

or any sppech she ma$ nave made after t^a.t in odueo

I was very mused this reek at a letter to the editor of the HERALD TBIBUitS i
which a woman suggested that Stevenson's slogan must be T a rubier VStaVXff president." bow that the V/orld Series is over the underpimngs ox t e oixice tea _ pre'taring to politics. Some ones secretary went to Stevenson's neadquarters tx. other dpy and earns back with p. number of buttons. There was a cool in tne oxf.ee ..atu y colored office girl rooting madly for the Dodgers . She lives in ,,0M.ecticut s i . must be because of the number of negores on that team. I shared the pool tvn.ee ad
took in $3. --$1*25 more than I nut in U

Fran has been home this weekend for her work conference about the ineerviee job aha will have during December, everything is very fine but tne xooa. A not uncommon eomoliint when one is exposed, three meals a day, day in f in auantitv. I ehall always remember whet we called some ox tne less attractive o . ei ings at the Hhittier Hall dining room! I only hone tee descriptive terms of her class
motes ore less revolting then mine were.

Last Sunday I went to the opening ox a two-man show in vuich missJ*_e]_J,s'

rc wps one of the artists. He wps more abstract than tne girl who shoved^ .xth <1

bit shie used strange media like uakelits and encaustic. To my unedueated-in-oistrac-

tions-mind, his work was well done, good use ox color s .owed a xmce se.c ox cjueosi on.

j ars VPS fussv, messy end see. ed to lea/n on the tradition,1 eaougn Ira x.er .0 wantjto

live a more or less discernahle raotner""Ineeot" or other object in her rictnies. Ad d

not enjoy the- opening, but was glad to have met another member o. t: is etrange iaail,. ,

/eii"s, who raised ti see children and sent them all to college w gi .g to

_

attend his "big moment" until the daughter, who works for iue .VA, discovered, that t'-'-'-e ,

was really euitc event for him and told mo that she would try to persuade ner

to Pta^dl " Friday o-o ,eked mo to lunch with her nd said teat sue was going to resign.

T< r] been through that once before -nth her so did not c-ry to rgue . t. ..oi - . -

rsr! msz a w w rTJg&esXL* lA tSe H.'owlv sfved stuck for two weeks and as far as I can see has done very

tattleHU

for' -' long'time. She is - very interesting person rr.d I suppose it is oe-

-.,sS

.u

s;sr--

promotion work. She has nox oeen s-cce,,^l

^ -

"administration" with the

rr

ss' bc tering

"r3t of

^

^chxbei is only rutting her a little ahead ot schedule.

i-ly secre+tarwyr +urned out t.o hav31e-emiosnonduue beck . on. October 23

nothing contagious aftex11-

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uneli .1 got 0. ceuk tonignt through t.-ie ceilation of e dinner date at f e

last minute be., ore I \;*e: t into a f ve o5( clock . >oaru ox Directors meeting. I improvised a meal here, aid some of the great amount of telephoning I should be doing and now

can "at this out. Tomorrow - go to .rf" e n d Clove few f e week-one'.. It is too mud

to -ope or t c conspar:' tive

-t.'r} nd la111 rt surw f|.e si t c g si ,u d. yr , rut it

yw y4 Last Sunday Maria asked me to have a picnic lunch with them on their sunny terrace, which she said wee warm ^nd lovely. I oDuldn't but wee neverthe

less awazd to swirling elude of snow whipping through 64th Street when I woke up. It

oixlv collected on awnings and tile roofs, but for suite a while it snowed hard in the. morning and again for * shorter time in the late afternoon.

Hank had to go to 'Wellington one dv last week so I went to dine with 1'aria and we

had r fine talk--her classes go well, which is good s she is convinced that portraits

will not be ordered in the future as they have been in the past. The next day hiss './ells,

- u. Allrort and I took Tom rover to tne TQhh HOUSE for lunch to wish him well on his or

cruise which goes as far as Cartagena. .hen I arrived a few houses later at the Town

hll Club where we were having the dinner for the UFA people from around the country,

there

p. florist box for me with a couple oi beautiful gardenias from Allpert for

having tried to heir him make the conference successful--and I must say that the all

day session endi ng wr.tn r cocktail party at Brook' e penthouse and the Saturday morning

sessions *< ent very well. 1 removed toe ribbons end eat the corsage on Tvet cloth in 4*

the refrigerator oversight rid wore it again Friday ecross the front of tie high neck

on my black wool--very effective and lso gave me maximum smelling pleasure. I recommend

it sp a fine olce -- the gardenias literally lay along my colr bone.

Sundv aftcrnnon I went to a meeting in honor of the US delegates to the UN nd .

later to a coc ~t - II part--"" for a peopl e to meet the same guest's of honor* ./arren Austin

looked much better than the last time I saw him -nd had none ox that choleric redness of

fece, I rsRoosevelt wore a black dress of shiny heernes with horizontal tucks of

graduated size and a Juliet cap, 11 so black --.'itb black secuius. Senator Green of R. X.

is amzinglv vigorous for 85 years --the greatest give-away being a rather bed^t stoop.

Sen tor viley'a folksy manner made good impression. It was interesting to see Faith

Sampson, tne negrr woman lawyer from : cgo back on the delegation as an alternate*, 1

nicked up some dinner and went to tne new UN General Assembly building over by the Ee.st

.liver 1 v- tiie opening ox the Herald Tribune ;,oruqj. The building cost twelve million

d tne a,iambiy room is only part ox' it--modern, impressive and to me in good taste.

,?our stops carpetted as t ie entire floor in dark green

make the operation level

viitn a large black ~nd green marble stand-up desk, behind that rises pinacle with its % .

light wood desk and three chairs with very tall backs for the Secretary General, Presi

de, t of the Assembly. This height is reached by eleven or twelve ster.s going up on either

side. /ten Trygvie Lie rose to open the session and explain why lie granted Krs. Ogden

reouest, he manipulated a lever at his right hnd and the center section of his

share of the co men desk rose slowly to make reading desk for him. then he resumed his

seat the desk auietly returned to its natural state. The spectator'sorts were uphol

stered in a fine wale chartreuse corduroy raid those for the diplomats guests in a cobalt

blue. J will not bore vou with even r comment on the twenty" sneakers I rated that SundayI

By Tuesday I had sufficiently recovered to go the closing session of the Forum at ti'.e ,'rldorf (t.iis time the Ballroom instead of the Starlight roof where the Sunday afternoon meeting was.) I am sorry to say that three of the four women presented in t ~>.s session re,'. incredibly bod. After the first two toe husband of the wo,.ion next- me
announced that in his estimation the progress of woraent h 4 ^sen set back fifty years by
their performances-1 Although I have no -dmiration for Fleur Cowl eg, who after the failure of FLAIR satisfies herself with being associate editor of LOOK -ad QUICK, was more effective t'an Dorothy Schiff (NY POST), who was ineffectual --almost as bad as
twe other two whom I won't oven name. Eisenhower w.g the p^ece de resistance of that evening--a id as he was also being televised had a fine fax Factor job 011 his face, which meae hi . look slightlv overdone to tnre thousand people in the bellroom, "famie" was t. we in orgentaish purple taffeta with a square neck and short sleeves, and carrying - short white fur jacket. She ?/ore short white gloves and looked much less brittle ana hp.rd the last tie I saw her abftut f ree years pvn>.

, fkh*. November 1, 1952

The sun n*e that disquieting orange tinge that means trees in great Quantity are burning* Governor .De^ev s ordered state parks and land closed as of" Sunday mid-night--
it seems to me that the. situation is grave enough to warrant closing them Friday night and risking the lost of a few votes from selfish people* ./e have had several brief per iods of abnormally cold weather* but for the most part warmer than usual -- in tv-e seventies today* Oh well * it keeps us from taking anything for granted# I am so glad that this
horrid presidential campaign is almost over and devoutly hone that I shall hold to my promise to myself and not stay up over long listening to the returns* With the rolls
remaining open at least until eight o'clock in New York and the probable closeness of the vote I suspect that even with the heir of the electric brain the results mil not be cer tain until "Wednesday morning*

On Wednesday we had the first of the Off the Record luncheons at the office for the

women members* More of them had paid the subscription fee than had by the first meeting

last year* I used John Scott who had just returned from addressing US troops in .urore

and north Africa -- although he ima't very prepossessing looking, the very critical audience

just loved him* Re made good sense in no: nting out that' Russia will not attack the ./est

without military superiority and how he see# the arms race in which the world is involved

may lead in 1954 or after to a real disarmament

agreement* He told one lovely story

about the Helen Fockinsonish tourist who became so absorbed in her study of some murals

that she missed the cell to join her fellow sightseers in the bus and suddenly found her

self left behind. She sped to the nearest gendarme nd told her troubles in her own French*

"je suis gauche derierrel " The policeman accustomed to all sorts of political solinter

parties of the left and right smiled politely and replied " Qui, madames c'est possible."

Before the speech Scott told me of the cuestion asked him at Seton Hall a Catholic college

in Hew Jersey, "lliat is the role of God in the present struggle for peace

People who

mount the lecture platform have to be ready for anything#

L st Sunday T was with artha uid 01eve0 Fred is still in the choir and the story is that he talks so much in practise that the small sum Paid the youngsters for going to the rehearsal, is entirely eaten up in fines# Glevee, because it was quite a warm mroning, took
off his gloves during the sermon# he was caught barehanded by the sudden end nd had to rush into the chancel and give the ushers the collection plates without his gloves. Some how during the offertory he managed to get them again so he received the offering in the
rime basin properly gloved# Actually 1 had not noticed his plight, but he was quite con
scious of it# Because of the dry season the autumn color is not very sharp, but we did see some lovely bits, especially when we went on Sunday afternoon to ./estbury# The maples ranged from green through yellow to red, the oaks from scarlet to russet brown, walnuts were a. deep but brig t yellow, willows of course are still green, but locusts, birch and swamp
me.nlos offer onlv bare boughs# SC was indeed lucky to have two such beautiful days t1 ere# I think I'll work Flection day and take Monday the 10th off, so as to have four days to gether with Molly and her men* Bill is going to have his tonsils out on the 11th and
I'd also like to have fpur days in a row#

The office is beautifully complicated by the Cox Committe from Congress--they fear Che gret foundations are evil have demaned that all of them from Ford, Rockefeller,
Carnegie down submit lengthy reports and as the beneficiary of the foundations the FPA has to answer a terrific questionaire# Since it has to bo done quickly I hsve volunteered to help and am working on the names and addresses of the members of the board from 1S35
to 1952. Although we have 36 board members it would seem easy except for the fact that many, like John J. Hp Cloy who became High Commissioner in Germany .and Truest Gruening the Governor of Alaska, retire before their terms expire . Some one else may or may not be appointed, so it reall}/ means poring through the Minute books# I can afford to do this as Anthony Hden*s plans have changed, he will not be here as long as anticipated and so cannot speak for us. I m really very disappointed .not to have to work like crazy 1

Poor Amy could not go to her son's wedding in Victoria because^ie was in the hospi-
t; 1 petting straightened out from a gall bladder attack and h s since nad an operation# gv secret ry who had been out for three weeks in the hospital reported back lest Monday wad .'as very glad that 1 only expected her to work for half a day for the first week# I " ad r. substitute for half a day and managed somehow*

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* T h e going to the office on "Election Dry after 1 had voted so as t o be m t n iioily

tomorrow while hill had his tonsils out to no avail for he/ woke up this morning quite

stuffed up and the doctor said the town was full of croupe, so 110 operation and 1 ca-e back to the office. I am not getting as much done with my unexpected evening to myself as

I sbuld clM now expect to go to Mirth? - -id lleve t.iis weekend before s. e t es to > - ^ .s-

ton for a week or so*

c&if.

.

<AJtW.

A week .go today Mrs. Harris and Larry arrived 011 the Liberte i t e r a very calm cross

ing and with several"fewer pieces of lugerge ta-n a ywar

She looks so much^better

than when re parted in June, real color in her cneeks. Larry looks u.i..e too,

wan3

pleasant as I had had a report on him as looking very haggard in the ^ stunner. ? f n.ss ^beck

to Brussels to do oneciel job for lack Truck and then win so to Lisbon uo present *r nco

with a Land-RoveI tease him about that and oniy hope my cracks will not cone o-.ck to^

ring in his esrs during the festivities* Mrs. Harris will stay at least until mid-c :r-v ,rv.

It is ell understood that Larry id.ll work very hard and get a proper place so 1 can join

them for my holiday.

here 1 am talking out next summer when Tom has on .y just returned from his belated

holiday- ! is cruise ship was s greet disappointment

they :d very poor weatner. X

n-ether a prettv dull pessensor list and atrocious food. He yd a nice anrier onr / xi

,vana i nd another in Faneme and evidently no other pleasure. It is very secU e has

discovered the job he wants to do and now has only to arrange to have it offered to mm*

'Yidav T lunched vrith Ingar Vrurs, the new director of the French Press and Inior-

mrtion, at Cafe St. Dennis next to the Stork Club. It was a very "leasnM oc axon ana

a delicious luncheon.I doubt if he is happv in the assignment, but ne aoes seemmore

capable than Dumont his predecessor. The restaurant was pleasantly billed but it was

now crowded or noisy. I must go again and take a whirl on their esc-rgo --I e ne

^

them outside of France. I rsked Ye.urs to make a speech ior us, out discover/ tnat he als

has an assignment with the French delegation to the UN, if he does not .1 tei1,J-.ze I .

shall have to scramble quickly.

That same morning I got a lenson in now 00 use ^

Dictnphone and in the afternoon diet--.ted hail r roller. . y instrument -0

^

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nf wi 1 npv beck the last doaen words to give me my place --or 11 1 want I can h*ve c.e

whola re!3 ^-v or ck from r, micronhone loud enough to fill the room. 1 roust

y



tllsounds most unnatural to We when it conrs back like that, but r.it W i n . dis

tinct. 3o for neither my secretary nor I like it -but it mil be most useful in rotating

then I fefel like it whether hiss Loewy is ready or not.

The report on &m lie ic,,o t on m

is fine, si e lies gotten home from the hosoitul. Aunt essie

,

tiae I tried to go over,

seems worse

poor ;^^ry

^ Ua(ider ha8 been connliested but atooth

vb. uitobl"h.cast(betetnIkexotxriac' ted, er niece say<-s' e...e li,ck, s W wrorrsfel , bbuutt rree?, lul.v i s better' Cracious
hut there seems to be on unusual amount of illness going about this utu.m. --
,nZ"Btreneth from his polio wonderfully end very courageous about t. e problem ofnis

rehabilitaioii: "Fortunately, he writs me, he has enough on his cemerol surgery so ti.t

hll not have to try to go beck to the very exhausting residaicv at the uruversig

J

hospital. /ell, enough for the medierl c.ep; rtrnent,

f-v. w been so warm that the sties have been out in force. I rye seen soiie

-

i / ones Of hoi, of velvet of yarn and velvet, of the matenl ox tie areas. But

vf h hh T!-n the iuhed Off corners hitting at about the knee - -re the most silly ,

ti a iU- one --

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onlv v or" mv bright green wool a few tinea --

looking. It has been so warm ty-t I have

^

^ ^

^ ,lag,s

this is a aress not t stole.

'f ae.;.,o v,

next iionday to

slick "ay. it is 0 TZ:nZ?TM7oTM Time ^t^he h.^ropolit r.. Gerry will go c.s a

"Toecc" w. ion has not beexi sang in .

o

y,,ffet" th Cosmopolitrn Gluo

birtl d--y treat"nd dine with ne before on the new "serted buffet toe uosmo

s01 e1rv es on Mom n"day. I ' v e done nothing so f a^r a.Vbaotu+t Gn-w UiriQs+um-waes o0r finding s. new apartment--

nd should take steps r bout both quite soon.

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Novan ber 23, 152

Stamps which I bought for Mrs. Harris in Toronto but did not mail ner as -she v/as

travelling have become the object of extensive search# I have no recollection of see

ing them after the Toronto cost office and cannot find them in any of the likely or un

likely olocee I begin to fear that the set for her and one for Fred hove been thrown

away The hours and hours of hunting have at feast resulted in a tidying up of oddments

which should have been destroyed or had gotten into a. wrong place#.

Gerry and I enjoyed "Tosca" very much. Kirsten made a beautiful and graceiul Tosca To my great surprise her voice was excellent in the role and she performed with more eclat than I has thought her capable. Taglisvini with his "tenor's figure" sang well but Paul Schoeffler portrayed a most excellent Scarpia--his voice is excellent and his acting superb. It was a fine evening and the "seated buffet" is adeauete, though the Cosmopolitan
Glub is not convenient to the Metropolitan.

The FPA had very good attendance at the Tuesday luncheon when Saul Padover spoke about the strength of western Europe resulting from the Council of Europe* NATO* trie Steel end Coal community sll making for stability and peace. The next day_we had another record breaking attendance at the OFF the Record luncheon for the 3a dies with Robert Strausz- lup speaking on the reft between Europe and America, re put a great deal of blame on the democratic administration and called the Voice of Anerica a great waste of money. Mrs. John McCloy was there and felt that har husband's work as high Commissioner in Germany had been attached. Mrs. John Foster Dulles is s member of the group, but I do net thinkshe was there. He stirred up a terrific controversy by being archly Repub lican. I -in not at all cheered with Eisenhower's appointment on Thursday of mr. .Dulles as Secretary of State--but I shall be working very hard to give a dinner for him before long. Personally X mistrust a man who oan so 3,,ig t heartedly talk about our liberating the people behind the Iron Curtain! Just before the five o'clock Bord oi Director's meetin; on Thursday we had a chance to meet the leading cnadid: te for president of the FPA He. will give his xinal answer on Monday. After the hoard meeting chid a quick dinner I rushed in pelting rain to the Museum of modern Art where we were having a meeting tnat night on the UII. The first speaker was Leo M.tec, the assistant Forign minister oi Yugoslavia, who felt he set the right note of friendliness but announcin. that he was in no way re onsib!~ "t toe r in. The second speaker was Sir Zafrulla IChan the Foreign Minister of Pakistan and he began by taking a long term impersonal view ad a r'unced that after so lo ~ a drought such r in was a very fine tiling and he was q ite in fpvor of it. Poor rooks presided and r dmitted afterward that Sir 7,*x'rulla was in "good voice" umich was the le st he could do after t...e critical attitude he had. taken nV*
the ftemeoh. I he w i t o think t-w-t it sr.8 a most awful mistake ever to have in vited him to s?e&k iss Lusk has been out o" tne oifice vitn laryngitis for tiiiee unys and ov five on Friday ..iss Loewy was in a state oi near hysteria.... because she v/as so tired1 I'm afraid she is either not over her mononucleosis or is not walit I need. It has been a busy week . but not so busy as other weeks will doubtless be. It was only because of the all the holidays in ' ovember that we had four meetings in three days, dux
they did not involve my secretary.

Laura Cox end Eleanor Raymond of tne rcnitectur^l i~rm oi Raymond a~ d Cox oi Boston

hove been here for a wound of theatres, little looking at t-lings of interest in tne

home --gadgets w ich the architect should ue and seeing f ^le^ids. ihey asxeo Gerry alia

q gx Tip with then r t Le Provenel on 62nd Street on i/ednesaa^. * 11 --s " nj.ee pl'-ce and

we had a fine time.' Roth of them think they will be too busy this winter to have a holi-

nay Riid of course Gerry is net having one as sue leaves on Rrrr 20 ior uhe coronation ; .na

an expensive (and T'm

expensive) conducted tour as xar as Srip-in. i m sure

is .

the only wry for an American to get much of a view of the coronation. Lest n^giit I ns.Q .

dinner with the "ells famil" in celebration of Mrs. ./ells having been grantex her pension.

I'm afraid the FPA's 3arb~~p '/ells guided he** mother incorrect?^ in tne matter ond^ix ^

was the letter I sot from the deen answering a letter I had sent to thejcresideir

.wit-

go IV greet surprise I awoke this morning to find m ic?n. of snow over roof tons,

hat)nilv the snow did not remain on cement. This vep-

all had dinner r- .th holly and

Jim on Thanksgiving so I went there the night before. Fran came home from school that

day and turned up for dinner with a beau, who when pressed staved for dinner. Of course

there was hears to est and.as he and Fran both seemed to nick at their food? 1 got the

impression they had already had one dinner at his house# Although t ie dinner was very

good the novelty of the occasion was the centerpiece -- Hew Dawn roses from the bush by

: niy.iq kitchen. I nut them, in long narrow crystal on a round mirror n a.s to get the most out af the rass and buds. Every on w5 fine and ^ had a g^od time, hill had

his tonsils out yesterda.v and is luck^ to be rid of them. His adenoids were especially

luxuriant the doctor told^-ollv. .Ihen I telephoned -gain toda.v I found that he was not

caring to talk but ate soft food hanpilv.

On /ednesdav I heard about one of the three correspondents who will oocom^nv Eisenhower to Korea. Since noon on Tuesday he had been all re.cked ut> end not supposed to leave mi.d-to^n Hew York lest he be called for departure# The trio can take a week ? ten dews at most? the acutal^ flying thime is 36 hours. Being in a slightlv cops and robbers frame of "'ind T am quite prepared to find that deoisons. and perhaps ever the
picture of the Thankpglvi tig dinner were taken some time ago and re grsdually being released to make the public think that he is still here. Whv should Dulles make the announcement ^esterdav that the permanent US representative will be Henry Cabot Lodge taking the place of Senator Austin? In view of the closeness between .hisen.iower and Lodge
it seems unnatural to me for .the news to be made public by Dulles

I have been working for a week on an FPA meeting for December 11th and t-iougnt I w^s
11 fixed with line. Pandit end Sir Percv Spender and had the notices in the mail yester day when I got - telegram from the Irdv saving she had just realized tnat the meeting was in the evening nd not in the afternoon and how sh regretted not being aole to be there after all. : Aopilv I remembered the hotel sT-e i staying at and promptlv phoned.
I vjws trying to le-ve a message with her very stupid secirrterv(Male) when a wo -an cut in (I suspect that it was Irs. P-ndit herself, but using that dodge of pretending to be her own secretary) I expressed mv regret at her nws and asked ?.2 . .rs. Pandit would use her influence to get r member of her delegation? Shiva. Hao? to take her place, v/ell? tnere
would be a meeting of the d elgution that afternoon and she could put it to him and t;ey would let me know by 5? 30. /hen I had not heard bv (,?:30 I phoned and got - rs. P. herself we had p. charming conversation in which she promised t at she would bundle Shiva, dr o up
herself if necessnrv? but knew that he would do it. Alas? he h-d ffone to tne country a no. could not be reached. . (A fine head of delegation she is if she calls delegation meeting rv ..d principal members stay awaay--well I guess they are besdie tnemselves at the runaround
their compromise resolution for the . "orean armistice is getting.) This morning; Sniva Pr o phoned and soid that he would do it if he could talk about the Elections an India of a year ago! Y/e backed and filled : id I am trying to rationalize tne meeting. rooks has oeen to 'forth Carolina for ten days nd as I need him chfeir the meeting since three otner people have turned me down? I must consult him as I am now planning to have him open the meeting with a statement of the stabs of the Korean armistice resolution. I feel I must also tell
Sir Percy that Pandit is out. I do not mind pressing the Indians on Sunday? but I trunk the Australian might take it very much amiss if I badgered him today. (Knignthoods seem to be so rare in Austr li- that several members of Sir Percy's staff call him Sir Spender. Close your eyes and say it aid see why we had one good 1aught) here I am in all this com plication about December and yet I have an appointment tomorrow morning to see Admiral Stevens at the Committee to Liberate the Hussian People bo discuss a leoraarv meeting!

I'm g? ii* around later to Aunt l ory's to return "windows for the Grown Prince". It is the 1: st book she and Aunt Iessie read together and is a most interesting account oi tie education of the Japanese drown prince by on American Quaker woman. She is very un critical of tie Japanese royal family but does her best to break down fame of the his toric ceremony nd restrictions which have for centuries kept tne Crown Prince apart even from his own family. I was fascinated by her diary-like account of her four years ox unique opportunity to experience court life yet live apart irom it#

S5, SJLu,TUU*t n**,

r W>. December 6, 1952

It is curious that I ended the chit-chat last week with Aunt Mary and Aunt Bessie as I mudt begin today by reporting that Aunt Bessie died very peacefully on Thursday evening and was buried this afternoon* Aunt Mary ishearing up pretty well and I was very much encouraged by her state when I saw her last Suhday. Aun Bessie had evidently been better handled by her night nurse or given more opiate for the was quieter and so Aunt Mary had had decent nights and so had as she called it a new lease on life. She has known for over two months that the December stroke was so severe that Aunt Bessie would never be herself or well again. The funeral was at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Ckuch -- simple fine for those who do not greatly prefer the services to be found in our Book of Common Paayer. Hie casket was covered with a beautiful blanket of pale pink car nations--theremust have been between four and five hundred with a drop of sndlax to cover the little wagon on which the casket was wheeled out of the church, merely guided by t e four pallbearers. I was quite satisfied with the spray of large white chrysanthemums which was actually right in front of where Aunt Mary sat.
As I have tried not to coddle myself, at least not much, I decided tc walk down from 73rd Street. Then not feeling that I wanted to get into the household shipping at once I stopped at the Frick Museum and thoroughly enjoyed myself for almost an hous. I md forgotten that they have two Vermeers--the girl at Music seemed unfinished and almost un like Vexmeer in cotrast to Offiwer and Girl--these canvasses are swmewhat smaller ^ siiould say that most of his I have seen. A flhistler seasscape called "The Pacific and done in lovely liquid soft greys charmed me. Among several Rembrandt s there is one called Polish Rider" which seemed to me to be quite out of that master*s usual type. In the first place it is the only one which I recall of being out of doors, so there is some landscape and an angry sort of sky with light breaking through the clouds miles away from the rider, and in the upper left hand corner of the picture. The customary "spot light" on the faesroe not so intnee ae on the rider's upper arm and on the saddle blanket. I always t.n: Frick as having done very well by El Greco, Velasquez and de Goya, tat there wwrT?9r"' there was one El Greeo portrait of a man in a dark green doublet, whien I likevery and was not waht I think of as being El Greco-and there was a biblical scene which employed peculiar frosted sort of color and cadaverous kind of faces, whioh I thougit typical El Greco and not what I lice.
This has been a very messy wreek of rain and wind arid Miss Loowy and Bill recovering from the removal of their respective tonsile and Fran having a sudden appendectomy on Tuesday morning and Sir Percy Spender saying that he had really only accepted my invitation because he liked Mme. Pandit and if he was not to have the pleasure of speaking after her (fancy, when he accepted he stipulated that he would have the place of honor on the program!) he mould not apeak at all. Well, I sent messages to him that perhaps he would reconsider when he realized that he had twice been announced but he was adamant and wouid not even assign the substitution to another member of the Australian delegation. Me, I m through with Sir Percy.
The FPA was very careful not to announce that John W. Nason, the president of Swarthmore College had agreed to be its president until after the meeting on Tuesday of the Swarthmore trustees For some reason I do not understand the kmiease date or us was put at December 5th, but afte the Swarthmore meeting someone made an announcement in the Philadelphia press and so our story was put together by John Chapman and Delbert Clark of the Ford Foundation in a great hurry from the drafts which had been circulated earlier. I begin to suspect that Chapman, our former chairman of the Board who resigned his job from McGrsw Hill and when the Cox Comnittee asked the FPA to fill out a questional^ he shifted to chairman of the Executive Committee for his personal protection. I begin to think that he is bucking for a Job with the Ford Foundation himself--the release makes it crystal els ar that I now work for the Ford Foundation, so I am no one to talk. Nason will be over *rom Philadelphia to talk with board and staff soon. He will attend the next board meeting, as will Brooks, and will begin half time with us in January and full t-.ma in June. He aae gotten a very finentraet for himself $30,000 a year and a six week holiday. At the mo
ment I am struggling to get more salary for Miss task and when Mason comes shall, take up
the saw question in ray own behalf with him. I must conclude that Brooks and Tom, who certainly were lighting for their own Jobs, gave me 1he runaround Understandable ,| but

peeler 6, 1952 p&g6 2*
On Monday I stopped at a cocktail party at the Park Lane between the office and Betty Day for dinner at the Club before the opera Dorothy Thompson was at the party --and I was shocked, not having seen her for years* Her hair is completely white and she has gone softly fat with what seems to be a gentle cascade of chins* She pulled her husband over to meet me, but he soon slipt away to clink glasses with a brunette* He is a large, swarthy character with black hair, oily looking face and a corseted look to hi barrel like torso# Poor Dorothy, she does not seem to have much sense about her men--if there is anything to the tales of pitched battles she had with Sinclair Lewis before their divorce# Ity quick impression of the present husband is that of a first class heel#
Betty looked so well and interested me very much in her casual reference to herself as a professional artist. A year ago in June she stopped teaching at the school she went to when the FPA had to let her go as my assistant almost twenty years ago in the deepth of the depression# She inherited a comfortable income and went to Spain last January for three months, then she was in Italy for a couple more and came home to her little house on Cape Cod where ehe had a two man show# Lately she has started to do abstracts# Tbie painting only began about five years ago when she was getting too intense about her avooational study of Chinese and the doctor suggested she drop it and take up painting# At first her things had a definite Chinese quality, so I am anxious to see the abstracts#
The opera was "Butterfly" with Albanese as Cio-Cio San. I had forgotten how many phrases of the Star Spangled Banner were woven into it# I heard them all that night as I had read the interview in "US News and World Report" of Frank Rounds, Jr# who said that he went to hear "Butterfly" sung in Russian in Moscow in order to hear the Star Spangled Banner# Wendesday night I went to the Women* National Republican dub to hear him speak and afterward his agent and I had a drink in the King Cole Room of the St# Regis where Edith Sitwell was at a table two away from us# She looked eo relaxed and peaceful-- though there is something to be said for the soft lights and hi^j ceiling of this new room--very different than its earlier version on the west side of the hotel#
Rounds was Admiral Kirk's underling at our Embassy in Moscow# He had the advan tage of having studied Russian language, culture and so on at the Russian Center in Harvard for three years# He is a strange young man, very anxiousto have everything he did in Russia open and above board# I asked a question of him about his relations with the Kirks and his answer did not square with the message Kirk sent me about Rounds. It is all very amusing. Rounds has a story to tell and is going to tell it with Houghton Mifflin publishing his book and Bis diary being published in serial form and the movies after him --but I am not sure that I think it is a good idea for him to tell it when it seems to me that he rather bumptiously sets himself up know all and imply that neither the British nor the American Ambassadors know anything--which may be true, but does it help our world stature to say so?
Bruce Hopper, professor of government at Harvard, was also on the program that nig^it# After Ire had greated one another he turned to Mrs* Robert Low Bacon, who was the chair man of the meeting, to be sure we knew each other which we do, and said "FrancesPratt the sort of person whom one comes upon in the Baltic"# I had quite forgotten that we^ had had a drink together there when he was en route to Stockholm and I to Bergen. He is a delightful person, but had not bothered to pr epare that evening and so muffed it.
Last Sunday afternoon I also called on Mrs. Harris. She is even more vigorous than when I last saw her# She had the letter of November 23 from Larry telling about driving out from Madrid that day to Franco's place near El Estoril to read his little speech in Spanish and deliver the Land Rover his employers were presenting to Franco. Evidently it was considered more impressive for Larry to make the presentation than the Spanish repre-
that she is glad two of her sons are married. It makes the penthouse happier#

fW C*Z f r w

T ,I t u f U , ,

A Happy* happy New Year to you I I hope your Christmas was fine in every respeet and the holiday season a merry one* It is ironieal that having taken an active part in the promotion of two four day weekends in the FPA I sit with an ice pack on my throat for the resotration of ray voice# On Monday at the office Christmas party I suspected that all was not well and Wednesday I was speechless* I did an ice p ck and went to theoffice for a eouple of hours to get out a couple of important letters* which I hard blocked out* I managed pretty well and hard ly talked at all. Then Aunt Annie and I went to Freeport and I managed beautifully by writing ray remarks on cards I had in my purse for the purpose* On Christmas day ray voice was better and I fear I pushed it too hard* result it was quite gone again on Friday and today is slightly bitter--so Ifll have a quiet weekend here* At the moment the sun pours in and stimulates the fragrance of my paper white narcissi* though planted late came through loyally to provide my traditional Christmas flowers* This year for a change I have done all my decorations with branches of Air* spruce and white pine. Peg and Mac's greeting is a four foot strip of white paper* which just fits under my mantle, and carries in red ink " A Merry* Merry Christmas and a Haapy , Happy New Year i n gradated type so that Christmas and New Year are at least twice the sice of tie A s , over it on either side of the clock are my giant brandy wafters filled with small colored Christmas tree balls and flanked by cut-out Austria angljes. To the fire screen 1 a very well shaped fir bough with a huge bow of red satin . The final touch was the addition of some of the small branches of box that I silvered last year* The hall door, and the door into the living room from the entry both have varieations of same idea* the studio couch is flanked with assorted green in my largest vases. On thd top of the bookcase is a French fine wire salad greens drier filled with large Christmas tree balls*

It is so long since I have written that perhaps I diould only briefly report that
in the three meetings of the FPA sAnee^I had a new experience--a speaker higier ihan a kite. It was apparent when he turned up with a friend #10 met him at the dr with _ "Tflhere have you been, boy? I've been looking for you all day* that X had mad a great mistake in not accepting his last minute invitation to have a Chinese dinner with him . before the meeting* Hie friend went along into the green .with him and the place just reeked* I decided that it was better to agree and let him talk about culture in South East Asia* when he declared that he had never had my letter telling what he was to do* However when he got on his feet he talked good political sense on the US role in tae Far East and why we were right in not recognising Red China* It was a gruelling @v ing*

Mr. Nason the new FPA president has been over twice for two days and I had an hour

and a half with him the first day* I like him very much and feil sure that one knows just

whene one stands with him and that he means what he says and will stick to it# At tne

December 19th board meeting Eustanee Seligman, now chairman of the Board, invited us ail

to dinner at the Cosmopolitan Club and the whole aspect was festive. H was extrmealy apt

in the words he said over Brooks and handed him a silver cigarette box which most board

members and the senior staff each contributed $5. Brooks ^barrassed many of



long speech (at least it seemed long to me) about how his wife had stood beside him in all

his world affairs interests* how much the FPA had meant to and helped hAm at the time of

h e rdeath* b u t t h a t i t w a s a l l without lustren o wi nh e rabsencea n dh

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plunge himself into other interests. It was fantastic. Nason spake well, simply and honest,

ly. tfhen Brooks was in Damascus last summer he bought enougi silver earrings for al

women on the staff to have one pair. I helped him decide wfoich pair for *hom and then

he and I wrapped them --fortunately this was before the board meeting.

Gertrude Belyea, here from Vancouver* lunched with me at the Cosmopolitan Club on Friday (20th).She had been dining with the Dewars when truth would out and DougLas Adair after having been silent about his pain for days was whipped off for an appendectomy. She was here for a weeks holiday with her son who is in Government service in Ottawa leaving last night for a trip to South America. She wore with pride a beautiful mink stole he had given her for Christmas*

Mirable dictu Aung Annie's train was on time at 5s35 Saturday afternoon and we

stopped for a few minutes to hear the boys choir from rae+Ro^+Ca^olichurch

SSr

2?TM?%TM sSSg af the Sunlay mornang servietT

K'y

Mok , rw*sc, fo^f

January 4, 1953

There is no ebullience to my New Year -- at least not tonight. N@w Yews Eve it

started to snow with great diterminatioh late in the morning. The result was continual

warnings on radio and TY that roads were dangerous and people should stay at hohe.

Naturally I had gotten to Molly and Jim's before I heard theseforebodings. It was

a pretty enoww and stuck to trees and shrubs. The mow ceased in the ligfrt and th

little boys had a wonderflul time on their sleds on the g> U course y

. ..

gradually returned and while I was still without much oergyl managed threedayeat the

omee, arriving late and leaving early. Jay and Fred were to have returned to New

York with me on Friday morning, but the bus drivers went on ^ike at midn^t o ^

Nftw Years Eve* Remembering how hard it was to get taxis in the last strx

,

unwise to bring them when they were having so much fun snowballing the neigh or

Middav Saturday I same to town and taking it slowing with plenty ^ shop I got hope with the help of the EMT subway from Herald ffquare to Fifth r.fi 60th Street* I picked up a little food and got along with balancing the check book*^ I had come infer ^express purpose of getting Miss Ogden's Christmas present

to her and of seeing Mrs* Harris and Aunt Mary, but this morni^ *

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voice gone again. It is annoying! But I am not the only one Molly had not

herself from Christmas until the day after New Year. Martha was on theseeondrou

of a cold which thickened up her voiee and Cleve, when he looked

Year day admitted that he had been husky voiced for two weeks. What u sa . f ry

eoinss onj I had ounted on having Fran for dinner, the opera and the night on

Monday, but it was clear to me in the morning that I should do well xo get t5"8h

thfd^. so ^telephoned for her to a beau to to escort her. They came here for the

tickets, which was pleasant, but I am 4 sappointed not to have really ^alked with h r

since she came home Thanksgiving. First her appendix interfered and then this stupid

throat of mine*

ssi STasrrsjss?rs a. Although it is not Twelkfth Night I took down m, Christmas decorations today

sr

than I had thought. The stairs at the moment are off

iB ^ ^ 9 what new

convenience of the Madison Avenue bus (when not on tr-ke). We s h a e n d - l e t t e r

to see some of the money go pensions, however*

c.vus.'sri The announcement of Grayson Kirk to

p'i^B^fpom mL^Kdri^TOe'"" our

I have been told of tale bearing and fishing

in troubled waters on his part in a shocking manner.

January 6. The cold this time seems to have bee^in m^head

buf

^'rhaveTe^^er from Z SSistw Embassy for my ladies lunch tomorrowend nose

foes not need blowing more than every five minutes !' glng ^^tlu^ "csT"

as I can get a taxi* Yes, the strike is

hitt*or^ 4. m voice gave me warning on the

22nd and really departed by 24t .

t

i+i+4e Citv and I stayed in bed

sensation would be created; 26th Aunt

1

31gt

j went to Hew Year's Eve baby

most of time to 29th when X went to ffl . .

t home _ j continued to sleep

prodigouel^and fflt

TMU atYast on Jan 3 when I got back here. So Jan.4 was bad.

At ten o'clock today I passed my fi#st full year without a cigarette sine* I was 19*

f l U D , r v v i l ^ . T o - i , ^ j o J l ^ T v O , tVfo January 11, 1953 m***, (

Do forgive me for being so lugubrious last week* Actually I felt so badly that I stayed home from the office on Monday* Having an Off-the-Record luncheon for seventyfive ladies on Wednesday and the need to find a speaker for their next meeting, I did go in the rest of the week* With the bus strike I went late and left early so as to get a taxi, and had good luck most of the time* On Thursday it was pouring an almost but not quite sleet and Vera,who had joined me, and I were much later than we should have been in leaving* That night was probabhy the worst and we had actually decided to get out of the storm in the subway when I spied three men getting out of a cab! The weather has added to the slowness in niiidb I had been &bbi to subdue this head cold and of transport during the strike, whieh is now well into ist second week*

Ruth Wheeler-Bennett arrived on Monday having crossed with her great friends, Bir Roger and Lady Making-the new British Ambassador and his wife, ufao by the way is an American* Ruth says that Sir Roger is very American in his manner and she thinks the appointment a good one* She reported that the Churchill party of twelve kept to -their own quarters and the few passengers in first class made it a very quiet crossing* Al though Ruth arrived early Monday and left late Thursday afternoon we only talked a couple of times on the telephone* I was unwilling to risk giving her my buds to take to her mother who has not been too well in the jast year* We've plans for the week before she sails back in early March*

The reception for Mr. and Mrs* Mason which I suggested has been seized upon with avidity and we are all happily planning it* I am addressing some of the envelopes of people I particularly want to have the opportunity of meeting him over the weekend* Aside from several hours of other work I brough home with me I continue to be quiet and self indulgent. I disposed of my tickets for "Boheme" for tomorrow as I think that for a bit more I had best devoted time and energy during the week to the job* I did go to Maria's for dinner on Thursday because Hank was in Washington and I got there a little after five and left soon after ten, which is early, early for us* They went skiing over New Year and as a result she looks herself again, instead of tired and drawn as she was in mid-December* Those classes take so much out of her!

"Passage to India" has been re-read in recent days and I am fascinded by it and must see who E.M. Forster is and why he wrote the book, alas the name is not in the rather old Who's Who in America which I have here* I'll pursue the matter in the Brit ish volume in the office* It is so anti-British that I cannot understand why John Dewar gave it to me in Scotland! Now I'm more up-to-date with one of my Christmas books "Korean Tales" --Lt* Col* Melvin B. Voorhees controversial book. "Sub-rosa--The OSS and American Espionage" by Alsop and Braden completely fascinated me* All during the war I knew a great many things were happening which might be told of some day, this book is part of that story* I have also been having a lovely time with another old book "The last Tim I Saw Paris"*

Gerry had a few Cosmopolitan Club members to meet her friend Gertrude Tiemer, the artist, on Wednesday afternoon* I fear she put her up Hor membership a long time ago and then has done nothing much about it. She really is a delightful person and has aged beautifully --her brown eyes are dramatic under hcrdhite hair* She and her husband were in New York for a few days between their home in Maine (near Brunswick) and sailing for South America* She was bubbling over as &e told the tale of her daughter, whose husband is in Korea. His last letter said that he was going to Tokyo on leave and would phone her from there* No phone call came so they did it in reverse, learned that all the time on the phone had been booked up before he got his request in, but they could not find hira to say his wife was calling him* The poor girl was just beside herself and Gertrude hated to leave her, though she did* The day before she had a phone call from the daughter saying she had just discovered thai the mail of days if not weeks had been left at a general store instead of delivered because a new letter carrier was afraid of their Great Dane--the dog he of the over exuberant, affection variety* You would think the carrier would feel responsible for telephoning them, but then you don't know the Maine native!

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January 30, 1953 Inauguration day --and the dawn of a dew era.
Last weekend I was with Martha and deve and got some extra sleep and eame back feeling a little more human ti an I have for some time* They hadpeople in on Saturday nijgit and I did not make church. This was the Sunday they had "family worship" at 9$30 when the upper grades of the Church School had service in the church proper and their families eame too. Jay carried the cross in that service and Cleve in the regular morning wordi ip* In the afternoon Martha whipped up some cooky batter and I helped her cook them for Fran. Then I took an early train hack to town as I had begged off Sunday dinner with Aunt Mary and gone to supper instead. She looks so much better than she has for months that it is a joy to see her. She showed me some very interesting lace pattern books printed abottt 1576, which were part of Aunt Bessie*s collection. The particular books I saw were to be given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art being items they are eager to acqui&e. Then I saw most of the India shawls, all of them in perfect condition. Aunt Mary said 4ie never saw her mother or grandmother wear them, yet some she knew to be her grandmother Rudd,s. The woman from the Museum said that while the cashmere and the embroidered shawls were good examples and the Paisleys were nice there were so many of these type made in ISuwope that the whole group fo twelve were a drug on the market?

Yesterday John Badeau came in to see me --he had arrived by air fromCAiro the day before--where he is president of the American University*) He was twelve hours late because of engine trouble which caused them to stop over in Ireland for hours, and reported that the Paris airport had been fogged in for five days and held up Cardinal Spellman, (Judith Listowel is due next Tuesday and I hoep that she has a better flight as she hates flying--she will be here for better than three weeks bat largely out of town ) Badeau*s report of the new government in Egypt was most interesting# H e has told me late in June, just before I went to British Columbia, that General Naguib is a good man. No* he goes into greater detail and illustrates how he has a group of nine colonels, each of whom have one vote as he has himself He is really a simple and aaive man --the general* The government is cleverly using posters impressing on the mind of the people that fanners and soldiers are brothers. On Christmas Naguib was on the radio in French, EngLish and Arabic with Christmas messages, on the Day of Atonement he spoke to the Jews--and this a soldier who had found Israeli soldiers, Badeau also told of a documentary fiilm he had seen of the former King,s beautiful summer palace --perhaps some of the shots were "planted" but at any xate the conclusion was inescapable--the Egpytian peole are to be congratu?lated at having rid themselves in August 1952 of this slob, I was interested that Badeau should use this unpleasant wrod--a ward that four or five people who encounter ed him inEurope used to described the then King of Egypt, He must be loathsomeo

A week aga I disposed of my opera tickets because I felt I needed the extra rest.

Last night I was overcome with sleepiness and got rid of the friend who had given me

dinner and was in bed and asleep when Allport phoned me about a speaker for Rochester,

Tonight I worked until eight and had just finished by dinner when Vera called me with

problems from Smith where she had been today, We admit that our fellows are homan,

but get upset when collegues are small and mean--this time its her problem at Smith

not "ours at the FPA" , thank goodness. Part of her problem was so like some of the

things

told me this afternoon by my old friend MacEnnis Moore--things that he had

encountered in the secondary school field. It really must be a hideous life to be a

headmaster of a preparatory school, keeping aloof and maintaining an attitude of authori

ty and lonely intellectual superiority.

Roger Vaurs, a member of the French diplomatic corps and director of French Press and information here, spoke at the Town Hall Club luncheon today--a tight speech with no relief, but good and delivered in his miraculous EngLish which he learned from ages six to ten so it is without the normal French inlection. He was very interested in our reaction to the C.E. Wilson situation. It is significant that this point was his
greatest curiousity.

U U u m m- wo.-t --i i wo -- f f t t x e m s i f t t a m i f e n t e l r i h a b s 9 t t s * 9 o m C t o oitiio -xottxd a 9 Last nigit after working for the second night in a row until nearear eight than
seven I thought I should he lucky to get home by ten toni^it as we had Board Meeting* Well* it was somewhat after ten when I got in but I do not feel like going to bed* A good portion of my day has been spent with out of town board members* being oh* so help ful. Vera and I had lunch together today when I did my best to persuade her to see the academic year out at Smith and to wait until the first of March before deciding not to fulfill the second year of her contract. We had talked about this for an hour and a half on Tuesday night* She has cause to be annoyed* but the good old Russian temperment is at work again.

Tonight we had cocktails at six, dinner at six-thirty followed by Board meeting* The adoption of a pension plan was voted, establishing 65 as the retirement age and ntribution by both FPA and employee* Thqragreed to appoint a conmittee at the next meeting to study what they would do by way of backdating payments for the "oldsters" It is too soon to do anything about enthusing or decrying, but my initial reaction is one of apathy. They talked about the new office to which we move about May 1st and eventually asked Edward Miller* who recently resigned as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America and re turned to his law firm--Sullivan and Cromwell .John Foster Dulles has just left that firm to be Secretary of State and the Ghairnman of the FPA Board of Directors* Eustace Seligman, is another member. Miller talked well for about half anjL hour without any sideand developed both strengths and weaknesses in our relations with our Good Neighbors Peron is only interested in maintaining himself as President of Argentina and still holds it against us that we exerted pressure to get Argentina to declare war on Germany. Eustace had had to go to a meeting of the Legal Aid Society where he is head ng a finance drive and so was late at our meeting --I did not speak to him directly and he left while I was talking with Eleanor French* woman*s Page editor of the New York Times. Carolyn andVera and I tucked our Board Reports andother papers away and all went down in the same eleva tor only to be siezed upon in the lobby by a former secretary of Brooks (who still lives in the Midston House hotel a floor and a third of which is our office) and told that Eustace had collapsed on the floor of the elevator between the FPA and street levels. She was speaking of him in the past tense before she was through--the ghoul* Fortunately his partner and John Nason* the new FPA president were with him and got him to his feet and to a taxi. They wanted to take him to a hospital and he was insisting on g>ing home. I hope they overruled him as they do not have an elevator and I know he would have to go at least two flights. I have only been in their dining room which is on the street floor and drawing room which is the entire first floor up. As they have no children I can easily imagine a sitting room and a library on the next floor with their bedrooms at the tip of the third flight. Poor man, but how glad I am Miller was with him.

During the first ten days to two week of the bus strike I felt too lacksidaisical to get very angry or to do anything but use every stratagem at my command to snatch cabs. But now I'm having more energy I try to use the subway in one direction each day..even at that I have to walk twelve blocks so make several stops, pretending to look in shop win dows so as to get a fresh start with my left leg A taxi takes about half the time a bus uses and going by foot and subway takes twice as long as the bus -- I have twioe suspected "slow-up" on the subway as I have waited much too long. Last night it was sleeting and very windy and as I was too busy to leave before five I decided that by after seven cabs would be more available. I guess that they were afraid the streets would get very slippery and went to the garage. I ended up on the subway. I gave my new plastic galoshes a good test and found them most satisfactory--which is good as I "think them most ugly and hate them mightily both on other people and or^ me. They are all I can get to go over my wedge shoes. My mantle clock just struck eleven(its ten minutes late*) and I must go to bed.

January 24th. Well*Eustace beat his secretary to the office the morning after his collapse and had done half a days work before she even got therel Mrs Seligman called me and said that she was afraid that he had not been frightened by the experience to the point that he would take it easy

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Well, Mr and Mrs Mason are introduced to the friends and coworkers of the Foreign

Policy Association in what everyone agreed was a vefcy successful and pleasant party.

It is very interesting that a great many people did not answer at all, that at least

ten percent of -those who accepted did not appear and their loass was not quite made

up by those who did not answer but who appeared In addition to coordinating the

invitation lists and having the answers handled, I undertook to have the tea and

coffee tables staffed with names that might get us a story in the society pages First

Leslie Morris who was coming over from Philadelphia wired that she could not get there,

then twenty minutes after the party began Mrs. Thomas S* Lamont phoned that she was so

sorry she had gotten involved -- she insisted on chatting with me on the phone rikien

I was eager to get on with getting someone to fill the hour she had wanted to pout with

the exception of Mrs. Hand whom I had from four to five, Mrs. Lamont was my only other

hour person. Happily Leslie and Ed Morris tureid up after all and she took the first

part of the great gap, when she left I did it myself while I talked to people whom I

was gLad to see, but by that time I was so tired I did not have the whit to sit down

Mrs. Parsons was supposed to do from five thirty to six and I asked her to come a little

early in case her predecessor who has a very bad osteo-arthritis was MM

tired.

She arrived at quater before five and took over from Mrs. Learned Hand and was happily

pouring wh the person she was supposed to relief arrived on time for her turnl This

despite the fact that each one had a note telling her period, the name of the person she

followed and who was to relieve her.

Judith Listowel arrive on Tuesday, four or five hours late due to mechanical trouble

which held tham up at Gander. I went up and we had a good talk and then some dinner.

She is involved in more things than ever including the chiarmanship of an American-

British Hospitality Committee, which is prepared to place Americans for the two weeks

of the Coronation festivitiesin private homes. They seem to have confidence that some

four hundred beds will be found and filled by rich Americans who will pay four hundred

dollars each. They will be given everything from breakfast in bed to having their

laundry done and as much entertaining as the hostesses can arrange--for every meal in

some one else's home would mean that less work in the paying guest household. The guests

must provide their own tickets for, the coronation procession, but the hostess will give

a box lunch. Any American who cannot stay the full two weeks pays just the same. The

amazing part of it is that Judith thinks she discussed the matter with a woman yesterday

who is dissatisfied with her hotel reservation and in all probability will go to Judith

with her husband and debutant daughter. Of course this is very spewial as Deirdre (Ju

dith brought her daughter out last Julyf has turned out to be a most brilliant social

success and is considered one of the smartest girls in London and she would have to

share her

Guardee beaus wdth the paying guestsI We have done pretty well so far,

I went to a so called press conference for Judith on Wednesday,

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party Thursday after making her first lecture at Garden City and thStpne'came her for a

quiet conversation dinner and evening with me. I hope she is getting some rest today

as she has a lecture tomorrow and two on Monday. 1*11 go to the Monday evening one as

she leaves for Boston early the next day and does not get back until the 21st.

Monday evening Carolyn Martin and I were dining at the Town Hall Club and ran into Betty Day (my assistant of twenty years ago who retired from teaching school over a year ago, no she did not earn retirement teaching in private schools, it was family money which she got by inheritance) and a friend of hers--we joined forces and had a vary gay time. Carolyn and I went on to the opera --"Der Rosenkavalier" in which there was two substitutions. I don't think I ever encountered two in the same JB rformance and the worst part of it was that one fatality was the old roue baron who wanted to marry the munition makers daughter and that pprt was taken by Roberta Peters for the first time and on short notice. She did very well as I believe she has done once or twice before wh she has had to step into a new part on short warning. She was plainly very nervous in the very beginning with a distinct tremulo in her voice, but she got over that and
did very well. The critics were kind to her the next day, too. ^15*7
JWWM r u tutiirLs go^d too. "Carmen11 is now onjhe radio and coming over very nicely.

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I cannot imagiiie what happened during the bus strike* The first day they were tack in operation the driver pulled in to the curb and the busses were not even half full Soon enoughthey were back to the careless way of discharging passengers more or less in the middle of the street# While the number of passengers have increased, they have not yet reached the number of the pre strike crush# Strangely enough I cannot see that traffic more appreciably slower than when the busses were off the street# The only diange I have notices is one which so far has not been of interest to me--when I wait for the bus to come home they are plenty of cabs available# During the strike I had to go to a couple of likely spots for picking them up--Park Avenue instead of Madison, 39th instead of 40th and so on. I am de lighted to be getting to and fro for$$20 cents a day instead of $le60#
The office is humming, at least the Speakers Bureau and Ifve been to busy to check up on any other group Brooks sailed on the United States a week ago today# I sent Mm & wire alone and was interested when I asked Carolyn if she cared to join me that she declined# Per haps she was not well or something, all week she has been too preoccupied for normal interncourse and Friday was the first day we could lunch together. Even that was not very chatty as we had to go to a counter and on to our respect safety deposit boxes--*where I clipped two years worth of coupons on my Southern Pacific bond--shows how little I go there# I am trying very hard not to prejudge either President Eisenhower or Nason as the new FPA president-- but it is very hard# The way the former has handled the Far Eastern situation and the gossip which reaches me form the Board of Directors about the latter being considered both arrogant and unctuous --an strange combination but I can see how tb$r could feel that way and it bodes ill for the staff-- makes me very uneasy# Before he was actaully on the staff he and I seemed to get on splendidly but this past week he was in the office two days and had five minutes with me in which I agreed to take on a film survey for which he failed to give me a real frame of reference# When I asked for it his reply was unhelpful and could be considered stupid if he was serious or an insult to my intelligence if herthougfrt the reply was a help#
At last "The Happy Time " has reached the neighborhood theatre and I enjoyed it as much as I did the play# It is most wonderful escape stuff# I wonder how the French Canadians regard it I Another evening I had dinner with Aunt Mary and am so pleased at the way d is looking and behaving --at the moment die is doing Aunt Bessie's room over, the walls yellow as they had discussed together, the rocking chair with a green upholstery gets a new green seat and so on# Monday night I went to Judith's evening lecture at Columbia. It was good to see Russell Potter who directs that season-series# Her lecture was good and she looked enchanting in a London dinner dress--black wool with long sleeves high neck set off with deep cuffs and a huge collar of lightly starched white lace# A Mr# Doshen #10 had been sait to her with a letter from amutal friend appeared in the green room afterward and brought us down town in his car# He said that when she talked out on the platform he said to him self "What can that kid tell me?". I too was fearful when die got into her theory about the check trials and medical trials in Russia but she handled it beautifully# She feels that it is anti-semitie because the Russians are trying to rid themselves of Jews in high places be fore they offer an alliance to the fascist element in Germany--a sort of "we would rather collaborate with you than anyone else and to make the atmosphere agreeable to you we have rid ourselves and our sattelites of the Jews who would not be agreeable to your tjtheory" This has a hideous conotation --a German-Russian alliance is a terrifying thing to contem plate# She off now either in Detroit or somewhere in Kentucky today, but will be in Minne apolis for two days early in the week#
This afternoon the opera is"Cosi Fan Tutte" and I find the Mozart music delightful, though I do not think it one of ray favorite operas for actually writnessing--the plot is too infantile# Monday night I go to Aida and have Gertrude Stewart $$$$$ whom heretofor I have only seen in Maine. She is going to Spaii^ in March and I've getting Betty Day later to tell the bits which a recent visitor can tell a prospective one# Tuesday evening I expect to go to the Cosmopolitan Club to hear "the Hake's Frogress"librettists W.H# Auden and Cheshire Kallman take us into their confidence about the new Igor Stravinsky opera which has its American premiere next Saturday at the Metropolitan# I'll be with Molly and her men but hope to hear part of it anyway#
Maria and I had a long talk on the telephone at midnight Monday immediately I got in and she broke down and told me that she has heard nothing for a year from herfamily in Budapest

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I came 'back from Molly's before supper in pouring rain--and am concerned about the

2 to 3 inches of leaf all her spring bulbs are showing. Much too

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the groundhog saw his shadow and furfoeraore we've hd no appreciable winter so far and

mustPurely have it sooner or later. Everyone is fine and Jay showed rare judgement yests<-

day afternoon when he earns back from playing lacrosse and found water dripping t-irough

toe kitchen ceiling. Nothing visibly wrong upstairs, but from the closet in the little bo/s

room he heard dripping. He put out utensils to catch the drip a n d d r a l l e d a y f f f" the ceiling to let the water through. The plumber came and changed Jim s totninoff o

l the nar to just the cold water upstairs -that as you can imasine created^some om-

plicationsdand made the downstairs demi-john very popular, .apwill be 13 in two weeks.Je

had gone to the north shore and passed through a alarming call - - 5

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befofe-called Sweat Hollow. It was a lovely brilliant blue sky day and we had planed to

-i k on the beach and perhaps feet some drift wood, but vfoen the wind came up

better to keep Bill^in the carT Molly is moderately involved ia/-d relief and I'm glad that people at that age range are getting into helping take care of t. e

devastation from those dreadful floods of two weeks ago from wind, raxn and extraordinary

high tide in EngLand, Belgium and the Netherlands. I was fascinated when 1 2^" . . . . Sg a Catholic charity wSch had a shipload of clothing going to Hamburg had di-rted it to Holland, and the ship docked on the day after the weekend o. catastrophe, Th<e Du c officials her have been very odd about wanting a new conmittee set up to handle the rele and igSr those^Irealy in toe field. Many have refused to be by-paeeed. The American Red

Gross sent blankets from Switzerland for example.

Our trip yesterday kept me from hearing more than the very beginning ^kes^0gr83S
ZZll nremiere at the Metropolitan. IShat I heard confirmed my opinion of last Tuesday. The interesting but not melodic. At the Cosmopolitan Club the obliging and took turns reading various characters lines togive us an i a - Pand then Messrs. Auden and Kallman would sit down and nave a Metropolitan tenor by Gary and a music student by color dark and name Flower sing some of the arias. Auden fra ly said that it migit be a modern opera but thsy certainly were going to have ar a the bit I heard I gather they use a good deal of recitative.

I was enchanted to see in the paper this week that John Wheeler-Bennett had ben commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II to write the official biography of her father. I would
e+ th" t this would involve a certain amout of going to the royal residences to look over
Miterial and dscide what would be required for research. It will certainly be a ^ereating experience for John and Ruth--but I guess it also means that they will be too y to have me at Garsington Manor again this summer for twn days*

Monday night Gertrude Stewart had dinner with me and then we went to Aida. She^s

iuet as impressed as I was with the new Margaret Webster settings. The bal_et mast r ha

ione a oTrrd seemsT me to have added a lot more dancing than ever before-even

more than last season. The new Greek woman Elena Nikolaidi sang Amneris ana c<^*ely

detracted me. IShen she made one sort of effort she wiggled her hips and for another i

Th5r shoulders. I no sooner thought I had the clue as to Art

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wiggle than she would fool me. George London was excellent as Aida s -at er.

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Delia Rigal was not in good form but I did not "hink her especially good ae Aida.

it was an entirely satisfying production and we enjoyed it veiy much.

? ys sisrss.

l+o0omdisfocursms eh.owInsh- e should handle Mr. NM ason. -xr+x *iss ixrroonmiccaaxl Ix can g&ive her so much better . x r TyMyaeTgt she told me "Slat "Mien she was here alone at 16 tne one

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February 21, 1953

You must not get the impression that I am withdrawing from the worSd for Lent, but I must warn you that for the next three weeks I may not have much time for writing. You see the long-angled-for dinner to Anthony Eden finally comes off on Thursday March 12th. On Monday afternoon D'Arcy Edmcndson telephoned to ask if we would like to do and after a good deal of hocus pocus largely originating with Mr. Mason who thought he would find the 11th more con venient and then the English Speaking Union wanting to co-sponsor it was an con firmed on Wednesday afternoon At one point I thought poor D'Arcy was @>ing to cry in my ear over the mounting complications. I am delighted at the way the entire office has thrown itself into the thing and I have not had to do as much myself as I have in the pa st For example I write the invitation and someone else struggles with the printer--though at moments when X was having to explain details for passing on to the printer, I thought 1 migit just as well be doing it myself. Also a Mrs. Bacon has been hired to handle the publicity and public relations. I have not seen her yet, but have a suspicion she will need a good deal of help as she does not know New York. However the dinner will be at the Waldorf and Phillipppe the Banquest Manager happily sends me chart^e to have from 1,000 to 2,000 eat dinner. This is to be Mr. Eden's only public speech on this trip--he is coming for hilevel talks in Washington and will go to the UN for a couple of days ehlie he is S,n New York. Mrs. Eden will be with him and so far I cannot find out how many other people we shall have to give dinners that cost $8 to--of course to cover the expenses we charge our members $10. and other people $12.50. My first budget is $1800 and immediately we went over the budgetted item for the invitations! It is awkward to have this three day weekend before we could get the invitations printed, but they will be mailed on Tuesday at FFA men bers and several thougdnd other people. One of my several office weekend jobs is to make up the timetable so the office manager can prepare for pressure points.
I had an extrciiusXy nice letter this week from John Wheeler-Bennett thanking me for my letter cf congratulations. He spoke of Brooks Emeny having lunched with him at Garsington Manor and his feeling that Brooks is "beginning to pull ou of the trough ol his tragedy." That is good news for they have known each other a long time and John would have the advantage of not seen Brooks since before his wife killed herself. He goes on hoping that his wife,Ruth, and I get together before she sails. The closing sentence enchants me"Flease plan to come and see us again soon and thank you again so much for your letter." I am sorry I was so pessimistic last week about their preoccupation with the royal biography making it impossible for me ever to visit them again. Of the book he says" This is not an easy job tha! i have been entrusted vd iB* Naturally I'm immensely pleased and proud at the honor, but I'm not a little awed at the prospect! But I find the task en grossing,y interesting and wholy fascinating." Brooks sent me the cutting from the TIMES saying that John had told him the news privately two days before it was announced and opining that John would be knitted for the work.
ffin Tuesday we had the Foreign Minister of Korea speak at the Town Hall lunfc eon. He did an excellent job, though he made it woefully clear that he thought it quite possible that there would be another world war and that we cannot hope to participate by "proxy warfare". We had a good audience for him, including thirty youngsters from the Irving School if Tariy town--I chatted with the headmaster, a chap named Mattern--graduate of Harvard class of *49. The youngest head of a private preparatory ahcool in the country.
Judith returns today and I hope to see a little of her in the week she is here before flying back to London. A day or two after she leaves Ruth WheelerBennett will be here for a few days,shorter than w thought, before she sails!

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we might mail announcements.

This week the Off-the-Record luncheon la toe tur ned out ^ar John ^^hey

president of th> American University in Cairo.

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when Robert Gorixam Davis, pt*^ which^ certainlr y does, nit

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The afternoon sun pours in with a seise of warmth, but the half inth

frosting of aa ow on the houses across the street is in keeping with the

recent weather report---26 degrees at tne Battery*

The aaow was in the

very early morning and the heat did not come up until efe venthis morning

so I had a bundled up breakfast#

The Eden dinner continues to be the dominat ihing in my life# I worked at the office yesterday--only a six hour day on account of its being Saturday, but realized that we are over a thousand* and shall have a double tiered head table on the stage of the ballrom with surely some tables in the first tier boxes and we may even spill over into the second tier of boxes for tables# I had hoped to keep that for people to come into for the speaking only. It all goes well but rather more slowly than it should on account of the stupidity of the invitation mistake. I have a feelingthat no one at the working level really cares very much about this--which is annoying#

I broke my "not going out in the evening" rule on Wednesday when Ruth Wheeler-Bennett was in town. We had dinner at the Town Hall Club and went to "The Seven Year Itch" a very, very funny play with Tom Ewell simply knocking himself out. She play is imaginatively produced and we enjoyed ourselves enormously. I had hoped she would dine with me again on Thursday and go to some British films. However she began to get so tired from her shopping, (that is on an extensive scale $140. for & oes alone) that she felt she should have a dinner in her room and get to bed as soon as the packing was done. I Called her Friday to see if she closed her bags alright or if I should stop on my way to the office and she reported everything in fine order# I took Barbara Wells to the films as she is abfcut to go to EngLand on the first trip to Europe and we were both very interested# I feel rather a martyr in dis posing of my tickets for "Boris Goudenov" for tomorrow even as I did the "TrisTran and Isolde"s of two weeks ago. I know I must be abed earlier than going out permits while I'm working at this pace. While iBve deliberately established a folder and called it "After Eden" and put quite a few things in it--there are areas of my job which must continue--such as the delivery of speakers to St Louis Newport (HI), two to Burlington (Vt) and so on<> The two I got for Buffalo and then when they did not OK them, I phoned the program chairman and found that he had gone down with the flu and decided not to have the meeting on Morrocco in March after all and had just forgotten to tell me was the toughist I

Jim and Jay had their joiht birthday on Wednesday and everyone in that household is well. It's a long time since I have seen ih em. I'll put on my aqua^ten-yeards-around. the bottom dinner dress and my gold slippers today to be sure that everything is in c?der for Thursday night# I have already done two hours of office reading of reports and memoranda and mui get back to another hour or so before the day is done. I have not gone down for the paper yet and I guess the "baby elephant" is away for the weekend as it has not been brought up as far as his floor. I am very interested in seeing what it says about Eden in Washington but also about Stalin's death. I hav6 always felt that //inston Churchill was fooling himself when he thought that a scramble for power will result in an internal collapse -- a charming notion, but nothing to put any faith on in my opinion. The transfer of power seems complete and orderly. It is good that Molotov is foreing minister since ha has had experience in dealing with the West.
Now I am afraid I have indulged myself for long enou^a and must get back to those office memoranda#

Marc$| 15* 1953

Well* 12i cause of ray long silence is now over, fiat is on Thursday evening the Foreign Policy Assocaiiion gave its dinner in honor of Hie Rigfit Honorable Anthony Edem, MC* , MCP*, for which I have m rk@d for mr two jears* I think just between us that it was not the date in Jaauray, 19&2, or November 12, 1952 on both of which we thought we were going to have him as our speaker that finally gave- him to us now* It was the success from the British point of view of 1a e luncheon which I put on for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell in September, 1951# (My invitation to Gaitskell was turned down and fien on 10 days notice I was akked to do it #&nd it was an impressive affair#)

But whatever the reason for my being given Mr# Eden (and the new president of

fa e FPA is being very gaierous in telling memebers of the Board of Directors that

it was my doing) for dinner on Thursday night, I am hmppy to report lhat despite

whatever price of overtime and nerwus strain X may have paid, the meeting was an

unqualified success from every stand point#. Mr* Eden was given a visible audieace

of 1700 (ih oughthe NY Times said 1800) imdthe Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria*

a radio and TT network live, and a great deal of newsreel, TY at later p riod, Voice

of America overseas transmission and metropolitan and wire service ]r ess coverage#

His full text was cdrried the next day by THIS and TRIBUNE and I ta inKii at TBME,

L1FW, to will pick it up in the weeklies# We had a two tier speakers table with

people like John McClpy, Dean Rusk, Th9mas J* Watson Eric Johnston, Charles M#

Spofford, Judge Hand, Trygie Lie and all the official British# A reception for

150 ill ere they got to shake ihe hands of Mr# and Mrs* Eden and get a drink or two#

( I rather hate to see the bill for that little affairI) Needless to say I had

the devil of a 1 me keeping everyone and hie wife from coming to the reception

and went through quit an ordeal with the dais tabfe e# I got the two of fiem

Ball nicely seated with due deference to protocol for our people and the British

officials and those of the UN (Lie and Pearson) * WEdnesday afternoon X took Mr#

Mason over to the Waldorf as he had only been in the Grand Ballroom once and that

was ten years ago at the FPA 25th Anniversary' While fi ere I straightened out de

tails with the hotel and ordered the flowers for the dais tables and got back to my

desk at 5*30 to

a note from my assistant who fe d gone off to eeeher doctor that

the Pearsons of Canada and Preiedent of the UN Genreral Assembly had had to go to

Canada to it Xp get the Canadian budget pa seed# So I elinimated them from the center

of the Iron tier and resat/ botfy^ the front and feck table8p and feft it to be copied

for roprodudng early Thursday morning* By the tme thzt had bean done Mr* Lie, Secy -

General of the UN, had his secretary call/ up to say that his wife could not came

but that he would * That meant another reseating of the first tier, end as Lord

Astor was in more or less at Lady Astor's request and then out bcause d the nasty

fuss Peter Grimm made (poor Lord Astor who is in a cast s$s the reailt of a skiing

accidnet was in and out) taken out of the second tier with a little rearranging of

ti ail Wednesday was a day and so was Thursday in spite of my te st efforts to hve

tilings done ahead of time#

As far as the guests saw everything wait like clock work, praise heaven,, but

even after X got to the hotel, there were a couple of points at which I was desperate# It did not make it any easier for this to be the first me I wcr ked with Mr Nason in the chair# Mrs# Heiry Goddard Leach, Mrs* Learned Hand paid Mrs* Thomas So Lamont

were among th e who went out of their way to tell me that they thought everything

went beautifully# Mr* Nason sent m yellow roses, still in bud, which looked very well on ray aqua--blue dress(tucked bodice and full, 10 yards around the hem} which I wore gold slipjerf, bag, earrings and pearls. The dinner was spang in the middle of the 31 hour downpour #tich deposited over three inches on the streets of

New Yeoriu It seemed wise for me to dress at the office, yet I stood getting ray

drees damper and dampr for 25 minutes waiting for a taai with ray assisiant--kiss LT^r other members of the staff. However, X got there in tin* to get the

niece cards or the double tier and talk with the hotel tolp who were to take tickets,

,, :J| announce the ghgets at the reception,, Tomorrow I

6^a nn a luncheon lor

Ch"oeli0r Memuer of Germany for April j|

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M.ar4h 15 1953

Income tax day and to my great delimit I discovered yesterday when I did my tax that THEY owed me moneyI Of course it is my money that I overpaid because

last year when I entered the annual gamble of for casting what my in me would be

I was right to $76 dollars, but I did not count on the very substantial dedaetione

from my various doctors and dentists

We skinned past the anniversary of theBlizzard of 1888,but oh my, the Eden dinner fell spang in the middle of a 31 hour rain which dropped over three inches on New York and caused such floods that the NY TIMES carried a picture of man(2 men)
in a rowboat in front of a garage in Bronxville*

Last week was mad beyond my ability to recount a blow by blow description* IT was good, but very sad for me, to have given up all thought of hearing "Boris Goudenov" Monday night. Some of the things that happened would have been funny had I not been so pressed. For example when we realized that Lady Aster had come to New York it seemed a good idea to call her sister*s (Mrs* Charles Dana Gibson) house to find out & ere she was staying and invite her to sit on the dais. We did and Lady Astor accepted* Than in a day or two she turns up on the guest list cf Mrs* William K* Dick and that has to be straightaied out* Lady A* stays topside* On Wednesday die called me up and explained that she knew how busy I was, what asses people were over events like this, etc* etc* but she had cabled "Billy, vdio is now the Viscount" about the dinner and he said he would like to attend, so could I let him take her to the reception and what about the dais? I said I should be happy to send him the card for reception and would try to arrange the dais* With a certain amount of trouble and reseating the second tier, I tucked him, snet him a letter with the cards* Thursday morning a Peter Grimm telephoned in great anger, I had stolen Lady Astor from him for the dais and he would not permit my taking Lord Astor, too* He claimed to be the one to have cabled, and added "Lady Astor told me to straighten the thing out with that woman in the Foreign Policy Office"* Of course, Grimm is a big real estate operator and I suppose he is trying to do a deal with the Astors. I could not get Lord Astor on the phone to explain and caugjht him in the reception* I must sayhe put me off somewhat by saying brightly "Oh, you mean 1 can go home?"* He was in some sort of a cast with his right arm raised shoulder high, said he was not in pain and that it was the result of a skiing accident* But for my money, his wife is wise
to divorce him*
We were prepared to feed 1530 people but the rain kept a few away* I had sent tickets for the second tier boxes to the staffs ofvarious British offices here,etc so I think there were 1700 people there* The TIMES says 1800* There was TV and radio, newsreel, press photographers as well as reporters* At the last minute we broke down and set up a buffet for them0 Mr* Nason even insisted that all the staff down to the boy who comes after school to help get out the mail be given an eight dollar dinner I hope that we have not set a precedent, just because this function came off so well and made something over $2,000*, anfi they will expect to be treated to everything we do It very much looks as if we would do a luncheon for Chancellor Adenauer of Germany on Wednesday, April 15* I am to know for sure on Monday, when I also have to make some sort of a pass at the French Mayer for Holy Week* I'm going to farm him out to some other place if I do Adenauer here

Because of the rain I dedded it would be easier to get a cab from the office

so I put on my ten yards around the bottom bluish aqua dress there , gold slippers,

matching gold purse and gold earrings and peafcls also the corsage of yellow roses xn

buds which Nason sent me with a nice note* I stood with five other office people

for 25 minutes under the awning in front of the building waiting for a

^ow@^er

I got there in time to put out the place cards on the tables,on the dais and chee<:

the rarioue hotel people. About a hundred and twenty people same to the

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hair* which grows very thickly on his head* His.very bushy mustache is toffeee colored and gives a most odd touch to his face* In case you say nothing of hhis speech, it seemed very anti-Russian and included all the usual we English speaking people must stand together* He stated that EngL and would not |oin a European federation and implied that Europe should stop dragging its feet* The official French who were there * and the Austriane took a very dim view of it* But if was considered sufficient important for TIMES and HERALD TRIBUNE to carry full text I understand that the TRIBUNE of Saturday gave an editorial* Could that be because Mrs* Ogden Reid was at the head table? It was very interestingthat over fifty firms ranging from Coty, American Express, Allied Stores, Ford International, MooreMaCormack Lines, Cowles Magazines, IBM, Westing house, General Motors, sever! banks, ect* took tables which made the problem of seating difficult as regards our good old members* The enite first tier of boxes , except for inhere there were cameras in one box, was filled with diners* About thirty five people had to be served in the second tier boxes where the major television equipment was and all those who came for the speaking*

Mrs* Henry Goddard Leach, Mrs. Learned Hand and Mrs. Thomas S# Lamont were among those who went out of their way to tell me how beautifully they thou$it everything had gone* I am on the ishole well pleased but still very tired as I am sure you see from the way I ramble about and some oddities of construction *

Tuesday we have a small meeting with Lord Rochdale at the Town Hall Club who will talk about trade--not aid* He is a textile man and the British equivalent of thepresident of the National Association of Manufacturers here* He was in the works before Eden came into the calendar, so I did not have tfie heart to put him off* Lord Millner will speak to the Off-the-Record ladies this month too.

Friday I have a very important tikk with Nason, Tiho patted my head at the hotel after the Edei s had gone, and then g> to Molly for the weekend* He is to decide on the whole structure of tie speakers bureau, or rather go over it with me so he understands how and what it does and how it should be staffed in the future* A conversation we should have had long ago except for his being with us less than halfl time --and my gentility in not demanding time from him* It is necessary now because my German refugee secretary resigned and next week I'll be dependent upon a person hired for the stenographic pool* I am determind not to be the victim of some labor union machinations, which it looks as if this might be unless Mr. Nason and I come to some early and firm conclusions about my staff*

Yesterday we a wonderful balmy, sunny day but I was too tired to go out* Today it rains gently alternately with torrential downpours So I have given up all idea of going out to see Aunt Mhry, Mrs* Harris or Miss Ogden# I may go downstairs to get my paper and mail my letters, or I could stay cozily here and wash my hair.

March 2!, 1953 Wellj I hope you had a happy first full day of spring. It was lovely and sunny this morning with a di arj)ly blue sky and still w as when I got on the bus to go to the office for a bit. By the time we got to 33th it was cloudy and seemed threatening, however it was nice about five when I came home. (I still donH know if I'm to do Adenauer and by now hope very mucji we don't have to but it seemed a very good idea to get my desk parti^ally cleaned up--I've had a hideous with the child who is to do my dictation temporarily--and feel that I have been badly treated by the new office manager However I8m not alone, the clerks are sp bitter that the drew up and started signing a dreadful petition to Nason. It was given me unofficially and I with equal unofficialness has it stopped *) I'm just in now from dinner with Aunt Mary and a concert by Arthur Rabin--who is very young but an excellent technician Hewas charming in two of the four encores, but on the whole the program was rather on the "see what I can do "side* Soery, its Michael Rabin (not Arthur) I guess he is polish his accompaniast was excellent David Garvay, who was also young and I thought looked English. He did "Berceuse PE *5xrbird' Suite" with the Dushkin arrangement of Stravinsky--interesting oecause the Dushkins were two rows ahead of us She came in to see me last week about getting me engagements for a friend of hers Sir Frederick James to speak. Small world. There have been some extreraely nice letters about the Eden dinner so^e ot me and some to Nason. One to me from Lady Astor which starts off charmingly but deteriorates in handwriting at such a rapid pace that the second sentence is incomphrehensibi. I only trust it continued in the same vein The hotel bill has not come but 1 think we will make at least $1,500. This was not an objective when we started out, but who minds making a little money. Certainly I should like to do so for myself. Happily all my medical bills of last year give me a deduction resiting in a refund of income tax money, but the pension which a grateful FPA board has made available to us calls for my paying in 5% to my salary each year As I am hoping that they will throw in a decent sum for past service I enter the pension plan with a show of outward enthusiasm and an inward groan. I doubt if I ever get anything usefulfrom it in payments, but it should provide my estate with enough to bury me and anyway with twice whatever I have paid in as a minimum oven without anything frem a funding for past services operation. Lord RochdaJse who is a textile family and pronounces his name ROTchdale , yet the first cooperative was formed by the Rochdale weavers with a soft ch sound. We had a little preliminary chat before lunch about that and the only solution he could offer seemed to indicate that the Roche river is there it is soft ch, and the weavers were closer to the river than the owning family of Kemp when the title was conferred and they took the town for name. He is quite sweet, a little scraggly, looks like a college professor, is a Christian Sciantist and vice president of the union of manufacturers or some such. He made very good sea se about the 3teps Britain was taking to help themselves in the face of the dollar shortage Through doing their own refining of petroleum now they get a great many plastic byproducts which can be used in making articles and sulphur which they would otherwise have to buy. He talked in a simple homely and hnderstandable way at the Town Hall Club on Tuesday Thursday afternoon I went to the St. Regis to a cocktail party given by Charles Spofford, former US deputy representatvie at NATO, for Lord Ismay the NATO commander succeeding Eisenhower The Library there on the second floor was a delightful place for a small ja rty-*~ which I thought on the whole very stodgey. Ismay is a substantail man with round red cheeks, a bristly pepper and salt mustache and veryshiny brown eyes I had a nice chat with him and learned nary a military secret) and a Bourbon on rocks. My neighbor to the rear, Irene Corotneff, works at the UN and so is now getting a security check A nice southern accented young man came to ask me about her and I fear he felt I was hiding something because I could tell him so little after 17 years

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March 29, 1953

The Palm Sanday service at the Church of the Transfiguration in Freeport was very nice and the palm I got was a young and tender one that Martha and her Altar Guild team had spent yesterday afternoon stripping# devee, as crucifer, helped the recotr to remember to get the palms on the Altar for blessing Fred and Jay in freshly starched cottas licked very sweet and appeared to sigjs_ "from sheets" as they call the special Easter anthamns. Fran is home from shcool for her sping holiday and seems quite over her December apendectomy--she has made the junior college honor society--Phi Theta Kappa and feels that Endicott has nothing further for her and so shall not go back there next year#
Fran and Clevee returned with Molly and me andher two big boys after the service and their parents turned up after Martha had delivered the altar flowers to the ill or the hospital or somewhere. One thing lead to another and the first thing we knew they were staying for a buffet dinner with cold ham and the steak
we were to have had was held over# It was very nice and as Molly had been telling me that she wanted to do that sort of thing for the family during the Easter holiday and did not see where it was to be fitted in, she was delighted
The willow trees are lovely with each bud opened with a tiny leave from a distance it looks like green fuzz, the red bud maples are lovely, the earliest azaleas are out--a rather unpleasant mauve-pink, the very shade l&oks cold# Molly had lovely giant daffodils and I brought a few in as Aunt Annie comes tomorrow to stay a few days with me# I've done five of them in a low rectangular, heavy glass dish with a Chinese figuee in blue gown on the table# A few others are on the mantel--so far just in water# Everyone was sure it would rain tonight or tomorrow so lime was being put around, bone meal was being scattered, boxes of pansies were being set out --all to have the rain do the final step#
I was delighted Wednesday to be sure that we would not do tte Adenauer lunch# It would have been an anticlimax# With the other things I have to do, it could only do done at terrific cost to me personally# Betwwen Aunt Annie and a dinner for her on Tuesday at the Town Hall Club with old family firends and a wisdom tooth out on Wednesday afternoon and off the middle of Friday afternoon to Molly again for Easter, I don't have much time# I am anxious to get to the British Consulate to sign the Condolence book in connection with Queen Mary's death# I am so glad she Rallied and did not die the week of the Eden dinner' We did have Lord Wiliaer at the Off the Record luncheon on Wednesday and he was dreadful--one of those hideous old men, made a peer by the Labour Government, who feels he must be rude and overbearing in order to show that he knows how to be a Lord# He called me in the morning and said since people had been so kind to him might he ask a few of thera to come to our luncheon. Of course, he was trying to get us to pay off his social obligations and doing it too late, but I agreed and asked him to phone me so that we could provide# Of course he did hot call back and had two quests, whom we, by luck,were abke to fied# He insisted on pouring coffee for himself befor the committee member who was to introduce him arrived and acted so that I had to start food service for him. After he had strengthened himself with a little food he announced that he had no intend on of speaking to the topic and #ien I decided there was nothing to be gained by arguing with him let him get away with it, he soon turned to Mrs. Bull and declared that he would not speak for the 45 minutes he had been scheduled for# It did not really matter as he was so unsat isfactory that the shorted he spoke the better I liked it
We are very busy in the office setting up a couple of conferences in May* One
weekend I shall have to go to Slmira, or some sufc place and the * * The Fiday after Easter I go to Philadelphia for a sampling of 16 or so speakers...

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April 12, 1953

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. 'Eh general effect of the baby's breath spirea ie still good, though its cnspness has gone. I have cherished the notion that the leaf buds would, develope but I fear not. The African violet my staff gave me two years ago Christmas immediately went into a decline and never bloomed there. A couple of months age I brought it here and breaking the poor thing in the move stuck the pot in ,he window with both pieces in the earth --now there is a fine blooming piant and ano.ner which must be put into another pot, so it can bloom. Did I
report t.at I was gullible enough to follow the advice of one of the women's maga zines that dates made an interesting house plant? Having some from these Julia sent us from California for Christmas, X planted half a dozen--happily I also put some orange seeds in xhe pot. 1 now have a growing citrus grove but no dates.

Thursday afternoon I went over to see Evelyn McDonald on the "Franconia" (I

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seemed at all natural to me.) She met me at the Town

f Kali G "ednesday night and we had a drink, and then went up to the Cosmopolitan
io Wl' SVi 6V8r mU* fcetter than "k" 1 sPnt a day rath her in Toronto

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'vonderul year or two of travel which will include a

jnVv ^ Lodon at the time of the Coronation, motoring to and in Spair^ in late

We hope to meet ianndLosnadiloinngthtios stuhmemesru#bcontinent of India to spend the winter of '53-4,

had hc!"Lrgre?S^f Jhe*cE'fn2e of prisoners in Korea is developing just the way I

in c neTnhas* f m ?? thlE 18 the Poi^ n "hloh the H8 is most interested Hitler^m loifl nn pollcay - on account of Hitler and Russian alliance with

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expensive operation. Now we are being invited to take another nap and a imjor

nnafs" r1t8rnali,and foreign.

It is possible that this phase of

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fr?four t0 ten yars depending upon how wholehearted we

ere about industrial aemobilization. It will be broken by a Russian satelitte, not

necessarily though quite probably again in the Far East. There seems to be a good

ff '-credence put in the new "peace in our time" phrase, but I cannot find "whose"

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Have gone to Philadelphia for meetings there Friday Saturday and

actually did not wire the hotel to cancel my room reservation until late Friday--

Vermont and Pittsburgh were in state of crisis and needed my attention and Mr. Nason

was in -ne office rnday aid we needed some conversation on immediate operations --

not the important consideration of the long term function of the Speakers Bureau. I

feel that we have made seme progress howevsr, as my old secretary, Hettwer, comes

back .omorrow as a records and detail person for me and my dictation will larlgely be

done on the dictaphone and transcribed by the transcription pool--we seem to have grown by half a person*

The new Secretary-Genral of the United Nations was sworn in yesterday with all

npl!!reeariat

t0 \\tend* Admittedly they hung from the ceiling and very few

members of the public were able to get in* I was fascinated to find out that Dag

Haromarskjold (pro# hammershuld) had been in New York recently and omnipresent at

the UN talking with people all over in various echelons of importance in a very pleasant manner--so pleasant that uhen he was through the person made a mental notie^"^

This may be Patriotfs Day to New Englanders, but to us it is Cleve's birth

day > so I spent the weekend with him and Martha and Clevee* It was cold and wet

all weekend so we had a steady fire in the livingroom fireplace to give cheer

while the oil burner heated the radiator's* I shortened an old dinner dress with

Martha's help and shaH use it this summer on more mundane occasions as the patten

of the print on the silk(?)jersey is lovely in a vivid handpainted manner* Molly

and Jiix$ were driving in to visit a friend who had recently had a son and they

brought me in* Alas, I had hardly gotten upstairs when it started to rain! again

in a manner that is almost still* Friday night we all went to a very amusing Cub

Scout circus in which Fred wore a bear costume and played his accordian, Jim stage

managed* Poor Jay has had a dreadful bout with poison ivy, but seems to be back to

normal now* He was so cute two weeks ago when I said goodbye, he thanked me for

an Easter necktie and a cake from my French bakery with a huge bottom 3a yer and then

a normal three layer on top of that with the whole frosted then a contrasting color

as a band around the base of the smaller cake and a few frosting roses completed the

"Easter hat" motif. He added thai t^e cake would live 1

in memoirs than the

nesT e?

On Wednesday Vera Dean and I went together (only it was Thursday) to the official reception for the Chancellor of Germany Adenauer given by the new German Consul General here* It was dreadful. Switched in the first place from one room in the Waldorf to another* A great many Germans were there and all arrived I am sure at 5:30 and stayed until 7:30 have staked out the few tables and persudaed the waiters to keep bringing them relays of drinks and canapes, although I did not serves canapes at the reception for Mr. Eden I discovered thay were "$2 a portion --meaning 5 tid bits (perhaps that is why w did not have them and why I made $3,008* on that dinner party*) There seemed to be less than a dozen people out of about 600 that I recognized* We could not speak to all these we knew, because it was such a press that I persuaded Vera to go up in a little balcony to survey the field. It gave us an opportunity to see the maximum at minaimum effort* Adenauer himslef is marvelous an looked a good twenty years under his 78* He shakes hands with a good firm grip and bobbed his head at my little speech without saying a word--not that I blamed him* His daughter is darkharied and olive complexioned, rather sweet looking but distinctly dowdy looking* I was glad to go if for no other reason than for Vera to say with a tone of bitterness that she supposed in five years we would be entertaining Malenkov* (Me, I'm not sure we shall wait five years--in that length of time I think we can go through discovering that the Russians want pe$ce just as we do aid after we have demobilized our industry and upset out economy been confronted with a change of Russian front and be back building up a big war industry again* I think the
cycles are shrinking*)

zThis week we got our policies in the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association --which for me means that I am now paying in 5% of my salary to it --but the FHA has to match my payment* If I work until 65 and contribute all the time I'll get $540 a year* but I have no intention or working until I'm 65* I'm playing along with th is deal until I see how mufc the 3. rd of the FPA wi31fund for my past service. I hope they will cdme through nicely* However, at this point working another twe3v e
years at this tempr hold little attraction for me*

Speaking of this tempo--Nason and I got in two short conversations about the future of the speakers bureau and I am getting accustomed to rel&xa and be still while he explains things tonme that I have know for 27 years more orlesel

Vera has just given me a copy of her new book "Foreign Policy Without which will be publish (I) on May 5th* It has a very nice dedication to the friend
of her father's who imported her from Finland where the family were to avoid tie Bolshevik revolution (in their summer hone) and financed her education here. My copy has a nice inscription to me, I must confess that j. m in^res^d wxth the
number of books she hss written. She is a greet worker.

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April 26, 1953

The easily impressed thought our weather had changed en we had three rainless days in a row but before I fell asleep last night it was pattering on my now tigit roof. The leaks had gotten so bad that the drip wore a hole in the three ,,op sheets of the newspapers I had spread to absorb the weekend water. I made a louder than usual bleat to the agent and the roofer came. After the rain we have had this rnorhing I know I can gather up the papers and sponges I

The place is a mess as I started the shift from winter to summer yesterday and did not finish. I as glad to have the French mantel clock back from Tripet.' the amusing ireoh clockmaker who has just cleaned it. He is so interested in his

work and has a fascinating collection of odd clocks that it is a joy to deal with

am. ,.he arrangement of carrier japonica has been pretty and graceful, the young

eaves in themselves are a thing to admire, but a disappointment in that the little

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any bigger- 1 Sot a beautiful long toast colored

soft tweed coat at McCutcheons on Monday in their half prise sale. A woman spoke

to the clerk who was waiting on me saying that she had bought one in February and

found it perfect and wondered if die would have another at the reduction. So while waiting for my change I so Id her a coat.

m . n, Wednesday night we had the meeting 66 "program advisers" at the University Club Crk Room. I hope never to have to use that room again as a meeting pltee-- it is close to the pantry vhene the dishes for all the dining rooms are washed so noisy there, it has no carpet and althou^i a high ceiling is clattery itself. I had no time to see how Mr. Naaon felt about it, but I thought the whole operation a terrific exiravagenee--I don't think it is going to save any of my time and I doubt if we achieve a better than last year l$st. All next week he is off at his summer home in the Adirondacbs getting strong enough to get through Commencement. There was a board meeting on Thursday, presumably for dinner and the evening. A few people came at six c*clock and we had a social chat before sitting down to i inner over a cocktail. Business began at once we sat down and was over about a quarter after eight. The Board may have some reservations about Nason but certainly is giving biia every latitude. In addition to getting ready to move and organizing t e sort of speakers bureau -w4?en we had people under management as we did over twenty years ago, I am helping set up the Regional Conferences in St. Louis about Mar 14-16' and Flmira, N.Y. May 21 to 23. I can't imagine vhy anyone wiould want to go to Mmira so <*. 11 have to dream up some smarter promotion than I have yet written. I m slated to go to both myself which will put a great crimp in events
^ On locking over what I said last week about the Russian peace moves, 1 realize that I left myself open to a nasty misinterpretation--I meant that the Russians hoped we would do all those things and upset out economy again to make things easier for communism. Very unexpectedly I went to mid-day dinner with Aunt Mary today, it was good to see her so well and interested in so many things. She liked my tale about Mllaim Paley, the president of Columbia Broadcasting System. Paley was very lacking in energy and sleeping badly . His doctor said that like many he needed some vitamins and that he would give him two perscriptione--one for vitamins to be taken in the morning and another for a sedative to help him sleep. After starting the new doses, Palefr found his condition no better, in fact he seemed worse. Upon reporting back to the doctor, he was ordered to the hospital for three days of strenuous examinations and checks. At the end of the second day the nurse suggested that he must get a good night and offered hirna sleeping pill. Seeing the red capsule Paley shouted "Not that red pill, not at night." Yes, you guessed it his butler had been giving him a sleeping pill with his breakfast and the vitamin at bed time. I certainly feel sorry for any person who cannot take his own pills out of bottles.
Now I must go to see Aunt Annie as she passes through New York and then to Marians for dinner...and 1his is the weekend I was to mind ray diet S

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May 6th, 1953

A J^ ?f w9kend 0:f cold rain--I begin to think that every time I go to Martho and Clave it sounds the^ signal for cold and dismal weahterl I did see Dr. Bird,"
ami y p ysician Molly and Jim use and he has given my spifcits a lift--or wise at long last the proceeduree of Serry and time itslef have born fruit as 1 have felt

increaseem7sea ln th8 Pt *eek-bth before and after Dr. Bird declared he could

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family 6663,3 to thrive on this father and all 1 worked hard on Saturday making folders of

of^v77+

I 7 "n3truotion PPr of gay color for the mimeographed copies

fc. "I, k f " how to make cut flowers last longer. These are to be sold at

EnvlSd S f Trasiiguration May Fair....they are the same things, which I took to

Carsington

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Eolvn Williams in his Hoflse" ..he does this

solo in the

manner in which Dickens himself did readings for 17 years beginning in 1853. He

I constructed desk covered with red velwet with a high block on

ut w > 616 ; .r6ft,hls arD whlch held the book at a distance to indicate that . Bic.sens had plainly needed to wear glasses, ti oufh probably not to see the

Y' I,is buttonhole. Williams is suprb and it was a moat interesting evening, but Dickens has always seemed to me to see the most common of man's

common clay side--and "Bleak House" which I have never read is certqinly no exception,

Hank went to Washington yesterday and so I went to the studio for a drink

the erin'n.S 1 went to "Salt of the Sea" a restaurant on Third Avenue "which ";. tl f I] lu J discovered. It is wonderful sea food and I had a

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UnU8Ual 1,6 rb flavor> whieh th Pr^y waitress could not

t" y * . ? indldently turned out to be Hungarian from Banat, here for 24 years

and so rusty in her native tongue that she would not speak to Maria. I got into all

this most innocently thinking her accent Polish and thus expose poor Maria to a re-

8tate ^ the girl's family in Hungary, As Maria's bpother and his family have been swallowed up by the Communists as was only to be expected in view

^ J^ng ***. important banker, I was sorry to have this note introduced. The baby lobsters what we had were sweet and lovely--later she came her for a brandy.

In the morning I went to Gerry to get my smallpox scratch and decide in con versation muh her not to have the typhoid injections. She leves in two weeks for her European tour ^iich includes the Coronation. She had lots of news of our mutual friends and acquaintances in the Virgin Islands, where things seem to be booming.

Please don't think J do not expB ct to write ever again. But the next six weeks

are unusual for me, so I think you had better see what is up. Thursday, Hub 14th

a ass Lusk (at my insistence) AXlport , Mr. Nason and I fly to St. Louis on the II

o clock

plane for an FIAregionsl conference. Since Nason has so little time

in New York he has agreed that he and I will talk most of the four hours of the

flAy,t' 6*hop to set somewhwere on my problems. I take a Saturday midday train

--the C A 0 Sportsman from St, Louis to Crozetj. Virginia * ere I arrive in time for

cnurch on Sunday with Maisie and Jim Cash at their church in Greenwocd. I'll spend

the night with them and Monday confer with th e man at the University of Virginia

who is putting on the summer Insitute of Politics and take the sleeper home. On

Tuesday, May 19th, I'm running a luncheon for Sir Geoffrey Prior former Governor of

Baluchistan and leave on Thursday, the 21st probably by train for Elmira for another

regional conference. I get back to New York late on the 23rd and hopp to have the

24th here quietly to rest and do a few "things for myself. As the office moves on

May 29th to 345 East 46th Street, I'll goto Molly & Jim on the 28th for the weekend.

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The two office trips are behind me and I have only the office move the end of this week to distupt my life before I sail on the Gonte Biancamano. This next Thurs day I expect to take my ba^g to a cocktail prty for Barbara Hayes of the British

Information Service, who is leaving as part of the British economy move, and go on Molly and Jim for the weekend, taking a good deal of office work with me Theat is the last day I work in the old office and two weeks before I put in my 3a st day be fore ay sailing on Friday June 32 th. I'll work out a few addresses and send them along before I sail.

The flight to St Louis was in a four motored DG4 with a brief stop in Chicago only It was very good and I got a good deal done with Mr. Nason, much to the
amusement of one of the two hostesses, incidently she gave us a very good lunch en route The Hotel de Soto in St. Louis was dreadful, vath odd looking characters loQnging in the lobby, many notiees of T&here to buy "package goods" and a pin ball machine (Somehow one is quaint in a rural French bar and revolting in the lobby of the hotel one stays in in St. Louis, Mo# Wnai is wrong with me?) There were representatives from San Francisco, Delias and as far east as Cleveland and it all went pretty well. Through some sort of a mix-up Miss Lusk and 1 had a double together and Friday night AL Xpert took her out. Although I had told her to use her own key I found that if I locked the door on the inside I could not take the key out of the keyhole. So I finally went to bed with the door unlocked. The heavens opened at one-thirty when a high school dance let out and all the little girls in heir bouffant skirts squealed so loudly that it woke Nason and made me curious enough to get up to watdi c I think I went tc sleep about three while Miss Lusk was packing# I am sure that St. Louis ha a nice residential district, we saw only downtown and in from the airport, where I noticed nearby a Naval Air Station. Happily I had a roomette on the one o'clock train and dispite torrents of rain could see the old river boat tied up or beached and now used as a theatre for such as "The face on the barroom floor" and a huge diesel powered streamlined boat which takes excursions on the river--one gets the feeling of rather lusty life. I slept through miles of Illinois and then worked a little but not as much as I had planned, woke once in the night and saw a dramatic bit of Kentucky industry illuminated by a great flame of pink and blue.

Maisie met me at Crozet, a flag stop for the Sportsman, and we went right to Emanuel Church at Greenwood for service. I always love to go there. It is small and very beautiful with white interior, highdoore to the pews. The Langhorne Gibsons we*i back for drink before lunch, which we enjoyed on the north terrace back of the house whifc has some beds, semicircular, filled with color,.ori/ental poppies, the largest columbine I have ever seen, very showy foxglove and other useful stuff Monday afternoon she drove me in to the University to see Oron Hale about the Institute of Politics speakers, the gardens with serpentine brick fences restored by the garden Club from Mr. Jefferson's original plans for the backs of the buildings which face on "The Lawn". From the Rotunda terrace we had good sniffs of magnolia grandiflora blossoms and I had a good call on Mrs. Risher (Ruth YAieeler-Bennetts mother). She is thinner than when I last saw her over a year ago, but charming as ever and said she would be in New York for her 80th birthday and had not decided whether to get tight or not!

Not much sleep on the train to New York and too tired the n**t night to do much. Sir Geoffrey Prior had been adequate as former governor Baluchistan at the closing luncheon of the Town Hall Series. Wedesday I worked at the office after a dinner break until quarter of nine when I went to say goodbye to Mrs. Harris. She sailed with Bud on Saturday. I'll see her in Paris on July 3 Thursday I did quite a few things in the office before Nason and I took the one o'clock Mohawk flight from Newark to ELmira. The rest of the staff and this time we took a lot went in ALlport's station wagon. Sine
Mark Twain married an Olivia Langdon and lived their for quite a time, he is the hero. The Hotel Mark Twin has Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Connecticut Yankee rooms with appropriate murals. The Hew Orleans room with a lot of white painted iron grill work is presided

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The office week was filled with'incredible confusion from the din not only

of the stell workers now at our level across the street and those a couple of floors

higher a block away on Park Avenue, the men who are actually repairing casement win

dows about which we have complained for 3'ears, but which are now, while we are still

in occupancy, being replacedas to fastenings for the new tenants* Y/ith that the books

of the library are being packed to go to the new Carnegie Library, to Princeton, to

the second hand dealer and hauled away, while we consolidate files and pa eked our

own equipment Isold all that confusion Chester Bowles, our former Ambassador t> INDIA

came to see me, as did several other people for less important interviews In between

times I work a smock and pi rt of the time wore a silk scarf to keep my hair from gettig

the dast of our thirteen years On Thursday those who had not previously appeared in

costume brought dungarees I had one crazy telephone conversation on the extension

in the shambles that had once been our lovely library lounge during which the movers

trundled dollies carrying the large clipping files v,dthin a foot of my toes and nose,

while I explained to a man that he was asking for an impossible help --which to my

great surprise I was able ten minutes later to supply for him He only wanted a list

of a hundred names and addresses to people -who might support a dinner he was arranging

for Ambassador Gross, until very recently one of the top US Mission to the UN men

Miss Lusk and I shed a tear together as we left the premises for the last time on

Thursday. Tomorrow we report to the new office--in the new International Center,

which is not yet entirely finished, so it will probably be pretty confused.

For over two years my professional life has been very insecure For months we thought the FPA might fold for lack of funds, then came the period of hocus pocus ending in the resignations of Brooks Emeny as President and Tom Power as his executive vice president and the uncertainty as to my acceptability to the reorgani zation. Then the period of Nason, as part time president and Allporfc (age 30) as his executive assistant and my being passed over in the across the board increase which every one slse received Finally I spoke to Nason and told him how tilings were and his incon clusive reply. Thursday there was an Executive Committee meeting in which he put trhough an increase for me --which he described as a pleasant but not exciting one However it means that I am approved for his administration and once more I feel as secure as one can in my kind of a job Needless to say I am very relievedl

When I found that Miss Lusk was going to the theatre on Thursday night I had to phone Molly that I would have to go to Freeport on Friday morning instead of the night before. I got away from the office pretty exhausted about six-thirty and to the Derek Russell's cocktail party for Barbara Hayes There I found Selma Warlick who had been fired from her job in one of the large commercial speakers bureau's and took her off to hear her grisly tale--called in after lunch one day and told that NCAC could get along without her services after seven years and that she could leave that afternoonS. There was little I could do except be a blotter for her and promise to put her name straight with Chester Bowles, whom she was trying to manage even as I am try ing to do# It took so much time that after dropping her at Grand Central I arrived at the Community Church to find people being turned away from the India League meeting where I wanted to hear Bowles against my next conversation with him on the 4th For tunately I spied Louis Fischer and he wangled a door into being opened and we got into the packed auditorium. I stood in a side wall against a more or less cool brick wall while the packed humanity got hotter and hotter for another hour and a half--such is
the life of a sampler of speakersIt

I managed to pack a few of the things I should have taken to Freeport and gpt to Dr. Bird's office in Freeport in time for him to check me. I asked if he was pleased with me and when he said he was I allowed as how I was pleased with him jie renewed my perscription for the miracle pill, which has had the happy effect on liter ally enabling me to run down stairs in the morning instead of viewing the stairs and

May 31, 1953 page 2

wondering if could make it without holding nn +n +h& * j. *

help.

Haisie had said I looked better than I L5

" support and

Vm and Cleve separately about running downltalrf 0*0^1^

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stairs, that will be something,"

^hen ^ou run UP th

Molly gave me a belated birthday cake and evervnA Vm,* *>- J.

on Friday and ram.

night. Saturday Fred paraded with

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chill--we all wore sweaters or coats and h"d P ft. + 1 eetl xor 126 dri ^Le overcast

in order to have dinner with Maria end Wank I go but cannot be sure.

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^ r0ad went ver a ourb, throw-

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was in New York that week were packed. the end of tL\ ^ 3"d a half daye 1

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to the Coronation and Penny was filled uc f nr +h """J* jerry fllrao"t has already gone

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vXut* I had ,. .very good weekend with Molly and her men,, last weekend as you

Fathered from my last contmmication and wittout it I probably would not have

gotten through the past week and the great blanket of humid heatwhiohdesoend-

r3 u-non us on Friday* Poor Helen arrived at 3carsdale to visit a iriend vita

the hot weather. By the time X left the office I had doped out withwhom she

was staying and talked with her on the phone andfpund her as pooped as I was.

She would like to stay in England another week and as I have nadanotnar grisly

week and a grim one ahead, I1!! try the travel agency to see if tney could geu

us on the IL2 DS FRANCE arriving August 4th instead of the FLAi'IDRE, and also

talk with Nason to see if he takes kindly to the idea. I guess I had beoter write

from Sr ship as to the outcome of this, I'll never get to the typewriter again

I fear before we go on Friday. That means you won't hear until tne end o. June.

The new office will be very swish when it is finished. The building is the

first in that neighborhood to be built in the modern manner o. the JN by-ldingr

among the neighboring storeage and warehouse houses and old-law-slum tenements.

It is not finished and'we pick out way through the lobby where tney are sti

putting plaster on the walls and ceilings before some other sort o. iinis... elevators work when one of the contractor's men has notmng better q do. My

tolTZlhafnot been built, so my books all had to go into a temporary one, so

the packing oases could be returned to the mover. The air conditioning does not

work and for the first three days we all wore sweaters and breathed the same e^ale r Then we caught on that the chill was from the damp of tne plaster, ox some
thing, and opened the windows to admit the heat and the dust of the UN park where

they are plating trees in the dry brown earth, (personally I take a dim vie,,

nf +pi'isnlantins twenty foot trees in June--but expect to return to a vision o fovelv gre^ grass TMd groves of tress. ) As they are still doing constriction

work on other floors and putting up partitions in our corridors there is a con

tinual din--ons noiss which makes phoning impossible is a giant dentists uri..

which makes holes in the concrete floor so that a partition can ce ersoteo.lt has

been hellish to try to work and I have found that I got in ray best licks after

the men have left,'so I have gone anywhere between^

and hal P

when hunger has driven me home. Except Friday #ien I had to go to a - e&a

Ernest Gross" onr erstwhile number two man at the UN, and

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This is to^announce my return and say that I hope to get down to the brass tacks of doing a once-ov**-lightly on my heavenly seven weeks plus away from New 1 orK* r1 or the moment just let me say that I never left England with greater regret# before we got to Naples I realized how very depleted I had become in the over two years of very rough going we have had in the office. Not only on the ship but particularly in England I acquired vast quantities of serenity and so after I really made myself look at the situation the first day out of Southampton on tne 3X1 Dh FRANCE 1 had to admit that I was facing the job and the winter with confidence instead of apprehension# I was not kidding myself for I knew that it would be a heavy season and I still had confidence in my ability to "take it".
Finally on Saturday morning, after being home ten days, I actually got my bags empties, brushed out and put away. Then yesterday I finished reading all Ji.e office accumulation and was set to clean up the odds and ends today. Instead there were the same sort of conferences and interviews which had kept me busy since I arrived in the office straight from the ship on Tuesday August 4th. By staying avfcile tonight I dicta ted eight letters on the dictaphone, but only scratched the surface again# In addition to launching an expanded speakers bureau program, which I wanted to announce in January ahd Nason insists on really unveiling in September, rm ranning a big dinner for the new Direct or-General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjold on OcuOuer 21. It is meant to be oi the brilliance of the Eden dinner last March* Meanuhile we nave an all day training session for people who will be doing special UN Week projects, this on August 31, two afternoons of Open House to show our new offices to our 3,000 New York members on October 7 and 8, and the Fall Conference
our people rem all over the country on October 30, 31 and November 1* Yes, this year we are admitting that we work night3 and Sundays!
.3, there is delay in reporting on The Trip, you will understand. A week ago Helen Petri, who was staying with me, and X went to spend the weekend with Mollj and Jim and Bill# Jay and Fred were away in camp, but we saw recent movies of them in Maine at the family holiday retreat, which were excellent# CIeve enter ed txje hospital the day after we landed to have varicose veins in both legs removed, and I was able to visit him twice# He was doing well and has continued that progress and hopes soon to get back to his office.
Monday night Helen and I went to "The King and I", which seemed the best thing for her to see and I enjoyed it as much as the fii*st time I went# "I" now is ovdhg don by Annamay Dickey, who has a lovely voice and very pretty, admirable* I still have^the feeling that Helen will be turning up again, but she actually is now in Ontaiio seeing a few people before starting on to Vancouver# One day we had luncheon at the delegates dining room in the UN and then I pushed her into a guided tour oi the premises# She came away from it so enthused that she wants to get a job and when I talked to a pretty top person in the Secretariat about it, was not dis couraged# I 11 send her an application balank and we shall see what happens#
I saw a few people, including Maria and Hank, vho of course ware most interested in my acco?ant of life at 67 Avenue Victor Hugo with his mother and brother, Larry* Friday we had the tail of hurricane Barbara, though it seems early to me to be having second oi the season! We had high winds and slashing rain, so I persuaded dinky Moore let rae give him a picnic lunch in my office instead of his taking me out on his last day before a holida}^ in Iowa. Of course, there were torrents when I went to Grand Centre! to meet Aunt Annie who had driven down from Fort Miller for luncheon Saturday with people in Rye# We had dinner in the aiation hoping the storm would let up# It didn't and we managed to get here without getting too wet# We had a grand long evening, even if we did sit up talking overlong# She is fine and brought me some splendid produce from her garden including the most beautiful tomatoes I have ever eaten*

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In a word the summer of 1953 Trip was a great success There are lots of things I wish

I had done or said to jthei people I met or stayed withbut at the time each day was filled

with interest and seemted pull# Discovering early on that I was more depleted of physical &

nervous energy than I hacf appreciated, it was well that I had pledged myself only to use

one eye at a time and not try to look "at both sides of the road" at once# The result was

that I had a wonderful time as I went along and stored up not only many experiences and mem

ories but a lot of rest and repose, so I returned with a serenity and confidence concerning

my role in the expanded FPA instead of the apprehension with which I returned the past two

seasons#

Hlhile I tried to consult Helen across the Continent about our arrangements and division of time, she left it to me and I worked with the Fugazy Travel Bureau as they have a reputa tion for getting ship space -ahen none appears to exist# They lived up to expectations even to shifting our sailing to the IIK DE FRANCE less than 48 hours before we sailed when I man aged still another week from NasoniSailing on the Italian ship Conte Biancamano on the dot of noon on Friday, June 12th, we found ourselves plunged at once into the atmosphere of Italy
Taking a dim view of Tourist class in the Mediterranean we went Cabin Class and had an "A" deck stateroom with two portholes and two Italian bom cabin mates# Helen had a dreadful bronchial cold (from airconditioning in Westchester during the terrific^ heat of the weekend before) so I took the upper and thus commanded the ventilation and the cabin worked out better
than I dared to hope at first# We had delightful deck space with a swimming pool, though I had failed to pack my suit! I played a little shuffleboard, took small doses of sun, and through teaching a fifteen year old boy to play Samba had an hour or so of cards after lunch Poor Dino had no companions as the very pleasant college age and young married group spurned
him and he eschewed the kids# I considered it a fine crossing, though some regularly took dramamine while others periodically disappeared# One young man played the clirinet very well and several times "obliged" on deck or in the lounge# Invariably an Italian born grandfather from Brooklyn would snatch a lively young first generation Italian-American and dance the tarantella with amazing zest and grace# We sang, clapped in rhythm, or otherwise encouraged # .Sal, the clarinetist, was with his aunt and on his way to marry a girl he had never seen in the village of his family# The day we coasted the Azores was a pleasant break# The land is
terraced for agriculture (the first figs of the season are from the Azores), small clusters
of houses usually have a church on higher ground nearby, the shore is percipitous and without apparent beach, but the whole effect is one of greenness# This was Thursday. By 4*30 am# on Saturday the screws stopped and we dressed to see Gibraltar# It was still starlight when
we hit the deck and lights of the town were lovely. Already the bumboats had clustered and by throwing a stout string up on the deck were busy displaying their wares9 which were put into straw market baskets and hauled up nhen a passengaer wanted to examine on item# Every thing seemed to be "Un Dollair"--a carton of Chesterfields 5 a bottle of Spanish brandy, a dreadfull garish silk scarf, gimcrack "silver" bracelets, etc# Most of the sellers had rowed out with another man and had one or two items# Passengers moved along the deck to deal with the line and basket for the boat with the things which interested him. I shared a haul of
fresh gigswith some other people and got some in a little basket with a handle neatly arranged on fresh green leaves (and washed them in a saline solution so strong that they were fascin ating of taste!) The "tarairtella grandpa" and I combined on a haul of black Spanish berets made in Madrid--my first Madrid hat cost me 50^/ As I had gone back to smoking during the
dreadful days of moving the office I took a carton of Chesterfields, and later wished I had more at that price# I took a dim view of the number of $1 bottles coming aboard and sure enough that might "there was a fracas in the Tourist Class which was pretty well hushed up, though the final verdict seemed to be one Argentinian in t|re brig together with a Genoaewe who had conked another over the head with a bottle and sent him to the hospital# Wnen the sun rose we could see the building climbing up the Rock from the port, the great cement water catchments, entrances to the Rock tunnels, the barracks on high land just above the water,
and Spain off to the left with the white houses of Algeciras# Across the Straits the moun
tains of Africa were stark, precipitous and llovely inthe morning light--looking reddish grey#
Ceuta on the Africa coast seems to have a good harbor,, guarded by mountains# Before we got cur passengers off on a tender and car&o into scows the morning mist which had shrouded the
tops of the Spanish mountains lifted# Needless to say we were ready by 7j30 for a huge
breakfast, although we had earlier stayed ourselves with fruit# On Friday afternoon we picked up the coast of Portugal, I^orgot to say, treeless &
the table land at the top of the cliffs so level, they appear toTMave been cut off b^ a huge

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interested xn crossing the Pontine Grebes which Husso had drained and set out in^a^ le

German flooded part, of them as their defense against the invasion, but all seems under culti

vation now. iugazy greeted us again with huge bunches of gladiolas an.d dahlias in ou^ huee room and marvelous bath of rose, grey and black marble. The first evening we wen? 21 for
our Cxnzano at Doney's in the next block from our hotel-which is the plele to have a tSle

?lk ; aee and be seen ^ cocktail time. With one civilization overlaid on ano .er nere is an enormous amount to see in Rome -- a magnificent big city with many tree

3 8 811(5 evidences everywhere of great wealth. Perhaps when one considers the sweep of history which has passed through the centuries of building Rome and realize the achieve-^

ments of great men which are commemorate in stone, marble, paint and mosaic it is easier to grasp. ut it takes more than footwork to absorb the beauty and significance of the city ! example, between the Forum and the Colosseum is the Arch of Titus built in 70 A.D. to

# August 22, 1953 page 3 commemorate the fall of Jerusalem to the Army of Titus, and Colosseum itself was built with the slave labor of prisoners brought from Palestine The Pantheon of great size and
an engineering miracle was started in 27 B.C. by Marcus Agrippa and rebuilt by Emporer Hadrian (110 A.D.O) for the worship of the gods of the seven planets andin 609 consecrated as a Christian church--Our Lady 6f the Martyrs --Raphael is buried here.

St Peter's is awe-inspiring in its proportions and size. The thing which interested me

most perhaps is Michelahgelo's only signed marble, executed when he was 25, of the Virgin

with her dead Son. After seeing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which he painted and is

much acclaimed, I fear I agree with the poor man, who seemed to hate painting the Creation

and the stories of Genesis, that he is a sculptor and not a painter. Yet 22 years later,

when he was 60 he went back 'to Rome and did the painting of the Last Judgement behind the

Altar and spent seven years doing it. Vatican museum is a vast and most interesting place.,

here I picked up a young GI from Germany, who was plainly making the most of his oppotunities.

He had been to the museum before but had joined a tour in order to have things "explained, so

I would know what I was seeing." Poor Michekahgelo was always having trouble with Popes &

got himself in a fine mess over the enlargement of the basilica of St. Peter in Chains, built

about 422 as a shrine for the chains which Pope

Julius II thought would make a good

tomb for himself, after the sculptor went off to the hills to select the marble for a series

of statues and had them shipped to Rome, the Pope got impatient and called the deal off ,

Michelangelo, hurt and infuriated, sold the marble and went home to Florence, but 40 years

later he did the wonderful statue of Moses which is in St. Peter in Chains though the body

of Julius is not buried therel St. John Latern is one of the four great basilicas which

all pilgrims visit in the holy year--it has an ornate and beautiful ceiling encrusted with

gold and many beautiful mosaics, which are so fine they look like paintings. At the Sancta

Sanctorum nearby we saw the Sacred, Steps believed to house the 28 steps in Pilate's Palace

which Christ ascended to be judged--they are now ascended only on the knees signs in half a

dozen languages warn, but all sorts of dispensations are granted for the ascent. Another of

the four great basilicas is Santa Maria Maggiore (where a portion of Christ's crib is the

treasure) is also called Our Lady of the Snows as the Pope who created it found snow on the

site on the morning of August 5,352 (A.D.). Here again are fine 5th and 12th century mosaics

and much gold, the first brought from Peru and given by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, on

the ceiling. The Borghese family were patrons of one of its chapels and added much of beauty

including the tomb of Paolina (Pollette) Borghese, sister of Napoleon.

The Catacombs are musty, illy lit and for my money are something to have done though I doubt if I would ever go back to this city of the dead underground--my reaction may be color ed by my own failure to have taken ray little flashlight' The view of the Alban Hills from here is lovely. Much more gruesome is the crypt of the Capuchin Monastery where the skeletons of 4,000 monks have been broken up and used for decoration--open jaws set in the low ceiling
to make a rocco design, etc. The many tree lined streets, the frequent parks, innumerable fountains of great beafc^y and variety, 52 obelisks brought back from Egypt all contribute to the beauty of the city. Gerry Wilmot had asked me to get a silk Roman blanket for her at a shop in the Via Sistina as the one she load bought 20 years ago had worn out. Thought
fully she gave me the card of the place with the clerk's notation of her purchases* They still did business at the same place and by chance I got the same clerk and became the canter of attention of the entire staff. I told her that since these throws were only good for 20 years either Gerry or I would be back to buy another* Incidently I paid 5,000 lira to re
place what she had gotten for 30 lira. One night we went to hear "Cavalliera Rusticana" & "Pagliacci" at the Sliseo theatre and I could not help wondering how many pounds of spahgetti
had gone into the buxom figures of the chorus. I am chagrinned I cannot remember the name of the lovely church with beautiful windows given by King Fuad of Egypt made of huge but thin
slabs of creamy yellow and grayly black marble and great columaeof polished alabaster.

On the drive from Rom to Florence we went over the old Roman bridge across the Tiber
near Assisi and passed through grape country, wheat and some of the oldest olive trees in
Italv* The Umbrian plain is both lovely and fertile. St. Francis was a rake before in ill ness* he heeded a Call and founded the mendicant order of friars which bears his name* ^The great basilica of 3an Francesco was undertaken at the time of his canonization and is in
teresting because in the Upper Church the Gothic style, imported from France, was used for the first time in Italy. Both it and crypt are decorated vdth frescoes* The fine blue Italian sky seemed especially big and lovely from the height of this church with its flanking, colon-

August 22, 1953 page 4 aded monastery* As we went on we saw the huge paving stones of the old Roman Road nowexposed, sometimes just to the right of the modern and then just to the left
The River Arno is crossed by many bridges at Florence of which one hears the most of Ponte Yeechio because it is lined on both sides with tiny shops selling the fine leather and silver work of the area. Those at the north end were destroyed by bombing and the city fathers cannot agree about their reconstruction* so the shopkeepers thus displaced .have had to take temporary quarters elsewhere. Florence makes an appeal to the spirit even more than any other Italian city and one thinks of Savonarola, Michelangelo, the rich and powerful Medici family Machiavelli, Galileo and scores of others. Our hotel was an old Palace and perhaps the least agreeable of our stopping places, but it had a fine roof garden where we dined in the fad ing lightand enjoyed the outlines of the many towers on public buildings and the homes of families sufficiently important to be "tower Families". The Cathedral contains not only two glazed terra cotta lunettes --the Resurrection and the Ascension over sacristy doors by Luca Sella Robbia but a bronze door of his, and the Church of Santa Trinita las a sup* perb tomb he did. In 1440 Luca Pitti decided to outdo the Medici family and began a palace across the Arno but he overstepped himself and after the initial general support given his anti-Medici movement lost support he found that people exppected to be paid for materials he had assumed were gifts, he was dishonored and the incomplete structure remained for 100 years a monument to his aspiration. Then the shell was bought by a Medici, finished and six generations of that family lived in the Pitti Palace, calling it the Grand-Ducal Palace. It now belongs to the Italian State and on the top floor (we always had to climb to the top at the Vatican Museum, the Borshese Palace, etc. to see the paintings!) we saw wonderful pictures largely collected by the Medicis--Titians, Van Dyks, several Raphaels and so on. This side of the river fee rich in beautiful large homes in magnificent grounds, the Piazzale Michelangelo with a superb view of the city and the Florentine plain and Galileo's lov/er where he perfected the telescope and learned so much about the eiars
The day's drive from Florence to Genoa soon brought us to more rugged country, though still frequently the hilltops had a castle with a cluster of houses around it, often walled. I isa, of Ftruscan origin was a flourishing Roman colony and as a prosperous seaport rivalled Genoa and Venice in the 11th Century, though the people looked to the east for trade and the Adriatic was more important than the Tyrrhenian Sea* Instead of taking the 294 steps up the Campanile (the leaning tower of Pisa) I preferred to look at its 14 feet off center though the top section seems to go up straight and went to the 12th century Bapistery with fine carved marble pulpit and fascinating echo. In the Cathedral, a hundred years older, they had just finished Confirmation and the girls were still wandering around showing off their pretty white frocks. In the chancel itself there was a mass in progress and the beauty of the vestments in rich red and a beautiful green were accented by the scarlet of the alter boys. All these are on the grassy but treeless Piazza del Duomo across which we scuttled to get out of the merciless 3un<> Further on we passed the Carrara quarries from whence came so much of the marble used by Michelangelo, and Rapallo with its bridge used by Hannibal The town is also notable for the 1920 treaty in which Italy gave up Fiume and much of the Dalmatian coast getting in exchange the Italian Tyrol up to the Brenner Pass. Going over the spectacular mountains in the afternoon we broke a"balastrade" in the right front wheel. The first town we came to was en fete, so we went on to Santa Uargherita, a fishing and lace making town unspoiled by the addition of many good hotels and fina summer homes for this is on what the Italians call the Eastern Riviera.
We were late in arriving at Genoa , which was badly shelled especially along the water front. Reconstruction lias been excellent and extensive with all the Columbus monuments intact. Our hotel was in a residential section reached by a tunnel under the height and thus separated from the hurly burly of "town center"--very pleasant. Our last CIAT day was from Genoa to Nice along the Cornische through the Italian and French Rivieras, on the right the man made beauty of elaborate houses, resort hotels colorful gardens and on the left the meeting of land and seap with 5.elets and islands, rocky promontories and flat sandy beaches. We particularly liked the hostess on this leg of our journey. She pointed out things we should not miss as we went along and after we had passed San Remo and Allasio got us all through Italian and French customs and immigration without a bag being opened & only two hapless indivuals having to go into the command post to explain I was interested to pass through Erz--sur-Mer where the Hiompsonfs have a villa -- they too are courtesy

August 22, 1953 page 5 ,, nieces of Aunt iary Greenwood, as their mother was a classmate of Aunt 36ssie They have
a lovely spot for tneir summer home* For miles as we approached Nice was saw great fields of pinkr and other fragrant flowers, but nary a bl&om. Presumably they are all picked for the perfume factories, or the flower markets At Nice we were met by a fine new Buiclt & driven inland to Erases to meet Margot Burbidge, a friend of Helen*s who has lived for raanv years in the South of France*
IVhen she saw our car she protested that her road was undergoing repair and we must approach in a roundabout manner over a work road, so we arranged a rendez-vous for the next afternoon and sent out man back* Transferring to a local and somewhat broken down taxi we went on another four kilometers to Margot?s century old Provencal lias .(stone farmhouse) on the side of a hill* Her olive trees stretch down the hillside but do not impede the view across t-ie valley to Grasse in the distance* In the autumn the olives are picked up in the "recault" and sold for oil* She and her Roumanian brother-in-law were kindness itself to me and the twenty-four hours we spent there was an interesting and lazy tirae* We had breakfast and luncheon and much talk under the trees and from Arthur Viimer, who as a fcrzner fighter in the French Resistance has been awarded a functionaire post in the Alpe Mari time administration I learned of the local antipathy against the Italians, the strength of the Communists in that Department and of their tactics# Despite an afternoon shower, which added to the hazardness of the improvised road the local man fetched ue on schedule and we found our Buickin G-rasse* Both men were disgusted with us for not wanting to go through the perfume factory and we were amused to see some of the people who had been with us from Genoa the day before toiling into the factory# (One does reach a saturation point for anything but the calm of nature I) r7e d rove a,round Cannes upon arrival there and at the yacht basin saw many beautiful boats from all over the world* By this time palm studded promen ades, luxury shops, magnificent hotels and colorfully planted flower beds hardly seemed worbh commenting upon to one another (Cannes seemed much like Nice and I thoughtMonaco more attractive than either*)
The sleeper from Cannes took us via Marseilles to Geneva where we passed both French ana Swiss customs in the station and went along to the Hotel Richmond, which charm ed ug# The modernity of our sittingroom like bedroom, reminded me of the Terrace-Plaza in Cincinnati, but it seemed more gracious and livable because of a beautiful carpet with holly, pine and bows of red ribbon* After breakfast in our room we walked back to the station and took a fast train along the lake to Lausanne so that I could call on Charlotte Muret in the Clinique Bois Cerf--a hospital run by nuns* This whole by-pass from Cannes was so I could see her. My fear that she is not long for this world was, alas, confirmed* While she says her doctor calls her better and that she walks a little each morning with the help of an orderly, I could only admire the spirit with which she continues to write her memoirs with the help of a secretary* I had some difficulty in understanding her at times because of $ facial paralysis yet I had the advantage of knowing what she would be talking about. I was glad I had been fortified by a fine lunch at the lake-side Savoy Hotel before going to the hospital# After I rejoined Helen we took the funicular back half way up the hill to the station and enjoyed the view across the lake on the return to Geneva. "The largest fountain in the world" a geyser pumped out of the lake was operating when we got back . It was too cloudy to see Mont Blanc* After dinner on the terrace of the Richmond we strolled along the lake fron alternately chilly and hot when the wind dropped and the sultry damp got in its licks* At one the next d&y we were bade at the station to pass customs and take the 1j25 train for Paris, where we arrived at 9t33Q. We had made a picnic lunch which we enjoyed in our carriage and finally ate the apple and orange we had taken from the ship -- in case of need* Certainly the southern "French are not the careful, tidy fanners their northern com patriots are and not a patch on the Swiss That was so apparent when we crossed the border. We had some rain on this journey and took account of stock, congratulating ourselves on the precision with which we had estimated our needs and leaving both Italy and Switzerland with out more than a few small coins* In fact I had to use $2 US carried for just such purposes to bail us out of the Richmond. TAre also congratulated ourselves on the smoothness with which our "house purse" for the common cause worked When the agent came through to see if we wanted to reserve a taxi in Paris, I declined on the ground that we should be met.
However when' our by then very long train arrived at the Gare de Lyon the place was a battlefield with everyone from the provinces arriving for a weekend in Paris and all sen sible residents fleeing to the country* Not seeing any sign of Larry, whom I had only hoped would meet us, we found our own taxi and set off for the Hotel Duminy. I had a letter in

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22, .1953 -- page 6

if

' If^arri^lTSonel ^6

f1 *d applying the coupon for

noanswer. Remembering that I had given Franeis%eak tl^

3omewhat "-Plused to get

for the America Ambassadors Fourth of July'partf^hieh I +1TM ^ r6qUest for tiokets

to oall tne /oltaire and ask for moil. After^eier~i !?,

,next mornin> I bethought me

phone with "inhere in heaven'3 name are vout"' *T-i +b

mon>eHt Madame"s Larry came on the

missed us and after giving up hope gone" to the VoltaLf6"1^ ^i^6 8rUnd the Nation he had

and been .illed with consternation to find that the^ot n,,iihe bjno Jhat w hd eluded him,

part. I9 picked up my letters and brought Mr



7

n have us but "anted no

.Rue Gastilione running par allel to ^dtLL"\,larri8 ^r to * Duminy, which is just off

part of town I know well thougfif I hfd hfd a S?TV? d,e Mi

^ St. Honors -"

Louie le Grand# They arrived'eoon with apc&oWe^-iri~

c5,"'iave elected to stay at the

Saturday morning we saw to Helen's ticket&fm*

^ ffa W6 a11 had a coke in the lounge,

long over shop windows (and certainly thev are showingTM

on Tuesday, dawdled si

years ago though still very expensive) that we arrive!

TM a'ttraotlv things than three

breaking up. 1 aiseed getting in by the length I G "e anbaBS5r Jut as the party was

and tell her I'd be back in ffftee/minutes.^s X onW* "I f" ""M 88ttle Helen on a bench

fitj',s

to the Marine at the garden
just 12,30 and we cannot admit

gate he looked anyone!" rTM

1-V1 1

t-ris?t

<imet watch

3an*doks.aid^e"ndoIrryp,reMseanmt,ed,

reception to me anyway. 3verv 4mer-'eon +n-,r< + - a''1* 12,30 seems an odd time for a

assortment of garden party overdressing and slacks a""aa'coat"nderLees^P ^ th 0dd"t

W5F3 bfuck'^ KoSl rgooedEWi-htTea ? thinking t0 Set a quick

upaolstery, rather more appropriate thai' thePP^chief r!,

"1*h r0al "d leather

wj.tn three years ago. They dropped us at the

-<>< e* convertible, he was stuck

sent aaunt of the Existentialists. First we prowl e!"t' a"e 011 "ouivard St. Germain, the pre-

3ouoaia distinctly lower class sho-v-irr "

stalls and open front shops on rue

. butter, exposed meat, cooked artichoke- li? + + eT9,7?hin6 from ehoes and clothes to eggs,

proper kitchen, wonderful looking oastr-' *'nd'swert. S"PP y t?]0B? 17,10 do not have the use of a

"Types" every shade of color and sex and all out intellectuals but more very shabby

"? GT Ut "deraalk taMc ws TMtohd the attractive children, some well turned

Mrs. Harris that her raaainTMg eye ^s Si rISt" ^ TP'" ***"

0ulist had told

in her California motor accident 18

Igof thev drnfp f ?B b* vision if> W killed

cL.ie at the Hotel Louvois, where she and Sydne-" had staved lPf

D'tsiny. Helen wanted to

where it was and as we set off on font JIM <Jf 7* ? I years as> but did not know quite

Opera, which had TV (for which I cannot saf TMJbl + "

Up at E tiny rwtaurant near the

news, vaudeville kind of entertainment ord

j

SaW a s?od 8ross

including

distracted by our fellow ainers^^peoiBlly^^-ed-hevd""6^^111

0l,r attention however was

several men. The dinner itself was eood li

. 5* blonde and a brunette who were with

red wine for about 700 franee-roughly

'^.^rere' "l***' *

Oinzano and 3*S of

everyone lingered. On the way home v;e stuek'tr tbl

eeV" table# in the Place and

maddening little "rues" which change na>ne oY'i- .Avanbes lnBbad of cutting off into the

for our breakfast the next mornin^we heard'thf

b

??. notlce Juet aftr I bad rung

the first time by a French flier, "for this event^arie me

^ ^ fr

topped oS1 with rsuper^chocouL^souf^e

f- fV,8aUS 7ictor HuS --bich was delicious,

whom Mrs. Harris absent mindedly colls Anwstum)"TM^ ?ared that Rosario (the Spanish cook

eff a marble table, which so reminded Helaf at each other. After Mrs. Harris had her nap 7e a call and Helen and I did the Chateau du OTM. a dozen times when I was with the Harris' at

KrT ^ +f" ^ 1 B0V8d in' 'Ja ate oathroom that we dared not look
-r- ' ' ^ o w a r a - o r o y , w h e r e t h e y h a d t o m a k e t res "-ce of Pompador. I had paased it

are delightful a* enomous gardens,^! w^th Slees" ? 7orf' bukhad ver gone in. Tl-.ere

box mazes in miniature, well out n ^

\ chestnut and linden very pollarded,

,,so,,m,,,,e good things bu,^, on " " , e ^Rdeiappppooi"nttiiXng^. iI liked the little south^ east c^ orneC r OwntraiitEinBg roR oee, witn its blue painted wainscotting BJid blue needlepoint upholstery. Monday we did

^?+?fS

"''"f ed. ^d?.OT her 1?s't day in Paris, found the Hotel Louvois and sat in the

--.tie par. in .ron. 0. it, most shops are closed Mondays but we finally found a beret for

ner, wer.t to have another look at Notre Dame, wandered on the He de 3t". Louis and noted the

f

August 22, 1953 page 7,

" planks comnienorating the periods of residence of political and literary figures We rested

our feitf by having lunch at a sidewalk table beside Notre Dame where we could admire the exter

ior 'The Gothic gem of St Chapelle which Louis IX had built in 1245 to house the Crown of Thorns

senrf him by the Emperor of Constantinople was our greatest pleasure The lower chapel for in

ferior dignitaries of the court dim of light but bright of color with the coats of arms of Louis

and his mother, Blanche of Cast5_lle applied to walls and coloumns in bright Byzantine blue and

red with much gold The upper chapel reserved for the king and his immediate family has beau

tiful windows- in 1100 panels illustrating the books of the Bible and giving a great sense of

light and air Before leaving the lie de Cite we rested again over a lemandde at a piece by

the statue of my favorite Henri IV and so had the strength to idle among the stalls of paintings

and etchings, old maps and books along the Seine.

Tuesday morning we tried to get some English money for Helen only to find that one had to live six month in Trance before you could buy foreign currency. (When I came to go Larry search for his pounds, but could only locate the shillings of which he had 17, so gave me 8 on the grounds that men are expected to tip better than womenl) We snatched a bargain or two on the Place Vendome and then I took her to the station, went back to pick up my luggage and arrived at the apartment of Mrs. Harris in time for luncheon. I was pleased to find a latchkey on the marble mantel of my bedroom so I could be free to come and go at will. As Larry came home to luncheon, several times I drove back with him to see his office, to be dropped where I could go off on my own to arrange for my legal quota of liquor to be delivered to the ship, and get brandy to take the Wheeler-Bennetts, to buy candy and flowers for Mrs. Harris, etc# As we had cold and many showers these expeditions were not always as fruitful of sightseeing as I wished However, I did want to be back by the time she was up from her rest as Larry seldom appeared very much before our eigjht o1 clock dinner# He was in a series of most important con ferences which if successful could mean very considerable profits for the firm with which he is associated, though he has some accounts like that of Rover on his own# Being only a couple of blocks from the Arc de Triomphe and having to pass it coming and going anywhere I always in tended to go up and see the view of the city. The nearest I got was to arrive five minutes after the lift stopped running^ On one of Rosario's nights off we went to Bossu on the lie St Louis where one must reserve because the food of Ifine Blanche is so excellent, The dessert sib ciality is souffle, which changes with the season, we were there for raspberjry. On another we went to Aux Dues de Burgogne near Sacre Coeur where the patron is the chef. In between times he ccoles out and circulates among his old customers and as the Harrises go often he stopped When he heard it was my first visit he promptly said "After Madame has eaten my food, she will come again." I hope I shall They specialize in the hearty food and wines of Burgundy and serve butter, fresh from the country in a huge footed glass bowl which must hold 15 pounds. Yet this comes to your table fulll Here we had for sweet something like crepe suzette with grated orange in the sauce# Almost every evening we ^rove about and as Bastille approached more and more buildings were illuminated. Larry and I enjoyed wandering in the little park back of Notre
Dame and looking at the light and shadow on the floodlighted apse, but the thing which took my breath was the Hotel de TDlle with the green bronze statues along the roof line against a sky of midnight blue. Because Bastille Day was Tuesday, they threw in Monday and had a four day holiday curseg however with cold and much rain We finally went to dance in the street at the lie 3t. Louis and got a good table very close to the orchestra All the neighborhood was there and very few others, much handshaking and a wonderful family spirit, ten year old boys dancing with five year old borther or sister. Fathers with daughters, even if they had to be held in the arms or set astride the shoulders. Grandmothers with the little boys of the family Mrs. ""arris and I kept warm with tiny glasses of cognac, but poor Larry, who is on a strict diet because of a gall bladder from gorging too much chocolate only had citron presse (Lemonade to me.> it was great funp but did little to help sniffles I had acquired, perhaps when Larry and I had gone marketting in a great street market over on the Left Bank near Rue Lecourbe# We got garlic which Rosario had asked for and lovely little radishes which she had not, tomatoes, melon, apricots, plums, peaches and lots more stuff plus a great armload of purple stock and deep red gladiolas and some small red roses# It was great fun# I recall that the apricots were 85 francs a kilo --about 16* for a little over two pounds# Y/hile with Mrs# Harris I started reading Desirees which was most aprpropriate to Paris#

One day I went down to Compeigne to talk with Andre Fhilip and persuaded him to come in February for a lecture tour It is a nice trip through Chantilly and lovely country and then after he met me we drove out to Le Breviare, the former hunting lodge of a Swedish industrialist in the beautiful and extensive Compeigne Forest..areas of beech, of pine , etc- After lunch we settled our essential business and then walked in the foreett where I ruined one of my so

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jylpns, but it was worth it. -Ke. is a wonderful stimulating person and as a member of the

* * National Economic Council which reports on all proposed legislation dealing with the Economic

2fe of France for the guidance of the National Assembly, very well informed He told me these

strikes were coming but set them for October--I wonder why they came when they did? By nature

he is an optimist and by training an economist and is appointed to the Council as one of the

"pure brains" since the other members are representing labor or management. After tea he took

me back to a slow train and I saw many workers going for a station or two, and was almost late

to dinner. I thongughly enjoyed my Paris stay, but it He ft me with an uneasy feeling about

France ana I do not think it is just that the near view, as contrasted with the always mag

nificent viotas of Paris, has not the quality that it used to have. Larry had a conference

of great importance Wednesday morning so had to take me and my luggage to the air terminal

instead of to LeBorget but they do this sort of thing so well, the passenger and luggage from

terminal, through customs and into the plane that I did not mind at all. I had inadvertently

laid myself on for the Silver Wing flight with luncheon complete with sherry and champagne, so

although we flew at 16,500 with the cabin pressurized to 6,000 ay sinus blew up I enjoyed

the flight and my luncheon but realized when Tracy Philippe met, me at the London terminal

that I was whispering

or shouting and did not know which, and how I dripped* For a good

week I was retiring to have a "good quiet bhow" which in actuality was not quiet at all. We

stopped at his Club, Army & Navy,on Pall Mall for tea and then I went on to Dartmouth House where I was staying--A lovely old mansion which has been converted by the E nglish Sjb aking

Union with a couple more houses tacked on aid now there is a house across the street That

night Judith had a small dinner with a lot of people coming in afterward Ker partner, Jan

Kowelewski who had been Polish miliatry attache in Moscow before the war talked about the

arrest of Beria the preceeding Friday and his feeling that this a step of Malenkov's for the

consolidation of his power, which is much more dissapated amongst the Committee than was

Stalin1s. I was exhausted before it was over, but next morning was up early to get organized

for lay date at the Foreign Office. The section I went to was in the old India Office , great

formality of making out an application and being conducted by a guide just as in key Washing

ton offices during the war. Instead of being kids, who were doing shifts at school, the P.O.

employs tottering old grey beards. The lift creaks as it rises with slow majesty and the

miles of corridor are filled with file cases--what havoc a nice little baize would cause

John Boj^d is nice, but new to the job and I had to tell him a few home truths from some of

the organizations to which his office sends speaks to the US. He called in a Mrs. Parker ,

whom I knew when she did BIS films in New York. She went out to the Clive statue with me

and plainly said she hated her present assignment It all made me think of the shifting

around one hears goes on in the State Department tc show a budget saving irrespective of a

persons qualifications for a job. Tracy gave me lunch at the Club, which was crowded with

families are set for the afternoon Harden Party at Buckingham Palace. I was much amused

when I was freshening up before hand to have one excited young woman ask if 2 were going

and did I think it would be all right if she wore her long faille coat over her print dress

After our late luncheon I went over to Bill's and bought a lovely black cashmere sweaterto

wear in the country with ray grey flannel skirt and take the place of the one I lost in Italy,

also a love of a pale pink pullover and some handwoven wool neckties That night I dined

with Frank Darvall, the director general of English Speaking Union, hie wife who is the

daughter of Harry Emerson Fosdick and several other people. Next morning I had Irene Edwards,

who wants an American lecture tour, for breakfast. She has just gone into a fabulous busi

ness with Jo Sturdee, who has been Churchill's private secretary for 14 years. ,Vhen I asked

about him, she shook her head mournfully and said we must not forget ihat he was an old mail

who had worked overhand for overlong. I was scarcely rid of her when Leo Uuray arrived on

the same errand. I snatched a ssndwifli at the snr ck bar and got off to pick up Lydia Black

ford of Charlottesville who was going down to Garsington for the weelend afe had met at a

cocktail party Ruth gave for me 18 months ago when she was with her mother and I with the

Sash family*

It was amusing to have Harry, the local boy who drives for the ./heeler-Bennetts
meet us in a Rover like Larry's save for its a blue grey with blue upholstery and having a right hand instead of left drive* The Manor was precisely as it was three years ago and I had the same bedroom over the dining room with the outlet of the priest's hole from the fireplace below to the left of my fireplace There v/as a new instantaneous gas hot water heater, which scared me every time I turned on the hot tap, though ^ The garden^was quite^ different in that it had a lot of blue flowers including some mattouth and beautiful variefes

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^lphinitaa and other peirennials which because the season was more advanced three year^^#

did not appear. Hie ,|;uest book showed that then I arrived a few days earlier and stayed^

day or two longer* Saturday we went to the village cricket .match, which was great fun u ewH

plete with time out for a -shower and a tea interval* I really enjoyed it* Sunday the Hardy l|

Dillards, he is dean of the U. of Va* Law Shool and lecturing at Oxford, came for luncheon and

we oat in the sun for hours on the terrace, which was heavenly* Lydia and I nearly disgraced

ourselves at Evensong when the vicar announced that he had made arrangements for his holiday

absence with supplies from the theological seminary and had warned the undertaker what to do

about someone to read the burial service* John left the next morning to go to Malvern to inter

view one of King George's old tutors toward gathering the material on his royal biography--

which Ruth and I want him to call "King George VI, his wife and times"* He has only the medicbs

and politieos to interview though it mil be three years beforethe book is published* He and

Ruth by this time will have spent a weekend at 'Sandringham to get material on layout of that

house aid atmosphere* He has a nice big office in Buekingham Palace with space for hie neice

Juliet Heaton who is acting as his secretary# Vhen Lydia went back Monday afternoon, Ruth had

a hair appointment so I went along to wander about Oxford and some of the college quadrangles*

That night Brigadier and Mrs* Little came to dinner, she has not been well aid finds John a little

too stimulating as she begins to find her social legs again#

Wednesday Tracy fetched me in his Ford and took me to his mother, Lady Dillon, at .last Hafebourne Grange near Didcot in Bershire about twenty miles away, so instead of seeing the Wittenhara Clumps directly south I became accustomed to their being in a north easterly direction* Lady Dillon is 87 and has a bad heart and some never discussed internal trouble aside from being twice widowed* last Hagbourne is a sweet little village with thirteen houses which cannot be altered without approval of the national monuments people--but the Grange is a most amazing house with the second floor on four different levels# A few years after Viscount Dillon's death (he was her cousin and she was. a ffolkes (sister of Sir Francis, chaplin to the King)) they sold Ditchling in Oxford and bought the Grange, which by comparison probably seemed a tiny place,but is now far too big# I could have more than put my whole apartmetn into the bedroom I had there* Tracy drove me about a great deal to Burford and Minster Lovell, to Stow-on-the-Void, Bourtonon the hater trhough the lovely Cotswolds with their great expanse of sky and lovely rolling Downs, we picniced, ate at village inns and generally had a cafcefree, relaxed time. It was de lightful* Several times we had lunch, tea and dinner at the Grange and took Lady Dillon for an airing in the car# But her strength was very unpredictable and if she took a meal downstairs, she never joined us in the library, which is Tracy's study for coffee afterward, but would push me off with a "It's so good for Tracy to have you to talk to#" I had better weather "there than at the Manor# The day I was supposed to le ave Lady Dillon sent a message with my breakfast tray hoping I could manage to stay longer so I wired Dartmouth House and did* It meant that X turned handsprings in London with Judith dining aith me and my listening to a tape of Tomi's proposed lecture for the US, Barbara Hayes, who had just been decorated by the Queen lunching with me to ask advice about a new job, shoppings, tea at Chatham House, dinner vdth Monks and her sister & two interviews at the US SUbassy# But I got into the French line for luggage labels, a quick look at the summer show at the Royal Academy, and off on the 10i30 train for Bournemouth to spend the night before spoiling with Helen and her sister-in-law in Dorset# Between a sumptuous tea during which it rained and dinner we walked on the moor among the purple heather* The next morning we drove through the New Forest with its wild ponies, property of the Crown, and stopped at the marker of the spot where Rufue the Red was accidently killed some 800 years ago*

We arrived before the boat train, but the ILL DE FRANCE was in aid we got aboard and 1 got our second sitting in the dining room and our deck chairs before the others appeared* There were two gals in our cabin, but after we got underway they moved out so we had the good luck to have a two porthole cabin for four to ourselves# It was sad but appropriate that our last sight of England was dimmed by mist and rain ashore# We had strong head winds, and cloudy sky most of the way over* It was lovely cn Sunday, but I spent that day in ray cabin with a bruised foot where I had skidded the night before on the landing between A and B decks* Hie doctor was very kind and had the nurse poultice it, so I missed the sun when it came# The next day I was busy with en x-ray to be sure it was only a bruise, a shampoo and going to the shop and nacking so another sunny day was lost to me# Hie doctor gave me a document saying I should not stand, so as soon as my possesion were collected-'-1 found ray big bag dumped in a friendly and informal manner under the "F"s--I got the next custom examiner who was iree ahe&a of at least forty people who were waiting# As an alien Helen got off after I did but we left the oier together she to go to Westchester for two nights and I to the office She came back to me on Thursdayj and as it is now August 23, she left Toronto tonight for Vanceuver

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A movement lias just been started (by me) to guarantee unree day weekends. This one has been finel My hair got washed after two weeks of perspiration had all but ruined it, and all the second class mail of my holiday got cleared away,^-appily much of it right into the waste paper basket. True I was going shopping but it was too hot to have any judgement about purchases. At five on Saturday I^started to Vera Dean a to see her after her Friday return from India where she had been for two months^on^a ^ Ford Foundation fellowship. I updated her on office things, heara aeout Wfflm^Inulaw then we took her Elinor (age 19) and Bill (16) to dinner at l&nairi d Or and since t e "Beggar*s Opera" i?Sir Laurence Olivier in the movie) was sold out we got into xne ^ruel Sea" (the J. Arthur -lank movie of the Monsarratt bbok) ...excellent. 1 went to Martha and CIeve on the 10s50 Sunday morning* She had gone to the eight o'clock service and met me, Cleve and Clevee got in soon after Fran and her beau Sal arrived. In the afternoon we drove to Jones Beach, where it was horridly humid with such a nasty surf tnat only^ a couple of life guar& were swimming, to give the two^ children a little practise driving. "Children" is somewhat a misnomer as Fran is very serious about her umteentn oeau and Clevee is six feet four and already very involved in pre-school football pracviete. jcSlly and Jim brought their three sons for supper and ber brother and sister-in-lawwno nad arrived from Alabama the day before. Ted unobstrusively spares himself, but looks amazingly well despite his three serious heart attacks in the past three yeare--wiicn cut short his Army career at the age of 36. After the little boys had been taken home we had some amusing talk withfrom Ted on the Army and Cleve on the Navy. At mid nignt Martha and I were drinking iced coffee and wondering why we had believed the report that
the heat had broken.
liihile I was dressing this morning Fran opened the door of her bedroom so I could hear about the Adenauer victory on the 10 o'clock news. Fancy, his doing^it after that stupid speech of Mr. Dullesi I did hear that Adenauer had planned a nice bow to Dulles in the last campaign speech before retiring to his rose garden and the election saying that no matter what happened he would always be grateful for tne support he had had from the IJS, but dropped it from the speech after our secretary of state had tried to influence the German voters. If the President has not today made clear to Dulles^ that his tactics are both stupid and dangerous, we had better start looking for a nice comfortable cave to withdraw to cement up the entrace before someone pushes us over the cliff. On Tuesday, Vera had her second interview with Nehru in as many montns and he told her that we soon would not have a friend left in the world. He has a good deal of evidence on his side and could so easily be right that it scares me.
Monday we had 25 people from Boston to Virginia in the office was a day's training in a whoop-la for the UN that they are to stir up in the next seven montns for popular education on the UN. It was a tightly packed day as we covered a tre mendous among of ground with them. It began at nine o'clock and I P^teU. from tne last of them a little before eight-thirty in a state of exhaustion. Perhaps tnat was the night I tried the day bed in the living room hoping it might be cooler tran my bed room. By Tuesday it was well established that the air conditioning on tne north side of the building had collapsed again and all lest week those o_ us mo have offices there had the befit of the blowers, which kept the air moving, but no cool or de-humid ified air. My inside thermometer if 78 o/o right now tie humidity must be pre y hiph. The eleven days of record breakers wasepreceeded by a couple of plain hot days so perhaps we shall taper off with a gradual cooling off^period. I certainly have more than paid for comparitive cool which followed my return*
The effects of the drought are dismal on Long Island, worse even than in upper New York where I was last weekend with Aunt Annie. The afternoons sizzled tnere but I needed a blanket both nights. Here my bed has been so hot to my body tnat I have thought yearningly of an Indian rope bed and wondered in an idle way if I could maxe
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Sept on ber 13, 1953

By Tuesday we finally had our weather change and this /eek has been blissful, and not a moment too soon as the office has hummed. We have spent a lot of time "orienting" three new staff members, all men and each happily will take over a few of the peripheral jobs I have done in the past* I am not naive enough to expect they will not need a |ood deal of time and help for several months to come, but it is encouraging to know that I am on my way to concentrating on my own Speakers Bureau instead of wearing half a dozen different hats and spening much time in switching from one kind of operation to another. Heaven knows it is a full time job to fill the requests for speakers of the 35 comnunity organizations with whom I must work intimately scattered from Boston to San Francisco and New Orleans to Minneapolis and they all want free speakers# On the other hand I am riding herd on an ever expanding group of speakers who want to be paid and for whom we must get dates with schools, colleges, Town Halls, wcmens clubs, Rotaries and other groups still willing to admit that a speaker is worthy of his hire.

About seven o'clock on Y/ednesday Mr. Nason ambled in to my office and asked me to report on Europe as I observed it at the Friday staff conference--so the arranger of talent had to make a speech! It was only an audience of about 25 or 30 (as some of the staff were off for the Jewish Hew Year and my own Administra tive Secretary lias been out for a week attending an uncles funeral in Milwaukee. If she does not turn up tomorrov/ I shall be tempted to wire her not to come back!) But it is a difficult group because it ranges from the Office Boy, who goes to high school, up to Nason and Vera Dean. I think I got away with it all right, at any rate they were polite and asked some fair questions. I could easily do two more, however, one at the travelogue level and the other on my appointments. Next time Vera does India and I am glad my poor little offering did not follow hers!

Thursday night I went to see Aunt Mary Greenwood, just back from a summer at Mohonk which seems to have rested her, but I fear she is finding it a little lonely without Aunt Bessie. I'll try to see more of her until more people get wao to town* Yestojt'ua,./ I \ asl ei the nylon glass curtails and feel that one of the house hold chores is out of the way. I also took a tuck in one of my "underpinings" as I seem to have lost over five pounds* which is fine with me. Last night we had a rip snorter of & thunder storm -- the first real rain we have had in over three weeks.

This afternoon I went to the Waldorf to a meeting where I ih ought I v/ould

have a chance io hear all the members of the US de]e gation to the about to open UN

General Assembly. AlasAmerican Association for the United Nations did not quite

pull it off and later Clark Eichelberger explained to me that they had Wadsoworth

lined up for a "Freedom of the press" speech until this morning when he found he had

to go to a committee meeting # Result s Congresswoman Frances Bolton (Rep. of Ohio)

and Archibald J. Carey a negor minister of Chicago who are new members of the dele

gation were routed out and pressed into service. Both of them are good and ought to

be effective. He lias mahogony red hair, kinky and cut fe ort and a very pale cafe au lait complexion, but a delightful voice and a fine personal philosophy. Mrs. Oswald

Lord who has already served as out representative on the Human Right Commission also

spoke--rather poorly in a high nasal voice and was pretty dull. The piece de resist

ance was Assistant Secretary of State for UN Affairs Robert Murphy. I had never

heard him before and was visibly bored.

Afterward I picked up t?ro of my F1A

collegues and we went up for them to have a look at the Starlight Ballroom we are

supposed to use for Hammsrskjold --they did not know the room and it seemed a good

opportunity to show where the TV equipment would have to go# Then I parted from them

and went to the cocktail party where I had to have a few words with Murphy and later

with Oscar deLima, the president of the AAUN, Eichelberger the paid executive, pressed

a few hands and had a good talk with Pauline Mandigo, who is finishing a novel --her

first. It is one of a series designed to interest girls in different sorts 01 pro

fessional iobs. She is doing public relations in hers so I asked her to suggest to

the publishers that later on I'd be glad to do the one on speakers bureau. I'll do

it when the FPA and I part.

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Sunday September 20, 1953

It is too late to do a chit-ohat and actually at this moment I cannot think what there is to put in on except things of the office --and my weekend*

It is about that which I send this quickie. There was lovely sun yesterday and tliis morning and today we were sitting in back talking with Anne Kenny when Fred either dropped or fell accidently from the eaterly oak tree in front of the house* The poor child was crying so that I never asked and forgot to find out if he told Molly or Jim* Being Sunday it was hard to get a Doctor, so Jim carried him to the car and holly phoned Bartels, the bone specialist who took care of Jim's leg to meet them at Nassau Hospital* We were just about to have mid-day dinner andit was four thirty before Molly and Jim got back to have theirs*

Hie main bone in the left forearm just above the wrist had a nice clean

break. Bartels said it was fin and set it in five minutes* Fred has a oast

to above the elbow end will probably be discharged from the children's ward at

ten o'dcok Monday morning* Jim, who has just been shifted to a mew job in

the office, where he will have an assistant and a secretary will stay out and

help get him home.

They saw him into his bed , where he gave them a cheery

"Good night" and promptly fell asleep*

Bartels promised Fred one of his

month old kittens--something ne* to bring home from the hospital

The resident asked if there is a new movie of Tarzan going the rounds of the small fry, ae there are so many broken limbs in the past two weeks* ahen I enticed Bill intc taking a rest by reading and talking to him on Jay's bed, where I could command the situation of the driveway and front door, in case a purchaser should come to look at the house, he said "I hops Fred will come boms with them* X like Fred."

I left early as a tiling like that takes it out of the parents and I hopsd they would have an early supper and go to bed --actaully I could hurry away and only got home in the sain about quarter after ei$it* I'm sure everything will be all right, but until he gets accustomed to the cast, it will be difficult for him and more work for Molly. I thouhgt you might like to cnear her up

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September 27, 1953

IT4t* i4s<a i4nm c^frecid44iVb*l! e^ +tht\a4t' TD\_~a^yy"f l4i" g**]ht Saving Time ended last nig&t and we start the last

quarter of th year next week* After one day on which I wore my heavy maroon tweed suit

I went back to dark cottons and yesterday wished I had not worn my little balck topper.

The attempt to match the royal blue in the cotton which looks like light weight wool hhas

been shelved when I .settled for a black velvet with the broken brim edged in black gross-

grain as sufficient defference to .my most favorite dress of the moment. Until I 300

what, the winter version of air conditioning will be I shall get along with what I have.

Yesterday I also made a most happy discovering--notably I do not have to have a new drees

for the dammarskjold dinner--the black satin which was* made for me in Paris in the mid-30*s

f xs and is stylish again--the dull petal treatment from the knees down is actually high

fashion.

Last weekend with Molly and Jim, I got enough warm sun to tan my arias. Ihile we were having cocktails on tne back lawn, Fred jumped or fell from an oak tree in front of the house and broke his left arm, a nice clean fracture of the larger bone just above the wrist. The bone specialist met them at the Nassau hospital and Fred spent the night in the Children's fcrd. le was given a kitten--a new item to bring home from the hospital. The first time Molly turned her back on him as his return on Monday, he got on his bike and rode around to show al: his friends the above the elbow cast. Friday night I saw Dr. Bird, who is pleased with the increased blood pressure and heart rate and gave me drops to help my "air-conditioned sinus".

Ax the September FPA Board of Director's meeting Brooks Emeny spoke briefly of his

Far eastern trip and stressed the confusion of the Japanese at our having written disarm

ament into their Constitution and now without any preparation even of their leaders to q

insist t.nat they have an army again. The literal minded naturaully say "An army is ille

gal under the Constitution you gave us. How can

maintain that Constitution and

defy the army clause?" There is surface prosperity with an underlying fear of what will

happen when Ud money ceases to be poured into the national economy. The leaders see it

clearly and the "little people" sense the uncertaintF. Americans are .forbidden to buy

Chinese goods in Hong Kong on the assumption that unless the items are purchased in a

few "cleared" shops they must come from Red China and will therefore be confiscated by

US customs. The goods in the approved shops are poor--silk three and four times the

price el3where and ivory so inferior in quality and workmanship as not to warrant a

seond look. The tourists are urged to by British woollens, which are in good supply.

They were dogged by typhoons and monsoohe* Last year Faith put her foot down and would

visit only one mosque^ in each city and continued with "One temple is enough, Daddy,"

In her report to the staff Vera emphasised that Gandhi walks again through the villages in the person of Acharyavinoba Bhav, who urges that every one owning land, both large and small holdings, should give one sixth of it for redistribution to the landless. It seems to be catching on and serving as an assist in the projected lend reform. The return to moral principles on the part of the people and the success of Bhav's proposal makes hire Grandhifs successor xn the minds of many. Even industrialists are turning to him for gui dance.

In the course of p. session with Mason last Monday he fumbled around about a "personal question after having closed the door while I wondered what I had done and cam out with "Does it mean a great deal to you to be called 'l&ssPratt*. When I work as closely as I expect to work with you, T like people to call me 'John1 and vice versa." So now .it is "John" and ""ranees". T had understood that wha he was president of Swarthmore College all the students called Mm "John" I Ah me, those cozy Quakers. Recently I met a young nan born of good Russian family, whose family moved from the capital to the south of Russia after the revolution and soon his diplomat father became a priest. When the boy first went to school, the teacher asked those who prayed to Rod to raise their Hands and a minority did. They were told to pray together for God to bring thera a box of candy and after nothing happened, the non-believers were told to pray that the Party do the same for them--almost instantly the teacher from the next room altered with a fine big box of sweets. In the war Goncharoff was captured by the Ger ians and after release stayed in Munich for some years. He came here as a displaced person last October.

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OciD bar 4, 1953

liioth0^ beautiful day for the current Madness of the World Series base.ball fane, part of which I hope to take advantage of on the roof getting through some office
,, vh"ch. sliould ba,ve been done a month or six weeks ago--had one of my little nelpers had it ready for my editing. It is supposed to be even wanner than yesterday v&im I was e-led to 3ta,r out o? the sun walking over to Park Avenue for luncheon with Aunt -hry before we went to see the Sadler* s 'fells Ballet do "Sylvia". This three act ballet with music bv Delibes, choreography by Frederick Ashton is based on Tasso's "Aminta" pnd is delightful. Iladia Herina danced the title role and Alexis Rassine "AminM'A There is an enormous cast with John Hart as Orion and Alexander Grant as Eros--a horrid part as he had to stand still pretending to be a statue for much of the first act^ it wae_ a benefit performance for the Girls Service League so we had sixth row seats in an audience where many people knew one another and lots had brougit the children* down to the six vear oldsJ The afternoon left nothing to be desired on my ja rt> thoup nerixia was visibly nervous in the first act. The sets and costumes were delightful with blues and greys in the first act, green and sapphire blue in the second and yellow and paste, shades in the last. I wonder if it is a safe generalisation to say that the anglish fnvor more muted colors than we seem to? Aunt Mary is fin and is toying with tne idea of taking a cruise in the late winter with considerable interest in one to the Meceterr-
ane&n, one to ;Uo and a shorter one to the Caribbean

v tr interruptions omy to tax* tv/xco uo

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Information Officer of" the Indian Delegation to the UN, \*io thou^i Indian has tne un-

believeable name of Godfrey Jansena Yes, I nailed him down for a 3oston date a ha .

been struggling to fill for several days--no, actually for or er a week, the ^tlms

X-'Q-Q fascinating, though the color was not true. The always prevalent Red Cuina -lags

and rosettes caSe out a deep yet warm orange most of the time. Never having been xn

Canton nor the upper reaches of the Yangtse I was glad to see tnem* i drolled ove,,

fnmiliar sights in Peking, H ankow, Hanchow and Shanghai* There was a long sequence

of River which reminded me of my trip by ship from Hankow to Shanghai when ray name had

confused the booking agent and I was slated to share a cabin with Bill Jedekmd a.x.

another man# Tie captain remedied the matter by having his first officer sleep elsf"

where taking his revolver with him, but leaving me the rifle in its brackets directly

overhead with ammunition handy as -there had been trouble with river bandits on tne

nrevious run. The commentary all done in an excellent English was riotous--f...l..c(

r*^v. references to tie "foreign despoilers", "traitors to tne peopl'(ihicn always

necmt'either the Euoralntang or the Nationalist Government) and so on. One would ^

be lead to believe that there had never been any education in China, no acres of k^ds

doing 'mass calastentics, but a shot of what I suspect was inside the Peking University

Medical Centre, which I am sure was built and largely sustained by tne Rockefeller

Foundation for years, made me really made It went sometiling like now iox ,.ie

time some-one cares for the health of the people of China #

Twice this week Irene Corotnoff, who has tlie back duplex here has taken le

to work in her .jeep, as she works at the UN and I hope off on a red light at 47th Strsfc

-id First Avenue. These lifts have been god-sent as at long last my ox~ice Lookcase

has had its final ooat black ana lei and I'm getting some books out of overcrop

Mielves he-e. Tk bookcase is itself a tour de force and though^ it did not come out

aWte according to the specifications I gave in lite May is fine and much admired by

X nore easilv satisfied collegues. It is a corner job with two shelves fo, *,a ooo.,,s lX 8tTM boxes (**et to be seeded), topped by two shorter, narrower and shallower

QV,0-jves. providing et the end along both walls at approximately desk top

,,r a

!'f^ ieen leaves or netted plants - one of the latter now sitting on my window

snivlelns acXnl^di+motaaktxeii,nncgTotthnmeeorfiruuolwil.I'fumoirotccaek^ iofngt^hdeowaniracoynedliltoiwonoienag-iuannitasndcaanen+orwan"be=ee

bmuotveadecmoraatmiovree
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black twiggy thing stemming from a white ohalklike aase ifcicn . brougot oaokf.OT t._ei

,

Thelraa end *1 arrive Monday or Tuesday, we shall all be at Report

next weekend--so no issue then and perhaps not on 13th as Hanmarskjold ,s 21st .

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ancj then Mary Lou Baker to share my

Bruce Stoirt-but"neither could and I had them both for

r t6!t theBo^'lfeU oiub." They invited me to the Army-Duke gaae and to dine with

- r t a t s x y s w r s & ' x v e - ^=; them? but ?as%i" ;w,oonrk.eeud tooudua,,,y, aas well as Columbus Day, I begogthederoeffnetshpeemgeanmte anFdromaskpeadst

M experience with hal, I knew l w a

dassman appeared in civilians

1 too tired ::or that. ^1 us ^Vioved a lot ana a

"oFh^r.0,HS

mth shark; so i look Wrd

bl(>a4e ,dth a loTely B8nSe hto as a beau for the next four

cris saw

srr~ke rep"oed ia ^o

nines-weeping Korean waters had come home in a etraig.itjac.cet.

TM .l.Wllfa w mm ' '

*"" S"?l yS?.itX'

Certainly he did not pay enough for her .fegnerian role. to ke*p .wr .a .a

T feel she should have been free to sing vh ere she eould--t.iou#i s a

ni#it clubs in my estimation and they were silly to engag^ her,

Ld &

take
, ,set.

that many subscribers had written Bing applauding il - ^c * ,, _ last Sunday Martha a01eve gave a cocktail party to announce Fran's engagement to >a..vacnro .Mara* They plan to be married in June after he has gotten his Master's degree at arvarch Me is a nice boy with an ambition to teach, Thfaf family, I fear, is upset
that^she^ .s becoming a .man Catholic. The next weekend I'm in Freeport we are going to see if she can wear my grandmother's wedding dress, which is a rather lovely thine and m excellent condition,

Tuesday we were greeted with the news of Hammarskjold's father'A death and did not

icnoiv for sure if tae Secretary General would be back from the funeral in time for our

dinner on the 21st. So after we found we did not have to cancel it, I informed the Jal-

dorf xnat we had over 850 reservations and would have to be moved from the Starlight Moon

"k

, *,c rr allroo . TJ ey retorted that the big Jewish wedding was going great guns

and c-u .u not oe^ shifted. I took an option on the Ballroom of the Astor and planned the

3xecianp.es ox notifying the people who had already received Waldorf tickets, Much nego-

t'itativ'.i --ii1 it :ls left that when the bride's father returns on Monday from Hurope, here

re cannot reached r.. ,n jhile by TransAtlanti c phone, Phillips will make a p rsonal

appeal to t.iern to take the Starlight Roof, if the wedding cannot be moved he has promised

me to seat COO people comfortably (which I gravely doubt) and with the removal/ of seven

taoles near,the entrance make space for 150 people who can be fed in the Palm Room to go

in lor the speaking in the Starlignt Room, I have volunteered to eat in the Palm Room""

where I am sure it will be much more comfortable and peaceful! Having gotten through the

period of it we should have the party at all, and then the phase of whether in ;/aldorf or

.r3 are >now only uncertain as to whether its the Grand Ballroom or the Starlight

rT; e:'*0 is a mw daice in Washington-- the Republican Waltz, Very easy--one step 'for

ward, two steps backward, hesitate, side step. Wednesday I went to a briefing at the UN

--especially to hear :Ienry ^ord II and got a gratuitous statement from William Byfield

'M thQ .*7 3toek ';*c' 'JpQ re ;-^"tieh Guiana. The Aluminum Company of Canada obtains the

oulk oi its bauxite from "ritish Guiana, and the United Kingdom gets 35/ of its nlu ihr

a-1''

Our greatest source is Dutch Guiana (Surinam) for bauxite and conditions

1h ere, he added were none too stable nor in the other bauxite area--Jamaica. If there is

t pa * no m xn ' c-.se political conditions in bauxite producing places, better lay in a

supply of any aluminum items you are low in. My Pakistan story must wait until next week,

Gal and Thelrna are fine and started back to Georgia on Tuesday*

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fhether the drought is really broken or not remains to be seen, but at any rate it has rained hard and steadily all today and I was glad even if I was in Free port
wit Holly and "in. Last weekend was working at the office all Saturday and Sunday after my bit of sun on the roof in my bathing suit I went to a tea for Maragert Sleeve of the Loyal Institute of International/ Affairs (London) and then rushed to a di owing of excellent films by Julian Bryan, which he bad taken in Turkey * My lateness gave me
a bad seat and had the pictures not been so interesting I would have left as it was "ay enthusiasm kept me on and my eyes bothe red me for several days# Later there was a cocktal party to meet the Turkish delegates to the Interparliamentary Union at which I had a ck as to tik with a lot oy people I know and like, includng the host --Nuri Uren It was on tie
roof and penthouse of the Oarnegie dentor and perfectly lovely with the might view of the river.--Ho, I did not leave the party to stop on the 5th floor and didtate a few letters
I had not done the day before*

On Tuesday we found that the h* ide who was to be married in the Waldorf ballroom would not shift to the Starlight loom and Oarolyn Hartin and I worked until five minutes before aid-night packing our 900 guests for the Hammerskjold dinner into room, which' has
a sign "Legal capacity 403"* Wednesday mowing I pp. eked my dress, gold slippers, d so JSg en d took a cab to Tie office* Dropping the floor plan at the hotel I held the taxi v.hile I ordered white chyrsantheaums and deep red camatidns for the table flowers-ia;-" looked well ag inst the deep Trench blue of the walls ---small pinkish orchids for Mrs.
Nason, who had sat me a swatch of her dress and a beuatiful white orchid, for Miss ICirkbride This little old lady, who has been the program chairman and faithful volunteer worker in Albany for 29 years had been selected to receive a scroll honoring the thousands of volunteers who over the years have given so generously of their time and talents, even
if they 1disked stamps, who have really kept the FPA afloirt* This honoring the volunteer;^; was my brainstorm one hot August day and corny as it was made a deep impression on the pretty sophisticated audience* She was magnificent in her simple thanks and most gr ..ci >us 5.n sc ying that t e thousands who had tried to work like professionals were those who ere really honored and they could, not have done it with the help and guidance of the profess ionals who had worked with the devotion of volunteers. U&moarsktiold's speech was not ne worthy, hut thoughtful an! good in a philosophical way. Mrs. Pandit introduced him grace
fully and c3 r ied the audience, though she made me cross as she turned up tw ty minutes late for the pre-dinner reception for the guests of honor* The poor woman has neufcitis in her right arm and does not like to shake hands--but if she had only told me so earlier we should have kept her out of the receiving line or someti ing* After I got all the dais
guests in to their tile, I thought for a few minutes I might pass out, but decided again st it and we it in to my plu.ee between Darlos de 3alaoasca of Bolivia and Per Lind of Uo *uay> who is Hm:. irrsktold's personal assistant* iShen we swept the guests out, I got the headwaiter to take Vera Dean and me down to the Jewish wedding, which was something. Thay
had $5,000 worth of flowers and a seven tiered wedding cake so tall that they frosted, a three step step-ladder with candy icing and roses for the bride to stand on at the time of cutting. Couldn't see the bride as she v/as dancing in a night-club nob. A+ two that
afternoon Hason met ue it the hotel to see the Starlight Loom with -,/nich he ..'as infmniliar
and ro decided to have an eight inch footstool under the table for him to pull out for Mrs. Pandit, Hammarskjold and Miss Kirkbride since they are all short andhe is quite tall. It really worked very well, though Mrs. P. considered it too hi^i and, I am told, removed 1 or slippers! I had a nice chat with her, but never even pressed the Secretary General*3
.and. I was sent a couple of gardenias which I wore across the top of my modest necklin-,, They helped as I had not h- - time to go to the vault for the necklace I planned on wearing,

Thursday morning I did not go to the office until almost noon, but "John" kept rae ur-

til seven, as he had to goo out before he could see le and te had stuff to settle as a :

Jwa.- isiday and M ra y. ' d'xtday I left at 4;30 for Molly and 3Fia and also to see Dr. .Bird

for ay flu shot. Juii I aade an angel food cake, which turned out well* Bill liked :

30 much that he warnted lore about five in the afternoon and said to me "Don't you inte t >

c*o Mack to Ho-/ Fork and leave Tmt nice cake? "" * pikie, I*11.splat

nth a now. *!o,

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Miieits, but he rent to Lie tram wits ne mo sok*

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,T I'v,1e had it I an..d, c;T* 7very neen toxd that I'm out of

, ' . ... pxcliercasueldatiwointhaal-yl

Hallow*e n 1953 little sooe*ljf. JpVriUoyteocutuivoe weekend with the *"'11

Intgo,

My -a

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bnetg>a,(n.,h+la+snt-5 -ni'i-ghtt,wand the. smal1l frIy

IPA'ers who

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21 tl I,have an imPortant dinner engagement. I even let them drop me at rnv corner

after a qoc^uail pi rty an Eustace and Maude Seligraan* s and came home to w- own ste-k -nd

paras -.:id a.-pis sane in blessed peace and quiet* My, this has been a weak, '

hc-ncf y 7 started sre rdn rg

a day in the conference the Carnegie Endowment set up

for the leaders of World Affairs Institutes from 10 democratic entries---Ml ^ "v* "

Aistrf.ua, N- - Eeth -v, Union of South Africa, India, Pakistan, Burma, terTian^ VorZr! ''-

Demurs., France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, G,,nada ,, t * ccurie of

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a free for

discussion essentially on

procedural matters and pretty stuffy. But as they had at least two official work sessions

w^V 'aoV UfVj??11* ? t? at least

<* tb. work sessions, thou^S

^ 1 xu At""

"Ct * ' ' ' ' '

ua'> since I was an accredited delegate. Tuesday r r^nt

to the fternoon session, back to my desk to try to do a lot of TOrk unSil Olf

t dashed

aho^m+e ,by ttra- x>~i nt^ov,dress for the stuffy' C,o.unc,il *o*n"4 w-^ofreedj-an i-Si9ei iAcions aimer, wVaose p* ubl'icaaatfionencl

Ut' 1ti ,t'1i- t91 E..'.'I it.0f'I TM*V-SSsGtrVofttng'1t.-ia ow*ot-fnir1 i* ,,rife

4-imiOf -PrtTI ovrnU W 1I"> .I

ATM ,, . . /'* ~ '

g-1Vu" eitstts_to

30 anti womwe"n".

I_fte.u dw**nas>f^an

t^t it l:t eOxAcSeBlillBelnlft,

U Mil !d L rtl

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the habits of their usual number

LltMhtkihtE

I

;riEton' president of BroTM University in which

w"as--no?t very wise ?in'ilahh its aUs;Jp-3ects fogrrouthpes novoeivr naatcioounpalles. of hundred "years. Peenrh.aapuss, iitt

. A, f_ter ,their W"7ednesda,yj mornin**gt> sueososji.own I saaw tth-nrroouugghn txhxiee o'poeninn1g7 s3e9s:sri'omn orf r^ -

4-wr*

C w1 .h1o lttvaeClcki,,emld3v?-TMerl-yaM vs lkoTM ivlreli fdulTltthlI-yGe9l.loiinatt*t.u *Bn'IHieo* nrti reefKih*p"enwn"-A"eo7 +_tlhit'.i'c"vMrnS1ljUee/a3wriV, eLTr.X ^ t.b'ewi,,r +lte-of.Vol,he- roTm 3 . lt. iW . e B,,^r1ritl.i.isdh. fP_dar-lifament.

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Coemopolatac Club

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Canadian * carried an^Auetrian (chanoing)

nw live, in South

C^ a ^"Jek dinner

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"SSiriso poUev l~f-kM;inte the office fron far and near for our Fall OoXeSL, '

n p

'."t i.1 t-in.ng, proceedural and informational on method. All the Otma m9

taKLe^ude 3eli^l Ml hlb-ni U MiMlf Tth^P- f M ner of Jo!ln Foster ^lee)^ I ' twolen from New

Si""' lRSt niS^* * Ur

Z,TM?TM

c-a:d Rapids and if FPA ohairaan

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ac.t a 16 : desenpt young man from Kansas 3ity who works very iia-d an di-wioh

CnM t;, '.8nd P' freshly retired :k'sJ Ataiwl (USM) Who is executive directs the TPA

took over on arrangements, whereas^ v^tfx^tve ^

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yl??Cuoorrrw+toarllikkiresfde?ssl-nionsms afrlfalngfrronunpsq, f^nmt+h/-w m m't+oh *uthsanfu1dwll?ictIhesia

on supervising all the ctheewed up while _wo tlooked1

thaf'MM1"- I'frfataM03" Vd ;"'n in ^Melpkia and worked with the mer^rs'of a pa^l

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a wa^ . .. p n g o n f o r jn r t o f t h e a f t e r n o o n s e s s i o n .

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and Changed my dress afterward, before going to the Seligman'r bare or

street?

U33R dal^+i +o T u e s d a y V i s h i n s k y b r o k e a l l t r a d i t i o n f o r t h e

conference f o r t h e j o u r n a l i s t s a c c r e d i t e d t o t h e T P T .

L e o * u r a y g^.ve

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ee that the purpose in ebvn^nf policy ^lo'Se PU.

,:.V *i yflf?*-"" 0,1 <-e<r"esi or dents. And he made a formidible one, with the result kit

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uporra-t cut there applauding.

vast in I t i s c u s t o m a r y f o r t h e r e p o r t e r s

,,re qxeetxons, but VishxneJt-y-, s;peaki_n, g in liussinn and b^eing tnroainx osAlat ttneoda,, ij n- xsi aisj -tiec eda oOnn W T J U -. v-'


made

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" s he recognized that "

e laa C O " ' ; , e . H e S l f t d t h + . b e r r e r t r ^ r o i > 4 "

thev wirnotteerfweasrrieni+g.bi*n ath-.e. policy of -pa.n- other

the - I - V ^ Pr >r-ess was a pto.w. er; he..would

.p.o. wer end. t.h. .:t~rme.r.el1v, rem.. ind thleem ir

con-

jf telling about "Operation Hurricane" showing the British atom bomb test off Monte Bello, Australia? fascinating though it was.

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Back later than usual from a fine restful weekend with :artha and Ciove

as

Fran wanted iptfmccr

tc ve

show < ert

me to

the loot resulting feres Beach to see

from the announcement ox -.or crijagn emu the chrysanthemum planting, which lave

ad'

V-p-Tne ^h0w for six weeks. Some varieties were decidedly u c, but t-ne yellow

and bronze Carnivals and the white Arthur Doty's were fine. The King kidas clear yellow

were good too, especially with the afternoon sun coming ecross tne^patn on tuem. m

hieh tide ( five feet above normal), the strong winds and snow of Briday had played

hob with the beach. A permanent cement beach umbrella stand had .been demolisned anc,

several inches of beach grass and sand had been deposited on the ooara walk, jnday

night the fire department was called out to evacuate perhaps as many as ive nous^nt

neople living on low lying land near the Bay. Saturday noon they were still at it and

streets with two and three feet of water in them were barred to traific. There was a

good deal of power failure but Sieve's electric clocks only showed the loss of 20 minutes

However, as that was the first night I had ever spent under an electric blanket, it was

enough for me to tease theml The wand howled all night and I guess it rained a gooa deal.

Rain was starting to mix with the snow, which had fallen steadily for seven nouns, by

seven o'clock and Norway maples with most of their leaves still green lookea pretty

silly in the car headlights and streetlights covered with snow. It was a -reak storm

and I unwittingly went straight into an "emergency area2 but had no adventures.

Last Sunday I was in the office for the end of our national FPA autumn confer
ence from 9:30 to 4:4-5 and got home long enough to write a little and eat before going around the corner to see Aunt Mary Greenwood. Poor dear, she has had shingles, out has now let both her trained nurses go and is better. She seemed so fine when last j^saw her that this is a blow. Election Bay was again spent in the office from 10 [ao we ^ could vote) until 5, this time hearing how our four Regional Representatives of Natl.^nac we re getting along in the field. Each one is working with a different technique m nis respective area--the man from San Francisco pointed out that his region^was larger , an the Empire of Alexander the Great at its zenith--and makes a very exciting story.

By Wednesday morning I realized that the Waldorf-Astoria was not going oo send me the cl.eck for the bonds they are calling a year ahead of time without the bonds .> Go I went to the safe deposit box to fetch them and then to the post office to speed them on their way. I cannot have the icney idle'. In fact J had already ordered replace ment for half of the proceeds. Maisie Cash arrived at two and moved in here x ->r two nights and devoted the first afternoon and evening to her third fjon, Gardiner, mo j.s dancing at the City Center in their current opera season, though not on *ednesday. On Thursday he had only a very short appearance in the first act ox Rigoletto, so after Maisie ana I dined at the Cosmopolitan Club he met us to see "The Little x ugititre It is a delightful picture of a six or seven year old who is tricked into in,inking ue has killed his 12 year old brother, who had been set to "baby-sit" him during one mother's overni^it absence. The wee one "takes it on the lam" and turns up \l -^ones Island, where he has himself a time. When lie runs out of funds he finds^tnat ie can get the five cent deposit on soft drink bottles left about and the fun continues. It --.s
wonderfully well done and I recommend it heartily.

This was "movie" week with me as I took Miss Luek to di- ner at t-ne Town Fall Club on Monday and then we went to the Museum of Modern Art to see four xrxtxsh documentary films. "Road to Canterbury" in technicolor was lovely and took us along .i/atling Street in London on the old Pilgrims' Road through Southwark, Greenwich,Black-
heath Chatham with a ceremonial naval parade and the hopfields of Kent to ^ . Augus tine's Abbey and the Cathedral itself. Next I enjoyed best "Her Peop e Rejoiceci showing how subjects of the Queen celebrated her Coronation from Australia, ^yprus,
Nigeria, Hong Kong, Rhodesia to the Gold Coast. Of India it wee pointedly stated tnat there was no holiday there. Even with shewing some two doaen different types and places it was necessary to explain some had been left out. ixven as i must- ( mi. -/

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MOVMBER I4> 1953

Well, I have the feeling of at last getting down to brass tacks in the office

and plotting my own job for half the time. The other half will always be taken up by the

unpredictable, like the woman who telephoned me about three on Friday for help with talent

for a TV program in Buffalo for this Wednesday and the one from Minneapolis, ^ose call

for a speaker on December 1st arrived at 5;45 just as I was leaving the office for a cocktail

party. Of course, she had to have her answer^ "not later than Tuesday". Both these were

yesterday. The improvement comes in feeling that this sort of thing and unexpectedly called

staff meetings or buck~passing~on~the-part-of-collegues will now take half time instead of

a normal working day xvith my routine mail and interviews being pushed into overtime* I may

be kidding myself but I hope to see less of the office night watchman! I worked all day on

Wednesday, Armistice Day, and was well pleased with the result--though I teve again brought

home several hours worth of field reports to read. That meant I arrived at Tomi de Marffy* s

(Judith Listowel*s brother) cocktail party looking as if I had come to spend the night. He

leaves Wednesday for London and was paying back the "overwhelming hospitality "which had been

expended him with this party in a borrowed and very posh apartment. It- was pretty stuffy

and I only stayed half aryi hour--long enough to arrange for him to lunch with me Monday at

the Cosmopolitan Club and went on to dinner at Maria's where we had a lot to talk about. I

have had to decline her last two invitations and was anxious to see a portrait I knew she

is working on. She has stuck her neck out in painting a woman reading to her four year old

son immediately in a corner

^ade of v/indows, showing a sunlit garden. Tie

lighting is tricky, but I think it will come off.

We got into a great argument about Harry Dexter White, whom I ante interviewed and did not like, but whom I almost found myself defending. Being fearful of the things being done to us/"by investigation" I applaud Truman's refusal to answer the subpoena. So seldom do the investigators recapture the circumstances in which a decision was made that they would seem to tell all of today's administrators--'kif historical events of the next ten years "lake basic changes so that your policy is no longer applicable, you will be
adjudged a traitor". Does this not mean that only exceptionally selfless men --or fools*-- x ill -rake a decision? Tith Wiite dead this expose seems to warn the Russians that the FBI was suspicious of hi i all the time, when I feel we are stronger if the Communists are kept guessing as to how much v/e know about their operations. The Eisenhower speech in Ottawa today seemed utterly pedestrian to me, but I suppose we are least exciting to our best friends even at the personal level because it sounds platitudinous when the community
of interest is pretty inclusive*

The Ibn Baud obituaries have been long and as factuating to me at the story in last weeks Saturday Evening Post about the building of his railroad. Perhaps I v&s espec ially ir-te- euted he cause %e wanted Areen 'Hani, a grout f "-'end of : re, to e is foreign
minist r in the early 10'0. An impassioned Mohamedur ho a'e "t c' ear to Aieen that he too oust e brace Islam, which his etron^ Christian faith would not accept. Hence lieen continued to divide his time between the Lebanon and New York.

Thursday night I went down the street to New India House to see some pretty

amateur pictures of tL? summer's floods in India. I hat' to think h at u skillful Ah"o*' gray or cubic" have ten with that material. As it was, the pictures were diappointing, the

projector poor, the acoutistics of the former drawing room of the Orme Wilson home very

inferior. To make matters worse there were only about 50 people for 200 chairs and I was

very sorry for Arthur ball, the Consul Cere:.ML* *To\/ever I had a chance to h ar .s * n&

!Tenon in a little speech and cl at with him md grind an axe with Janet de Lalmanca of t e

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rud one or two other people# Better yet, I as home in time to write a

letter or two .

7 m f ling ' wy satisfied -.-'.th myself tonight. Practically a whole drawer in the red chest in my bedroom has been used to store the pillox which my musts me ".hen they go to bed. Today I shifted half the feathers into a new tick, bought some material for slip covers and now- the guests may have either truly thin pillow such as I like myself
a moderately fat one or both because in ret day time covers, ore o: black yd z :.e otner gold, will now live on the day bed and I can stow a lot of stuff in the daawer!

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^ ^l<-I)'*uM! November 21, 1953

Well, I have declared a holiday for me on Friday, the 27th, so as to have a four day break from the office hence there will probably be no chit-chat edition of the 23th, but I reserve the right to do so or not. This week in the office has in cluded rather more than the usual quota of "situations" including two collapses# One an older woman clerk--heart attack on her way home; the other a young woman of junior executive rank--hysterics in the office diagnosed as nervous exhaustion# Being a gre-t friend of my Miss Lusk, the latter was pulled out af a session with me which we had
been trying to have for weeks and in an hour had accomplished a lot with a collection of small items and were just about to get into some big things I wanted to turn over to her with instructions# husk has the patient spending the weekend and Mrs. Lusk told me on the phone when I enquired this morning that there had been a peaceful night# Well
pooped myself I had gone- to bed at ten with a sleeping pill and was awakendd at eight by ship whistles on account of the fog, and had to get up at nine to take a telegram for the office# Happily, I knew enough about it to dispatch the reply without going off to the office# For a bad twenty-four hours I thought I might have to run a quick "big dinner" for Magsaysay, President elect of the Philippines, in mid-December and
was depressed# Luckily his plans changed to defer his trip until after his inauguration*

In London they call it gog, but we are fancy and "an inverted air mass" has plagued us this week# My sinus drips, my voice is husky, every afternoon my throat is sore and in between times iy chest hurts from the sulphur dioxide and tar particles we all ard breathing. The radio happily speaks of the watch being kept on density and proclaims
that lethal density has not been reached# It is unclear what "they" can do if that happens.

There has not been time for me to read regularly the installments of Sir dinston Churchill*s "The Second World 'War", volume VI, currently appearing in the NaY<, Times, though I dip into it for a column or so on the way home each night# Yesterday's was so delightful that I was nearly carried past my transfer point. "Prime Minister to
Foreign Office, 23 Apr. 1945 I do not consider that names that have been familiar for generations in England should be altered to study the whims of foreigners living in those parts# here the name has not particular significance the local custom should be followed# However, Constantinople, should never be abandoned, though"Stupid people Istanbul may be written in brackets after it# As for Angora, long familiar with us through the Angora cats, I will resist to the utmost of my power its degradation to Ankara# 2. You should note, by the way, the bad luck which always pursues peoples who change the names of their cities. Fortune1?!ghtly malignant to those who break with the traditions and customs of the past# If we do not make a stand we shall in a few weeks oe asked to call Ley iom Livorno, and the B#B#C# will be pronouncing Paris 1Faree.r Foreign names were made for Englishmen, not Englishmen for foreign names." I
am tempted to try to get a record for Mir Winston of a popular tune, which greatly amused me some days ago when I heard it on the radio# While it went into several verses tae part I remembered was ,rtr ou can't go to Constan tinople, because its now Istanbul* "J
I wonder if he explains the difficulties of New York on having switched 'from Hiew Amster dam?

Wednesday night I went to "Moman Holiday"--a delightful, if overlong movie, laid in Home. I wish there had been more shots of vistas and buildings and fountains, tYou&
end fewer close-ups of Audrey Hepburn, who was excellent, and Gregory Feck in clinches# TlmrseV-'y after the FPA ioard meeting Vers and I popped into a taxi and whipped up the
Hast diver Drive, which was incredibly beautiful with an almost full moon on the w her and lights on ships, scow tugs and shore slightly fuzzy from the fog, which was just-
beginning to build up for its night time bedevilment of traffic--air, land and water# Vile had an amusing dinner with the 17 year old Bill provider! by the black, ancient Julia cP h than e one serious talk together# Finally got to an a ecu rati on made against her" of not thinking o" the past, v 'ch we kicked around on the levels of advantages and motives of those who dwell on the past in contradistinction of those \'h o live only in the pre sent and ft )se hio primarily base their lives on the future# No conclusions reached

JTULHI,

*

- be- ' 1953

My four day-break from the officehas been a great success* I went Thursday morning to Martha and Cleve having salted the traditional almonds here on Tues day evening* From the standpoint of weather, and otherwise, it was a lovely day and we all had a fine time together and did ample justice "bo the superb turkey and other comestibles Martha provided. The little boys rather expected to be bored and were delighted not to beI Passing up Fifth Avenue on my way home I realised that the shops are all set for Christmas* My favorite outside decoration was the Lord andTaylor cascade of lights spilling down the eleven floor front and am happy that they have repeated it this year* There is a globe of small white lights added this year by way of topknot, symbolism of which I must determine* Other shops seem to have addpted the multitude of small lights idea and the suspension theory# Altman lias filled the upper part of their many large Fifth Avenue windows with quantities of colored Christmas balls ranging in sixe from that of an orange up to a large cabbage. These hang oil fine -wires at different elevations and on various planes-- very effective and. in no way interfer with models displaying coats and dresses. Only the early birds have gotten things fixed so far, and X look/ forward to the unfolding pageant* ."V.v shops have had good sales this autumn and all are out to lake it up in a big December* I fancy that the so called bargains will be numerous. The Better Business Bureau has already advised consumers to "shop around". "Except for the little boys most of my small souvenirs of Christ r,,s are trifles I managed to pick up abroad, so my problems are at a. minimum. Praise Allah.
1v,iday I managed a lot of little errands that just do not fit into life at Lastv46th Street and the traffic between First Avenue and Fifth -- new lampshades for the galley and the light by my telephone, the narcissi bulbs, which should have been put into pebbles two weeks ago, bowls to replace the iadespensible Chinese alee "'crals now zo hard to find and frightfully expensive when discovered. Nothing exciting, but all so satisfying to have again. When I returned the mail had brought the "Country Life Annual" from a bookseller in Oxford, sent by'Tracy I assume as he has a fascinating article beautifully illustrated with colored plates on the "Mountains of the Moon" (Equatorial Africa which he has explored) , At any rate I'll thank him* It is a delightful issue with a wide variety of articles on English country houses, flower encrusted china, Chinese snuff-bottles , old clocks, paper weights and at least three dozen others. I am anxioust o see what the author of "Shortcomings in Garden Design" has to say for himself! I spent a charming eevening with it and have lots more to enjoy. Last weekend I read "Persian Adventure" --a tale of a young American woman who went to Iran after seven years of marriage to visit her husband's family and ended up by marrying him over again in a private Mohamedan ceremony. I have just about fin ished "A Prisoner of the Khaleefa--Twelve Tears' Captivity at Qmdurman" by Charles Meufeld covering a worm's eye view of the Soudan during the last years of the 19til Century* Omitting all background and perspective for the world setting, he has left ne with a great need for knowing more about the setting. I've had this bock for years and an not quite sure how I came by it#
The photc-ewgravurs are on on strike and other newspaper union people will not cross the picket line, so there were no evening papers last night and today there is only the Herald Tribune* When I went downstairs to pick mine up I wandered over- to the park as its a lovely sunny, crisp day ana for the^nrst time scJw the out of door srtificol ice scJcting rink that has been in operation for several vears. It is large enough to take a lot of pressure off tne one at Rockefeller Plaza. I watched a couple of Asiatic elephants beg for popcorn and^ saw the sealions perform for their pail of fish rid noted that several s.^I ani mals I do not know have teen added since my last inspection. , snou-d So more

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@ M i i D e c e m b e r13, 1953

BBuut /mmy f'CZhwrisTM tma8s dcitairdns wlei^th tJh?e9keaxncdepPtiroanctoicf aslolymenwonheeym ailed of the is,sue of ^Noovvaemnobeerr .2.9J

r shall . seer how mi uch r I weaj r its-Srv ^nter, TM has been delive- red an- d we

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drift into the main session with advisers and nJf,,wi tion for recessing the session and fZ+ h s + ^

^

WaB fun to se8 Papls

87 w8re debatiilS the resolu-

Vishinsky speaking in Hessian a^d ufdeTM^^ tu Cl8fr,away 8 Polisb am^dment. I heard

translation, Katz-Suchy 0f Poland spoke T"nei ih*'earfhone providing simultaneous

had to be translated for me Ts

"* ^aa f India' anotil9r Pola

both members of the US delegation nnd a i

SJ, f a3

"^e negro Carey of Chicago,

wore an underdressof dartfa 1TM e9nt8 ;rarth' **. Pandit '

the right shoulder and once when'Andrew Oordier ^h

a;k' mth a whita sari over

Menon was signalling to be recognised Imut+Zd

JT!. aS31stanSher pointed out that

At 3:30 she left the session iS She heLr^ ^ ?h,?d .eame Padntly over the earphone,

out to meet Eisenhower. Everyone rose when'+b

ne ^lceTMPreidents and was escorted

Eisenhower was paler San hHhould hLfb" thep returnad a

"-i^tes before four.

were deceiving. He delivered his speech with -rest restraint B9raluda'.^nless the 1*8^0

found impression which won him a very real ovation g Z an4 "ineereity, making a pro-

almost to the podium to make three little hTM- h #+

much so tnat he rose and returned

ward, he was led out by tte US delegates (^o n F^ter

f ^ aud"ri' After-

for a reception in the delegates lounre

iSf u ^ I9" l90 ng very Sd-'mt ^ tirad)

ieal order and he passed do-m the Hm shaking h nd ?+b9a9fi del9Satio" sat in alphabet-

scuttled over to the frees ZoTt^Tel^lt^TtZT

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only to find that almost eve^one had A Tff Z ^ t e t r A ^ T . ^

the

citisen whfbZ^

J?"* M ?inds hitmtevrot^eorftab"1** Brauer-

outstanding job in rehabilitati.ni? th+ b m T'fl Ge'rnan/> in 1946 and has done such an

cent election and decked to comf here ^Lf \r0d 0"? ' Brauer ^ <wt in the rt

I had arranged for him to speak in New lort

Ghdldr9n 0Ter Christmas,

off the ship and his doctor son idPT"sbrgh and a.sveland. On Dee. 1 he got

do a gall bladder operation, but I Ld fbusv timP "J:'

faking." iguees they will

addressed. Wednesday afternoon I went to a

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me9tinS8 he "as to have

bathing suits and cotton drZes made' of (which Turkey introduced to Europe'and

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Presented --tulip

vers and conventional Turkish embroidery designs sian?Jher of their native flo

or two Turkish gannents were adapted S toerS^n Z

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tast- ne

Nun Eren, has expanded into a new direction. AfteZrd

IT TU d0"e *"d ^ Turk

ite Turkish hors d'oeuvre--tissue thin pastry filled with b

and on of ^ faror-

and my Dictaphone, where I stupidly worked Tntil lr+aT * ^"f9 and W9nt baek to the office

the point of diminishing return for me.

91ght 9'l^--whioh is well pa3,ed

of the North Atlantie^ct with '^r^i-'

"'T* for the BtaP"--4th anniversary

interest to a piece in the ScLber^Zr's"" TZlTV^r'0^

US> M ^

took to revamp the British mail, which then invoiced

I

1837 Rowland Hi-H under-

systam Vnich we toe followed of Jav^g the reliplent^he' +f b9okk99PinS through the of a cheap and unifrirm charge Daid fr b- . l f, p ,y the *hsta69 through the introuetion

01840 and post office bu.SsTAi^l^do^ n^ 3taaPS' Britaia ad^9d '-- in

collector while one in twenty in Europe L not a ^lleZo^6'/31"30" ^ " h9r " 8 ataoP