Frances J. Pratt Letters on the U.S. Foreign Policy Association, 1956-1957

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I was too distractid +o oven.-t: ink what now leaves should be turned over ur.txlw._is.'.

and nor 11 is toe late. ;Aunt Annie or,.e on the 2And 9ud the.next day v.e

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Jim-where we had a lovely ,Christmas. Eve.rvone Vas in good health gpd hi "9 spirits. u.e

little bovs were particularly good in being willing to'cben one present only before we went

to nine o'clock service. At the Family .JTnrsbip service. 1 experienced for tie first time

t^e practise of having those who rere not to receive cc uinnx.on going to the roil too* to oe

fclesse*}. Bill sat next, me and while very good,'his seven year eld attention scan is limited

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cervice to which Jim, hartha, Clove and Clevoe went'. Aunt -Annie;.-Holly and' I. as well as J v

fr-nkly admitted fatigue and rent tc bed. The Scnviile s-and the lleve Pratts c..me. for

cocktails after we had opened all cur presents.) In the "lete afternoon Aunt Annie ma - .u-it

with 31eve to Fran*s'new .house; for supper. After e.month*s..delev in delivery -er pew

Living room f rniture 'xd seen .'"slivered end'toey were rean.lv seutleo.. err, i.s,s tocth

and a half and after playing a bit was taken of? for bed, out made ehp.t! er m.earruC'.. i:yc,

..fire red pajame. suit with; matching' old fashioned night can, which ma.de fiimTook like a _tiny

gnome* For as long as I can remember we, have cold--Vo ut ten degrees at night and selc-.cm .
more than ?f* by day. Fortunately the dag after a horrid storm c snow and dleet there was

enough warmth to get rid of the stuff, so at least the tangled traffic;. was not fiaeardcus.

There- never'was time" for. me to ge Christmas decorations, even the Ch-iatmns cards ;he(d; in be stuck in an old large square, rlrss fr.uit. dish on the mantel. ?,or she family luncheon* yesterday v:e oianrged to string 'up candy cr-nos en the fire screen arid th.en I forgot no ask the boys - to take- themi Fart of my lack of time involved: pre-31'-Tstmas tr: gedy. : rs. y-aphn d been shopping in- Greenwich and stodd"'on - the curb waiving tc cross the street, ?.y S, mail ^ truck went out "of control, struck her and -ended in a drugstore v/indo;v. -She never regained consciousness. Oh the.20th several of us'from the office took t e, 12:oC .tri. .n to phi_ qeltv.ij end attended the Kemdrijsl Service in the Friends'.meeting fl'ouse on the Swcrt'vo-o c-vrps. It was a stirring experience^. The'first tsie.n who v.'g.s moved to b'rlak, the ve>"" be utiful sir ' 1er.ees said re hyd gethered to lament, y-y' tribute j'rtd console. lie then spoke; r pjotest
and' revolt with which "on greeted death (plainly stating'his objection to the rOd o-,,...1'be-done-schccl), the reriod of readjustment and the final acceptance or rc.:.-r-t:.cr. It v/fis
beautifully, anc must have beer, of help to John an'^'th.eir two sons. The t rse of\.t. er, :..re^ 'mef.nv.kile skiine at -v.eir su-uor home in the Adirondacks. This week th# sons return to theiz*.
respective boarvinr scl.ool s nd college and he rill come ack to the o rice, ooo.r ma- . ^.oth.er large portion of mv time went to Larry and Isabel. ..e met him at the pier y.s citter cold day he/ arrived--Dec. 13, a dav late from, storms. After the tears -tkrt mornivg I saw none
'others, though .I''was with six of the eight, evenings . they, v.er.e'here,... ^ftsu juctyvve v..reo

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and very rr.uch at;the.:last minute ..or;/rev bulliv n ..t '.t with ue. he is an excellent -ecnnician/ tut I fciv.t .hi:: jtrscnaliiy unpleasihg. It was a .splendid concert, u: .:i..e, aocart (which he did less well) end Tschaikovsky I could pot help one wring vv;e,v one gues artist thought of ccr.tri ' ; his services toward the pension fuV.d of telloy. mU'siOians ih a ri'mch capitalistic country. ' After a glass of tea at the Russian Tearoom, down 57th utreeo irw.. from Cr.rnegie T all,we ran'right, into "ire apraratus anrivinc 'or a very miner daze, ine excitement was fph, even if it delayed oui getting out cf his titter cold in a taxi.
Last Friday Aunt Annie had a nice tea party - t . ::.y]m-;:yr'to .vhrch .runt i o..y .,as well enough to<go.. It was wonderful to have Aunt Annie'- he"1; w:-.t!.: yesterday's 1 o.\( .n-^ She ordered all the food and-even toted ho c the plum pudch'. -y, loh Fired got a gre- t krew from 1addling the buvirg brandy over. Sue left v is uov rv;. . Li ter ... go wo h|r .^uj.les. .

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Since the last chit- si at ended on ry going off en ;; hitter cold teller;;gfterrocn

to meet with Ir. Dulles i-h;an. off-the-record session in .1 ict he; did nothing- to brieft^n the dim' view I have held'for many years, it is appropriate; to "segin . -' +1 - lev; ccv. outs

on the "Brink of War" story. First may 1 remind, jcii of the deep friendship tgtwbejy hisf and henry Luce illustrated by my story of Luce's discarding the results of the poll - nd

personally appointing JFD the TUS man of the year. -IToy; 'the story is that f'o Luce minion

had: a, few minutes vdth the"Secretary of State and through a top State Department li ire a man with .a. reputation for excessive' drinking .as given access to quantities of private, cor.fider.tic.1 and/or "top secret" documents for the preparation of his last week's story.
It is truethat ilr. Dulles did not 30a the -result but for obvious reasons felt he. had.-to stahd^befdhd it. Personally I do not bl^r.e the British press lor calling hin in effect e poor hlstorian and-,?, worse diplemtist. And while. ^ e are at it, yen may be interested that the early December (Soa statement was carefully fre- -ed in ithe -State Department to refer to the Portugese island of Macoa off the coast of China near Korig hong nnf -Gqa was-tur n in at the last moment, to please the visiting Fortrgese-Foreign Secretary .it;.cut consider ing the effect of this bilateral statmerrfc 'on the Iridic ns, nor the' frubtutions on the part of the staff who created the statement for quite a different delicate gitupytic U It is
sad th-at this is now all being treated here ?s partisan' politics. The cue bright nq'to in

wi|p. today's early morning- news was thrt Sir Ant- tny L'den has- emerged, frem cloud east over-him by attacks from fellow Conservative ;Pertj<'members. Between drought in much of 'the. t"J -uid floods along the Pacific Coas'tvplus killing cold, for the Florida ci'trr.3 country and ether portions of the deep south, it is trivial to mention we hays had' still mother visitation,

of glare ice.

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.The Israeli lis'sicn is building up to a crescendo 'with official thrive! - j&qik i'rom today- .a'ven three hours at my deck on Saturday on t'op of several Ite nights, this week hrs riot-"uns.c'ramble'd my $0$ oS.-Pf-OfAimcem comp4limcma>t-4ions. A\ 1loXn'vvgr-.'-tfei'cllergnr-Vanmri i '" ta~. +t B's Ai.5R*; t+hV:i4sCl m mOoTrTnTing TID'-'aCdirV deiPdr1,

a difficulty for one speaker, when I anticipated, a wire ironing out a wrinkle in tie itin

erary cf another. Actually T am working on eleven "tours" of which five are transcchtin-

. ental, the ethers;are only to Colorado, Arizona, innesote or Louisiana,. Ay beautiful red

headed temporary assistant has a smiling attitude end is a joy tcyvcrl: . it>, but so halve

that she has gotten rie into a c-'uple of messes which yu tienit checking on my part

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avoided. 1.in - L"sk has' had a set-hock, hrt her fefcily 'think ehq will be released, frciit the

hospital in 'a couple of weeks and back in the office a uuok later; "ready vcr ycie job". I

wonder when she will be able to carry her full loadA .'y tope of going to Atia tic City : or

a seminar with the Israelis January 2.6, 2" and 28 followed by tv o rnd, t. half days, m the,

office and then a couple of-days with them in .Ve at ingion seems fatuous. But if hfli don't

.hear from me, it ccitid be that I'm ajunkettinr-;'.

meanwhile to keep my balance' I am y- "doping at odd moments. The Dirt or..hyacinth, cults Franz sent are highly; successful. Pots started "in the dark, in. the-li-..t, in . i.r condition ing wit; cut sun end here too much heat by day plus sun and too little heat at night all show
variants. Seme mimosa seeds have sprouted hero and one will soon go to the 021100 to try. its luck with the eir-conditicning. The olive pits as yet "show no signs 01 genpinj t..cn.

Thursday Dorothy.Thompson told me about her recent trip, to Rftpsir. oyer luncheon. Site

is indignant. at the ornate marble walled, parquet floored, satin damasked upholstereo, uni

versity ter.nanted bynaimed students without artifice,! limbs. As a -larr.er herself she quar

rels with the State fr it; with eight operations including drinking fountains tor. hens w:oa

produce 120 eggs- n-year and no *ater in the workers' self owned cottages made of logs, fh'e

books show 24^ -for labor,.27^ profit and almost an equal sou for "expansion". Wednesday

.q+.i;ar+. 01 oete. author 'of "Africa Giant" spoke at the Off the hecord ladies- lunci.eon. ,b c ng '

other illustrgt:ive stories; twins are killed in tribes as abnormal, the devil must be le

fatl or of

a. h--dJ s-.i-nAciAe +t>he,,Ay cannot tel-3P-W''WchiM, bHoItBhBaWreIHkBilBleWd^BtoWbBeBsBaBfBe,WM/.W he|eplBs |BirB.k|nBcHvnB-I-|l

so two men lift a loaded wheelbarrow to herd' of third v// o: carries it .oO,qes 1.-04 ' ere two more remove it on the theory the "- arrow is just some r.\orv c.-. the. white ng.n^3 honsense

to be ciw-' with, he bemo-ns Africa1" ccncertrciivr in study -.oro-d in law, meo.ic:.ue

reli; ion to exclusion cf engineering, architecture," agronomy, etc. A em^irig person, but

nneevveeir ttoeau.cwhiecdu ov-n.. tS area of tie A. fric7an, develop en ent he wps only one cf the week's minc-v; frustrations.

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The notion I would spend t h e weekend wrux. >.oily end flip, coj o ml Ibex t|fb la.--, in Stony Brook they plan to'build a hOWSQj on catr>e to naught...a ni'ols on ridrv

the burner flame mount a foot and A"-.-mil -- grout m. s< ce.

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proverbial plfimber did .not k-ve tie riirht tools. T-ia-d r-.n-w date #itY :for-

on February 1st, up T- Iie.v.e now abandoned- tie1idea...of going to ..as ingioh m it any. xti.ll

expect to leave er.Viy t'ls Thursday for Vtl-r.tic tity, v..ere I bepe .to break. tea .inoeolec-

' tupl rrorrrm sot there with a couple of swims. in the-'It el .'rayricre pool. Tfin no r.c .._

shall be working i itk the Israelis daily for eirtt deys. In between tares I s t-3 xrnsn

reading Rabbi Irving filler's book Israel-Tha Iterne-l Heel" and- .ritii^.r 4 ncr*. review

of i t / ' In DecefcSer I road T r o l l o p * ' " M n a 11 : J 1--_ f i r - t ;; u M i nsd ::n 166 6 - - hd i r -

pretation of life in the"Prague- ghetto rid the opposition to the -rlurrr-age m.

Christian girl to a Jew, Neither <50 imurrity - ii'-v-r, but nbturrlly love won ''-/MO JWM$

ocu.ple departed for Frankfort where the Fhinelani firms took, a more tolerant nsi. o,.

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Tnoh sigh of relief, which the whole office gave when our urplic- tioi:ufco, the Ford
Foundation for eleven million dollars for t,.e next ten ye-rs was submitted, had'.-seareel/ been exhaled when bason and Allport were summoned to 'provide more 'data, Last week -ve are in a turmoil again with digging for facts, drafting.and polishing material were adoed to the normal daily dozen chores. It amused me to have company in my after hours work. Three or four eleven hour davs progressed mv private juggler's activities, furthered the^ Speakers Bureau c~n+*-<hution to the Great Decision's Program and included .DO.-icy discussions on the Israeli Mission. Although we committed ourselves to this about a year ago. to cud sen the Arabs on the. Near East-Asia. Mission of last serine and the Board of Directors Oh d it there has been movement stierhe'a.ded by ariii-3emite& to welsh qn it now- 0.. coin so, recent events have made ..the time bad with.emotions .running nigh but or mono, s I --/c'y worked steadily to keep the thing, on constructive and educational lines and "3 p:m,vent
Mission members from getting in the hands of fund raisers for militrsv aid.

Our Drecicu3 former Secret- ry of- the EPA died last ween in her9G.th_ year--a ijeliei? to. her.Through failing eves and eg rs and a restricted regime impossed' cp a lsoi t.-rpixcus, .
she had told me' repeatedly of her I reparation for death, it was no. hard ,o write. resolution for-the 'Board-'of Directors, of which she had continues, zp be a faithful member, since it i-.s a Drivelege to have worked ,:-tk bar for eleven ; osrs and seen ner as often
' as possible for4 encther IP. The board liked u-y trc.f t j.upnlv.

The results of s recent poll . on curucl.-uoi-g in the F.S. is interesting. It is on vne

UD-swing* w i t h 4 3 ^ o f m e n-g o i n g and-54;.: o f women, D u r i o u e l i r .5S/, c o l l e g e -o r e u G n r ,

cr.lv 4V ' cf these' X ho have cniv gr. i sohoel 4eiuoution.

tctai p^y^Ch-^p y? ,

Dencieir/llv 74y hc.v,n Cuth.clicr. attend,

Protestant go no Service -- o f

the Jews "work" I t their religion. The geographic distrieut-cn of vce: . nice is g r -

haps influenced bv distances involved in getting to a church: -,-East 5.V . -u. east ....

South 51% and fnar hest 3?v. " I had exi acted t h e "Bible B e l t " t o do. -euuer fcmn t t .

Grden bash' s little poem uluit t. e bins-of omission and those, ofco; iieuucn

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been running through my head 1- telv. I am so haunted by all tk.se t xngs 1-me-.n-oo-.ao^

and don't ihv'. I am gettinr; crick in m.v neck from hanging tar - o-.d in shame, l s^^tjrt

deliberatelv covmiting a few sins and bore that I can h|ve -vmugh fufc dPing^io GO

,ho situation. Cne dav %on. we had verv high humidity ousnu

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'same rigafc&rol.a all'over again!aftd the date for today .a

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^ia .shaded spot's and the last hour- 6i- so' fields re

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. several incb'esV' " i r Tr'r.yr.oro is a gigantic place cr. f e Boardralk f i t ! pleasant puhlip .

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I t lead p.e to the' conclusion t i - t the vipp'st enemy of Israel after tie Arch Jt^ tss is tho

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burr to shot and sleet or Sundry afternoon.

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Tvoewriter by courtesy of Molly, where I am spending the weekend. The snow which covered the landscape when I arrived last night is prac tically gone after a night of heavy rain. While we have not had the dis#istroL weather which has tortured Europe in recent weeks, there has been a most disagreeable succession of rapid ehanges--quick deep freezes and strong wind followed by thaws and accompanying fog. Wednesday era circled LaGuardia for an hour before her plane could come in for a landing thraigh the muck. Last weekend I was with Martha and Cleve, which was particular ly interesting because of the high percentage of stuff on the TV about the difficulties in Alabama over desegregation and the resulting passions. My feeling is that it will take two generations to achieve the Supreme ourt ruling and attempts to do it tomorrow will create a series of incidents, whi which in the long run will only delay the progress and create nasty incident Martha told me of the ezperienee of her brother-in-law, who is the head of Pinehaven, the large new TB San in Charleston, South Carolina. He and his very fine dietician decided that they would have a single kitchen to serve the same food to black patients and white alike. Pretty soon it was observed that largely untouched trays were being returned from the negroes and then doctors noted that these patients were failing rather than gaining. They returned to the two menu system, preparing hominy grits, chick Peas and greens cooked in ham fat for the blaeks. At once morale improved and patients* weight mounted. I ha te to think how someone who did not underthe problem could wirtc a scandal story about the low cost food served to colored while the white patients enjoyed erab souffle and other imaginative foods. This particularly bothers me at the moment as I have an Englishman wandering around the Deep South now and shall soon have a Turk and a Yugo

slav.

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The luncheon for Secretary of State Herbert Hoover, Jr. was a great

success from the standpoint of the over 1100 people we drummed up for aud

ience, at least 750 men, but the speeoh was no better than I had feared.

He is a chip off the old block, though slightly less constrained. When I

cha tted with him before hand I noticed he wore a hearing aid and wondered

what that might do to his quality of voice. Seemed to make no difference.

He had just returned from Germany and thinks Adenauer is a wonderful leader,

and made a big plug for the liberation of East Germany and its reunification

with the Germany Republic. He failed to put any life into his manuscript.

Wednesday Nuri Eren spoke to 135 women at the Off the Record luncheon and

did a beautiful job on "Is the Middle East a Tinderbox" He put the area

in historical perspective through analogy with the Balkans in the early

pa rt of this century and upsurge of nationalism in the area with the com

bined result of the impact of the modern world and flexing of muscles of

the common

who no longer regards himself as an ant , but as a hymen

being. I was amused to hea r his quoted by a woman in the Cosmopolitan

Club lounge that evening where Larry and I were having a drink before

dinner at "Salt of the Sea " in hohor of Ash Wednesday. He is much more

relaxed and is having some diversified conversations which might lead to

very interesting and useful assignments in Madrid. It is hoped that

Isabel will be badk in ten days and he will sail on the 29th*

While the Israelis are still causing certain alarums and exouriicns for me, I am beginning belatedly to work on some of my other "tours". While I am as busy as I have been all winter, the general office tempo is acoelerated and I sense signs og mass revolution. Tuesday on the way to the office a fter an overlate evening with Larry, I decided to leave the office soon after five. I stopped diotating at 7:25 and then was not through only fatigued. Need I say more? The week before I had an amusing time at a Pakistan cocktail party and then had a late dinner with Maria, Hank and Larr Hfctton, the man from Kuala Lumpar, who talked his way from Calif* has hit ^

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PROFILE OF THE WEEK

February 20, 1956

FRANCES JACKSON PRATT

...When she goes home at night, Frances Pratt walks up 77 steps. She may then look out over Roy Howard's backyard as she cooks her sausage over a ring of natural gas. She has been converted, these past weeks, to natural gas with all that implies. Once she was caught in the tub and then again she found herself in one room and her spectacles in another. Her 64th Street apartment has a worn carpet and one can observe, on the ceiling, the stripes that exclaim old age. One gleans these things from conversation; one has never seen it. One suspicions that there are plants about and fruit in the icebox....

...One also suspicions that she is rarely home. She is sensibly not the first into the office, but she is invariably the last to leave. The mysteries transacted amid the greenery behind her closed door have been a source of speculation for years. It is simple; she is working. And the work she does
is of so unique and complex a nature (Get Wriston out of Tuscaloosa. No plane, train, car. Must be in Memphis midnight. Mrs. Wriston? Cai Thai Bao fruit
juice. Check, Call Waldorf 1500 for lunch. South Bend needs John D. Rocke feller) that we cannot grasp it. If she is peevish and brusque, and she some times is, it is because she is pressured and doing ten jobs at once. With
all due respect to assistants and secretaries, it is her accumulated knowledge of the field and her work, rare and invaluable, that is the Speakers Bureau....

...Things happen to her. A Spanish bullfighter gave her an ear. If, pre occupied, she lights a cigarette and tosses the waved match into a wastebasket the trash ignites and she stomps it out with her foot. She can put more let ters on a dictaphone belt and more belts on a stenographer's desk than any
other human alive, and they are interesting letters. Aside from her overworked Many thanks for... she is religiously clear of cliches, managing remarkable
clarity with color. She has worn out more secretaries than anyone else in the office by sheer dint of her energy. She cannot abide fools. By the same token, her honest "Mea culpa!" to a stenographer is music to the ears, she considers the Speakers Bureau "a window on the world" and any typist who sits in on her letters to Chester Bowles or Mde. Pandit a very lucky fellow indeed.
As he is. she is a tough taskmaster, and she is not unaware of the excellence of her training....

...God help you if you incur her wrath. Like a great actress, she can flat ten with a word, a sigh, a glance. It is difficult to take any statesman seri ously ^fter she has turned and whispered, "What do you suppose he puts on his
hair? But in times of strain or illness, she is the best friend one can have. In routine matters, her extreme sensitivity to tension in others tells her exactly when it is time to drop, with her superb delivery, a joke, and she knows some lusty ones....

...She ran the length of Calcutta for a few words with Mahatma Gandhi and left impressed with a sense of power. England holds a large measure of her affection and one suspects she would rather be at Garsington Manor, with the
eeler-Bennets, than anywhere else on earth, unless it is with her nephews on
Long 1siand. she is quick to lend books, if she believes there is enjoyment n it for you, and has no sense of time about returning the ones you lend her....

...Her bone structure is like a million dollars and at any evening gathering she is something to see. Her charm lies in her interest, her knowledge of a

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my secretary.? fcr sir months \ year ag<S and h'aa now -gYalress^d to a better - 3 ' .'c , Jim Has rlev-writing astir:,iiens and is SR.Id to erodi.ee t' o -two ',?gc "-' x.ilv "'-xxx.e" on Lis o\m' oife to keen His 3 and in on the creative sp be. ..L'.lo it is, of course, onlv i or office ccmsumptior., - I asked Tor a fef; cr.tra copies i id. the thong] L x..L it
might amuse you.

Tie general restlessness throughout, the country tugxndered by the uncortaiv.iy

ccncerning Fresident Eisenhower'sdec-xuxn, . 3o

fully ex,.act will he to servo

rigsin, Toe general' uneasiness rbc"t deshgreg: tixn :v" peiFhiysg a .bed to ;x

pterin

across the face of ,the sun. seems to be- reflected.. on my -ntidy xfesk by an increasing

number of emerge.icy eii'd on t - whole almost inad reguests for so sellers, Aodut ..if

past four-on Thursday a little t* -i in .Peril:.rd (Paine) telephoned thai someone else

v'as supposed 'to "have- writ'tor me weeks ago it ui a Stealer fcr ICO- high:'school students,

on'he.rch .6.. "is '.encLmu". hi d- failed to do so at ..uuld'l deliver speaker ;.it.T name"

and material for publicity in -'8 'nunc? I be met:'x.eu -..-rnteo :U'.V ese rccde picture me

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as sitting idly at a Vig. clem desk just v:--iti".; tc acr:L.t into'action upon- t. c receipt

of suck little chores. T3.x fact that they offer 'o "-it and grudgingly say thoy will

: pay travelling ex. erses'if necessary doe9 Kt hf.ke Jx e ret rest easier tc till. It

be.Draneck that st^t^e exrer.se of not working.on ad meeting in Vermont to be n'eli on 3 rob

15, a 'speaker Cor Portland xas signed up in 21 i urs.* The irony r-'s t -t she Portl^id man -. |

could rot-be located to accept a collect iel-: chore Call on Friday? i at. must neods -stew

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in- his own juice over,.the'weekend before La.receive:, m' led terl .not-er recent prize

is a plea from 'Seattle' for. "ai.ru, Irgsrybav o.Pandit, for early Ifa Inci'dexbiy,

the plans sr.8 and- I' talked about in'London for. her to be tare; in Feopufiry',co e to haugh|

I'suspect tint; American Legic-n, prassure- cn 1ft Turd x or x.e .xxu.lic cou.o trem to can

cel the 'elaborate TV program the xd 'coritemplatsd. and invited 'nor to ccme over dor.

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lianth is receeding leaving -in its. wake diunxer of floods u -.d avalaxc esl we -.ave . ac. out

upe end downs ti,ie week. There lias so ny.ci xo do d.i.t T 3.-.1 to x - nd . few i x in - ~

office on ..o,i'jCi..gtcnts. 3 iri! dry. deccita' our'.:'.iggx.r,dly l-nd-'drd's refu'sxl to suv-cl he 3nThe worst of our steel furniture in tliat it becomes icy or/d .. touch sends si - feus xxrough The body. 'dev..rd;siess a fev/ projects roceivex. attention ".-edore.Larrv c x..e up i;... x to

a Into lunc'.eon. I had ola'-ned to take 3 i.. to t3..o delegu.tes ;'in3x, r : -.t Cn



ra'8 clagrihed to find it find the' Press'"x,r.'octh-clcsed. d..though it- was;toucnrng. tngt the

T33 made this bow to-an American 3.clid?.y. T'-e b-uilfjux's were*'filled . dm grpdS'-S cl scnocl

cl.ildren being given Tt- ggihsu teen pud^briefiifg. We listened in f -r n moment to ti

ry.esti.cns being asked ' v a group' of; very ydfne sea-sccnte in t';e balcony 'cd the ipxem!

Assembly c :: c r "d heard ono ten year old ask 'b.i.tn do we eat? "--R -

pu.eS.t ' at it

was t3 en al-xat two o'clock. Larry new has Passe.cc fcr March Cth .,nd extcc ftt tc

arrive f'rem Pennsylvania this ccniiig'Tuesday, fhen he .had a r.'nvsical c3 eck-up - e ddoctr

told IhLra that it u. s suite common, in grief tc have rdrevens:.]. rf ,t;-o sleep pattern -'x. -rc video pills to stir,viate ' itn by dav and oil err to act as sedative-bv uw..L. T..c lt*.K
da net seer: to be as effective as the former.'; Last r:.r'-.t we h: a di. ner at Vers's

as she Lad to '.-be an errly plane dx'.s. ...or .3.ok ." r a xd , rogru:.: in oyracuse.ou T.V8V

to dcf'.ester, I drag?n-d I.ix off at a fairly respectable hours -..'ith

bribe of g, bottle

of.Black'Cherry 3'o-Cal hero, "be ct' talking-3-.r.r!'ii was 2:10 x3 en 1 get tc be'd, -x-d cer

tainly bad no -need 'fcr eny aid to sleep until noon.

To I needdtddsay tk.a't t e acciu .-

It tier chores n; d projects after two weekends "at Freeport is mphnt-aincus "d 3. x .

better be a"" ,tnem. right t. is xiruiei

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sxce eon;- accruer* ... I, an seriously Ccncider*ng regxii;- 3und-- no fiast . .d

chocolrves once a week. Io t!at cricket?

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^eorii r that the lar-oalis r-i bK resent"'mi as' the "rother cd e "-'ussein ; rtemi,-dcrexgr.

rister cf Iron pntil the "rloVbd ich ult^mPt%!|V'ieafl '-0 ..is death* I steered bis wnut.

Years aeo bail r our ;-v:as. governor of ar south Persian prhvinqS without medical inoil.. .en .

He huilt with h i | own picsr.ev -"0 rifts of friends a b/l .bed hospital;'. I t r.ov .ins



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r frrosntrinr;) he is en nuthcx-itY.;pri'islam and a great nan. heedless to urv - 'T>: .o r: than repaid for the time I scent t i l l dim r.r.fil - the Israelis cay.g. t on nd toon nxc o^o--. - .

March 4, 1956
Today both .Tim and Jay have birthdays, but I must count on their following -the "important holiday" pattern of celebrating events falling on Sunday are noted on Monday. At any rate that is when they will receive my gestures. The special pressure of last week was the third unveiling of the DECISIONS..USA program which has had the office by the ears for months and probably tail for some time to come. Thursday there was a luncheon and speaker followed by a panel of seven with moderator for the benefit of some 200 people presumably working in world affaire education. We aimed for 100 and had to do some fast shifting as the registration mounted in the last days,
Yesterday was beautiful and springlike ...the first pleasant Saturday since I can't remember when. Having forgotten to cash a cheok on Friday I settled for some "little" shopping...,coffee (price up lOg again), cards for my shut-ins (Mies Luek is still peeling from her measles of a month ago and after five months in the hospital gives no news of discharge), a toaster for the new stove. Then I went to the office for three hours to sort out my desk ind dictate one belt. In another week we should know where we stand on the FPA request for a grant from the Ford Foundation and will have a vast number of con ferences on how to spend whatever they give--or how to survive in case we get nothing. It would be heaven if I could get caught up before hand.
Gradually I'm catching on to the proper use of the natural gas, viiich has caused me so much anguish. It does cook more r pidly and makes it dangerous for me to put some thing on and then go off to other pursuits. The new toaster of yesterday's purchasd was not whooly successful, but as I only bother with toait on Sunday not very important. The intriguing thing is that the gas comes from Texas arid is piped 1,800 miles to me, Oil wells long since used up in Pennsylvania have been prepared for reserve tanks so that for periods of extraordinary consumption in New York these resevoirs are out-in to suuply the need. Theoretically , and I regret to say only so, this keeps our pressure even, I must confess that on occasion my slow simmer flame has gone out, Another reason to keep track of how the cooking goes.
Monday night Fr*n FcPheeters of the English Speaking Union went with me to the Cos mopolitan Club to hear Philips Talbot on India. He pointed out that the Indian popula tion feels that Nehru's word is law in their foreign policy and therefor cannot grasp Eisenhower's not having the same authority and become confused and impatient at the many voices with which the USA speaks, Santha Rama Rau wearing a beautiful Moslem green banded with gold sari introduced him in her flat monotone voice. Wednesday I went to Maria's teaching studio on Madison Avenue to welcome Isabel back over a drink. Then we all piled into Hankrs car and went to a Chinese plaoe for dinner, (Maris announced their rice cake fortunes were all cynical--mine were "You can have your take and eat it too" and "Someone thinks you are wonderful ". I plan to give the latter to Jim Prideaux asking if that is why he did the Family Frazsle profile,) We ail went back to the 60th Street living and portrait painting studio to see end hear the President on TV. It was a well managed show end an appealing presentation --though neither Hank nor Larry liked the implication it had just been jotted down during the day, both of them having had a considerable exper ience in the preparation of official speeches, I aim still of the opinion he will be elected, but heaven help the USA if he lets Nixon carry on as vice president for another term. In the course of the evening Larry revealed he had changed his sailing that morning. He now goes by the "America" on March 23rd, For a man, who in the autumn was only going to stay a few days in New York he is doing pretty well! We are all having dinner tonight at 60th Street.
Rather late in the Atlantic City Seminar my old friend Saifpour Fatemi turned up. Fearing that the Israelis might resent him as the brother of the Hussein Fatemi, Foreign Minister of Iran until the "plot" which ultimately lead to his death, I steered him about. Years ago Saifpour was governor of a south Persian province without medical facilities . He built with his own money and gifts of friends a 24 bed hospital. It now has 140 beds and although he teaches at Princeton he still helps to support it. -Vhile I think he is a Zoroastrian, he is an authority on Islam and a great man. Needless to say I was more than repaid for the time I spent with him until the Israelis caught on and took him over.

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sort Sjari^ ph. or saints. ' ho gq agf ill tonight for ' 1j 1-a.b- di c

&L .1 C..''0*'.;: yefre-- s and confuses re. - I -,-r.s dismayed hie ve': J 'i: h--

O, 3, -'-.-tv-9 division res ordered to;: the hediterrjtfie-.n end

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tha ^rchfcxqfcop from Cyprus, feuicl ' 3 I disapprove of church legdfers-tiiixin ir

politics, Con|u8irn i .0 .np in jny mind he . ,- eos ask %6 be Hoofecrated * J';'0 'r;"' - G- ySrsnl and Sikhs demand a s-GEana.te et te .to Id to the'lp rt'j^'' cr

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as 3 responsible h. cr ^ n he kner: it should not bet h I -still here Hertet niH .

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,:v?'ta ; " so, the subseq'iont rurrdolinr3 md ratcrt moves cf the

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President to let fixon "prefer" to take r: 'other post.

The. FPA still waits to hear the awesome decision of the Ford Foundation on

our r. ureal , but knows whichever way the Trusteeg voted we ohafl have f.n rin ,, Ht

of OQBfarin?, .First I woe told %p reaeyye- the 1 aat 'Hek oil lie,y aiid the first

-of June.,fqr,coitcehtrated rl-nnihr g^ssichs nd i lev. dftvs later I :n .unefficiehlr

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for the f nr- -f-.loo fine stm fivio- cjfivi ofr\"P S+t. Patri Pf'V4 cAlikr-1' sn D"Pi ay (even ( atr'iiw on..Sunday :tbe p-ir vn.s filled with fine lazy

if he'.vr s't,n n P'" Vi -r- i?r#- -. ,-vv* sno-n fl-.w..v,

which ffelt .trouble to me. Sure -enough a^M^daV -ore.','oft. they' "became inere nuror

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look into the street revealed little in the ray of wheel trochlea rid no' pavements--

shovelled since'sporadic, attempts during the evening. Tfhc 'radio tv i filled fit .

. lists rf schools v/'-ich had announced they would-he clqsed.. It Was otto orttiry . > *

when. I get down stairs and picke'd y why out to' the wheel tricks. 3cmeh(>w the

- zest of the situation wore thin helone. I reached the office Having -wit ' aljnosl

two miles. X'r a-'eged - to. ride- frcrr 57th to'tC". street nf 'ot nice -ndyw wri again

on the slow roving bus. t-.rmth,,which wes lost in wyitir^ felihast twenty minutest

for the Cross town bus before" I accepted the fact th.c;- iwd sto reel ru'--iny. ile.p ily

the i i'hd was at my byck-inqst ofo$he i.ay and the trir took about -.n how. '.he tldorf

Astoria afforded me a chahge of.'footing and temperature for the block from P-rk to

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Lexington. The lobby was filled v ith.people- c; rrotmdec1 by lugg* -eh '-"'vidertly re

cent arrivals whose predeceors Had not surrender! rooms. . About "C cf our staff made

it--each with his or her own tale of adventure* .Ye closed the, off ice, early, and to

my amazement lbgot home by* bus in 30 minutes instead of the- usual 20-25;. any shops

and offices either failed to open or sent people. HOr.e at noon,-- "h^-.dohbt while staff.. ^1-* "] ^ 4 7 "1 /~\ H VI T. t v/*\ n ^ "1 *1 V-. F' r~\ v d . - 1 u * > 1 .

ywea.1 ,imprays<

"Council meeting in .tdwn -red . stayed the night with inf., nice 1 - t; h|t ere the ire. ' Leavit ot. 3 on test' y fice before the s#w refc oval Dquitusut blocked su :ny ..id traffic;' so heavy th'.t I took a, cab, wi ich r bier. r- n to y-ore thsh- 50. .. a -ova - Veiiga. 20 inches, but'yt! e.. !b a-'-"- m ,-4--:- fcde +- a
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spied a cab h failed to atop re", greet- thehlrenh Crahaud op, the step's of ^ak'istt-n

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- cams ire:; ffehb Drake,."" he verified tint it was the GrahtyW he "ad had - nc! they Lad

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bundled in, my heaviest slothed lia off. ; Great ecu z.v

promised . P*Ii shall believe..thai'the snow has: etcipob hats thi| ffbrhben when ... w e

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Africa*) "fest'efde.y it poured; all uy -net I

..voir set f -bit-: 'telle. 1' .is ffiornip/y

j... woke- to' fire1, everything covered with a c ur-ic of :L..:. ,u f soft re.t enow l ii e

air filled with energetic flakes propelled by a' 2^ r.:ilc a^'KoUr .I'd iron the vest.

It sbens a good idee t.o svry cczi.iy indoory - rid cope "itl r y ;irce::e-taxes,-

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built- up to such it crescendo tint 1 "never got away ,i"Qr- even a 1-a.rt

service., ' A bitter cold day arid I -seemed to-'have gotten^ thoroughly chilled cn . ,y c,y

to Hreeport. h'r.ster morni.rg Inn ed bright

clei x; wlfh &>gppd ski.-. of toe i>n I e

bird Irti.. ho all vsrii to ."the runt o' clqck 'servicei; oil. ::hd 1 bedecked ..ith eye ids.

By mid afternoon while viewing tie young Jerry 'T started dripping in tie reus in a i

most unattractive manner and ber.t e hasty .retreat tp toy apartment. hhcncay morning."...

I telephoned the office with'various' instruolicv.s ud stayed at heme, which help6d a

lot. T/ithout either ehfergy-; or conscience 1 lazily, read ,:,lec augh1 a. "Isl- .. :1 in th.e

Sun" end;was glad to- have this interesting novel about, the -British -West''Indies nr.d

the color question. All very pertinent in view of t: e current 'plans, for Vaisi

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oe acfe ". o - go if, the Security Codrcil is-called into emexq-ysncy seusici- '&> in. ese

two cit';; .-.cks plus critical problems in Verraont -and. Georgia where the local reople

h a v e. ' f a i l e d t o < e t s p e a k e r s f o r b i g ' e c n f e - f e n c e sh p r a e t i c p . i ly upon, t h e m b e f o r e i ' e y

dump the problems on ns will v-he f<ph a Couple cf 'busy days for uel

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fru'et the Cypriote would be 'much worse- off - econon.icrlly and political'/- if t: ey were

part of modern Greece, ever if* t'eir emotions were lifted to .be part of the "Mother' xh'ursday. night h "cac.pled" an Gnglish-graduate studs-t brr "Golcnit-lissi"--glib youn tter.

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a standing, fpmale-j-looks like antiqued ivc ry hdv

too large. ;>r-that. I have seen

similar idols with Multiple arms-*up to :eight or -ten, hut'never only tfaufe. Very inter-

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candels s .spare red c; - deep roc c idle,

. . ioce do remit? .ce, a d mogSat.ih of ham.

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opposed to taxes on -dividends, annoying t'o hp*/e to.'do over of dividends as ekemtt fr'Qra wcrih--hut don't vorry, I add, and t-5 vi-'ee ,

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evervou.e -to feel sti": -d in interrupting ;d at ever l a I ihg f 8k questions', pes

r.robl-ems ond .ov.h? raise keep- us ffchi oie of toy ocj actives' of cleerinr, mv deal: cits much'

included, huh;: r-o* s 12 yet r old sen. The latter vers included in seme i - cturu V' Ud

lad 3t cProgram of events laid on for no, dad i' oy iruoved in 1-rye extent,

''b.ecause they seemed .to wither or the vino if every tv/onty minutes or so they Ida apt

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- ox'fice hours, with ne-./s, cotrirneri.t ?-id/-ar changes. V/o ihelc, out for a "msijor policy speech,"

That; was' freed upon, butt it a/as to be a^tsrcporaneous, then c nisfie the nen's "it1 fpuldfbe -5

minutes in lor.;-' arid Dr. 3;-' ruy '-.ho :.riirtly nbnpdcu'd hi first n e .' uu.r: d

and those aire-- dy collected and typed %& the nschinery arranged far 1 -udlin: ,. ro' < r queries were both discarded. I e is olds:- than his pictures imply with - lent-evy looting face, a firm handclasp though the fair: felt haul end-dry. Ha pre j e v. .h.ita sil-l* suit and .a black velvet car, <f ioh I should thirl: <:. u'.d mnk-. Dor Sal fines 3$' id , ..tin-
is excellent without Oriental Caden'oe -; his ycide dr n- 1hi'.; rorcr-i'.t. His 11-25 auditors- . | listened wfiii pp almost h'y'pnptlc attention .to ahgfdEd -speech (text' supplied, oq On re< *

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June 2, 1956 Freeport Typewriter by courtesy of Molly* Apologies for the green paper--whea I was setting up the carbons last week, I found myself fresh out of white* Better luck another time* Soon after tfee train was through the East Hirer tunnel yesterday it started to pour and has continued to do so by fits and starts erer since* White lilacs| quince (fruit not Japonica or Chinese) , spirea, bsuh honey suckle, azaleas and dogwood make looking out the windows very color ful* Some sulpha drops are at last beginning to olear up my sinus and although last weeks conferences were fatiguing to the point of stu pification I begin to feel a little more human* Wednesday, Memorial Day, was a holiday and fortunately I ordered a table in the dining room for Aunt Mary and me for luncheon at the club* Before our main eourse was served the heavenly tap was turned on and the staff scurried about adjusting awnings over the edge of the terrace where many were eating* By the* time we were ready to leave the sidewalks were quite dry enough for it to be pleasant to stroll the two blocks down Park Avenue to deliver her to her door* As is inevitable her circle shrinks and luncheon out on a holiday beoame an event* Then I tried to find my blue nylon bathing suit without success but came on several other treasure* long since forgotten and quite a few items to be given to the Goodwill Industries, thereby creating a little additional storage spaoe*,*.happy situation#
Can you bear one more bit on Sukarno? The State Department felt he would expeot a ticker tape reception on his was to City Hall to meet the Mayor# To their dismay they discovered that since 27 tons ## of tape had been showered on General MaoArthur when he came home, the method of reporting stock quotations to brokers* offices had changed and praotically no one would have yesterday's reports to toss out windows* Whereupon the Sanitation Department was eoopted# Th^" mana ged to collect three tons of tape, whioh its staff solemnly flui^ from strategicly located windows along Broadway to make the proper effect of long spirals of ribbon floating down in the breeze as the President of Indonesia drove toward City Hall from the Battery The same poor devils then scurried down to sweep up the mess after the
pa rty had passed* This may well be the last of the old fashioned welcomes^
I still think that Stevenson and Kefauver will x each other out and now favor Symington over Harriamn for the compromise Democratit candidate at the Chicago Conference in August* Please allow me the opportunity of coming up with another candidate as we wear our weary way through this restless period of political uncertainty# .which is contributing to my personal impatience* Tuesday my secretary leaves on his holiday in England, and although he has been wonderful in helping me to get a lot of the "summer work" letters done ahead of time, I am distinctly jealous of his getting off and for me to have gotten my flight deposit back*

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. -' ^"'_ freeze ox "planning" corneronces h^Ve left me e^dtistod, confused

ana .rus .rayed., / ev; ox' -my attempts'; to have projects' ratedfor relative priority

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met vj.th success and the conference purpose avoiding qui; oar/- . prking. at sires

ancl sevens until one- mother seems to in lag tea ground-for our oarr-drm oivirstlrr1' #k

eigrrts and nines. One dreadful morning 1 caught myself drear Ting of retirement just

to be avi-ay fromit all, Kg overtime efforts to .keep things rolling across my desk

injhe routine daily Dozen' aepartment was: moderately successful but the three reeks

left vei ore X go oh holiday mil be' strenuous* Tuesday night Very and! took on two

of the regional representatives from .the ,"heartland, of America" in an. of? the record

session^ u. icn gave them an opportunity to unburden themselves of their woes md <$ir'i m '

.my feeling that'Nason depends top much, on the unpopular AUport for .good esprit de "corrs.

Some, goon promoted the notion of a staff picnic at Jones Teach. Cpe of those ,t> ings :T

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Sate was shifte'd-nso that- hasOn might;have-a sopial'.time:

(lu:- ' 13 tittle, nel^ehs, out at departure time on ./adnesd'ay we foun'd he was "too tired"

to go. v;^v of the staff who went (better than half c".d; wore shprts,

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we cud not get there until almost 5{30 about ten went, swimming (Thursday ' orhin.r

session punctuated with great fits of coughing), The firerralcer could not get a bl-me.

I had:the mx not to tell him what was wrong, but went off eM Sjade my own to Toil the

water for coffee._ Fortunately another man took over the food cookin; fire' una starting

jg-'h from scratch, got it going, just before I offered the coffee fire for the frankfurter

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to stay a few days with Holly- md Jim. He finds Yew York traffic too wearing (about'

8~SHt years ago wnen he w^s he was aide to GenorT 1 c"a , id in . m rid-trirt-* es hp

had (a thrombosis and spent a. year in falter Held Eospit~l--Paul Dudley rite and'all

just as -rji-senhowery -and my. Only hope of seeing, them was the chance that ruin, bcjetconad

Lhs picnic. It Was very smart of them to-find us and so they drove'.on'down the beach

for >.'.alf and hour end then 1 left with them fpr holly's where we sat around the- fire and

talked for a couple of hours. It was wonderful to find them. both, so veil and hear his

plans for .us doctor1 s thesis--which together with one'credit course is all The lacks? for

the degree. He.will do it, on the economy of small business, though the .title has hot

3 et been re. r.stsred,^ Doth lean Garner and: I fe_el that with a little rewriting i.t could

have a. large sale. Ir. working for his masters.- degree, he showed that it cost Tuscaloosa pVh.

(Ala,.; , .ore to f eed t e ire department's horses in the old days than gas and oil come

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to now. In Jbetwe.en trips bach under oxygen tents rd between nitroglycerine pills he'has

v.ad a lo of .un and created- a veiy satisfactory life fcr himself ~'v- ayd .-..co yoti dis-u

count the .cloud of uncertainty under which they live and-seem to ignor. They talk in

Icing., term and. offer to have Jay, Fred and Bill in.rotation live with the u and go to the

L. of Ala. wnere ..ed Will continue as a member of the faculty and give a couple-of courses

in ecomcs. This shows t.-.eir optimism as Jay ;ias three years, before college,- I, stayed

overnight and .Bill was sent in to wake "someone" without knowing I vm in the house. Fe

is hood over heels in love with Aunt haye, whom;he considers,.more beautiful than-his- tea cher and crush' of the year.

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Thursday night I went to the rfuri Fran's cocktail party for visit:'v Turks--one
of ..noffi is J- Ctaugi oer c.-. hue President of Turkey. I had ,a;-lovely tiine -and never once ask&d about the growing internal repressions there. In the course of the. party one,of guests presented. Kren -ith. a medal--close examination revealed U!rh.rower of the-" Pull" with the^figure of a man h.olclirg a bull over his head. Araortg the usual offerings ox" Turkish. eqviivalents of hearty napes'Tnd,drinks 1 spied soraeiAiiag in an old fashioned,glass with a c> -rtreuse- color--much uuessing as to ingredients, : Finally dren- toJ.d.no, ytfdlc?,-.in which lemon peel, soaked for three days in,the refrig poured on rocks, fxcollent-"fid. gave ne a chance to 9nc;uire the si-- ?- c.- 'co of an offici-l Tiirfc sorvi: g Hufesian (think in eu York.
Lockirig quite grand in an Orchid held, over from Tuesday night I had a "good talk wilfh the
nny "Jojfes, met 'Tie new im, OttojTolisehus, v o:l-,oks like liight club;"bf w .be n Tier than the wife of fen ebinor of the MY TllFS. next weekend-I'm booked for ifrtla & fn-vo.

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Jsm* 23, 1956

.typewriter Ly courtesy of Milly a gain and i am not quite sure where x left off two weeks again# xast weekend was stiffing hot and x was with martha and Oleve* Cievee got the wonsoliflated jklison training course and is happy as a clam at hign uide testing objects he has learned ## about in elass# It is quaint that on the apprentice schedule he reports in a half hour earlier than his executive father in the same firm, but reaches home an hour earlier# Fran brought her sons over on Sunday and they are certainly growing well# It would seem that grandparents are even more drooling in their enthusiams for the second generation than they were over their own children even.

In addition to the office this week I had dinner with Aunt Mary before she got off to Mohonk for the summer and am the lucky repicient of a new dress she decided was too bright a blue for her. Another night I went to Doctors' Hospital to see Ann Ray, who came down with shingles ten days after she returned from a happy visit in Brazil with her son# Thursday afternoon I went to the press conference for Fineau, Foreign Minister of France# Poor man he seemed awfully tired and I thought
some of the journalists badgered him pretty badly, but he was very nice to me# Robert Valeur, after kissing me on both cheeks, presented me to the Minister with a long speech about how much I had done for him twenty years ago, etc# etc#, end we all laughtd heartily# Whi the minister tore himself away to call on the Mayor, Robert and I settled down over gin and tonic to his personal news and an appraisal of what recent shifts of French diplomats means# I also had a good chat with Quincy Howe, my current favorite news analyst on the radio and one or two others#

On the 28th I take the seven o'clcok train to Albany, sleep at Aunt Annie's and bright and early the next morning we start motoring. We expect to spend the first night in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and the next near Windsor# I may pick up a "no show" place on the noon flight out of Willow Run at the last minute on Sunday# If not I go on Monday by Northwest Orient Flight 505 to Seattle# As the connection on to Vancouver is poor and Seattle is on standard tigie and Vancouver on day light I shall spend the night at the Hotel Olympic and go on the next day to Vancouver# While there my address is c/ Mrs# S.S. Petrie, 4765 Pilot House Road, Caulfeild, West Vancouver, B.C. Much of my time will be spent with Amy in the Okanagon Valley (the other side*of the coast range)# The address is e/o Mrs# Douglas Dewar, P.O.Box 237, Penticton, B.C. (Special delivery is of no avail--Tom, the orchard forman takes the mail back and forth from town unless a member of the family happens to drive in for some purpose#) Silly as it seems it usually takes four days for air mail either to Vanoouver or Penticton from New York# As I must be back on the job on July 30, I'll leave on the 25th if I decide to return by train and the 27th if by air in either event I want to come back via Montreal# Amy and I may well go back and forth between Penticton and the Coast a time or two--an all day drive of about 250 miles or overnight on the sleeper# However, Penticton is probably the surest address#

At last the FPA Executive Committee has acted and we have the new framework within which we operate, there will still be much discussion in August and a lot of improvisazatioh during the next year# For me it means * whole new operation for which I am responsible, but I am to have an Associate Director and an additional secretary in the Bureau , so I should be able to pass along some of the work I have carried# At least that pious hope was expressed by Nason in a note telling me of the decisis and a salary increase for me#

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surgery arid should Ice permitted td? drive tie car in another si. MolJy^in$ Jin lest

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trT to., see"' "what3 in it for us"--witness tie Lsbvron's'

x or higr.er toll on oil. through the cciaccM'ativel; short pipeline- \f ich tb ey rrcposo to

make retroactive to --5.1--a sure way,to discturago foreign coylt.- lizyblcn, elen , ctrie

s-ud^I Mere proud, v.her. the. news , of the ShockinglAndrea' Doria-Sto'ckhpl .a or =ah reached, 7 ,0,,

at the role played, by the lie de France since we cage,back oh her from 1:aland in 1953. I

suspect there was j.ault on both vessels and auppapt that the' cphflictihg t pie's cf pasdqpgers

is tempered ^Largely by the character of the individual. Surely the tragedy will provide employment lor a gre^ t reanyylawyers for years to come.

The. hurricane season moves along with "Betsy" growling and possibly sending New York advance warm humidity--not" bad, but giving me an uneasy sense that anv day. we make et the overwhelming and enervating blanket of sodden heat. Actually the weather is still pleasant and the citr, at least my part of it, has a'wonderful emptiness suggestive of. a
Sat'..r.-.: calm, t an?/ shops along Madison Avenue are dosed and'yesterday' I whs annoyed to have invited Irene Kaister for luncheon: at the Cosmopolitan Club and then realize too late to wayn her off toat meals are not served on -July .and August weekends. Upon arrival 1 further discovered even a drink was hot availeble-- but we went on to w0iicar*s' Salt of the oea " and hod .a line long talk. J5he is. ?, raqst attractive-, person \ii a recently forsook the acaoe.i:ic life at tr. bniyer&ity df Pennsylvania f6r' loCdny-iupToile, which she Tikes ve'rV

wneh^tho Jrar.ch t ought they could stay in control, written frcu the point f vio-u of the At-er.'.cr.n iLj9egaarns.u,poxn| 3in,p Soaciggon,. r.'ne6 pageess, drip .wwithh sesppiiees serving several diiffffeerr';e.,nt' :ryf.r./yt-tosrros. and sornetcues more ..nan one, and the heat of the fflohaOqnw-wh.icK. o'ools -&o: by contrast.
Tha.' flight from.. Seattle, to V-noouvsr, via VicWi-;- hebo ] stood customs *rtl iudr

off the seed pods of columbine, iris ~nc! other '-"early bloomers, ftto luscious ripe

ios off thet trees:, ^nd refres1 ed might oven pull a few weeds. ..xpedtiprs :..r tre^car .

new building--r reservoir up. thd Cp.pilc.no, both hew hig. t ay '.mi rssiorauron oi an

lroad north, houses gal ere, shorting centers.. Booming on all sides,

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IXill grey; clouds not longer capable of supporting the weight" of moisture hve
just released torrents of rain which fell in large drops straight downal $4 air stirs, How a finer rain continues to fall without riving any comfort that the aquation v.ill change. -For almost three weeks humidity has' been in.the 30fs and,.90's"making.brsathihsunsatisfactory, "sapping energy and leaving "many surfaces sticky if net actually damp to
the touch. As there seems to be no hurricane in the offing, I'm blaming sun spots,'slvn.ys a: convenient and to nje mysterious scapegoat. Periodically we are promising dry air frofi Canada,, This booh forecast for today is now suggested for late tomorrow, too late to wake a happy holiday for the millions who looked to the Labor 1%. weekend for the final spree of summer.

Monday we completed the move from the hermetically sealed office to the one on the

east witn the movable panes. It is really a great improvement and., almost twice the sige

of %"old fifth floor room. There' is a view across First' Avenue- of the U-l park nd buil

dings, the superstructure of ships- in the East River-apd Long Island lity beyond. At the

peak oj. braff Ic one is conscious of its .noi.se and the swell of expaast whan the wide is

easterly, Tne. plants, nave taken these shifts from north to south and.'then .east hell, -The--

-.00 holly seedlings I'breujyt from Vancouver-thrive, i:'oses-in-the-Cradle has cor- sistoutly:

had tiny white blooms in the morning: u,'bses is an "importation,from the Virgin Islr.nd)

Both Monday nd Tuesday carpenters with-drills to pehetrate the. iloorcoveriftg and the

cement ber.'eath'j for- tr.e erection- of soundproofed', barriers in the:-secretariat.'woric' area



outside.my door made life miserable with their din. The poor deivils who will .work there

do so under flo.urescent lights - nd pumped in air like moles with only such .sight of t e

'outer v/orld es they may catch yrhen doors -re left open. It was a cl ergo, TmmmT 1. rdly a,'\

.pleasure w.en I hud to' make an emergency trip to a atran|e dentist on" Tuesd y.

Friday and Saturday,morning when everyone ,elae was off I went to the office nd n:.uo

" fin progree:: in settling my effects apd getting. tl ree or- -four belts diVuted, A former

Czech, who has taught in Oregon for many 'years,- was in town yesterday on his "T rcrd

Europe to Portland. 7/e lunched at a Greek restaur" it and he" told me about his visit to

Russia. Having leo.rnsd the- language, in his Prague high school ye-r's ago he wafe dole to

talk directly with people of oil sorts* According to him the new slogan for the people is

"Tiyjoy life--have fun" and the nevt --e doing ."'"at that, bie in trains read"paper

covgjped classics, both Russian'translations of Shakespeare, Dickens, Marl: Twain and eon-

tempary .writers like

Kewir&ay.'- Grour-s induis:J:;- in 1'oV: dahcinj "id

breaking atyb all over. ShepiloV, the new foreign minister, is able, flexible and much

bet to.- It to control himself than his predecessor, incidently he is groat friend of.

ilrushcrev, I still gpnd'eh if literate naonie who, read' widely "nd are tdl-" t avo ffui

will not expect more and more, The- summer of 1956 is commonly conceded to .be "the vorri-

est'.sinoe 1?14" and generally people, brag "they never "had it so good" but are willing to

work hard to have it better. A land of contrasts--great developeraent ih science, "hile

women'and children still'-,gq'-.without shoes.

Now. tor. a flashback wo my holiday. Amy- I'ewar drove, over the mountains for a few days. .
with .hs.r mot sn;and -ihtays and took two Vancouver women and ma-back1&a houpeguedis for two
weeks at their. summer home "Banbury"- on X-nk 1j"ha, oho of the 0|rnsgan chain. A faeci'n-
. atinfe- trip o-ver the excellent- Hope-Princeton, high?;ay, ascending "to over 4,000 feet in two'
passes. I shall never understand v/hv. the hottest pookets a-lwavs seem to be; Where ve are apparently . r.e?rest, to the largest glaciers, For' miles the roadside was oerpett'ad in the pine forest section with bluo phlox and another blue flower. Ve followed rushing sbreams
ohe of "which, flowed utf ill and. finally c-we. to the sage-, brush apd smaller ^ine are-, fdw B|K e"r*t joy the mariy.osa lilies bloomed on the- hillsides between the highway u.nu -one point v.b ere the Sewabs built. f bougie,stand Patricia greeted us and after a welcome tea, - tne two . women were settled in the "bandbox" suite over the. garage ar.d laundry, vaile I went wo tne north aaite: in the h-uee. Dr. Pain was already e'st"b}.ishdd in the ooamhoiise. In .i-.e e.c -
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fined, their, arid rot'rrr.ed t i e r te- t'-e l-.f'ayet-te deari.

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This morning see cheerful character on the radio announced "It's a beautiful day. If you fump straight up you can' swim." Surely this is an unusual season, so much high humidity interspersed with sudder. charges accompanied by very strong wind# Last weekend. I was at Seta.nket -ith:,holly, J"i:u and the boys, damply cold in a bright moon at.night and langorously warn and .sunny mid--day. Sassafras.' a brilliant yellor, pin oaks an equally vivid red, most maple's had pretty we'll lost their I ves though across the read there was;one. beautifully green;. Returging fro;.; church we skirted a slight: hillside covered with pine and a lev; growth -f blueberry bps' es all a lor sly wine color, and further on a st:nd. of russet and brown oaks towerib~ over ground cover of deep green mount-.in laurel. The family,' as decided, to buy the rented house instead of building and already started, on sharply prirnm back shrubs, bo,, long neglected as to dismally darker, the" house. Several tree have* been chopped"down airfeudy and others
are marked for elimination, I scavenged in the discard rile -and- ' ve a spl sly bpvl
of laurel '"d rhododendron or up and t : le- .1" vill fun to s r- just, t pc;. : out of the ground in the spring, 7e know;'there; rre sore tired yeonied, Bcrna sort" of lily, and quite a bit of lily of the' valley. ill rd T are committed to roc'" - rden, though I m inclined to wait r bit before "deciding where rr.d what to-''put in.
Work has begun on the ground floor Where the FIA is to operate.the Center on World Affairs, v'"ich makes r dre- iful din wit' men chipping away at t'e concrete floor, "esterdey b ile 1. .as on a lo distance call to Providence, my caller; Said "what is that dreadful noise? Can re' get a better connection?" As .usual with my long distance calls, someone ho/1 ffluffed for ""over-ber 7 -.d 2 and - substitute was needed t once for a news bulletin to go to press on hand ay morning. Thursday aftern on there v ere "lm.ost as desperate calls fr:m "'e; r pa1- ire nd C' io. ''he prize vas Tuesday, when Sir Carl :rendser called me. t. Sj.bS full of apology - w" pi t tiveness,...for an hour he ' d beer waiting for - so:-eone to fetch hin for dinner,;, meeting he was - o oddres - in latterson, ""em ,Terser, he ' ad nev viiasecl -:>.n ;i true" t 8 d ".-.'PS bound not to be ir t" at night, "'red fortunately, was still h ere -nd ve " of started telephoning. Of course, the iben who made the ?.rr* ngera.ents was a banker md the "nk long since locked up, eventually we found he bud bft 'in - . se? nox,. encounter ed.heavier traffic tl an anticipated and then lost himself in featc'-ester county where +' e Berendsen's -a si' ir; with their son. By s' x-1 irty we ao'vl ' v ve .tl: the feeling we he-' experiences our version c ' the man bites dog situation.
Thursdt y night I dined, with Vint l"a ry in my best bib and tucker and went to "The teluct' r.t Debutante",, benefit, for the Presbyterian Old L dies Lome../ comedy -' tl t1 e cast v/ ic' played a lor" run in London. Adrianne lien is the stage as well as the real mother of Apra I'assey (daugrroer of Raymond I'assey) and excellent as the addle pated but determind mother, the bored, shrev/d and compliant father is 'Ailfired Hyde "white. They ere all first rate and. the sL ight drawing room comedy is most amusing save in the spots where it becomes farcical through the antics of a ch&ricature of e Guards officer. The same night Ernest' Eattigan*s "Separate "las", ...ich I saw in London, received 'rave- review's on its 'TTev/ ork opening. Isit. .' tuous to dream that I may get to the theatre mors often this year?
The valiant leader!ess. resistance in Hungary as .an outbreak of turmoil in t..e satellites fills a ' ith compassion for the pocr. devils yd o have been put upon so long by tne Russians Communists. It seems impossible that they can survive t e militarized- drive of Russian colonialism. The survivors of this blood bath will doubtless be penal:.zed savagely even if Russia pays lip-service to the west and up ears to yield. ' ey woua.1 be wise to do so however for the sake of the anti-colonial note they could straws in t'e Asia i-.tfricar countries. T To not envy r-.w'ii' Liotcvvelyrhd 'lie.- to:'orrc .; to To ronto to discuss t' is .'on Canadian "ro-dewstiy TV insto d o. lvr chin with ;c. ITU -"rive- to Idylwild wit" her - t us have -. Tours- conversation ?,t.least. is .:6rr:....;; my winter' coat was not at the cleaners when I vent for it. The cierk pieced out the., story. The boss who took ry request on the telephone had just arranged for wis parents to leave Budapest. They "ad all. their papers' and were scheduled to depart Tov. 4 and now this. The poor son, who Ir s not seen then for 12 years is frantic nd wen lie appears in the -hop at r11 only miui'les the bubiness*

READ t&is LAST: for adjustments, even a decline^ in 2 or 3 years. It does give a sense of general direction....definitely upward.
Although I have never put any great faith in the Kiplinger News Letter \fiere are some itmes in the September 29 issue.
Shifts in vote shifts: Midwest framers show a net shift from Eisenhower in '52 to Stevenson in '56.
The SOUTH is more regularly Democratic than in '52.
Rank and file of Union Members: Very cautious about talking as their officers are pro-democratic, but there is evidence that some who were for Stevenson four years ago are now for Eisenhower. He is supposed to have had 40% of the Union votes four years ago and will probably better that this year.
Women: even wives of>Union members are shifting to Eisenhower, because of thankfulness about no war and better family income.
Young voters: consider themselves liberal', think the president is 'semi-liberal' and new style .
Middle class, white collar city dwellers are shifting in both directions but more to Eisenhower than vice versa. City negroes are trending toward Eisenhower beiimg led by their educated middle class.
Nixon will continue to bear the campaign load for Republicans, drawing good crowds and probably making votes.
Stevenson is obviously much better candidate then in '52. Eisen hower is still the stronger candidate and will probably win.
Business proppects will not be much affected by elections, regardless of political fury, the economic momentum is pretty well set. Big and sound companies are making forecasts, steering by them, building fac tories in long range planning of 5, 10 and even 20 years ahead.
No deep recession or depression in next 10 years, or even 20. This year is good, even better than last. Total goods and services produced, known as Gross National Product up from around 390 billions in '55 to aboit 410 billions this year. Expected to go up another notch next year.
Perhaps a pause in '58 or '59, at the worst a mild decline, but most forecasters expect only a leveling off or a slowing in the rise. In 1960, starting up again after the temporary pause in '58-'59. In 261, the levels now forecast are Gross National Product on up to 3 575 billions. Income after taxes up sharply. One point seven spent forhtfhising and musch more for construction, plant, equipment and good. These are firm expectations and bussinesses are using them for making their own plans for-future demands for house, autos, consumer goods and many other things in the future.
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Then the editors of Kiplinger have the wit to add This forecast can't be precise....you mustn't swallow it whole. But ma'\es allowances for c^

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ack earlier than usual from overnight at "-reeport vitk Martha and[ Oleve, Who

"are juat hack from their motoring holiday, ' They look well and Ud a ine ti c, eu-

- c; ' especially i '-

In tucky. Troy so e . i . 11: 3 re' i . 0 tern rn

until two in live morning re folio ad the United. rations on sit er radio cr IV. In

the in ..ernoon on t.- e ur g ' ?n titration ,\ye lambosted Auseia, tuen iri t' e eve ire

seusx " vote: c 03k to jo-el it. the or h e ce - 0" 1 e . 'mice t ; el

in .Egypt. Our attention was glued to the screen vh en Loch c '.are his dramatic

approach to tlxc rostrum and announced v .at v/rd had jest cere iron the American..

Legation is Budapest that a 'resh and violent attack had been made by Ansaten troops

on . udapest aid the staff he d t-ken refuge in tie cellar. k>-i3!ed for *n i eci; te econverir of the DSOT:. ; Council to !e-d ith A is. .Joor rft, ...3 . t t: ed

heart sick, j cannot pip v/odder.i -- where our intelligence services have beer all

bixi.s inns. Je apen.. a goer dee 1 of money or filler, del 3I1 Dulles end the Central Xn-

oej.ligenca dgenCg and j- e.t all to- recent shocking developei.ents. Sieen to Lave been as

much oi c. surprise to ti e . S gov err- exit as to the ordinary citizen.

One OJ. my naurtmg fevrs has seen .t e liberation ox captive peoples .plank in. tne

19.- 2 ilepu lican c-

or: , t! - . iiser' ov/er Christmas message to the' > scmle

t Q saLtllj ues, etc., etc. inci '.oi g . :e j 033:.oil-i'ty. ex' eric:" ."im.,;cod. plots to

3uir up cisse-.oiOii oe ma "die iron curtain may..net eve encouraged these people to

expose emselves to ueatn counting on our native and physical, not to say immediate

help. Eelp -,v 1ch 3 are. ot prepared 0 give as va seem to-'have been- operating oh

ui 3 oheory of the now dead Larcheglof 'ranee Eyatay " a sfeow ox1 force prevents the use

ox. .orce". /e showed force wit' bATQ :w" eases scattered th.ro.up:. E'esterrt' .-Uroge and

let it 0 ":t n at. .clitu. Lisicv/el -33 not think, on rat e-r last Drudg i t

thx. k t .e luiganan' g-eoj e ,iad been fooled by our promises) but I am not sure she is

rig..t.

uesaay nig. t 1 had dinner -ithn arie. and ank and found her deeply stirred, by

the aions 0: her former country:..en, but annoyed at the Israeli attack on Egypt, :u ich

cs nn' '--'-'A' ~- :ustract "-te"J '.on f n;

i.r, . iy h e next n mi the role cf 1.0

hi., anr. 'ranee in Egypt v s cle-r -ud I blessed the report that t: c". nc' ester CucEdian"

was condemning t' e action as "foolish". Later a man who has excellent background u.nd

connections in the ksar Last told me a month ago he had received- a letter frem Jordan

rep:rting t. at officers of the Arab Le icn /ere bragging about the plan, for Israel t'o

attack Egypt xr/x be i /.-.edie tely suv ported -y -ritain and France. Lis rection upon - reading

this letter was increduality, nice, simple str.xi; rfcforvu.rd soul/ ...at he is. oince

then, of course, it ?.s become evident 'h- t a good .:iy people in e. variety of pl-.ces

have known t e pie./: "or weeks. Again v.her'e was US intelli;;e'.ce -r.d why did we do

nothing . Eisenhower looked very well on ti 3 :TV on ,/edr.esday u it v,l en e admitted

that v.e did not'know, unless he. was ashamed ..to admit we knew and either did nothi -.g or

were unsuccessful in ; ersur. ling our allies of t: 9 error cf t eir pla .

dnile I am or. the he 1th of great men tie appearance, of Dulles at the ie'pral

Asse. ly on ..nursday, v; ich I saw onh'/V at the office, shocked.me profoundly. Late

today there were- a fey: feet of kinescope of Sir Anthony Eden making his TV, speech of

last

t ; u 'n looked dre lly toe.

e prospect of - i

uteri over,

acting as Secretary ox' State in the absence of Dulles -disturbs toe deeply, especially

as i heard a month or more ago +h at he was to be. eased out i....Miately after election

in favor of Christian Eerier of Massachusetts, a fine ran in- whon^ confidence can be

safely reposed.

""fictay Judith turned up early for luncehon v.dt]; t' e news that she v -s fly:.: .- the next day for a; week, in Budapest as a special correspondent for Inter-hattonal hews Service. .le talked -lout what she should, pack against tV possibility oc her having to oheep across -he border "re... viern Wit; out benefit oi. a dru -id- ss/ 1; con roy aeh me ' oj d. She hoped that her brot' er could fly from London to ..Vieuna and if necessary take her over
t. e route by which he escaped from "ungary end the Cc r/unis'ts. I lifce ri:, part of it, even if her mission is to -see her old friend Cdrdir.al . indzety (T never could spell in 'ungfiriar 1) bow/ I wish the .'roan had not selected our diplo-vts as ' i's protectors 1st night -hen the Russians unleashed their barrage adding fuel to the fire that the UE had inspired th e uprisinf.

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rov :. be? .11, 1956

low percipient were the phiase makers' of 38 years ago to label'this "Armistice Day" '. There seers to" e no corner o. ti e world >1 are for one reason.
reason or another people .and' forces do not sesth. One scans the daily paper with apprehension as to the rate of boiling in the livliast quarters and' anxiety lest there be danger signals rising heat in a raw area. The 'wrath of pie ' renc people, the division of the 'ritish, -the vacillations of Israel, the wily calculations- of Ilasser plus our Americ a hiding oi fright' under a ..neat show of moral indig nation, all contribute to ti e complexity.

'' tesda; it took re Aj .r'ir n.trs st-ndir.; i line to vote ... an oppcrtrritp to'

assess .the electorate of this district, I can only hope that t As period was ..ot

represent.tive of the total electorate, for we seemed to be a gre- t collection of

the lame, the halt -nd the blind. There, we're several brou; At in wheel c'n.irr, one

or two h d provided t..er selves with lovely ritish canes' .'.ck'-unfold into tiny seats

in-order to rest s the li er i: . ,ed toward the votir-- . car' cs. ... o.od . why pealed

to polling officials to rk their places and let them sit until the last ossi-le

mem'a-t. One of those "watchers" explained to' lie that, a fin locking ,..an'throe

places ahead of me had only just .'gotten out of the hospital from a i eart Attack' and

needed pandering, ^ren the man rejoined us he .ado little speeches to those behind

too , t.n.ch caused ue to chortle -.-a en I found him on the street -"stat'din: gossipying'

'..with wo: an Jsver-l people hr d to r1: "or help in working the :. - ch : ne, one ..Oman

was acco i mi:d Into t: e ' oath h, ' e: h: A nd--strictly

dn. f 3 1: v.

Hank left soon after I arrived before I had really settled into the reading of my ' .

Times. Mrs, Cg.den Aeid (l'V. T'er-ld TribuncO) locked much better t n tile last time

I saw her. Roy howard (d^rinps" Howard cl win), had a proprietory, pari'.1 .lord with

several of the district lenders on his way out (incidertly he is wearing a most un

becoming,.light grey dressing gown this morning cs he clears, away a collection of

printed, matter from shelf under the window by his desk.)

Gcodi "or el Frid y T -ent to ' erry for r.y flu si ot ' verified' on h.er sa la that 'ftsr n eleven nont' effort 7 have - ined-ithe perse ib ed five pound , in fact
I liaye overdone it by a quarter of a pound. 'For me my blood pressure is very high, though perfect for my age. We. can only attribute my lack of energy to humidity, of toiich e luve.Trd so very much for overlong. She bl -.mes tensions, too lo: g hours of . rig r.ud unsuccessful H.j'u.rtne-t *cf my. offlee ve:uTilr-ti T ro' lc to the "' ad "ack" I have developed. I am dutifully applyin0' heat to it eac- night in the h<S$ c It can
be relaxed while I sleep and go about -with - r.'ilk scarf in my aocket to . rotect it from daytime draft.

It hast t1 e thrOe weeks of ^-inters on our fl cr is over. >Tct only have J ' - ted

the. smell and. gejier-1 confusion but h~d'lto be out of my office for three days ,1th

attendant fuss of moving back and forth and. resettling possessions. The second coat

dried strea.kily a.nd so it v&s a week later done over. Although these .-.en pet -fS a

H T it is still a sloppy job. "ocew-r if ; JU D: :t 1 -oh t close!;. the effect is

fine. The three, walls are a near fill it ..tsburg blue, the frames of the windows which'

make up the east side are white, as is t.e inside f the door and frame, ...lie the

La.se o- r ' ad g corner boohos se r ' lack. hare is

:-dsc e pot: ... on t e ip

high recession of one end of the bookcase and a great dripping, down nephritis at. the

top of the other t d. e t. o pots o" hatter th an six.foot..avocados are against the

right and wall near the.-..window. A rest variety of potted pints in .art. t'rnys .ill

the window ledge and are the lane of .the existe: t. 'of the window cleaner, but give great

joy to ne and my, visitors,, 1 esterd: y I went in lute and stayed until 0:15, "or a

partial straightening out. of my papers which had become -utterly disorganized. Poor

Ann will find fo ur belts of transcription and Ars. Chnn-'Ier and "'rod disccv er a great

"please do this and tl it" lescagOs in their respective haslets :. ; 6f'"ice.

113 tells e Judith leo.ves Vienna tonight at five and will be here tomorrow at

eight. It is impov.-ible 1" t si e got into .."dapest. Tomorrow were are two cochtc.nl

parties and. then 1*11 probably go to Coin;

-with Judith to hear!&:;_ sp er.k._ drnday u,-

noon I go to Troy for a weekend seminar^ A back /edr.e sday for IT nRsgiving -'-th Aunt ,jin.xe

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On my merit-1 schedule tonight was to hove beenhurpe ckinp- fror the weekend,
corresponds-. ce, perhaps a few far away Chrf.stir.as cords written and the initial steps of readying myself for le rvir.g for Albany again, on V/edresd-.y. Ir.ste d I diet ted un til almost half past six, scrabbled home to get into my aqua and silver lame sherth for a cocktail party at the "otel Fierre. to meet the Premier of Greece d ...rsKarame.nlisi, Minister of Foreign Affairs Averof and the Creek"Permanent hiepreseit-tive
to the U7 and Mrs. Ffclamaa* Because my ail is 1 te on Monday I did not see their
impressive card until after eleven ,orclcok t; is :ornir 1 however, it w: s t e ,.c-rt of" gathering v:lere I shoudl see and be seen and in a little better than .half an hour there I pressed a lot of useful tetends, though of course missed several people I had hopec". to see. The three Greek officials all ' eve excellent English wet the two ladies were most attr-ctive and smart (Unlike Mrs. iren (Turkish) in the sri e room a week ago
they .id not wear hfts.) It provided re with fine chance to furt. er my private eam:aign, notably to get as many teams of Asian relief Yorkers into 'angary -s possible
at the"earliest moment it ear. be arranged. lot! ing that I era imagine at t.;e moment ould turn the representatives of the neutralist countries of t e Afro- Asian lock
into anti-CommuY ists t an to see the actual results of hus-ir brutality in ur.gYry. I ?.m not limiting my efforts to the .Afro-Asians, but mounted ay soap box this morning when Sir Carl and Lady Jierendsen came in to thank me and make their farewells. They are off tomorrow for Vancouver, Uonolulu and hew Zealand for Cbristrnad with a step
at Stillwater, Okl- ' oru- for - speech e: ro te,

I have raite lost my heart of Krma. ,/illard School if "'ro; . It as - coattti:. 1 campus and physical plant large throng! -the ber.efico. ce of -rs. Russell Sage, an: alumnae. er"! si d left her eighty million' : nd she in turn left it all'to e-'..cation -

rl institufi'uu a se" g t . :v y1 h ; y "i-- cUt:' .

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Gothic and must Invite been.ti.e'. dickens and nil 'to heat dura. ' trie - r. . yy s tc ff is

exce lent end I was much impressed -with the two he- dmiatressesyanh t: te skill vat;y

.which' the Seminar for International Understanding on the Far Last was nnndled. dinky Moore arranged the speakers, all officials from Pakistan, India, Korea, Japan and the. Philippines. They drew together faculty members frpm college rnd sacoxyiwryy schools
from the northeast primarily vdth n few strays like' - man from b^rfbault, Minnesota and a -ot p " -h o drove fror.-. St. Lo- is. Several of the speakers*, scne e oi sees:..

c".airman, dinky and. I. went up on the 12s 50 train Friday in - special car ti ourp ye spe t most of our time either in ft! e diner or the lounge cur. (.. 'did r-.rr.gs to le-ve then long e 'ough to finis! my FFA board of Director's re- art in Ay proper Pullman
space....while torrents of rr.i: blocked out the si,'t o: the .rudson iver, ) dinner I was asked to sit at t! e t: :le of t: o e- .'.mistress and .er co-he- cu:.s .re~y,

both delightful ..omen rnd next to I .ohamed Ali, tie Pakistan Apibassaooi

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had a gcoc'. talk on the trrfn, be spoke that night to the fresrimah t rougn ji-.na.crs

and us (the seniors having been given a long "weekend to make room tor - - prcg.-ej.

seminar members,..! being a "special -".est" went to Aunt .V r.ie in Aloe.r.;-, syx :i es;

away-and was conveyed there by friends of dinky along with ".is bxce.lency ,no staged

at ti.e : otel Ten Eyck there. ) T e rest of the/speakers keld^ -rt;

a 3.crec^

questions on Saturday with enough time for an excellent_carry luncheon w da b

of - ir. Al'. ert utci insor. - nd Aunt Annie fete, eel;me m w-e late r-^eincc . .. a

the suA was setting'In most splendid Turneresque glory which changed



something modernly cerise. fs wakendd the next morning to fina about five incw s

of prettv but very wet snow, vf ich melted t! rough the day.

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afternoon train in good season ir contrast to t e departure .rem ew pin. - g/

I was delated ir , etti - awe" fror the office, got into - traffic jap ony,2nc. .xreet ,

n -indoned my taxi and with my heavy -..Inter coat over one arm andyay

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as I could to drippim with

the station, perspiration.

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quarter of seven train back to AK-rny

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on Ccluisbus T> - in order to rve^rric.r.y o , ! oilday for me and we hope to drive a-^^t.-e

Judith Listcwel got ^ ucn^riar border and

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c0 to Setauket and all yesterd-y'was si ent t Camp :ilmor. Forgive e l- I . sc. s . t

scr-'."sled ns to sentence structure --it will- e - reflection cf : y state if Kin-,

was a considerable increase in the bareness, of landscape, in nr. two 14?, mile trij. s up tne

Hudson "liver. The'day after Thanksgiving hurt Annie took his,- Jordan (they hope to

travel in Europe this sterner together) and me to Glens Falls for lunc eon. A lovely

ur'"ht cold f3: "

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"able swiftl; cvi:' clout , in0\v su !.

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time to tine on mountains, Sqninnox (K*nchesie*., Vermont)- got r. couple whitf left the

ski lift trail r slash of white in the green nd green woods. /e ra^-.thrpugn one our- ^

selves as we returned across the barren windswept- Saratoga Battle ground. The long

vrs-

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unt... rr:s srlcndid break for we in the rapid pace cf the.office and tne eon-

SnSE progrm of offikal cocktail partis,. (I have co.se to slight.ffaulty over

clothes for them, which seems best solved by going to some early in a suit

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different hats and.blouses and for others going hone to change and going

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slavs celebrated their r- tior.nl day 24 : ours -heal in - ost splendid ...-.mer wit;. t^eir

X " r.,, rA;q+or Poo-vec. + t" e tor of i e : rblc si.-..ire- s t' ere w : prcye-j. -aroeci iSPt?J-StJSJ^he=gStatoVc receiving line, Yugoslav, official lives ere s.rtl,

gowned insatin cocktail dresses and the buffet was munificent. The whole thing had

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eclat I an e.m

is their wont. .Jh&a^iy it

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this n tlt the at "this party thpt

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hYtl-'t I edit!"not merely bow since I hen knjim him for m time--and .1^ dufeM^

S as tjsrS cm more distortion of the truth to the list I hold against him.

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the Center .tich W4 extensively

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Yvaolulemyigfhrtoamlstoionsoeteiveen me by r.> sod- wnWiiweawiat.i-V, for the President of I ionesia to

arrive for l is spe,ec; ior;ud ~ : ,t day.

Later tils month in the Saturday .verir; IHt k Too lost v,anted pictures cf Hungarian refugees at Camp

^'hjJglXte"' bropsA V AIM n toet!:or. I

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offered to that it nih-t he a difficult day for i or ano rt,. o,

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Happy Hew Y ear to you, It 3 o-cks me' to note if at the last issue was dated
December 2, the day I lost at Camo Kilmer ad the weekend, of the : th at Sateuk.et added up to .great pressure on getting out. the C ristnus ends before Aunt Annie c ,...e on the 22nd. The situation .was' worsed by a dictum fro the Notional League of Yemen Vote rs telling all the 1'oc 1 Leagues to. h- ve grcgr ma oh U,. Foreign Policy in January. It seemed to us as if every little. Lea? ic in the' country 'promptly wrote, $ phoned or "dropped in" to I r-.ve us help them. 1" is meant there was not moment i, the office to send the public reletions greetings to speakers and these largely had to be c-done here nights and Sundays. Ila'lf the Christmas decorations were left to be done the night of Aunt Annie's arrival and she did a very effective arrangement of tare gnarled laurel branches wit; wee colored .listening tolls. Two days after Christmas I finished "^arcing thee gifts for Clevee and Fran* family. (I ey :nd been alerted by telephone that my things .to them, would appear when we went for the weekend of tue 29ti 'with ..a.ttha.tand CIeve.) Experience encourages me to make a habit'of t, is as everyone seemed so much more appreciative than they - ould have been on Ciristams
Dayi

Last year there was so much emphasis on the religious in the shop decorations and t' is ye--r .so little. The channel of rockefeller Center is done with large fat candy canes popping;up out of the low planting of .greens lead:.. :g the eye to the al ways' effective huge tree at the Prometheus fountain. .El too many people 1 eve turned to gilded modernistic wreaths or des .gn. ,. ile inc.xvid' -1. . '.e tree j 0 I n. .. - seem skimpy, the long view of the street with.its succession .of lighted trees in t,.e center and"tl a changing traffic lights Yes its usual lovely.spectacle. Steuben Class Lad graduated glass bells, seme twenty 01 t .em, wring 111. an asce. dim zig-zag, which, was most effective. On the ,hole I did not find such display as.J. saw in. my.
mad dashes outst. ufiiMg.

Juditl (whose first Saturday Ave ing Post article appears in tie -January o issue with - rif-t ra taken the morning after the Kilmer expedition showing her looking gust ;s tired and distraught, as I felt that day and none of those _we worked so hard over it the camp) left on December 22nd by sir for London and Christ as v,:.ci ^ en ' - . I bad promised to help her with the last of her packing -nc' go to. the -lrporu where _ she was to check-in *t 4:30 for a 5:30 fligj t. Upon calling Pan-Am to verify_cmecr-in
time I found departure h- d been postponed to 7 p.m., vwich cecouse c4Unt Annie's tr in. precluded y going out to ldlev.ild with er. sicre sm n.x..,L -or ^ Grand Central I called again and found the flight delayed to 11 p.m.^ Abou. ten c clock judith called r e to report that the latest was 1:30 a/m. Not once djd Pan-gAm notig her of these changes. The oris! made took 10 cud 15 minuter respectively bo out. m
the . information. I never did iihe! Fwh-Americani

Sarly tl e da" before Christmas Aunt Annie and I went to Setauket and manageo to

Show her all the sights including the deed from the Indians for land to the early col

on-'stsV'.ere about a dozen Inci-ns signed with interesting individual symools. .* n*d

luncheon at the very attractive Three Village Inn in Stony Brook ana great fun hu,,mg

our stockings by the fireplace. If Bill does not believe iu 3an.tr virus ne puis on a

^

net. Christ, s day was a lovely bedlam...electric tr-ins, wrist wateres,,

etc,'etc. and a] piltf a' - f-v: for Fred which required several erromrUcrs outooo^.

Fridw - night we went to "The I-ppiest : illione.ire" the dramatic ve.rsxon of K " \

hielrhis 'r ily" with the mad antics of the iddles. . 0 plot, but a go.pt. cast t^.d

bv Walter Pigeon and lots of laughs^good holiday fore. Saturday morning we went to

mL.f0;r.nd'^ter luncheon on to see Fran and her babes. It started to snow, a mani-

fstItion which fascinated jerry. Kef begins to talk and immediately we err^e-c he ho,s-

iSbh m St>

(rid, says "Gome see

I'pnot sere '. g Jsos fev,

it is 3o" b1"* s nap timel Jerry is reherous -at.ut letting otner 1

- . v-u _

tovs, but will not permit them to triffle with those of his younger ^ctner.

.

we' "fent to dinner at. Hilleribge Inn at Jericho (bene ox and then cut east and south tnrougr. Christmas c .0 cou , -

gtripes- of snow - .. ^eachi ^' e strong wind

5!S STifSS e a^wo up the entire length of 100ked^ik

trunks to Oaptree ^is'-nd ^ pronounced crests : nd troughs oded distant land .; 'A good 1957 to yout

/] ' B /vi

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Jfc'W, ^*^j\ _ (T't^w^5 , :-,'

S, IS 57

The v/eekend was too much t ken up v.ith "Sque.rinj away" --t a 4. r i ': ;:'ou note ,

for Christmas gifts and household chores . The forcer polished off and the latter

only scratched. Sue-' e back log confronted ne for ir tie period of build-up for the

ore Christr.es pressure t e owners 'of this building were at last c ay. t .up. vr. xli on

violations of the multiple drellin cum ""Jo- - -orcir.l for.o.nte" code. On accour.ii ox

the art gallery on tl first floor : .nchyt :e rational issociation of Dairyman cn the

i .

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i r*

> _l -. .-- .. >"\-

-nr - -" i* v.^.4- n + or. nut es + r\ V'/inoV f

F the

noMBW ,,,,u vTM.,, ..... .hing I own. This was cieaneo. up in ?* superrxc? n manner ay

--- c' mt, v .o t en faded out for the uol.ii us. Iti

7 ceil expect c . m

^

2. .^tractor i-.t 3:- stress pu<f si.lot =.re holes in tie glle t> |

clouds

0, nlo,ter dust and ultimately packed so.ee sort of fi-cresistent material betwSen^the

wallswith more "by-product" invading my premises, About this time Aunt .tame arrive^-*

to'find the entrance a shambles, the stair balustrades a menace to gloves ana stair

_,,r ,ts giving a ruff of dust to every 'step. I tried to rub up a se. .i-^tina on ture surfaces *>icb shewed the most before she cme, but 7 know tie; a crtccmin j .ere

In too visible. loneulcre -lour tie line the hoot bee,TM feobl to non-eon eteet no

cfa ftnd ,n the hot water faucets ran only ice water. All toe r-.io: oi. her vus-t 1

Sdint the fireplace, and keying hot Water in the gallev. (Pots and pans of water

Ce 7f ." boil ard tr-is-s-red to the bathtub mrr.ru ed to keen t e t^rrcm comm -

TourTtoitl nuisance to^ild a btb in t; is ma-nc-r.

**% *****

Jerred to Steers which then sit .on the fleer by one's feet 7;n rg;

" *Q

r-e fireplace add to one's comfort, o** ' - oneo.

- t e,e

fT "

, t, iSe o

3 trotting tn" and fro, ) At least neither or :us Of r t cold Hr ,, t. e

ox

her"departure, which was on the helpful side, The building,manep:eirt -expl^aW is

'tl t e bad load of coal ws delivered and no matter how much is rurne i. .oes c

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- 3 r r M - 1 3 v c r v w l d . v . 3 - e u - r a x f .-.ul b.-vt Llx-9-

flMlv aocWea .?!b*tt 21 S to lub (invitations issued lo^oefcrs srv

Of these events took piece) hecrn-e on top of no pent t0..s-"M .' Wiley sink dovelored leak. It Mould have been *9301 e J

7 XD'oX 7r

To ,,

t

To -icS"'-vrr/imTMh

ho. ' T eotood - afternoonI.

limpelMtd 4rr f-r coat at my desk until I boiled Mid t en null m o,x uhtil T

STSSfortahle despite my heavy tweed winter suit 4 than pull
my s' ouldars - rrin. The'].engineer r..ne m. s -OSS 4bj mo tel^ us t--
v~e cross our fingers an# hofe they are ritht.
\

-JB second of Jnditl's -rticles in the POST, is now out md carries one of t e

55

t,w;U"s-

b, e1co1me r.n

p W .n. G - - -c \ -" c d u n t r v i n e n ,u a v i v u n c i s a ^ Q b , r A freedom I ' . e r e arid v, roud n r

;|lal Seir'skiiuTs iorierohnd virllltv ao Poodle ore afdsd to lie net o. ua rv. ^

mI,,^7 zr- iss? ^ S"SiiPES

btheeenreoofnf-trhefivpeoinjotbt-orch Judithgl"eaned lS asatftS oril ril'.S ro^.;er' .you-^/vpW 'old feypeiaervs. ag.

. -ho fret injury .a. uu- le to tr vel

TunrPefr - de it quite dear tint

bhA was fins11v permitted to-leave Budapeat-, xoun^ he...

si .

,, , rersl.v-

the f. t efforts of the Oobtuuists to in,lootrin,.te tl e -uthjt^t -ken by o;olv

s

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A couple of ueeks ago! lunoto4

h^w.^'UrSoa""^

Bjf.sflg01S|''^,;audx.n,a..

77n A.oric-n mission school in Ten-

i

. --q 1 .: o m "fci r-.; a V8f; r . ^ wv -

x-

.

now nresident ox

and

he

been here h: s h-.d -euulou .xth -^- .s.ftoerre, re went off to lunc.r

v/estern College i: Chio. Uy -if oau. - ;/'^A eon -t tl e 3t. heyic end bep-n.to oirv . - en 1 ia

a returr. by thre: o'clock.

fta

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k^\nyt

t Tici'^!, j<j^*11'

;ith only ti e rriv t< gv/eari y i;- .tod- y of 1:.-esident f.o c. or and Vice rre.hmmmt

1"ixmn to be.followed tomorrow by the public r f e- t, we are ein re c '- ' " Ll;- -! f-

.,ro ; j- - :

' , o tev-.s " i strate:sts 1b.v ' he r

foucnyases hence. This gives me an opportunity to s|V E.ain I em for a. >ix year tern

t0 ensure longer periods of actual jetting, on with .job. It h _ inte.esting t.m fc t e re tiring chairman of t' e .'.epublican rational Committee is ad-itting t.m. o a zonular presi

dential persoru.lit;, cam ot c rry weak }art; candidates into o:iice on

ccatteils-

Why do the weather exrert" always talk of a "cold snap" and a "heat "we'h To ir.v wind our recent weather has been no ana*. it is hinted that we may have acove ire#sine temr-eretures todav for the first tine in -.-.hat see s to e ages, id :.le we hev? in- .ageck

to j|" the tiogn ,ii? Jf zor?, 1ue

f obS'h-.

V

1'e oniS ...enit W. zfttiul 4 took

.d

*,

It n Park Avenue remarked mildly to ihM driver that his tire- must be worn slxc*. ..*t

T.qt roel-end I enjoyed "For Love of a King", bv Alexandra, of Jugoslavia and feought

ahgaaJ i*n,, Ioxs:fhoueldSdifn-oi~cicur.eluatxdv

of A

->throuseeittro ain-eod

efyor.,,a

w"- a>uyusgsaeoelfiill| inLfyer,icwsh,icwhhonoe-xlafomningeetsrngoeeuxtrihsemxrosub.veriner-

society . Ie "iuds a oourtej.^* ;^Lliq^v "2formal, intellectual ,

their devotion .o eing eoc^i ..y -- '

gU oh the' floor in preference to .; c'-ir

Servant_l Cmlass~ II '+trVioe iVinUaS^^aannd^s

Tfch O ^0"W! COO'^, eCTUC &n(X 1l0ir1,'-i+v ,

&

w

rdlust- errfe to ctners

d.,. tefoxe in racked history-

Ift*

or ex-

"rthtJa .crr-'rlt ,VUM ^r,h on our relaxing ti

I - not 'oe co^

pletelv e.niachronistic.

. t is more i am pro 1; m

+_ -

Jt0.. a'i..r.('rft

a'' communist

,,,

0 c

eyi-.pathv in- net whole
c- p t in hi' " mi .cxion

^olnmdin, the hisenhower Doctrine m the 1

Uua

^

in that crea seems to me to ue quite ^u-ale

c6lonial period unci

ticnal opposition of

fof ell S-e rest of the world. I

assumed that whnt was good or ',

c t t+ v ;.;nrlish n.d Dut'ph fc rehears did not.

see no comparison. ^ - j'0, ';?e n0^!.!]y-': y'ce ability, the political maturity cf_th|

bring from the 'old cou^trn-es

ftaeden ih the .V-dio-laxon sense, fnsy

17th century md the traditions o: ^ra

of tl a hi >^le- nst'to lav

were in the 10th Century a people v-ry

"

theae f6ise ferex fees we

W c are largely living in c. feudal

loag experience there rod pTP-

crossed up our Sritish and

?o th-t who can object if the .nssiana

pose tc send in U.S;, troops, orouli- ve aCt .u,

put troops anywhere.t1ey select?

List night I read

^hi.'Sdff'Sn'uohrS a trie.' tim
SirtrrfoTM.'Zlr

ilnhchchht .Mlrsie'of tl.u onroinr.tunk pf the *tb
tl:uir Brthod. aM theif

Ruth Iflhselet-Beenett

ihhlhtp *fke fenripens frietuls about Suez.

^eadiS ike axrl-netions she

have to

'V1'0

:

Ctuernioyuesalrys eannodugshpefn+thaf^ouR r-weY eko s :moL7on0dn on rraecceently.^ . She lwaisktemdodD,e,pmii9sseranadblneewbyohfavciounrgse

taoredcerfietnidcUal,3oPfolEiicsyenthoowneerr. On the o her .hirmndu % "->ench woam+a-nndIs,knwoewchaenrebonsadrdaolnlico-u'r.ly

seafyfsorits^ to. our "ov5m00g^oom a. mt do no. o...x..^cr s^J pat. h.v^i&f u*2en you eve,,nt,,u1QaSoUy.discover to your sorrow what the Arabs are re-lly like.

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l^ccyG*a=^ /ki^ Au^, .fibTMny> M^57

Ho .natter how well one is .prepared dor the lev.s of death the actuality is

a sadness end a shoch. So it was or. Thursday morning taexi I hed Amy's ..ire th t

.rs Adair hr died late cn -Tves.day, ho.or. de r, -s" s had a cad time . or almost

vear and a half ait or creakingyher hip p.nkl the family diffiolt period, cf strain and

e: xiety. Her over t" irty years ' er generous affection to . s, her vitality ,nl ,.i -

dom have been'very real and deep. It is a renewed satisfaction tiro y , ,_s y le to see SO T lit: of Her last suiu er. 'Amy teleyho ;ec. Thursday i.g t suggest!r.g that it .. aid

be better if I did : oi trv to join her and bougies in Tore to.cn "Hooday, tut. tc go in

the spring ten the casket can be interred. .7 are raving such .dreadful- we.-: tier

that I accepted her judgement. The. wav trains, are operated- I vr uld.have to , o: up. by '

air on Monday to he there for their arrival early Tuesday and no telling how or when

I right return. vi-r. recently beer, involved in friends' and speakers' 'travel upset:,

I knew the possible complic- tiors and perhaps disappointments Louis .'isoher v.;,s

speaking to over 2C0 at the Off the Record luncheon ten days ego : nd. " en 1 ' s .flight

from Buffalo "as cancelled, there was no Pullman space :avail?."-ie and he sat up over-

ni, it to keep is enmrgeiuent. Veteran, -r veller r.

' er f- at e h

t ,,'

sensed t". t he /.as rot to p r.

nevertheless Fischer v.e.s very interesting in tin t he had lived in ..ussia from 19.'J2 to 19SB as a correspondent and than had been barred' by the USoft; govern ent until last autumn, he was given an eight d&v visitor's visa ("lot the journalist's for .ch he had asked) and once there-managed to get two entensiens lie rude H is total stay 20 davs. He looked up people hoi.. ' & had: known ;revi'usly and'found 1' e: s ger nd
free to talk, though said a year, earlier they would,have been uneasy in one conversation audi fearful to see him r . sscc-nd'tine. This year however he revisited, sor -s many as five times. People no longer fear the secret police and heiug dm ge" off :. ' t' c- middle cf the night. Cne man -had spent something like 15- years in political prison, w.ere' he
said they had.-wonderful politic .1 discussions. Fischer's analysis includes.' no change in the one party system, nor in the ambition of empire, in.the state control of indus try - nd the collectivisation, of agriculture, lieat arid other,foods scarce and' expensive in Moscow, clothing of poor and sho'ddy quality, housing incredibly bad. The average
family of.four live in 12 to 1 square meters of sps ce with a coi:amity kitchen .. .r.d lavatory. Most,people still ' depend on the public iaths.fcr complete v;asl in,,.

Latterly we have been having any small falls of snow--a couple, of laches at a
time. .For exa". pie a. we'd ago X was r.t Se.tauket. It snowed Friday afternoon oa the waY cut and again Saturday night and Sunday morning. The hoys love -it and it certainly was pretty- There is so'much mountain laurel about that is strikingly green against the'snow. Thuisd-y night Aunt Annie telephoned frrm Albany to talk about er arrival the next day with I is Jordan her prospective travelling camp, nien for h.u-ope t, is. summer:. I explained it was raining and she should brinp rubbers, cut .o.ulc. have no/ need for more pretentious footgear. At two o'clock oh Friday it'.stew tea -to ano.v r.d before moriii.y we had almost six indies'. owaver t' ey were str.yi t tne Gc oeore end -anaged all right. I had. dinner"with H em arid heard the details cf their ideal itinerary, which they had come to discuss with the travel agent cn Saturday". At t- e , (went it is raining a-"d t' e:- sr.or on cornices and virdvo ledges -is being washed away*

The day be-fcre t1 e Fischer luncheon I vent to tie Jalclcrf t-p hear ; me. fonc.it in
a speech on Last can meet V/est in which she began by suggesting one re c. the last two lines of the Kipling "and never the twain shall meet" poem, .that the iritis:: Common wealth was a wonderful thing end proved much by containing 'such disparate peoples as Africans, Asians and- Snglish* She closed vlih P legend--as t ef king set tth to visat a neighboring prince he net death at the city gate. Death promisee only to .take 200 people so the king went on, tut nets' reached him that many, -iany "more Im 1 died ao we
rushed. ' cne to again' meet:death at the gate. Upon being taxed '"-th raving broken^.i-8
pledge, death replied ""o. I kept ly word. I too" only 200. ... /.others wed u . - r. She concluded that fear is the ca non-'enemy of man tod: y -a 1 af we'.are- to survive we must : ; ke. friends' with faith.. T' s next day ?,t -""-hi tea I had. p Cm nee to t-mm-w n ; for her speech -and her.Christmas'.card to me. Also to learn that she will be re^irm, from her :os't as India' High Go: issior - to L" 1 'id at t e.e'fof 1957.

Addie is Helen's sister-in-law in Scotland at the moment from her home in souther Englani

Mrs. Adair's three daughters are Mary, Amy and Helen.

Pat is Amy's daughter, Helen Margaret and Poppy are Mary's
daughters

'

17 ,ast 64th Street

t^JO'

I.Yv York 21, hew York fcrfc

$ L

Owen is an aid friend of the family

February 3, 1957

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Dear Addiei

'

This may be completely gratuitous and duplicatory--but I thought T might be able to tell you seme of the Vancouver details bB fore anyone there could possibly have time to write, if in fact there is
energy for such a task, Thursday morning when T hrd iry'r - ire that Mrs,
Adair had died late Tuesday (January 29) and that she and Douglas would take the casket to Owen Sound ^or a gervice on Tuesday (february 6) I telegraphed my hope to meet them in '"oror+o but asked when, ^uite late
that night they telephoned suggesting that it would be better if I aited
until spring when Helen will come East for the interment, Beth Helen and Amy were with Mrs. Adair *hen she died. Despite the clammy sweat -ind the inner heat she felt, the nurse said the end was easier than most. Although thie had been anticipated for 18 months, everyone is naturally shocked and Mary in the North Vancouver General H0qp lift! had a setback when she was told, Helen Margaret flew up from San Franciso on Thursday and she and Helen had gone to see LJary immediately after dinner at Amy's ,

iiy and Douglas have an hour to transfer at Toronto from the Vancouver train to the one for Owen Sound on Tuesday morning, so let us hope they are on time. They hope only to remain either in Owen Sound or Toronto one night and start right back to Vancouver. ...poor Douglas hating trains
as he does. If their plana carry they should be hone on Sunday the 10th. Pat put through the call and we had a marvelous connection. Douglas spoke for a minute and assured me everyone wae "fine". Thinking that Mary was in the Vancouver hcspitel I had hoped that Helen would stay with Pat at Amy's
during their absence where the staff could wait on her hand and foot, but now T reslire she is in the Forth Vancouver hospital she may find that so convenient. The visiting hours there are strictly enforced Amy said. At
any rate I hope she will go to a nursing home for couple of weeks to
get unknotted end with rest bring down her blood pressure and start build
ing the physical strength she so sorely needs to replenish. It would eeem
unlikely that Mary will be given permission to lead a fully active life immediately she leaves the hospital and Helen had better build herself up
agwinst "ary's homecoming. Helen recently wrote that Owen had been a great help to her ''hen quite eloselj? in time both her mother went off to the nursing home on Point Grey Road and Mary to the hospital. It is good
too that Poppy and her family are only the back garden fence away. I am glad Helen Marmeret went up, though I do not know for how long.

Amy said that hor mother looked beautiful i&foen they saw her on Thursday. I enn picture her, thinner than you remember, but vith the still black braids in coronet fashion only toughed with grey. The funeral service was at St. Francis-in-the Woods on Friday. The Owen Sound service will be in a funeral parlor and the casket stored in a vault until the ground
can be opened in the sprint?. The various old friends I have telephoned are naturally saddened as Mrs. Adair was a great favorit here too but no one was unprepared and appreciated that it was .a release for her and the end of a verv long, hard pull for the family.

If she can Amy will telephone again from Toronto and I'll send you an additional bulletin as she will surely have talked to Vancouver in the interim, fe are having so much snow and fog that I am
relieved not to be attempting Owen Sound. If I made the connection it could be that weather would keep me there overlongl
My love to you,

.ic* dip if Tfel:or

rr-ir.-lev.-

l:;is. Auf; r' 4rrde ds pf'.trrs re I ' rv

I - t is v' 3 :gl'.ter.

lelel , :-ti and i o, i . :ra. - rr' '

C ;:cn isv-an ?I'd friend ef -lie fe.i.ily!

Dear Addiei

' j t 1,-.' f o: f r.t 'rO '- : ? nnd:"fclf :
17 East 64th Street New York 21, New York February 3, 1957

Thie may be completely gratuitous and duplicatory--but I thought I might be able to tell you some of the Vancouver details be fore anyone there oould possibly have time to write, if in fact there is energy for such a task, Thursday morning when I had Amy's wire that Mrs, Adair had died late Tuesday (January 29) and that she and Douglas would take the casket to Owen Sound for a serwice on Tuesday (february 6) I telegraphed my hope to meet them in Toronto but asked when. Quite late
that night they telephoned suggesting that it would be better if I waited until spring when Helen will come East for the interment. Both Helen and Amy were with Mrs. Adair when she died. Despite the olammy sweat and the inner heat she felt, the nurse said the end was easier than most. Although this had been anticipated for 18 months, everyone is naturally shocked and Mary in the North Vancouver General Hog) ital had a setback when she was told, Helen Margaret flew up from San Franciso on Thursday and she and Helen had gone to see Mary immediately after dinner at Amy's *

Amy and Douglas hare an hour to transfer at Toronto from the Vancouver train to the one for Owen Sound on Tuesday morning, so let us hope they are on time, They hope only to remain either in Owen Sound or Toronto one night and start right back to Vancouver. ...poor Douglas hating trains as he does. If their plans carry they should be home on Sunday the 10th. Pat put through the call and we had a marvelous connection. Douglas spoke for a minute and assured me everyone was "fine", Thinking that Mary was in the Vancouver hospital I had hoped that Helen would stay with Pat at Amy's during their absence tfiere the staff could ssit on her hand-and foot, but now I realise she is in the North Vancouver hospital she may find that so convenient. The visiting hours there are strictly enforced Amy said. At any rate I hope she will go to a nursing home for a couple of weeks to
get unknotted and with rest bring down her blood pressure and start build** ing the physical strength she so sorely needs to replenish. It would seem unlikely that Mary will be given permission to lead a fully active life immediately she leaves the hospital and Helen had better build herself up against Mary's homecoming. Helen recently wrote that Owen had been a great help to her when quite closely in time both her mother went off to the nursing home on Point Grey Road and Mary to the hospital. It is good too that Poppy and her family are only the back garden fence away. I am glad Helen Margaret went up, though I do not know for how long.

Amy said that her mother looked beautiful when they saw her on Thursday. I can picture her, thinner than you remember, but with the still black braids in coronet fashion only toughed with grey. The funeral service was at St. Francis-in-the Woods on Friday. The Owen Sound service will be in a funeral parlor and the casket stored in a vault until the ground can be opened in the spring. The various old friends I have telephoned are naturally saddened as Mrs. Adair was a great favorit here too but no one was unprepared and appreciated that it was a release for her and the end of a very long, hard pull for the family,

If she can Amy will telephone again from Toronto and I 11 send you an additional bulletin as she will surely have talked to Vancouver in the interim. We are having so much snow and fog that I am relieved not to be attempting Owen Sound, If I made the connection it could be that weather would keep me there overlong.
My love to you,

Stelj fWd&u,
luJLl^

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Sr^tl c " itt "

ic of rxx c. o ho i:xy 1 vac advise to re ove t f v I've ic

draw such steam as might be in the pipes into v radiator. As it '.vas cold "rich.u

evening nd chill and.dump outside, 1 tool: out thfr yr.lve c-4 used the fireplace sc

was comfort: 'le .fthout he-1 in the rj lir.tor. .Conditions -.vera unc ange.d ,' en I set

off forti e of "ice little defers eleven fe next x-miry. .eti r ,:r :ut 4j i

the entry h all was filled with the. odor of coal ms-ahd . tie'j anitor started in his '

delightful conbir.- tion of gesture, vivid f cial expression and limited _..:glish to

explain' ^ crisis seated in r.y r r.r .".cut.- Up we rent .= s my f ail-reytp reinsert the

valve sio.ly dawned on me. Evidently he. stoked the fire about noon end all, t' e

steam turned my premises into a vast Turkish br.th for a couple of hours until he

yfpkvd r.nked the fir's, heo.no'ile hme. Didier, v.ho -lives be xo- h o h d call'- ' the

police advocating they break devn the dcor nd must.' ve tried to cc:..ntl the situation

in her customary, volatile French v -.owner. ....ere' -mas onlv rent de. p he t here by the

time Dominicue and I arrived -./ith ro-. s of: condensation drops along many ,hcri zonal sur

faces. We returned th.e vslve to the proper place, I promised never to r.c it again d

he v.'Qtit off to "bring back his fire. Gf course, the weight of the steam was enough to

brin? down- the soiled print, of t! e peeling p-tches occasioned by previa us rorf leaks

and I fed'a busy time gathering up these bits nd pieces from, my bed, from t..e g-lley

and one or -two other spots, heedless to say this prevented "ie fro - having the food

planned before-charging to red s. er-th dress xor.evening activity. TnoSe of us

in .the office who had worked on the Decisions..1957 project in tie office had myster

ious been invited to "3na.ck-tc.ils' at 7" by Fhil Van 31yf to meet is ne- *ixe. it

seemed impossible to 'discover v.i at ti is i sent and Vera.ana 1 decided it .pest to icrtixy

ourselves it - hi- tea before so" . t " -or Irocklya " a:' its. hhey ve an aatr. c-

tive but tiny p.vartr ent with terrace ad : lovely: vie# of Axnraitan. Vera and.11 whose

eng-geme: ts ' -a deterx.incl the c> be,' ere the .'irst to arrive at 7a10. Ox .ere drift-id

in until after nine, hen V o" ox-a. tion vxas.'oyer twenty. ;,or your inx'ci wtxwn cn.ac. -

tails proved to be drinks followed by a very good ravioli, green salad and hunks.of. e,

particularly fine Italian bread served with Burgundy, the ssrvxwy roils "ere so small

that one felt constrained, to hell oneself/ most bntily. It v.-as, however ; del/. .tful

party. The rod dress hitherto unseen by the office people ins widely approved.

ops hi. o. dresses. ..en incre- six muter of - -'vert.' .. - to - m - ri. . - e

Lb di on.Avsr.ue busses .or resale est siisi e ts. iw seems a new

gro..:. ,=_ i .same,.

All .claim to handle beautiful garments of. high.- fashion worn, a fev- times by 1; x.ies of

Society at t x r .ct ox' ir original- cost. I cm only and r ix a .a

x x .% e

si? us Herbert Hoover reads in our. economy on xch ,xe cases his. lugubrious warn, ngs o-.

evil economic times bo c me. (One radio co. sixt- tor reminded :is 1'iaterxrs ti at .xcver

used the same phr seat in his- recgiteisiic -"orno^iacrticn t; at he used yams ago an

bragging, that everything was dandy just before we sank into the Big Depression -no. trere--

for 'concluded one ouou1 ' e?d 'the or-'osi^./ into this . "moniti n 5 )

'V ile I no admirer of KinpSS'-uc. of 3audi Arabia, - nevertxeleso am x-hgry -t |*vor Wagner for Ms public affront in announcing that the City xjsttld net welce: x is.id. If t'-ere ever is tins'I -..all write th.e itvor -.nd say it culd h ove given me pleasure

to vote for him when he tuns for. the U.S. Senate, but since he reveals so little sense' of the fitness of things on, the larger nletfon ofytirld M'ynu tional affairs it has

now become impossible for mo to do so. hiw loss cx Ay vote will net concern : t h xt

--yg r notify :xe. Actunllv hi ser.he.-or :o rlavi xg - it' "ire i . -. . iidle -is# 1 il e doing nothing to step up oil production here to offset shortages in mxrepe.^ That prices

here for oil -nd its' refined - products are incsC-3''n8

v'e V^be oil ccrnr--wxf sy insist

on sendinr- Eu-'or>e tlxe refined stuff they do not want instead; of exxude oil is shocking

demonstration ox what can ha yen when responsible "overrme-tal pecrle fn.il o project

their minds and plans into ths future and on a crc^d scale. Doxx't worry .x --m not gcunjc

to write misenhowsr.

I .'on ay I we "t to c-ckimil i - rty t -ria'fl tc see a ecu; le of

portraHs which I h-d-missed, in th.e ; ai-itirig stages. Jlxey were lovely .nd so n, xreseed

the- Jlldenstein C -.llanw people th.-t they have ol'fe-c1 to exd.ibit heh: work. Vedmesdnv I r- aneged to vet to mother party for General' Sir Roipld V. mx, President ox" t. e .rxtx.vx

Council, whose Presence here I cannot understf nd xir.ee the Council is enrcget- m ctiiwur-

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:rav, ^ ccl.i acting- lists to t itf no sMd a ^ ,;/ru. .is, 4e#-
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with hn hour lyner I h<

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neon

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bva;r;hJ.eijrfiegn' d1to-nn'ds."T

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ref-i crs- ir. the g-, l"I iAt.4-t4-l7e/->'.l7egrisrx " -, er*Tt-i c/>

for' despite the Viler luncheon of* 150-290 en br.dneed' ;- -:x the ipne icr Vhe; Prime Ministor of "r-nco on Thursday for about 80,0 'and two dercllir.es or. Thursday prectically no

one v.o.rked yesterday or Today. Thinks to long distance telephones though I tied up

free speakers each, for Albany ncl Fit'tsbufgh arid **. riac\e the FFA $60 uort'c 6f cor --.issions-

on & couple of. other speakers placed. The pne at Lev/i.Ston, Maine pleased, ae ydte rnuch.

as the .spec ker's fee. trill help pay for an operation for his wife. Even full probe sucrc always, seen to ,-ond.er hp-;/ they arf to' meet 'such .unexpected expenses'. Ted r'iggins c< . e

over froi. Pittsburgh full .of problems.about his mid-April "V- ...j^b " " lot'of trlkT

ftdrned him loose iitn a telephone ahefc let hi:: do s.ome c. hie ohn urvhiu cut, po muph

progress i.&s made that he ta ct's .'to take up to't speoial hrenc -ieceu,'Tor ,1,-.hchedr.. .do

arrived tc bind -it had moved 'acrOssh.tKs'fehtf&etbsinfce hit

was

instef.-u- of the "5 All if osp people' . o have m i4 Jokes about, the a-entpssa pf ti 3 . roup , -xmt h"?. 'V.,

in

^ Giv ide

uil ".he'eitri' f rlottesville, . oil t lun.ci

.eptrehnnee"Itbteaarv5,Ver7e.egrlid"vtHewGsof.o.P Vnp, uueihutsd.'-ushb.e;:,yu-dce'unuoipcrhtt-^afi-rnV-f-e'c-ssa-c,., c

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Thpt ha 3si: g yoa hear is I. c at can slofLy peeping art cf a '&$a 'oar MIS

telle of u&r: .re cacld for :,ve Z'l LIFJ, ?:aTfV'j. loadei,s,'-"''pench of.ficirls," press the Jaft-.ao ehi iJen uotorcyele'es i'3 a "man of/ty ilorth", an intellec

ensa.area. --r.t all' fcut the: "free-

lIimmooi .'hiaea~u-i,f. i t.ass dAcccavveeirasdc. orn. hcc:n:icc-ryp, ocyrc.ee- a..lloorrye fr:r. lyris t itk the offic

ial pai'l^r, v/r.s r6putea to ansl' a' ce lr...cli.t .t did net rc bp .. shiraf orij'vpu1 d pre pi'Iy act'

Afih tt 00! j to cur liinnhoorii " air H" rv

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a iavit ticn. . .Jf

5iS0 i;ec.neede.y are French Consul; uetelephonedrife she acctaJecl and ,yo Id .expect ac sit

a t athe head iahie. T.i^fc h er

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"ffom left to :

factor. iherl sh:

| ! r. cor3age, v$ti0 she cc.lnly -checked. a'th her "coa-frS

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his heme in '.Taenia gt on. It took one hidfr to get-.through to tjjp and hA.r that the iairt :

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talk, v/iti the t res! Ten i aid ttk.fi- pi .ce-carly hfi

t s" ?iy

btil" at dried to

leave ..! ir " cash- t 9s air the - if art end f. c G:1 . ir. was dye "in ihnv Fork- - t 11*15;

They - net fc-v? "pV it qui ckly rc I received \he ore'-yrrasped

call at tie " ilt-

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entrance' to

had decided t

Service rati., my dear hr. Cr.rfiel.d A is' md: a

to ..ork nith, : 6- it ted. 1 tc r >1.: t'

this y;?.s a aistc.ke %a I -u. cfrnici t: ; 1 " h up t r : r c a a e l a t e fen the cjcevtic:. 'hie

delayed v. .rc'. i: " into the iailroQ:.:. l-.;t t; o hotel :u -f eru^pk.'aa!tip^:cl9, c h servi y ad

hefifiiii f..Cttal

insisted '

, Nascii pre

cs ellies.

at 5 3:0 -Vera and X v.; did nC;b si pa as hS'aas in . cenf
the trccp -.dthclrawl susiheas) well t> OClgh, tho This, time ci.-r v.'&3 pleased excited a pout th&; luncheon,' adartti,ng xe h<td ;;c| " heps. .che.t 'ja iCt Js ice e -cord salt's .y -"'la -c

' hocascc cf the bug!oat'strike bhe"^t.cc.n" hoasi:..; huts. ,d c slcp-i'ecsactt. c. caod ^ ,t

halifax and the passe sger.s c,e dan ca. ;a t : c>ec'-l i r- he. + i et t|-e lharst tt

Centrrl at' . :h( 1 st rf.'st. ,1 lad'shov/, } -hr.a-.-'rrs exl sted, lu.yyye ctsssag, enstogs^an

trhuesher:d,paon fwf a;fixcara

: rcwsin di-uer

with malceshlfb at tho Stabler

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at least Iffe? &.%

s"n ni''"J:'

end colder
A"; so.cn' cold -oil

in

iioirb % i Z . t olclco': 3und|i evening T ei

frhiir eli^tVtehi ori' plou-binr:'thrd ugh- th

A few minurtteess' llanttesrr' inr#y native setnse of rorrou^j.wj^.vji* ? '

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fptirirenempidulssaetcs'eep.<.*erv-.nd..i",ttrcI-rueinu.sfeod--r.r.vrc.->olia1 diS44te.4tmc.lte1,,ieaHosnfuJ4irrHv~eee-|m.senv3.Tt+r~.'o-iuMnlitfiorit:h..ev.hr.ratluil'woaoyrc''stooftf.i*r6n<iid

.the tre.fi it y. on
carn.et ', (.

^f.uy . r cy y;;,,cySC(.rc. 80.

re.seW.rd v ic scorned to fb the ir: from fj arlvs'h'pue (hen 1 ley. "ted ei overcrne af.v s'f',0 n? wrii&Se| dvr

I telephoned ti

I.felt b.a's

T^5r<9S-H-eerBV^.ol4V^9iiticaljy^

retarded halrye over .e

;. -. - ; *s Q^n r,lo it ia ..erzeal.

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yciidt? f :! ] e r i t o i o x - h r d t o v ; : - l k f r c i p f f e C g t o t t l { :

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3 . ' ~ r ' 911 t e ' y a t l i c * . e a - u o t l e r r r . f e y . t h e ; / ^ r r . k y 9 p j ? s x t a r i e r . i e ; e i o t t e r s .

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of us 'C'-r-ltyp l o r y - p ^ r ^ . t r - w a k s n i l t h e m i t t ' ke.s ' ou.rselvis."

rerk,.,ps id lichlfl

t-ke that to lev t

r e r o t ko% t r y i n g t o rko my

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March 30, 1997

Molly has been good enough to lend me her typewriter for a

bit. Through the trees I can see the sun glinting on the open water

of Long Island Sound and further along on the little bay where they

swim. Elm , some maple and all willow buds are swollen and color-

ful while the more cautious oaks are completely wintry. It is fun

to begin to see more clearly what earlier owners have planted where.

Some purple crocii a re out, there are a good many clumps of narcissi

and daffodil leaves a^lready giving promise of bfooom to*come* Last

Sunday I went to Martha and CIeve for the day and enjoyed seeing hew

the little grandsons had developed since Christmas, Bobby is no long

er the placid Buddha, still smiling and agreeable but so full of life J

that he has to be watched cat to mouse all the time. In the late

afternoon we drove to Cap Tree Island. The Ocean was a heavenly bLue

and the Bay on the otherside of the sand dune road seemed even brighter

because of the contrast with the lively beige of the salt marsh grass ~

along its edge and islands. On the way back we watched a great fljght

of migratory birds break into smaller and smaller flocks as they scught

overnight resting. The atmosphere was so clear that we could not cnly

see the Bapire State Building, but the towers of lower Manhattan as

well.

Returning from Port Jefferson where Molly and I had taken

Fred and a pal for their^Saturday afternoon stint of sky watching S> r Ground Observer Corps, wexa 25-30 acre field recently ploughed and

plajrtei. I must watch that and see if my guess of potatoes was right.

The big social week I was to have two weeks ago with three luncheons and four cocktail pajrties turned out badly, I made the ^ luncheons all right and one cocktail perty. The second (Turkish) turned ouyto be Wednesday instead of Thursday as I thought and I had accepted a very^early dinner for Wednesday and as it was a foul afternoon of rain with which snow was added just at the time Spring was official I skipped the Turks. Friday morning I was greeted in the office by a telegram: " As a mark of respect to the momory of the late Ramon Magsaysay President of the Philippines whose mortal remains will be in terred in Manila on 22nd March the Government of Pakistan has canoe lied all functions and celebrations on that day, Pakistan Permanent Repre sentative regrets inconvenience caused by cancellation of Friday's Republic Day function. This function will, now be held on Saturday, 23rd March, st Pakistan House from 6 to 8 p.m. Your presence is earnestly solicited," So that was pafty number three. Four was the Republic Day celebration of the Pakistan Consul General any way for which I had also accepted. But when it came time to dress on Saturday afternoon I was so thoroughly relaxed as to be exhausted, I think I was wise in deciding that it was silly to make the effort, In stead I had a drink of my own Bourbon, a nice dinner and went early to bed with an innocuous English novel "Half Crown House", With the result l actually felt some enthusiasm the next morning for going to Freeno rt and v whraht*+if s8emvi enly moraendikmepaorrtaanbtouttotehnejioryretcheentdatyr.ip to South Caroliaia,

Speakers must have spring fever or something. They have been more than usually difficult this la_st week. Some agree to do thiig s

and then try to work out of them, others go to hhe other extreme end agree to make unscheduled speeches to the detriment of commitments already made for them. I would gladly drop the lot into the sea. The



. Directors meeting went smoothly enough, but left Nason the -

job ox raising 430,000 "new money" during the next three months, so at

m^+

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meting he read the economy riot act to the departpoliticing for more staff and encouragec/to cut I

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'...a afternoof. is' alvcst cons,. but tr.e .. .vderal inecre tal i's if-ltl for- b?.P

r.g '.-ell as t. o est": at ; or 191", , tut u s or. Itsvt fork. ;, to,

outliV.e aclvice- ? nd.'prolixly recopylnp;. Ti ts' is nil vary &wjtx rd.

oundavs aypv I /r d liootc bcr soee extra latter ths tocuv- nvevor i ovar. 1 i,rps

-' t.o'd'a?. ajtid is c;o'at 7/3lcr.ria.,Ei'ter tercets. of

rvZ&%y i.ld .-dsv of yetterdav en-'

too of pn01/ a|l fhurgduv. Tii fact that rail, xs Vprcesr f'c. . end v ,ndl 1 es.d:.v : rices.

tbdf.V rather ; recly us. Pardbfi :'x, tf..e-out. to tall _on 1 y tele/ or . v.^t/ ..it

I.-,el or- rvcvl. / <: 1;..3 ha4 a touch ot virvo an'S. .411 travel iron II > rlo :ie:;vi...._c

.

tciaclrow ni-pt instead- of tc nigit, - 1}<5 1 .plso xcleplpusd lie r "lev . err. laicl to x

the;:. 'BX%h. -%i e yesEjopolittn Club to Parcel ti.Q?.ots I ' . x-orcisytd; for .is to uoo nl r

arbara" toi.iorr.ov/ aifftt.

a vae soarxe0 llpsrorr after five uphill ;of: inertia. 01 tnai ; " ut: calb rev ioucl t...e '

soecvt.G.lar -1; :r. ct t. res torvecus L.ir: Hovers on ore |telk fr.c x : a.r. 1'V'.- bulb

I

.yoe.v x.ox.a see xr.e, re? varruy 0;. v.a pecena l .sc. svt.ii: pu -re c,......00

^ter .

' t-e^i.c: derr.i.rt ail ipinter r r iSa miiof irrr'lor; s ufp.ri 1: lav.;' ''.r1. . v Ivf --f

; ihcvyh T'isxr'1^9'io'-r tv/o-plants vers vi: terkilled.

'about people who' ill apst casta b.ie no 0. cortuiii x of btfe if , if eKaalve-j, at v. eh

tligy reach acrroosess-. the." order r i air attacks or fore.' ' 11 Ic ta, it Is v^o; viuc'...

Xiie Jastl- nd ccccuri.osrr.tt aft ei "cr.i.r's death sieve.:3d ue. 9 v.1. true is tv.l our uvr.

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xaxivx service l..r: teen ruined bv f _.r s rt of cLftr^ctcr s'ssasaaifetion iriditle r:,...i-

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v.liOar or fie::. :s

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for .'exr-vle tltit Cl.-arlps r-dlleh couldn^t cere leg a vr.el'o -r- s" is s-||^.pd" w^pr 'lb" lle.&a

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too 0741y lour dedito w '".e anv .attprrft to fi-. t in -Mia ov.11 lei: 1...

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Probably,., tie result of aC.cCcO'i.t1 "lir ted -f 1 v9 .. ,,c. leaves i,e -toliv . f e.lv icef vlov \ f - I

nil 1 survey. . I. von't- "h"ore yoi v'itl rsc.'t- i of 11:'..,0 i'" "' 1 el'..'Ice .. ic 0 x.'i.... x "f r

lie r.s acts or' tolicies of "adv .iicfoWd a- so:'.: r* .* *J " fr.- r ove -to a liter field. . isc v.cv.sr's

lealth, .if baa picturog ; r.cli -.ttituc'es reflect C: nc-itirr.?., ...ust, "-e retty poOr. ' "l:;ot.' r,

tri;; ud'+i.e rpport tiiereon lelve t}e sp996'..leas' vtit; rr.;.;o. Euct et tire is r;iy.;,vs die

tensjenesB

tbir.

as

and then, reco

TLo post cfi

roaster genecal

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dpen&ng of the, jo'rld Affairs Center on the gr&und floor , of ti . Jui^in^ ( '?n event plotted a year ago for Is.at- October) ?.n| by the a" senc'q cf my record." c!erk: rn'jury bit - ftr <tv/o
. weeks and beginning oil hr.d?y ,.ith Fred h'cftbs a' ay on the, first bit 0? his holiday, hl-el has Er:nS) h: the board iu the \t:j cf person;-.! letters and aye"-, .it a, Greek c-ckt-.i| l rty
I had yr interesting talk ith 'the f ilter hotel i.p.a ;: d.s.ne cf construct;',-.A tl.oir hotels .in foreign cities- is is no"' working on one in .the.vs., . ' bp.; the Greek Ck verhmeht puts''ui half the capita.!, other h-If' supplied ty s Greek fiir nbisr, ilto ; provide.:.;'t..' kn6-A-h6v; and is .responsible for maintenance with a, guafantae that' i'e ] rir.cipals will
not suffer a, loss, greatest trouble and looks forwart

lie next -seek -.thgre .was a-party f or a great- of . Oner from South 'Br, Inia--c -.qppir. , gentleness clothed in gorgedwsnes's of vi* rrntly cclcred saris, hi:;one.3 i' d .sarongs of .tuhh:l fabrics often : eavily patterned iu-prld. kko upstanding huhu ouq al-rcvos of
the 1'11i-py inos all seemed to be v/kit'e. or'crer.n aM sprouted froc p- ntch. Grassex, Prey this predominately fouini'ie grtherin: 1 avei rap-idly to jy: r-lncst ullFilld :"c':o" at aha

and le ve very scon --duo 'or promotion hole' r:l explained

'Wednesday aftsfnc.cn.1 v e ie;,
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ease in placing people. The florist ">ill Jnust hrve been huge l(- tpeir >v.erb h ynu-l arrangements all 6vsf--but t'~at- could not have been patch;.on .biat t..b .cr.teiys oil! will be, I'de-ncxt afternoon the- -uestc -ere pepre.r .fc-tiveo cf t,. e . on- l-overru e t 1 Ch -niz- 'tions, who struggle! along .with personal flowers end during ovl icb th er.o was n pre anr, :.nthe Audi'- arium.- ..(set tin: 2f5 persons) , berry Cabot Lodge rnd Aaenst; nt ieorox- of. ,.,t-xo Bardi c sr~-ke --both dully banal, y Ffide$ arc ot ciown. to uefe. s'ol^ijbr^ss. t? ok : r d at
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being 'front page news' in the hh,,' G'Ol.k Ti'T.-S fer 182; days-' tub ShndcLe ..aft fsileo.

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sudl prominence 07 'fedf.esday, ' Thursday I spent moat cf the a canirp .at roubles t /S.'tcn .

cf a' e Japan'Society oh the prcjcooperative dinner c a ,tne Ira.a ,,. rnarr.r cf a . n.; .

n hon-'ay, June ./ith,.

v.ith guanas, o.c ;wqoctf insc, craat ^;uex *>

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ting. Saturday .,e went from the sand dunes along tl e ocean at cone's ore,., .over -up iree

Bridge to ietauket for lunch with Polly, Jia,-and t! e boys, Junday puter c arc.1; J l"'p'

being on ;j.tAr duty distributed Clovers to t>e sick and the .do'poser's tock us to dinner

at hilleridre Inir' ynd re went to 393 Iran and. her family. Bod ay, just a, year olu, .T S

apyelbped K heKH;?, b^ss lafphter and finds much of life von- ^uiny. Bat'- cl^S we drove

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Peace reigns temporarily. Bill is having his birthday and eight of his friends have gone to the movies as well as r .5A his bosom companion the rectors son, who like many such is beguili ng h-lion, They come back for games and supper, A sunless dgy with a touch of chill in the wind. This morning I got some dianthus and petunia plants at the nursery and some seeds and a begonia because I SSuld Sot resist the shade of soft pink. (Ah, yes I also purchased a double white begonia for my office windows. Really silly as I am eivine stuff away as fast as I can find people who want plants, ) ihe things I have put into the rock garden have taken hold nicely and I am delighted that the Kenilworth Ivy from British Columbia seems happy one can judge from the shade and quantity of bloom. The oak trees are well out and dropping their brown beards all over the Place, th- lily of the valley in final bloom, spirea, wiwteria lovely and the late blooming azaleas just coming on with the rhodedendrons. In sunny spots mountain laurel begins to show color and I hope the woods will be full of its blossom when I next come in early June fro Fred s Ooniir-
mation.
After a ssiduously leaving Douglas Overton alone to get through his annual meeting of the Japan Society, I called him to see if we could not start getting the dinner for the Japanes Prime Minister rolling. He reported that the Japanese Government was now proposing two dinners in New York--one sponsored by Japan Society and FPA, the otlu, by the Japanes Chamber of Commerce and the Far East-American Council of Commerce and Industry., whom we had somewhat reluctantly accepted as co-sponsors with us. Overton and I agree that the P.M. is not
worth two New York dinners, but he does not dare pull out as the Japan Society ha s given dinners for Japanese dignitaries for 60 years and withdra wil a t this point could be blown up by the sensitive Japanese to such an a ffrontand loss of face on the part of the P.M. that the cabinet would fall. Since this is a state visit, the State Depa rtment is involved a nd as upset as we by the situation. My suggestion that we transfer to a luncheon is impossible as the Secretaiy General of the UN is on for one luncheon and the Mayor of New -ork for the other. The deeper I get into this thing the less I like. Beyond this the week has been messy with details of a reception I am running on the 21st for a member of the Board of Directors, strange requests from strange people the last coming at five minutes before live -or a speaker in Pittsburgh on June 4th, where of course they must have a nationally known name. However I did manage to get to the doctor one_ very hot day for my smallpox scratch, which rather looks today as if it would "take" a t any rate it itches*. A happy by-product of that visit was a fine blood pressure reading!a little better than ten points above the best I have been able to muster for years) and approval of my weight.

At last I discovered from KIM when the charter flight is due and a sked the travel agent to get me space on a London-Copenhagen flight where I shall have two nights in the same bed before starting on the Hans Christian Andersen motor tour with Aunt Annie and Miss Jordan, This week*s NEW YORKER has a long piece about Denmark which more than whets my appetite. The Danes aret made to sound like a charming people with a great desire for "cozmess" wnich means and admixture of soft, comfort, security and pleasant relations. But look ing below the surface it would appear that the pursuit of some of these aims have omnious result, for example a very high suicide rate , a failure to keep their national economy in step with the changing world and a general attitude of let us be gay today and the future can worry
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Shortpow Itinerary for Aunt Annie with addreaaea for taaii . (.All tie -oly places she will be for only one night have been omitted.) Allow 10^.'14 days for surface mail at 8# per os. 3-5 days for 10# airograa foldo regular air nail at 15# per half oz.

June 19-20 Bourne Hall, Bournemouth, Dorset, CSOLAMD

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June il--July 3.; Oroaverter Hotel, Chester, ^knrll'nd^

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Riyal County Hptel, Durham, ^ HIWLAKD iHin ivce-v-v-u,

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a swath "for JepVn in bashing-ton. I t is incredible, the amount ef emo.ion one can *ir

on the Girard case. Cdd ad i t seems at first flush, ;I feel that having ] W m

"Status of Troops" treaty v.'ith japan v;e have no alternative e n t o l e t ft m cm, ri$. v

in the Japanese ocv.rt, where I suspect he v;ill. be given a lighter cenuerce thjg. u mili

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If this paper is a bit shop warn and the composition more disorganized than usual it is because the former when there was no time to write over the weekend at Setauket cane back to town# The train was late getting in and I had a stupen
dous mail to read, Now I am chewing my' lunhh with one hand and typing with the other having the distinct feeling that if I do not write now there is no telling when I shall, The middle of Friday afternnon we began to get strong winds, some sort of peripheral back last from Audrey, which had been so vicious along the Gulf Coast. All Friday night the wind shooshed through the trees at Setauket with limbs, branches and twigs being torn off# Of course the electric power failed aud some people's telephones went out. At some point there- was a brief deluge,, of rain, enough to make it unnecessary for me to water the rock garden. We swam both Satur day and Sunday. Bill handles himself well, with rather more splashing and less form than he will Show in a few weeks. Jay seems to like his job and enjoy the hour and forty minutes it takes the uCatfekillw to go from Port Jefferson to Bridgeport. Fred was'visint the Kinneys at Bay'Shore and yesterday-we went to fetch him. First time I had seen their very well planned house, although they had been in it for three years, I am sure it is most comfortable, but like so many modem houses- iu gives the impression of cold, impersonality,
July 2. At this point I was drained off into what may turn out to be involve ment about July 2 with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Monday a week ago was a horrid mess of het and humidity. I wore a dress for which I care very little to the dinner, for the Prime Minister of Japan because .r^in threatened---this after I had slaved over the weekend to press three including one aqua chiffon with a ten yeard hemline--aid just as well as some rain fell on me as I got into the taxi ..or the WaLaorj.. -joug Qverton had out done himself with decorations and music. A trio even in the predinner reception for the elect, which soon became so.crowded that circulation was well nigh impossible. Before the Prime Minister, spoke a Japanese;woman was introduced^ ^ as a wife and mother, the house lights went out aid a spot light on her in a beautij.ul blue virgin's kimona as she sang in a lovely toned and powerful mezzo soprano, Mean while the room was lovely with small laaterns on each table. These had been labor iously hand soldered by the Japan Society staff and each carried a beautifully executed character for long life in black. The man on my right told me this same character is put oh coffins. The dinner was made delightful for me by Stuart Conger on my leftprotocol man from State Department, He reported that the King of Saudi Arabia's^ small son had improved from hospitalization here. Three American doctors Went back , but their attempts to train Arabs in the continuation of care did not work out._ Now there are a team of Arabs here getting the full course of training, In his unofficial party King'Saud brought six royal princes. The problem of keeping them entertained after the King cancelled'the planned tour of the country was difficult. It sounded as if each had his own fleet of Cadillacs which he kept busy 23 hours a day.
Nason was married in the Adirondacks last Saturday aid was back in the officeMonday telling us all that Dick Rowson is to be his Administrative Assistant seeing that decisions arrived at by department heads and a Policy Committee are executed^ aid P&il VanSlyk will add Public Relations and Promotion to his existing.responsibilities,
Allport left on Friday with a scroll and a fine inter-continental radio assouvenirs* from the staff. His last official act was a memo to the staff announcing, that in honor of Nason's marriage the follwoing day we might all go home at 3:30,,,,a childish gesture. We. are shaking down and I hope will straighten out soon. The situation is not helped however with Nason leaving on Friday for seven or eight weeks, We are supposed to have a four day weekend, but I have already committed myself to the. office for Friday and to Freeport that night for the weekend. Larry^Harris is arriving by KIM today and we are to have dinner together.

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Jomo off. Frankly the offioo has m in ti*y. The reorganisation goes Da ***

ouch talk end probably mora intrigue thou I allow myself to bo s-aoked lnto. C^ by one

ambers of the Poleo Ou*rd resign. 'Xheoo nddodtc theusual E0^c ^ to return to college for *Fedw*t dorreos or like y sweet oesrstcrywhe

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able trial period to verb with the new Incumbent before she (*r he) is en..fi*ae.

The Thursday reception for ^d speeeh by the Prima l&nioter e- i

"ii't'itlT

going in circles. Doing this in the now ^rldAffaire

jadifag to tk number we can Rec3K*date wad not l^ter than Tueeday we euu ee wnK

people auy. The resident Pakietnain are oo overcame ritl vhe greet r,.

rma?mtheSmttthtaotw4 bieJy &?e> Sintocirctloe.s,lihtiolt oCflotsoe. th-W e offUfiUcel toorrtyth-,e dvb-.ati.hyoffr-inh#dA.gIa r*t7*t.*

3tate Depnrtaent 1 ve, from wfcidh f learn that the F^M'u daugtor lg

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hie began are coming. The local Pake say aha it not beeauae aha has Juet had a baby.

Ihea they km to enll *e back and say she it. 1^4 be. nttrioug e ee

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yp, bat ife i2 who lives In Jersey if ho liTee in .mehingten has jt tbe population. Xe thie an illuatration of tho adrantege of Moeloo plurd aarriuge ...

always e BepuM or. bend to held up the social mttt

A week ago Fride-y we bed an office prty to bid farewwll to Mary 4hr *>nd told K* he TAB rein/- to benieo for the weekend, .uecae.' e lettci *cm

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tod peaking of leaving...in the interests of snfety KUl has nnneaaeed a refueUteg

stop for our flightat 9mmen whldh delaya arrival in London leng enoug to

S Oopinhaen flight on Friday afternoon. So X hnvs decided that instead ef

it and agonising all ccroee tbe Atlantic to go on sith tho chartor to AmU'rdnffi,^ji ,

the night liiero in a hotel a^l fly en to Denmark Saturday noen. It delays my reuni

itk Aunt tonie by 13 hours, but I think It will take lose eat o* me. C'

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"the book, thcu^h X km met the maa. 8t; ie annoyed that I hav& not gotten hia spoeking

dates at pretty high fees and ebarges ate with pro-Israel bias*

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Itinerary and addresses FRANCES J PRATT
august 8 to September 15, 1957

A ugust 8 LeaveNEW YORK VIA KLM Charter # 316 M 7 pm Idlewild

9 Arrive AMSTERDAM (spe nd night)

10 Fly Amsterdam to COPENHAGEN arriving 2 p.m.

Address Hotel Vestersohus, Copenhagen, Denmark mark letters PFor arrival August 14 due to several days motor trip through Jutland, etc., culminated in return to Vestersohus on U

16 Fly Copenhagen to BRUSSELS arriving late afternoon

A-ddress: Atlanta Hotel, Brussels, Belgium

20 Fly Brussels to LONDON arriving in late afternoon

Address : Dartmouth House , 37 Charles Street, Berkeley Sq uare,
London, Wl, Englamd

September 4 to 11
A4dress: C/o Mrs. John W. Wheeler-Bennett Garsington Manor Garsington near Oxford , England

11

Fly Lqndon to Amsterdam arriving 4:50 p.m.

Address: ca^ire of ^L.F. J, Mahlmeyer , Villa Benvenata, Bussumergrintweg 40 Hilversum, The Netherlands

14 Depart late afternoon from Hilversum to Schipol airport (Amsterdam) for return charter flight # 316 Westbound,

15 Arrivjle Hlewild Airport, NEW YORK

16 Back to work

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i Gt-t -^c^tv /M^ a September 21, 1957

Perhaps the beat way to begin ir to say that a week ago Immediately after tea with Bath Wieller-Bemnett at Garaington I was bundle d off by motor to the London airport, wearing a pink cashmere pullover, a heavy grey cashmere eardigan, a grey flannel suit and the black and white tweed top coat. We had soaroely started when tie chauffeur said "Madam, let me know if you would like to have the heater turned on*" It was a pretty drive of an hour and a quarter by the RAF Benson airfield, &*rs planes did formation flying in honor of Battle of Britain Day, through Henley (lovely), Maiden head (not very attractive) and Slougi so familiar from so many sign post timet I tad great curiosity about it--and now I need never give it another thought--totally unin teresting but very safety conscious* Gwen Grow from FPA turned up as soon as I had been checked in and tune d over my luggag* to KIM, and remained with me until my vary door* This was especially helpful as I fait neither brigit nor vigorous* ISM gave us a fine dinner at the airporirestaurant and continued to ahower food,drink and attention all across the Atlantic* We stopped at Shannon, where I bought duty free liquor and some lovely Waterford crystal tumblers for a wedding present for Elinor Dean to whose engagement announcement pasty I shall go this afternoon* Weather over the Atlantic cleared up and we fuelled again at Gander instead of Goose Bay as planned at take-off* But at least they gave us a spectacular sunrise of an unusual shad of deep cerise*

Immediately after we passed Nova Scotia the sea and or land was obliterated by cloud* Idlywild had a low ceiling and even at ten ip the morning was horrid with humid heat undoubtedly in the 80s (mid)* The health service cheeked us for Asia flu before we were allowed off the plane and from tie n on life was grisly, though I was most for tunate in the customs insp ctor I draw* It all took so long, was so noisy and confused* I cant wait for the te w facilities to open as each arrival seams worse than the ft*"? before* There seam to be so many immigrants coa&hg by air with no idsa of the things #iisfe will not be admitted* I saw a half dozen bottles of liquor confiscated while I waited for my big bag and while waiting for Gwen to be clasred noted that one of ay posher fellow passengers, an officer of the Carnegie Endowment, open up every last parcel and piece of luggage with which he and his wife entered*

Monday morning I went to the dentist, who x-rayed my upper jaw, reopened the swelling across the roof of ay mouth and the hole left by the tooth the Oxford dentist extracted on the previous Monday* He admits it is hard to say post facto, but his question is "Was it necessary to remove that tooth?" The cause of the infection remains a mystery, so we agree that everyone has a certain amount of bacteria in than all the time and pp obably
tired encouraged some of mine to misbehave* Luncheon on the 8th was the last meal I had downstairs at Garaington until dinner on the 12th, so I tetd a lovely long period of bed rest, which fattened my face and made me look very well* During that period I also five million units of penicillin by injection and I do not know htw much more in the eight fat pills I swallowed* Although I paid four guineas for the extraction all t rest was by courtesy of the National Health Service for which John pays dight silling* six pence a week for Ruth, himself and "the stranger within their gates"* IMe week has been consistent one morning to the dentist, the next to the doctor who works to hurry the poison out of me and then to the office* Both agree it is better that I act just stay at home as the English indicated I should, but urge me to go to bed as early as possible especially as I run a low grade temperature by afternoon*

Thursday my refrigerator gave out and I have waited all day for the repair man*.

Soon I must go to the Dean's (without a shampoo since London) and then I9lb have some

supper with Larry Harris who starts for Madrid next Friday* In ray optimism I have

already laid on three dinner s for next week because the swelling is now about half

its original size and everyone has said that it would be slow in c3e ariiig up* Doa*t

expect me to speak of the office--it is a juagb too impenetrable for my feeble mind*

If all goes well, I shall go to Se&aukst next weekend and shall not be able to tell

about any of the really lovely times I had on my holiday. Even the unfortunate ex

perience with the infection was better at Garaington, winre there is sufficient staff

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September 28, 1957

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HAVING TROUBLE WlH M*^y* T^fe'RiTfcR WHILE SHE IS

NAPPING IS PUTINS IT MILDLY,

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my awn right hand. Last Bight I at an the naar an P '

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feel there la muoh strength in the right hen

5?,K "--SrL:ii.Estisw- The weather tu.dlate.nd.Tand I^^^T.ltSd .t"me

paafrfeinetisenwthSepahnaidsshemfean.darn fm Maine far tta.e^eeTeTn^t.

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end had dinner with Larry* It was s

d night in frent ef

feT-HHSS?w.> TM wiping perspiretien frem my f#rJ* 1:1 #^irtail party fer him at the

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mare and mere busy and oBJTaa if tMmt 1 psltoXe.At any rate

tahihAearwdeeekfIDihraevoetetrhse mpereatsipnego.taw5fib^e,iSnJg^iJnvevlaTLoTdOdi^nian^Far^enrcshn^ca^biInau er t#t member

fer an Octeber tea and refusal ef

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infentatien

5&i farwer Prime Minister. Larry hispeaJs
abeut him, but af *ttr" "? ,* L.neh

alglish , 0n the whale he saumds like an

M^fandW^ stated L m* mare oanoern.d abeut much mar. Imminent things*

least

It was suah a nice in bits and pieces.

heliday It wasrery

hec^titic^^t^ ^J^y#i fJ^lo cee1taht ebw dahyi^clh efti,'

but wearing twe cersages^(ene^e my oarPyin* my tete and cigars I was

had te carry because ef 80 plus hep ) rrj

at 4:10 and was airbeme

talcing fer Jehn Wheeler-Bennett I ^ *fe*table flight but Gwen Crewe

three and I

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temed te werking ^tk?r "%^elu^!r 5!neS meming they weke us autp ttheatgivdereaarlyaG ragnedDrutcahd^b re*akLfas! t,gvtegryigeod eo,, and ttem prao^ tia^ allyrhaein ly d us

in eur seats ^r heurs by jefusjag

wh were geing en te Amsterdam

whhaedntewae ianrritvheedairpert wh4il?ee^^ JI^ Xi eca Lf# tr imt eke beffelrlg eht resa0urmeisnsg etuhre jcehuarnnneeyl*

OEfLMoweuarsseafadsersienegntaesa waer woeerfedetairoIt was Terywarm in Hnealuliajnnd as we dreve

aiSgsffssa5Jyissrifrss iSfESSv"raw te tewn am.ngst ths draresaf cyclists. SeandiMTlm dealaa

Walt.

ward af my c.nfirmsd raserra tian

"a^if^hagan until 6;30 an

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eut te the airpert te see a mest impressive Atemio Exhibition*

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October 6, 19$

This i ay cub-continent of of India period* Last night the India balletJ*** Santha Rao as the superlative loader performing traditional topple dances and the rest of the east of 20 providing the music and doing ancinet folk legends Very colorful and so symbolic in unfamiliar says as to make me feel I understood only J S-t they were telling me. Tomorrow we hare a reception for and speech by Krishna** SSlTSdlTiaSster of finance who is here to try to raise dollar leans one common dal basis for carrying out their second fire year plan. Tu*<kj^t a ektail Party rfr en by the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, here to head his delegation at the UK General Assembly through the current phase of the Kashmir squabble.

Tto office week has been messy as I worked with the third temporary secretary end .11 too much time with tin Regional Directors from across the country in for

SUSSnlf SSrarfirtti... A.Board of Directors* ...ting * -IX Wad-^ idgfct and we seem to be on our way to raise an additional four million dollars faran SJmslen program, or rather they fslt that ws fc ould attempt to do so. I have the

uneasy feeling that all too many people will be so busy trying to raise the

f

there will be little time or energy left for the task at hand of ^vin

^

world affairs to the American people. Despite the welts still on mjr bae^d +Jlfl the penicillin injections, the Asian Flu injection was ghrsn m on Wednesday with th

X.^post fatoo-- that I not. reaction for a woak and -port - a.

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AmT!. Curiously aicugh this innooulation is possible now, while -the common flu in-

taction I always have in September cannot be administered until my hlood gets back to

1 rj progr..'..., th, probXnga of th. danti.t ^"l a bit of bcaa rct

vet healed over in the roof f my mouth and the resulting need ft keeping th incision Ztotogta open. X proo...--. th. t.p of ny baai arytMag but joafortable fa""'rS hour aftarward* w. hop. la tan day. t. b.gln .tapa t. pat a "falioy to*. *

vacanoftjf# left by the Oxford extraction.

Mew may we go back to my fine holiday and my new love--Denmark? Yon can Aunt Annie's stats when I turned up at the hotel six hows after ry^oreeafit&r^

I

rinfin arrival in Amsterdam I reported to Scandinavian Airlines that I was verify g j WlSd-wtSTSr-it day at aooa for top-hag and -an X dl.OT.rd no roon

zsESr rz sara".ssts -- the flight and tha dalay I --hi* thr Copenhagen travel agent and asked Jnt Annie

% swssaw.
bia Universit y, Aom I have known casually as a Chinese wrt for year, unfl ^ flf B ihwson. a Danish gentlewoman,---and a fin Danish patriot.
l^gish drives he told us useful bits of histsy,social custom both amount and modern,

political and economic interpretaion of the present. Contrary to my belief to J**-*

had a rough time with the Kasis, who they naively trusted to honor the

Aggression :and hence were dumbfounded to wake up one morning and find a large BA c.r>n axev had to all intents and purpoases taken over the country. Christian

SfSL^5SUrSUa*S.hxy-*...A. -di^g...p.*

devoted of the Danes. Although his p rsonal courage and insistence M* rsQcle *fcen he was urged to go into exile spared the* some, tie contribution to

public morale must have been enormous. Of course little food lirt 1by the

iisse -Hie Germans shipped all they wanted back to their country, light and leat

ZUki fell to irreducible minima* For example, for fir e je ars apartnt ho^*

^7Jl

taunt, with hot --tor. Hy a-- no,* grateful for th aorely need

1 "

v visit. Viking aounds,

and XXXth 0--tury --wtX-- and .hurohea ineluding em

-th-^ U-Sly of frisk and u.t.r - A. --die and

v.ry rnat. in

iFSJS?BySntin. nanLr i-id- At th. tl* of A. Rafor^Uon wy ^urob. aboliohad

tocorations of A. Ron- OaAoli.., hut ... mm

Sff^xarssrs itj&SW metssu- * 1 ^^weUkep^fanSanda^beautifSly tended foists of hardand

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13,1957

The autunaal madness of the Vorld Series mas not as pervasive this year as recently end suffered from -the great interest in the movement of "Sputnik4* around the mtrld* We also have had a plethora of parades* The Poles narehed in tie rain* industry and the retail business turned out Thursday night for a t<r ch light procession honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Fifth Avenue Association* Preparations vere pretty silly and included gilding litter cans on Madison Avenue as well as Fifth* gold colored pennants from busses* ditto from street light poles and amber bulbs* Yesterday was the annual Columbus Day parade with the reviewing stand at the end of my block* I happened to be there when Mayor Wagner arrived puffing from having malted a mile at the head of thethird of ten sections and dropped out to join Governor Harriman and the Italian Ambassador in the stand to "take the Salute"* It amused me -hat fireman* school children and veterans seamed too concerned with their ability to complete the four mile march to make a good job of keeping step and almost all failed to give an "eyas Jefi" to the guests of honor! Mover before have I noticed a stationary band sitting on the cor ner of Fifth and 641fa which played continuously except when a marching band came into earshot* Fashion notes Mrs* Wagner wore a golden yellom coat and no hat--tie millinery trade will get after her#
I finally got around to unpacking my box of Royal Copenhagen which came by post and found one of my Hans Christian Andersen plates broken beyond hope of repair* But as I paid for packing* postage and insurance I expect to have it made good* My only regrit is that I did not buy more of these very effective white plates with the designs made by H*C*A cutting paper in most delicate and intricate design with a rather coarse pair of scissors* Another point of achievement mas the delivery of the Waterford cut orystal 12 os glasses to Elinor Dean* from the Sunday paper I 3e am thai the pattern is "Lismore"* When I shall evsr get caught up eic-her here or in the office is a moot question* The penicillin welts are a trifle smaller but still remain am the palms of both ahnds peel* The last trip to the dentist resulted in "Let us watcfc another week before taking any steps* It may be necessary to reopen -the smaller* but still present swelling on the hard palate*" Mo diseernable reaction from the Asian fly injection* One day the back of isy eyeballs burned* but as I could not find my thermometer* do not know if there was temperature or this was merely a manifestation of climatic change* Dinner Thursday with Lucille Lemmon of Tulsa* whom I met in London two years ago as tb traveling Companion of Larry's aunt Isabel* She may go tomorrow with me to a jrivate ih owing of the work of a Turkish artist--Ites* Fursya* as she takes great pleasure in painting. The poor Turks at this point seem in such a difficult spot over the recent almost unimportant in its origin border elash tte t I want to mak2e an"aot of presence" for them.
To piok up on Copenhagen--re we stayed at a modest little hotel on one of tb lakes made where the old city fortification had stood* Aunt Annie and Miss Jordan ted not been to tb Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactor y shop nor to the B. < G* (?), so as they are practically side by side we went to both audi preferred tie offerings -of the femsr* Incidentally the porcelain trademark is the three wave lines under the crown* and their faienoe mark an A with the three lines as cross pieces* These thr ee lines represent -Us waters of the Kattegat between Sweden and the isalnd of Zealand (on nhieh Copenhagen is on tin eastern coast)* the Great Belt between Zealand and Funon (tb next largest island and the Little Belt between Funen and the Jutland peninsula* Tie displays were tempting and not inexpensive* Te also went to "Den Pexmenante* where they have everything from furniture and fabric to silver* Examples of tb leading manufacturers of each craft are on ever changing display and sale* A great convenience as if the jewelry deeigns of Jensen do not please they pleasantly troj out those of Hansen and others for inspection* It was not possible to replace tb lost earring of Danish origin which I had purchased in the Virgin Islands* but X managed a reasonable facsimile. Te lunched at Oskar Davisen's, dined at the White Pavilion of HCA between our lake and tin next and then went to Uvoli Gardens for a symphony concert am general enjoyment* At a point where the people were resttee an adviser of the King suggested that if he gave them an amusement park "they" would enjoy themselves ami. not discuss politics* He did and -they didn't and everyone was very happy* Tivoli* patterned on London's Vauxhall* in the heart of the oity* has an admission of approximately 25 for the enjovment of a well planned aid beautifully kept park with free entertainment of wide variety*

TaJLe, t-MLy ThiLutr

' October 20^1957

Too much is happening in the world for me to take it all in* If an earth satellite had to be launched I am glad that the Russians did it first* The reac tion of dismay and fury here, while infantile, should press home the faet that the Russians have ability and resources, which all too many of us have resisted acknowledg ing* Queen Elizabeth*a visit seems to go well and leaves some of the worst smitten in a state of uncertainty---should the US join the Comaonwealth or invite tie British to become a super-sort of 49th state* A few tid-bits on Washington amused me* The wet ground on the carpet to the Columbine arriving from Williamsburg was dried with an air house* The drought browned grass around the Washington Monument was sprayed with grass green dye* Places being at a premium for the Dulles dinner party invitations were sent Cemmonweilth Ambassadors in order of their length of stay in Washington* This proeeedure eliminate the British Ambassador as he is fairly new here, an error which had to be speedily corrected* I am ashamed to say that New York is doing little in the way of decoration* It just happens that the chrysanthemums in the center of Park Avenue, in front of the Public library and other favored places look very pretty * Last night I noticed that large tubs of full blown chrysanthemums have been placed along the curb in every block center on Fifth Avenue* Tomorrow will show how many flags and banners suddenly sprout*

The Turkish cocktail party for the private viewing of the oils, tiles and gouaches of Fureya afforded opportunity to chat with a lot of people not seen in months inclu ding Nuri Eren recently back from a quick trip to Ankara* The display wis interesting particularly as the artist had not begun to work until comparatively recently* Her use of color even in semi-abstracts was delightful, few of her tiles employed tradi tional Turkish color and none reproduced historic motifs* Dinner Friday night at the Naaon's attracthr e penthouse apartment with Mr* and Mrs* Irving Salamon from California, Mr* end Mrs* David Scott-Fox of the UK delegation to the UN and Professor Lachs of the Polish delegation* I would have enjoyed it more without a bad case of Friday fatigue induced by several communities from California to West Virginia appealing for speakers to replace last minute defectors* Last night I lad dinner with Vera and saw Elinor*s so far diversified collection of wedding presents* She then took me to "Romanoff and Juliet" a delightful bit of nonsense by Peter Ustino in which he skillfully plays the lead* The son of the USSR ambassador to "the smallest country in Europe", as yet unocnadtted to East cr West, falls in love with the daughter of the American ambassador* Ustino believes it time for a little primeval freshness and abandon to be felt upon the stage once again and with the aid of excellent support, good sets and apt lines achieves it*

Flu, Asian and otherwise, continues to stalk the area. CIeve has had it and all tlr ee of the boys in Setauket, each day turns up fresh people out of the office* A hi$i pressure area in Ohio has brought us crisp, clear weather after ten days cf energy sapping humidity and should speed the convalesenoe of the strilksn*

Correction please. A Danish kroner is worth about 15g not a quarter so the

people of Copenhagen really have a bargain in getting into Tivoli* After Aunt Annie

and Mies Jordan 3s ft for Rotterdam I did intensive sightseeing and was fascinated by

the pinacle adorning the stock market depicitng the twisted tails of dragons, tte cir

cular spire of a church with a stairway

spiralling up the outside* It is a

city in which one must continuously look up as well as down and across* That morning

a Soviet plane coming in for a landing in low hanging cloud nicked into a facet ry

towae before it ask the airport control for landing instructions* It tipped into

the harbor and 23 were lost* 11B Danes were fearful the Russians wouJd make an in

cident of it and were still a little edgy when I went the next morning for my flight

to Bruxellee* To my great joy Tracy Philipps met me at the Belgian airport ani pressed

as h was with his own work gave me a good deal of time* The weather 3e ft much to be

desired and torrents of rain sometimes altered plans* My room at the Atlanta Hotel

had eight doors in all and one of them served both as closing to the bathroom gwfl as

a third door from the corridor to the bedroom } All sorts of construction was in pro

gress and the Lower City seemsd crowded and untidy and much less smart than when-.I was last there* They are masters of breaking every vista wrtE sanetnxng osautiful*

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October 26, 1957

Via, colds and upper respiratory infections stalk the land* Young Bill has moved into a deep bronchitis, even as Larry Harris in Madrid* All thought of going to Setauket for the weekend evaporated when I found him still malingering end yester day it seemed a very sound notion since after my secretary went home feeling ^horrible" I wondered if I too were not succumbing* Stem measures and much bed rest in the last 24 hours encourages ma, however* No doubt the grisly weak in the office was largely to blame for my feeling* In addition to the normal last minute "fluffs" illness took its toll of United Nations Gay speakers and we were beseeohed to find substitutes for a lot of speakers, whom we had not placed in the first instance* It may be flattering to be looked to as an eleventhhour miracle worker, but distinctly upsetting to normal routines* Between 10i30 and 11 pm Wednesday die home I tied up the last of the sub stitutes, idic appeared at 11 the next morning and performed admireablyt Friday I had my regard when Gr Kany declared the post-infection swelling on the roof of my mouth well enough in hand fcr me to go to Dr Jackson for an appointment to begin replacement of the missing tooth* Happily I can see him on Tuesday*

Monday was not the brilliant blue day I had hoped for the Queen* It was sunny but with a golden haze, lovely in the country but Indifferent in town* Mary Horaaday of the Christian Science Monitor, who covered the tour from Staten Island arrtr a! to Idlewild departure said she had never seen such crowds, nor enthusiasm* She even enjoyed riding up Broadway in the tioker tape parade standing in a weapons carrier provided for the press* Her private analysis to me was that it was good from start to finish from every standpoint* Frank Darvall, until recently head of the English Shaking UUion in London, came to see me Thursday and felt that the crowds were more curious than anything else--not sure whet he eacpected* My assistant Fred, who had seen Lon don crowds in the Queen's trips to various parts of the city in the two weeks after coronation reported more cheering and denser crowds here than there* I glimpsed her as President Eisenhower's buble top ear took her across First Avenue and into the UN grounds to enter the Public entrance of the General Assembly building* Mary Hornaday says that looking at the tall sliver of the Secretariat Building, the Queen spontaneiusly exclaimed "What holds it up?"* The Commonwealth Ball in tie Armory at Park Avenue and 66th Street was not a ball at all, but almost solid with ssats carefully numbered and gradually filled by representatives of the Commonwealth nations and their respective organizations* After hsr arrival looking breathtakingly beautiful in a rainbow hued gown and a diamond tiara she moved about chatting wdth the various con tingents and was delayed in departure by assenting to the presentation of a good many unscheduled people* It must have been a most exhausting day for both of than*

Part of the construction in Bruxslles is postwar expansion of a vigorous people and a courageous economy and part in preparation of the World Exposition they are having in 1958* I was assured that unlike the 1937 one in Paris scheduled for a May to/ or June opening and stillybe completed when I was there in August, this one will be ready* All construction contracts carry dates for complete wit h heavy penalty for failure* Tracy had to go to England on Monday, so Peter Allan took me to his home to meet his Swedish wife, Runa, view thsir sleeping young son and to have dinner with them* They had very recently been married when I met him in Madrid two years ago* He too is English and has practised his theory that a man should marry a much younger woman and mold her* So far it works* It will be interesting to watch* They kindly insisted upon driving me to the airport the next day* Between the drizzle of rain and the oft mentioned construction impeding us I wondered at moments if we should make the plane* We did and the weather changed over the Channel* London was warm and sunny* At risk of being repetitious let me say London Central airport is the Is st I have experienced, with the slightest encouragement I could go on for a long time about the speed with which the luggage appears, is examined and whisked off to the transport for the city* True, it is 19 miles from the town terminal, but most airports are to hell and gone from your hotel* Dartmouth House was as satisfactory and unsatisfactory as ever* It is an open question whether I shall ever stay the re again* I loved being completely independent and able to get adequate (and .inexpen sive food) at almost any hour in the snack bar if the dining room hours did not suit*



November 3, 1957

Elinor Dean is now Mrs, Charts s Wider so changed in a drizzle of rain which impeded traffic between the Church of Ascension (Tenth Street) and the Cosmopolitan Club (65th STreet( reception# but did not dampen the gaiety of the party, Elinor never loosed prettier and was delightfully flushed as she came back down the aisle, Charles's answers rang out in true courtroom tones and "the whole thing want off like clockwork, Vera s friends dashed as happily as those of the bride and everyone had a lovely time, As I happened to be pouring coffee at the time of the cake cutting I had a ft ma view tf- that, and later saw her toss her bouquet directly to her maid of honor, who made a deft catch, I did not stay for tie departure as Carolyn Martin, who had corns down from Maine for the event, was firing with me at the dub and seemed to be getting restive.

My secretary has been out all week and will probb*bly not be back before Wednes day so I ted to tell my assistant he could not have Monday off against his pilled up evertime, The Department of State has at last told us that the invitation we issued to the yw 0f iforoceo in June or July for luncheon has been accepted for dinner on December 9, The switch in hour is unfortunate and I have had a messy wsek trying to fettle the place. The nasty question is how wall will he pull? Enough to make the Waldorf BaHwo^look well? The hotel tried to hold me for a 1,200 guarantee at first and I have whittled them down in tortuous negotiat ion to 800, Many details are still to be stills d and a graft deal of work. Meanwhile an idea has been dangled before us that we might give a dinner for Eisenhower--one of the several speeches he will make in the attempt to gain leader ship, My fear is that should this to corns a reality, we will be given about two weeks to pull it off and it nay well be perilously close to tte K of M, Life holds prospects of considerable activity superimposed on the regular full time operation, so if you suddenly do not hear from me for long periods of time, please understand I am snowed under,

Wednesday the Off the Record ladies luncheon season began in a burst of glory with John S, Badeau, president of the Near East Foundation, talking about Afghanistan which has already accepted too nany techioal assistances from Russia to be as uncommitted to ths Communists as they seem to feel they are or ihe West would like them to be# There is a rather frightening aspect to the countries location. This morning X beard of the launching of Sputnik II with its dog, this makes the little story I meant to tell two weeks ago pointless but this is the way it goes, "Since Sputnik seems to go rapidly around the world, accomplishing nothing but the emission of "bbsp-besp" sounds, it has been renamed 'John Foster Dulles*,"

In the all but two weeks in Loddon I saw many old friends and went to six or seven

theatres. Judith Listowel was in Italy the first week but we had several sessions. Inclu

ding an interesting day at finger Manor in Surrey, the home of Sir/ Edward Bsddington-

Behrens, which had been built in the mid-17th century by Mohn Evelyn, the diarist, (Tracy

had interested me in Evelyn two weeks before in Bruxellea and I was busily reading his

diary.) A few years ago Sir Edward became interested in a mound a few hundred feet from

the house and undertook excavations which revealed it to be a 12th century aoateu or The fields of the Manor kept turing up Stone age relios and another exploration producer,

the earliest known man made habitation,a rude pit cave dating several centuries before

Christ, The locale is charming, but the curious melange of modem furniture rather spoiled

tbs house for me. There wae a five foot deep, rock lined depression in the lawn, which

made a lovely sheltered spo/t surrounded by rock garden plants. Autumn crosii made nice

splashes of lavender at the edge ef the orchard and along the drive, though I feel them

more effective at a distance than close to. As Sir Edward sent a car to town to pick us

up and return uSf it made an easy and pleasnat day# Its previous Sunaaj

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to Didcot, where Tracy met me , As he was camping out at the Little Grange <luring PJJ"

iod of business at Oxford and London we had luncheon at a delightful old inn on the Ifcam s

and tea at Culham Manor with Sir Esmond Ovey, hie sister, neice and Miss Wood. Since I

was last there he has built a charming little gazebo as a retreatforhimaeif.compiete

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November 10, 1957
Possible puzzlement about the significance of wedding guests of the \ generations "dashed as Happily" will be cleared up if the "dashed" is read as intended "danced"| So sorry for this manifestation of my own slap-dashing through life* A situation in no way helped by the appearance of Christmas displays in all too many shops and admonitions to *op and mail early* All somewhat confusing as New York is still going strong on its "salute to the seasons'1 program ...orange and white banners from specially erected poles along Fifth Avenue with huge boxes of chrysanthemums at intervals along the curb...not always happily grouped as to color of bloom. Park Avenue las similar green and white banners and more flowers, getting more and more tired looking each day. A lot of nonsense, which has now been enhanced by neat little signs warning pedestrians of a $50 fine for plucking the blossoms.
After voting on Tuesday I met Dick Rowson at the Plaza and went over their Ball Room and adjoining reception rooms and discussed menu with Pierre, the Swiss head of the Banquet Department. He recommended Garbonei, a California wine to which he had been introduced by Lang Post (shades of my childhood). Upon return to the office I telephoned Philippe of the Waldorf and said w had decided to have the December 9 dinner at the Plaza. In a few hours the assistant 0*Rsilly was in my office with charts and menus making most strenuous sfforts to get the dims r there. I would rather work with a new staff than use the Sert Room, which the Waldorf presses for. The hotel business must be slipping when such efforts, including an offer to close the Empire room where Belafonte will be singing so we $$ could have an honored guest reception closer to the Sert Room, It was all very taxing. In theory I work on the King of Morocco dinner in the morning and do regular Speakers Bureau work in the afternoon. Before ws are through with Morocco I shall be on the January 9 luncheon at which six National Broadcasting Co. foreign newscasters give quick pro jections of things to come in their various parts of the world in 1958, This may go well if people are curious to see in the flesh commentators they have only heard, (Personally I never listen to that network I)
Monday I ate luncheon with chopsticks at Fuji Restaurant with an English woman, man from Japan and India, a Dutch woman and several Americans. Friday it was the UN Delegates dining room with five Greeks, Thursday luncahon with the FPA staff and Nason telling about the American Friends Service Committee seminar at Clarens (Switzerland) which he had chaired, Dave Bowen on a Council of Europe meeting he^ had attended at Strasbourg and I talked briefly about Denmark. Today I go quietly over for luncheon with Aunt Mary,
In case you are not completely bored with the holiday paragraph 1st me polish off London. On the professional side I had two sessions with Nigel Bicknell who works on relations with the U.S. in the Foreijp Office. The day I went to him Downing Street was closed to vehicular traffic for road repair and I walked in just in time to see the Prime Minister at the door of 10 seeing off a Commonwealth official, Those oar then went through the Foreign Office courtyard. The Conserva tive Party is anxious to make its contributions to Anglo-American relations and the next day saw me at their headquarters discussing a long term plan of theirs to send speakers to the U.S. This lead to having dinner with the M.P. they have se3s cted for the dry run early in 1958. It was a pleasant Soho restaueant and I enjoyed Mr. Mrs. John Howard, though as he is totally unknown I have gr^ve doubts that he will earn sufficient dollars here to feed and house himself and his wife for six or seven weeks. (As time wears on my misgivings become greater.) Another day the Kenneth Lukes took me to a rather grander Soho retaurant for luncheon on the eve of their departure for Connecticut where he is to teach at the Ghoate School--a very different life than Malaya where he spent twenty years, including the four as a prisoner of the Japanese in Thailand where he had to help build the railroad. Even this does not finish London, but the sheet is gone and next week 1 hope to go to Setauket I

November ltyt 19 U?

There is a momentary lull on the Setauket front. Eveprthing has been offered me for diviersion and Each member of the family has scattered to his chosen Sundjcy afternoon occupation and Molly is finishing her stint of collection for the Boy Scout one day fund raising .I'll snatch this for a bit of writing as at three o'clock 2e S seems already to have lost its warmth. Ever since we returned from the nine o'clcok service I have been out basking m a most un usual day for mid-November. In a cotton dress and a sweater I raked and burned the nasty black oak leaves of which they have all too many. Before I quite got a blister I shifted to picking up the equally urofuse acorns.most of which had already started to sprout and thrust sturdy roots deep into the earth. Yesterday I did a little repair work in the rock garden. Not at all sure that autumn rains did not loosen some of carefully established key - stones designed t<o keep river3 of water from cascading through the area wasning soil from tne roots of favorite and mow well established perennials. Petunias are the only survivors of the earlier cold snaps. The family are all well and busy with their respective interests.

A new responsibility has been presented to me in the office. During the summer they oreated a Policy Planning Group to which Vera and I were not nominated. She was annoyed and I was gratefui as I knew it for a time consuming operation. Now we have both been appoint ed. The first seesion I went to Thursday afternoon took two and a hours and resulted in my staying until almost sight to finish my dietation. The next one will he Monday from f# 4:30 to 7 or 7*3 there will be no time left to stay on and catch up* It is a aM.ance but not the kind of thing I would tell Nason " P13^3 for ay: need my judgement, but I can't be bothered." We have gotten out the announcements of the Mohamed V dinner and already have 80 places re served.

Tuesday afternoon (i.e. seven o'clcok) I left the office

to stop at Maria's studio to see some of her recent portraits and other

naintings A confirmed portraitist she has blossomed out recently into

landscape*and imilTstudies of still life and flowers. Veryinteresttag

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displaying a new her brother Tomi

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almost irrational state of nerves, exhaustion and egotism he has gotten

into. He has been lecturing, and job hunting,in Canada and had arriv

that morning by air from San Francisco. Of course he was tired but that

alone does not justify his nervy state. I feel so sorry for his wife

and two daughters with whom he is reunited in Lodnon by this time. His

son is in hoarding school and so esoapes. Friday afternoon Juditn

ceZ into the office to see me for a few minutes and she clearly is

disturbed by him. When he decided to leave Hungary and settle in Eng

land he told me it was to be a new life and he would not try to run

the land of his birth by remote control. Last year's revolution seams

to have shaken him out of that position and he was impolitic in his

criticism to me of what the U.S. had failed to do in connection wihi

the revolution and with the subsequent refugees* Was annoyed that h

seemed to have made no progress toward seeing Eisenhower to tell him

what we should do. I can understand his motivation and on_y quarrel

his coho.lt and inpatieuoe. (I wish I had realized at the tine

that the population of this country has inc reased 14% in the last seven

years. A fact which no doubt contributes to some of our national aches

and pains.) Quite apart from Toifci and his troubles*the mood of 0

the peo*ple and the government bothers me. I fear theVinAewQTC.nTofnfiVg.ress

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November 30, 1957

Yesterday my taxi to the doctors office (stopped on my way to the office for the flu shot usually taken in late September and delayed by tb penictllan in me) was stuck in traffic and the driver agreed the pedestrians walked with a curiously phlegmatic gait. No doubt the unseasonably warm and very damp atmosphere contributed to tie aftermath of having eaten too much the day beforel I went on a morning train to Martha and Cleve as CIevee was home from Lafayette and Frtp was there with her husband and two young sons. Despite the year differ ence in age they are now exactly the same height but Jerry is slim and wiry and Bobby continues to be the almost round placidly smiling Buddha he has been since birth. Jerry is careful to see that hisbrother has everything he has and is looked upon as the natural leader in their mutual undertakings. It was fun to watch them before and after their naps which began with Jerry telling a sotry beginning "Once about a time". His father says he consistently resists all attempts"^ substitute "upon" for "about". The doting grandfather was busy with his camera and should have some amusing pictures. Needless to say we ate well and too much. It was good to be there as I had only seen Martha and Cleve, who stopped here one Sunday afternoon, since my return. Heavy rain set in late in the afternoon and continued until long after I reached heme. This was almost too much as I had noted what seemed to be a "very dry" new moon a few nights beforel

The dinner for Mohamed V is building respectably but keeping me late at the office each day and all day yesterday, which was a general holiday in exchange for which everyone had worked on November 11. It was worth it as I got four belts dic tated and the nice child I la d in to answer the telephone picked up three tables. However the pace is so stiff that I conserved my energy and stayed away from two diplomatic cocktail parties for which I had accepted during the week. One was Tuesday and I just could net face all the chatter about the President's latest illness, Ihils ths morning papers told of the chill on Monday and his absence from the state dinner for the ELng of Morocco, I had been bothered by his reported impatience at the air port and the fact that he had practically poked the King into the front door at Blair House and run off. It seemed to me that graciousness Indicated that he at least go into the drawing room anfl murmur "small as it is the house is yours for your viwit and I hope you will be comfortable." The preferrence of the NATO fe adore for Nixon to attend the Paris meetings must be depressing for him. I hope he remembers that politics are realistic and seldom take an individual's sensibilities into account.
December 1. A lovely illustration of my lifo,..interruptions and time getting away from me. Now that Thanksgiving is over I can bear to face Christine and no longer close my eyes to the decorations, displays and admonditions to shop and buy and mail early which in extreme oases began to appear in early October. The cascade of lights slipping down the entire Lord and Taylor building front on November L affronted ay sensibilities. Perhaps my own feeling of inadequacy to cope with the situation from laek of time was enhanced by the unattraetiveness of the too early decorations. Too many horrid pink wreaths heavily encrusted with gold met my eye.

Last night the weather changed and the thermometer dropped to below freezing-- M this will finish off the roses in the UN garden, which have been making a brav how. The heavy rains for the better part of 48 hours have washed the brilliant sky ok an and there is brigit sun today albeit a strong wind. Last week I took Vera to "Mary Stuart" ..a translation of Fredrieh 3chili r'a dramatisation of the last days of Mary Queen of Scots and the struggle s of Elisabeth I as to the signing oi trie death warrant. Eva LeGalliene was Queen Elisabeth and Irene Worth her unhappy cousin. Whether it was ignorance of English hisotiy or deliberate author's lisenoe Schiller took some liberties with fact to make a stirring play, whidi the oast rendered mag nificently. It was done in the Phoenix Theatre, one of the "Off-Brc&dway houses, notably at 12th Street and Second Avenue, a location only recently turned to i or idnrasmisat.edItupsoenemalsonpgarBt rooaf dtwhaey.pRroetseuslttsaOgaricnhsetsttrhaeseats at $3.50 instead

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"The King and I" hare had our dinner and it was a great success# The 50 year old graeiousness of the Plaza and a distinguished audience of 700 contributing to the general atmosphere# Mohamad V instead of merely murmuring international po litenesses, as I fully expected, took a strong line of censure toward Spain which landed us en tne first page of the NY# Times Tuesday morning, naturally pleasing my collegues, Without exception this was the hardest thing of its kind I hare erer done. The size of the entourage grew steadily with Monday mtrning additions of the three eldest Royal Princesses each of whom was accompanied by a Lady in Waiting. All table seating had been completed and many had to be redone to give them "interesting and important Americans who could speak French" and replace those "bumped" by getting the girls down front. His Majesty and his son wore lovely white, loose hanging robes and white slippers, papa adding a largish peaked white "overseas" cap. The daughters were in rather filmy, soft colored garments with a good deal of gold embroidery. If they wore jewels I did not notice them, Hie Chief of the Royal Cabinet, who trans lated from the Arabic of the King to English, and many of the other members of the Moroccan Official Party wore dark maroon fezes. Since Moroccos national colors are Islamic green and blood red, I had fir arrangements of bright red carnations and a mixture of pine and huckleberry leaves on the double tiered dais, tall green and red tapers on each table and pistachio ice cream with strawberry sauce for desert, Of course, our guests did not travel by subway, but all those who normally would took to the surface and traffic was practically at a standstill. Things which were to have been delivered to the office mid-afternoon never turned up, etc, Pierre of tie Plaza had an infected tooth and a temperature of over lOlo/o and failed me in several fespects. With the roast beef John Nason proposed a really excellently expressed toast to the King, who responded with ons to President Eisenhower. All of us infidei drank happily in a nice red wine while the Dais and Moroccans scattered about the room had orange juios (small detail to instruct waiters which floor tables had to have both wine and orange juice). Nason was so fulsome in his praise of me the next day that the endless hoQrs of overtime and the general shambles of my life ssemsd almost worth while, I'm still not sure whether I can make any gestures toward family and fraB nds for Christmas! Oh yes, I wore my Paria black satin with the dull petal applique at shoulders and bottom of the skirt, which flare out from the knees when I walk. The neck is perfect fwr the barbaric tiger claw and lovely gold work jewelry. Changing at ths office to save tims and fearing I would have to walk part wray I did not put on the gold slippers until I got there. Having to check on a lot of things at widely separated points I delayed too long in changing and was almost caught by the arrival of the Royal ia rty.

Now I am deep in the arrangements of a Waldorf big luncheon on January 9 at whidi seven NBC News Correspondents home Briefly from Tokyo, London and points in between are to report. There is a backlog of normal stuff left from the last two wrecks, the necessity to get out the late December mailing of SAS, and a heavy schedule of time consuming Policy Planning Group and other committee meetings. Storms delayed the departure of the Queen Mary bearing Ruth and John Wheeler-Bennett, Expected on Thursday I had gotten theatre tickets for Friday and Saturday with considerable diffi culty. Thursday I looked at the paper to see whether they docked at early or late hour and was stricken to find no entry. Research revealed Sunday arrival, so I un latched the special rooms at the Plaza I had width some trouble arranged for them. At least Thursday, Friday and Saturday wdll not have to be paid fcr from their scanty dollar allowance. Now Cunard tells me they dock at mid-night and passengers have option of leaving or staying aboard until seven tomorrow morning. Guess I'll have to see if I can do a ship to shore telephone to them. Fortunately I was able to sell Saturday night's theatre tickets and Went Friday night to "Conversation Piece", which John had especially wanted to see, wdth Vera and a friend of hers from the Ftr d Foundation Indian staff. It is an amusing thing by Noel Coward, written over 20 years ago for Yvonne Printemps, and done well by a new generation of actors. A comady laid in 1811 wdth the still popular "My Secret Heart" as one of the songs and a delicious item "Regency Rakes" which gives the key to the demi-monde and adventuress cast. Wonder if the Wheeler-Bennetts wdll go on to Charlottesville Tuesday as planned!