Frances J. Pratt Letters on the U.S. Foreign Policy Association, 1958-1959

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Happy New Year I which at least will be an interesting one for this muddled world# A good many of my Christmas cards were newer sent and four or five people had little notes warning that small Christmas gifts would be dispatched about Valen tine1^ Day# The irony being that in many instances, the object was in hand but there was no time to wrap and ship* At one point it looked as if there would be none of the time honored decorations here even* But on that I relented# I thought I was going to the theatre with Judith on the Saturday evening before Christmas, a date made six weeks before# In the morning she telephoned to ask if we could meet at the theatre as she had someone for luncheon# My best efforts to wriggle out to no avail, the after* nooon for buying and coping with the greens went to a matinee of "Time Remembered"-a very entertaining comedy by Anouilh in which Helen Hayes is superb as an erratic French duchess, Susan Strasbefg (who captured so many hearts in the "Diary of Anne Frank") was a milliner1s assistant and Richard Burton, the heir to the title whose life was blighted by the memory of a three day love affair with a famous dancer, who died almost as Isadora Duncan had# The whole thing was utterly mad and very funny# On the way home I picked up the greens, out off theif ends and left them in the tub to soak overnight# No sooner had I finished fastening them with glistening balls and such to inner and outers doors, the fireplace screen and in two large vases than the largest and most handsome pot of pointsettias I have ever possessed was delivered to throw the balanoe of the decorations completely out of whack# Another 20 minutes needed to arrange its proper placement# Ifm not ungrateful to Holland van Norden for it, but I certainly was irked at first#

Aunt Annie came Monday about five and when I could tear myself frcm the office we had dinner and bought family presents for each other# Mine was a lovely red nylon umbrella and some gloves# After traffic lessened we retrieved her luggage and found a taxi# Next morning when I arrived at the office there was a pile of things on my desk from my staff (a habit my efforts to discourage have failed in) was another um brella# Aunt Annie and I were scheduled for Christmas eve in Setauket and I fed packed my gifts for those boys and taken them to the office, hoping that the radio report of no trains on their line would improve as the morning went on# However by noon no wheel had turned and the prognosis was badf when she came to the office at one to go to the station we held counsel and decided to have a quits time at 64th Street (quiet, that is) I telephoned Molly and asked if we might go to them New Year*s Eve instead,^ and then CI eve telephoned, and Martha too, suggesting that we go to Freeport Tuesday instead of Saturday as they had Q0% service on their branch of the LIRR# In another call to Molly she agreed to that switch, so off we went to the South Shore without the. r gifts# By this time I was so exhausted I went to bed frcm fir e to six to muster strength for dinner, a trip to Fran#s to deliver her parent1 s gift, see the milk and cookies Jerry had left for Santa Claus byt behind his baek these offerings had been consumed by Bobby# Cleve was ushering, so we got to church by eleven for a lovely midnight service lit by eqpdles with latez^comers seated in the aisles# After getting home at It 30 young deve won and they opened their gifts, to bed by three-thirty with nine o* clock breakfast so as to get back to Fran*s before her young ones were too tired to be amusing# They were in fine fettle and it was fun to be with them# On the way back in the brilliant sun we went via the ocean drive, where a whipping Id off-shore wind flattened waves of a bright blue sea# Perhaps it is only honest to admit I was not at my best in the office on Thurs day#

*oung Fred had communicated with Santa Claus that the rail strike had changed our schedule, so we hung our stockings on Saturday night and, low and behold, by Sunday morn ing they were fills d# The weather was in our favor again and we enjoyed walking and driu ng about in the bare and wintry country# Aunt Annie and I took them to aid-day dinner at Bayberry House and a just after dark train back to town# Reservations have poured in for the Waldorf luncheon on January 9 and with two work days and then a holi day or a weekend I have been more than pushed# We had a qui et New Year here, going brielfy to the Metropolitan in the afternoon before I went to a cocktail party at Vera*s # mAuenrte AInnwieorlkeedfthFarrdidauyntmilor8nai3n0g#foBryAglobainngy,bIackkeSptatuthrdeaycamb oarnndingg;oXt tfoinitshheedofsfeicaeti.nagt 8i30 the luncheon reservations which had been received through Friday# ^Vhe-e-e-w

January 12, 1958
Winter is upon us# Snow which fell Tuesday is still gathering soot on ledges, gables and sloping roofs across the street from my windows# Yet the sun pours in and the earlier temperature of 16 o/o must have made it somewhat warraBr now/* The question of the moment is shall I have accomplished enough to go to Maria for dinner at eight after they have returned from skiing, Kaving been there last week I declined but Haria begged me to see how much I accomplished in the afternoon and telephone her at 6i30. The day the snow fell was warm enough for sluah to gather and the bus drivers went back to their game of seeing how many people waiting for transport they could apatter as they whoshed to a halt. The reoord seems to be 27#
The Thursday luncheon at the Waldorf with the NBC News panel wae better in every respect than I dared to hope# 3y using all the first tier boxes and two-thirds of the second tier for luncheon tablsa and seating over a thousand on the ballroom floor we achieved a set-up for 1385# But what is more important the panel really said some- - .... thing and so far everyone seems to be very happy# NBC is thrilled that we had more than three times the audience for the CBS panel# Phil Van Slyck is puffed with pleasure that the offioial unveiling of the Great Deoision#.#1958 program of eight topics to be discussed in coming months on radio, TV, in the press and in hundreds of groups across the country made 3uch a splash# Jud Ghristney, whose job it is to raise money, is excited about all the people we never heard of before were exposed to a function of. the FPA# All this 5a institutionally good and I can only hope that a "Working Paper " I slaved over yesterday for a Committee of the Board of Directors will be heeded# With out admitting it I point my finger at the basic causes of really "forsworn" amount of overtime I have had to put in since ny return from holiday# It is impossible fcr me to leave the January 9 luncheon with adding that a man mho knows his way around the Aaldorf and was at tte head table asked me die re we had gotten 2,500 people for the lunoheon, <dien I protested that we had only something better than half that, including the 50 odd who oame to the third side of the seoondtior for the speaking only, he kept insisting tliat it looked like 2,500# Now my oollegues who outvoted my recommendation for $8 a cover, insisting on $7.50, are begging zay pardon and wishing they had listen ed to maj It is a mad group ndth which I work and I sometimes wonder if I am the only one who knows it! I
Monday was epiphany but it was not until yesterday that my Christmas decorations cam down# The alarm was not set for Friday morning and before I got off to the office the parcel post delivery man brought Aung Mary's Christmas present to me, pointing out that although it had been mailed in good season it bore the marks of having been sent out on several wrong delivery routes# He went on to explain that many of the new and I regret to say black employees cannot or will not read and are reluctant to work# In ten years he euspects all postal employees will be blacks# The whole thing is embarrass ing as Aunt Mary told me early in December she was "not up to " sending any gifts this yera and I pondered hard and decided it would be better to take her "things" from time to time and not a properly wrapped Christmas present# When Aunt Annie and I dined theri ust before New Years she asked if I had had a parcel from her and revealed she had changed her mind and sent Louise, her amid, to the post office with one on December 19# Poor dear,it all became a great undertaking for her and I was glad to tell her on January 10 that all was well# Now I have only to remember my series of deliveries to her, of which only the first has been accomplished#
Thi first of the month bills have been paid, and I must get alor? now with the wrapping of the Christmas present I never did send, and the thanks for those I have received# Too many nights I have crawled into bed without oven looking at the personal mail to read Rose Maoaulay* s "The Towers of Trebizond" an interesting but curiously written novel allegedly about Turkey but more about the AngLiean Church and the hero ine's personal moral problems. "The Devil end Don Cpjnillo" has also been lovely escape reading for me# Last night I started on A#J# Cronin*s "From This Place", which I have hitherto missed# Go absorbing that I find it hard to put down# Maoaulay seoia3 at times to be trying to write as a 12 year old child migjrfc# Her sentenoe structure is worse than mine# Once I caught her in 23 and a half printed lines for one sentence#

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Winter is upon us, Snow which fell Tuesday is still gathering soot on ledges, gables and sloping roofs across the street from my windows* Yet the sun pours in and the earlier temperature of 16 o/o must have made it somewhat warns r now* The question of the moment is shall I have accomplished enough to go to Maria for dinner
at eight after they havs returned from skiing* Having been there last week I declined
but Maria begged me to see how much I accomplished in the afternoon and telephone her
at 6s 30. The day the snow fell was warm enough for slush to gather and the bus drivers went back to their game of seeing how many people waiting for transport they could apatter as they whoshed to a halt* The record seems to be 27.

The Thursday luncheon at the Waldorf with the NBC News panel was better in every respect than I dared to hope* By using all the first tier boxes and two-thirds of the second tier for luncheon tables and seating over a thousand on the ballroom flour we
achieved a set-up for 1385* But what is more important the panel really said some thing and so far everyone seems to be very happy* NBC is thrilled that we had more than three times the audience for the CBS panel* Phil Tan Slyck is puffed with pleasure that the official unveiling of the Great Decision**.1958 program of eight topics to be discussed in coming months on radio, TV, in the press and in hundreds of groups across the country made such a splash* Jud Ghristney, whose job it is to raise money, is excited about all the people we never heard of before were exposed to a function of
the FPA* All this is institutionally good and I can only hope that a "Working Paper " I slaved over yesterday for a Committee of the Board of Directors will be heeded* With out admitting it I point my finger at the basic causes of really "forsworn" amount of overtime I have had to put in since my return from holiday* It is impossible fcr me to leave the January 9 luncheon with adding that a man who knows his way around the Waldorf and was at the head table asked me wherd we had gotten 2,500 people for the luncheon, ifcen I protested that we had only something better than half that, including
the 50 odd who came to the third side of the secondtier for the speaking only, he kept insisting that it looked like 2,500* Now my collegues ho outvoted my recommendation
for $8 a cover, insisting on $7*50, are begging my pardon and wishing they had listen ed to me| It is a mad group with ^iich I work and I sometimes wonder if I am the only one who knows it{ $

Monday was Epiphany but it was not until yesterday that my Christmas decorations

came down* The alarm was not set for Friday morning and before I got off to the office

the parcel post delivery man brought Aun$ Mary's Christmas present to me# pointing out that although it had been mailed in good season it bore the marks of having been sent

out on several wrong deliver"' routes* He went on to xriain that manv of the nsw'and r,t

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oannot or will not read, and are reluctant to work. In

tn veers he suspects all costal enrol ovees will be blacks* The whole thins is embarrass

ing as Aunt Marv to"* d me earl"1 in December she was "net, up to w sending anv gifts this.*

vera and T pondered hard and decided it would be better to take her "things" froTM time

to time and not a rroperlv wrapped Christmas present, When Aunt Annie and I dined ther

dust before New Yea^s sh ask8d if I had had a parcel from her and revealed she had

chafed ker mind and sent Louise, her maid, to the ^st office with one on December 19.

poor dear,it all became a great undertaking for her and I was glad to tell her on

Janttarv 1^ that ail was well* Now I have onlv to remember mv series of deliveries to

her. of which onlv the first has been accomplished.

Hit first of the month bills have been oaid^ and I must get along now with the

sr*arp*ner of the Christmas present T never did sen'', an^ the thanks for those I have

received* Too manv

I have crawled into bed without even looking at the personal

mail to reed Rose Macauiav* s "The Towers of Trebizond" an interesting but curiouslv

written novel allegedlv about Turkev but more about the Anglican Church end the hero

ine's personal mora? Problems* "Tha Devil and Don Camilla" has also been InvelY

escape reading fon me. Last night T started on A*J* Cronin's "From This Place", which

I kavo hitherto massed. So absorbing that I find it hard to out down. Macaulav seems

at times to be trying to write as a 12 vear old child might. Her sentence structure is worse than mine. Once T caught her in 23 and a half printed lines for one sentence*

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W* January 19, 1958

In this coranlex age of change and uncertainitv I have long maintfLned It

essential to Tree* an oren mind end a flexibility of onration. Perhaos I fool no -

one but myself when I insist I keen that flexibility, rerhaos others would call it

the out crooning behavior of a "bird-brain". For example, this weekend I had every

intention of doing a good many errands around town vesterdav and devoting today's

writing time to quite a few long, chattv letters and no chit-chat, What happened^

By late Friday it w^s cTear that the too great Portion of my my week had gone into

special hand holding on a really bad jamb a wrtnian n

office and hannilv totally

out from under my supervision had gotten into, two long sessions of the Pollcv Planning

Groun and several eouallv long sessions with Board of Director** Committees in relation

to a survey they are making of the total operation of the FPA with more of same on the

schedule for next week, there appeared nothing for it but six hours in the office on

Saturday. Ag we are "enjoying" a cold suae I indulged mvself last night bv reading

on the Chesterfield cl ose to the souree of ht and today have had to spend a good

deal of time implementing the heat supplied* Bathroom ha the ieiress Vert out bv a

tub of hot water, Hie fire place has bad either* a slow or roaring fir depending uoon

sun striking into mv window* or not and the other and more interruption making device

of

the.two

burners in the galley heating water, which is then transferred

"to WrHHiw avthen jags or other containers to slowlv givs out their B^T^U.e gradually

*diere they can do ihe most good. One critical spot being bv mv f*ei wbgn at th tele-*

phone, a* mv bedroom is the most frigid srot. So after all a chit-chat and as I would

not for the world go into the inconclusive discussions of a pretty chaotic office

situation it must devolve to trivia. Do not for a moment think it will be even pre

tend to attempt the level of Logan Pears*!! Smith's several volumes of trivia,

(interruption to turn a log and fill a jug) The week has seen the actual ooating of thre Christmas presents, the ordering of a fourth and this morning the readying of tbr*e more for the delivery phase. This cbr* a* it leaves onlv two to gel It would almost seem that mr dire throat of delivery by Valentine*s dav might be bettered* The ridiculous part is that practically everything was bought in Europe. Also I have delightedly racked awav for next year 50 cards, which were never addressed.

Friday I want f*r th* tests Gerry askd me to have don* in November and got to the office to find Naaon had twice asked for me# Now I must onlv remember to make an appointment with her to see the finding*.....whether she will oerscribe some change in regime.

OM* da w* had neTM again- Prerb-ry--*no Inch, actually three or four# All

that now remains is a nw coating on gables etc# and hazardous grav ribbons where ^

clearing was inadeouate or incomplete# Fortunately it was proceeded by almost a dav

of

rain -*-<ch washed away the sorrv mess of the previous week#

(Off again on "jug duty" end to oick UP * couple of lovelv King's Gold Cali fornia dates to cheer me fo*- the sadness of not getting mv h*ir washed todav.) In school T wa? intrigued, bv history, but apparently ware and their leaders bored me ae mv knowledge of Thoma* "StoenwellM Jackson is infIntesimal. When he was added last vear to the New York Hall of Fame I was not even sure in which phase of the Civil War he lost his life# Now I know from wading through Harnett Kane's "The GaUant Mrs. Stonewall"..rather too much of Anna Morrison Jackson's vaoore but * forceful picture of him as a human being of deep religious conviction and struggling against rather great physical and social handicaps. He is painted as a great admirer of Napoleon's military ability , though no mention is made of his feeling about the Corsican's other qualities and characteristics,

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mins had an amusing conversation with a taxi driver this week. The

man spends nis davs at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and has done so for elifit

years and hooes to be a pediatrician in the Citv Welfare Department, keeping himself .

alivs bv hacking at night. H as appreciative of her polite approval of his per

severance that he bgged her to go to the social event of his opss at the Hotel Pierre

and now I teas* her for not even finding out the date!

February ?, 1958

Concentration on a big oil of office memoranda vesterdav kert me from per sonal Ground Hog Day observation* it seems to have been decided tht we are to have another six weeks of winter., My own judgement is that we shall be lucky if it is not longer than that* So at last we have an American earth satellite,. Old fashion** as I am mv reaction i an awesome wonder ahout the wisdom of our m*astn^/ in the universe in a manner berond mans province. It i * nastv coincidence that twt military planes collide over Loa Angeles perhaps, but That results *+ a si^stlite en11idea with star,
with another wan launched satellite or a Plane?
Since *ne of the instructions from th sees^on after the medical teste was for m to gain weight, I had two dinners last Sunday. Mid-day with Aunt Mew, who woe in good form after an upset earlier in the month then at ^ 7t30 with Maria and Hank * who had returned from weekend of ski-ing* Maria is worVing on another portrait and feels that the exercise and pir ruts hr in good share for intensive ^aintine* The night before the Wheeler-Bennetts dined with m* at the Club an* oeiin extolled the
which is n*w call* "our lyase away froTM home". The yieit seems to have been a notable success after Ru+h recovered from the chill she got on the shir the dav before landing. Desrite mv illness at Gorsingt^n last September. thr warmly inyited me to visit them this summer. This invitation coming as it did on ton of the first tenta tive auerv from the UN Cooperative about interest in chanter flights makes me feel X must soon begin to think sriouslv about the summer. One dav recently when I was mentally end phvsicallv fagged I thought how nice it would be to tk shir through the Panama Canal - The rr^pcect of ten davs or two waekg with nothing to do and out of reach of the talarhnn* is attractive in mv nrasent mood!

In speaking to the Off The Reonr* luncheon group at the office recently to "Pro file of India" Vers, Dean used an amusing device. Mentioning the new portrait of Princess Margaret and that it did not oprtrav the Princess as she thought she was from rtho+.ogrsrbp she v,a* no doubt but the result was s she appeared to the artist* Therefore a*" would not expect all the members of her audience to feel thai her hr^ad strokes and more detailed vignettes of India end Indians as she filled in her onvess would satisfy or agree with individual mentnl pictures. From that soring board she pursued th contradictions of wealth and poverty. of progress an* back wardness. of illiteracy end wise judgements on the rart of those who do not read grprhically end well. Her portrait of Nehru include* hp attempt in an interview
to resist "ca/otivation" her seriss of hard Questions she tried to make him answer rd finally whn he streved off into a discussion of the contribution to the world1 . cultural made hv the Islamic oeorla of the Mediterranean are in the 7th and 8th (or WOO 4+ 6+.h?) ceptuyy, she dmittedlv gav UP and was captivated bv the man she knew to
-rrageut in his intellectual approach to the world and the reorl with ^hom ha must vrorV. She also pointed out that Krishna Menon in India is verv different roan than the one sen about the UN. At home he wears the flowing fcite robes of South Indi end does not use the cane he alwavs carried here. Holding two cabinet costs M*non clearly fancies himself as Nehru*s successor ard implied he woul* raeresnt India
t the Malayan independence ceremon^. In another interview Patel told Vir that despite "ftnon* attempt, h*.Patel .would go to Kuala Lumper and so he did,, Nehru seems to favor NH-rovan Praekesh (sr.?) for the job, I gather Vero would be inclined to out her monev
cn Pant, the Minister of the Interior,

Follow*ng another medical directive to work l*ss J*ong hours and make a real break,

mid-day I went on Tuesday + the Cosmopolitan Club to hear mv old friend Marv Donlon,

Judge of the U,S. Customs Court. This life appointment is fairly recent and fascinates

her as she feels that trade is what makes the world go around and always ha, *hen the

products of one country can flow easily into another there is no danger of way, but

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when something prohits that interchange danger lies ahead. Another reason for going

was to see acain how their mechanics work in contrast to the Off The Record luncheons..,

better food on a biff buffet but lees substance in the speech, 1*11 god again this week

to heRr Judith Listowel, who comes this afternoon to get mv opinion on an article she

haa written on Vancouver for "Town and Country". I have not seen nearly as much of her

-e anticipated and she plans to go back to London in three weeks,

Setauket, February 8, 1958

yesterday was hhiiad-eouua aavy-- seasraeo#w. k.iwckakwe*i*aYaedar ltealteeprhotonerrdentots aoskf

g.10 drlToa ral*. Before a Teaturlmg lnt0 the country on what pro-

if I were being

would I not dine with her. My feeling

nisei to be suon a h

coing to be really horrid all weekend there

hwoowuledrebrewmau3c^hllm^o_re^of0p"poorrtxuuanifi yy of seeiinatgiTt,,heobf ofyesmainndinteheaot nppearnhiaopnsshMipo.lly

housebound would be

speclhl week's end alarums and excursions and

Ithoeooufldficneotwtae sar m ^y *sfel/f!^a awyay uunntxilxte^n m^inueterlsTai.ftetrTtW hethperomstiasteidoneawrlays

start. NeTertheiess the tr

fallen ^ leaves wore almost a mar n

Sfhii'Ssss.;-rjass.....z.....s .......i.i*z' lovely. All

id as tbe headlights picked up the glisten-

red, the l*"?* Ye^8f.rlCened tree trunks contrasting with the patches o

u-ir

TM...... but still gives liis faae * na

look*

Saud was here ho fe ^ ^ statl#m ud lf000 sets so my people can under-
S?I*^Sviow arrest and wonderful a oountry the United States isj" Parrish went to Sj^i A^b^a Ji^ hi|hB0t iniojilderable^^e^^o r| an|ay



y 0+-*rr uraiiih ha contrary to his extreme orthodox Moslem

.a mS.iSu uasi;jr... AT.. .ui... . . . . +_ vio-rim dulls as playthings out of deferenee to the King# The . airfield there is considered the "hardship" post, among otherth~ss ag**r is forbidden and "still watching" is an important concern with many,

oarefully planned as baby sitting

Tinhuurrssadaayy Ii huadu lxuncehon aadt dtihteionUNtoDetlheegaBtersitidsihnindgelerogoamtiownit.h HAeshhfoadrdE E ' S U P S !sneakiuc ln Montana and wanted t e tell me how useful he felt it and by implication how willing ho would bo to do more speaking w had a lovely time rolling oyer our tongues the appointment of Aly Khan

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te take the

other"' engagements lined up for him. Denis Brogan for ifcom

we had arranged a week1 s lectures in la "te March has been ordered to bed

by his Cambridge (England) docker and his projected tc^ur is off If I

could only dig up a few dates for Judith Listowel I should be happier!

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February 1% 1958

Wither i* th major concern of meet of the tern half f the country today. Yet one hear it is a balmy, sorlnelik weekend in England! During the frigid week I have had rather above average number of telephone calls, not only people in town who malingered and ought tue excuse of a telephone chat to keer in touch with the outside world, but aleo more of leas frantic calls from Chicago, St. Louis, Chattaneoga, Port land (Maine) etf. for heir with sneakers* Therefore it was no surprise when a nastv, fine wind driven sn^w set in about three clock* I had broken the rule and to the office on Saturday in the hone that nxt week would be less chaotic if some of the backlog of correspo-fdence were ele ared awav. Vera Dean was flving in from Ohio where she had stormed for an honorarv degree after a oaech at the University of Indiana and asked me for a late dinner to rt ari immediate rppt n many mutual friends she had seen. Struggling home a little before six with the weekend household shopping, I called tht airlines hoping to be told that laGua'odia Airport had been eloped down and I could call her faithful Mattie that dinner was off. No such luck. It was a bitter night and although hr plane got in at eieht o*clock, only ten minutes late, ihere was a scarcity of taxis and we did not sit down to dinner until after nine. She did oroduc a levelv let of nsws and gossip, most of it so heartwarming that I faced the taxiless journev of a mile and a half home with equanimity. When the bus finally came it took me from her corner to mv own with c, jollv group of rarty returnees, girls in dressy pumos glad to climb through drifts of two feet to vet out of the biting gale. This morning the temperature is reported at 13 o/o and the wind at 40 miles an hour and the fine flakes shoot through the street. Householders on the other sid of 64-th Street no sooner clear their sidewalks than vacuum abhorring Natur covers tbem again though to oerhaos as much as eight inches less than uncleared areas. The snow plow has been through and several cans are doubtless there for the dura tion. I just watched a young man try to extricate a pretty green Chevrolet station wagon onlv to go off to collect thro friends, one armed with shovel. They have a big job. With the help of a couole of innocent bystanders a^d a second shovel they finally made it in bout twntv minutes. "Peter" did little but spifcf his wheels and plainlv had had all to little experience with snow, neither his car^ nor that of one of his helpers had chains <r snow tires. Thev are clearly of the generation so accustomed to oil as a source of both heat and power thev made no attenrto to get ashes to give traction. Thev had out of state license plates. I wonder if they will reach their destination today.

Mondav I thought I would have a ouiet conversational evening with Judith Listowel, but someone had given her theatre tickets for whet turned out to be a musical cemsdy "The Bodv Beautiful" when she thought it was something auite different# Contrary to exoettation ## we had no difficulty in getting taxis despite the Artie blasts, but the theatre was so cld w were glad we had worn wool. To our horror the seats we in the first row right on top of the brasses, bv shifting in the intermission our hearing was restored and also getting a better perspective of the stage we enjoved the second act of a sillv e~e about prizefighters. Not a tune in the *rtiole made anv impression on the memorv, many of the lines were clever, the staging was imaginative and extremely well done, also some good dancing and a fascinating chorus of eight vear olds. The most interesting thing was its color consciousness. One of the most important fighters was black and there was hardly a scene in which one or more blacks did not aroar, even the little boy chorus had a most^ annealing colored child. Judith is deep in a niece of research* which she hones t* finish in nother ten days and go back to London, She has been so much better here in soite of 0u** prttv uggd winter, that die plans to return next vear for fiv months.
Lest weekend I lost a great deal of standing bv starting a discussion with the bovs at Setauket about srace, satellites and our messing in the universe, which I held is not man's to enter. At the time the son of a test pilot was with us. The argument was four against one , but I am still a fuddv-^duddv opposed to man made satellites, soac travel and planet exploration. They s^oke of criticism of early exploration of the seas and I had to admit that there are still oople in Saudi Arabia at least vho tmnk the world is flat and bom on the back of a turtle. The union of Irak and Jordan makes a lot more sens to me"than the Egyptian-Syrian federation, especially as Jordan had so little exris for existance. The Israelis must be terrified bv all this and ought to benefit a. least bv goI'ovdereasovoenrsybutos^rthweeeikr ccoumrrienngtubponandddsrihvaellhbeeregflaodr mtoorbee here next weekend.

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February ?2nd, 1958

Forgive mOf I continue on the subject of our cold--which after 32 days started to moderate

on Thursday after hitting a o/n * Tuesday. We have been doing the best we could with;late

trains* planes cancelled (Vera Dean could not get to Rochester on Sundav op Mondav and was

advised that everything there was being cancelled and she had beet not come at all)* Ice

breakers came from Boston to clear the Ice in the Hudson River up to Albany (called a salt

water port) pictures as close to the sea as Y onkers indicate the need for such service.

In the state farmers have ben # unable to get over a million dollars worth of milk to the

bighwav for r*ek-up, and in ATba-v Countv families have been told to stamr otterns in the

snow for aerial reports of their nedst triangle fop hav, cirole for food, square fo~ food

and X for sickness. Here th plsm* pU*h the,

the curb, then the fire department

comes around and digs the hvdrants clear a"d the next day the plows return to ^ush the mow

closer to the our^ ard into six foot high riles for resdv collection bv trucks to pick it

UP and dwar in the Hver. Meanwhile pedestrians do the best they can, cursing owners who

debov clearance of sidewalkg and waiting Patiently for turn to pass through the narrow

rath through the crbeide snnw riles, only to r*ck a cautious route across the selt produced

slush covering tfaA ic base of rcadwavs. I know for I walked almost a mil* to a nine a.m.

doctor's appointment Monday in 6 degrees above zero. Washington had several more inches of

snow than we and ordered Federal employees to stav home both Monday and Tuesday.

Again it i* best to draw discreet veil oyer the office madhouse except to sav the "agonizing reappraisal" of our. overall operation has readhed a n~w Phase, Had th office r building not de*ided they ztnst honor GenpgA Washington's birth today bv providing no heat* . I eboud have gone in again to^v to work on a verv stickv and involved memorandums The rest of mv world wynts sneakers for routine and "special" meetiig s at a. dizzy rate end I need un interrupted time to write, let alone think about mv big "think" niece, Th* compromise of bringing data home with me to worv hers was fruitless as in rav flurry I failed topack an important basic collection. My pride in meeting deadlines will suffer as it now looks as if mv "great" operation wouH be late.

Monday I ^aa "chicken" and renigged on mv acceptance to go to a World Brotherhood Din r

UP near Columbia Universitv. Happily the dinner given bv Nuri Eren for the IB w Turkish

Ambassador to the UN was in our building Tuesday and I changed to a. dinner dress at the office

^nd '.hen back again to get home afterward. Esin, the guest of honor, is a constrained per-

sonaTitv with cautious, hesitant English gr>d ,, delightful wife. Wednesday 175 tidies struggled

cut to hear Sir Andrew Cohen, the United Kingdom Representative in the UN Trusteeship Council.

They,loved him, I thought ha dithered overmuch. Mrs. Maurice Moore, sister of Henrv T. Luce,

introduced, him although she had said nrivatelv that he does not waltz well. No doubt she

tfelt it necessary to offset her negative appraisal of his dancing bv flattery--resuit I

thought she oyordid it to a revolting degree end almost as bad treated the audience like kids

in kindergarten. I have almsvc agreed with her own description of herself as a "birdbain"

nd deolore her having been given the task of presiding. Thursday ni*ht I lad James McDonald's

opera tichete nnd tooh Vera to hear "Lucia di Lemmermoor" nnd

rewarded hv hearing Maria

Menoghini Callas for the first time. Her "Lucie'1 far surpassed that of Lilv Pons, vh om I * ,

had almost alwya V ard heretofor, a lovely Houid seeming effortless voice, a sArb actress

^"'e ^er arr#SaJ1^' behaviour in refusing to finish "Norma" in RpTMe took her manv curtain

call^mi (at least eight) with modesty if not humility . Donizetti h^e never been one of mv

favorite composers and he managed to make the Lucia role a verv difficult one and especially

demardine in combining Ivric and coloratura in the seme role. Thelma Voting, ha* sung the

second feminine role in most of the "Tuciss" I have heard shocked me --she has become so fat -

to h almost square. Carle Bergonzi was a superb Elgardo with impeccable intontat.ion and

suaveness in acting and voice. Not as robust a voice aa Martini but excellent, I think he will

go far and wegp well Last nigh Vera, nd I were to have gone to "Sunrise at Camoobello"

hut discovered in the morning her train for Buffalo, where she spoke today to state teachers

convention left at lit!5. Ibis is no play to walk out on before the final curtain and even

half an hour to get across town with traffic as it is would have left us both uneasy all even

ing. Instead we had dinner and conversation and exchanged the tickets until the 22nd.

Next weekend I plan to go to Setauke$ lor a y or:r ijrjs

fy

" $hf :L $ ?1 of

Jim and Jay# I cannot help wondering how much snow there will be left by that tifce# It

took two weeks to have my refrigerator mended# It lasted ten days and then stopped and tie

uwnhitichhaTs tbheoeungchat rcraiemde forfofmfoa rnereigphabiro#rsNpo adionutibnt giltls escaping g&as has caused a headache all week

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I ^^y, fKCxy February 23, 1958

OF THIS AND THAT . . *
For several veers Irwin was our office bov and has now been promoted to film proieetionist and custodian. His adventures with his car hve long entertained me* This 'recent one might be called "Youth Is Served"* Despite a couple of inches of snow on the ground and sto*mi warnings of more to come, Irwin drove his girl to a Pariv in New Jersey on Saturday evening , Thev started home to Brooklyn in the ea.rlv hours of the moaning conscious that while they had ms.de merrv the wind and snow had been even more active* After progressing ten or a dozen blocks through the raging storm Irwin found himself stuck in a drift so securely that no amount of effort extricated them* On the "we have not reached the point of no return" tbeorv, thev abandoned the car? noting on a clip of parer its location* A tough struggle through the snow with Sadie eventually brought them bach to the scene of the festivities, where manv had not even tried to leave and others alsp were forced to return* The mother of the hostess valiantly rose to the problem of sierra bound guest*. Fortunately she owned, the apartment building and haPtf.lv ^ad a vacant apartment into which she locked the twenty-five voung men for the remainder of the night* On Sundgv with the aid of davlight and public conveyances Sadie and Irwin returned to Broo>lvn whsre a frantic search of pockets failed to produce the notation of vka jalepv,Vwi.nt*v orison. Honing that he might cellect the insurance, Irwin reported the "loss of his car to the insurance comnanv, which in turn Passed on the ibws to the New Jersey police* By Wednesday Irwin had not onlv been informed of the whereabouts of his car* but the Jersey police Provided a truck to tow it out of the snow bank. Reactions
"Those policemen sure are gentlemen!"

The Turkish Information Office reproduced the following item from the NEW YCPutiR Ox January 25, 1958s A traveller lately arrived from Europe has bent our ear with this as- -**> count of how some international news came into being. First off* the United States corres pondent for EUROPE0, an Italian magazine, was assigned to cpyer the Anastaeia barber-shoo murde
der. In oa*sine, one of the arsons whom he interviewed announced that "the Young Turks" of the underworld were trying to take over. Interpreting the phrase literally* the corres* pendent filed a storv revesline that youthful Turkish gangsters were easing aitt the Mafia regulars* The Italian magazine printed the storv as wired. The Italian daily press, glimpsinv a big interna.tional angle, made auite a. to-do about the storv, which was^then picked up bv the French r~ess, and passed back to the Italians in an expanded vers:.on, full of the rich, imaginative journalism tte French are famous for. Meanwhile, an eminent Italian professor of journalise put together a weighty editorial explaining the significance the Turkish rise to power in the American underworld* This he later enlarged unan in a soeecn in Bo^egna, therein he revealed the real inside etorvt The ancestors of Johnny Dio had, in truth, emigrated from Turkev in the seventeenth centurv* Currentlv, that e all the on .
d*oe we've got on the subject, * . - Nor shall I add a comment.

Hi* staement made by Bannister that. h had broken the four minute mile record^ not by s^me superior technique of running but through freeing his mind of the ^svcholngical barrier that had operated against all runners for vears. Having done that he not onlv broke the record himself but made it possible for other runners unshackled bv tne pamper ing thought that map could not run a mile in lees than four minutes to go out and do so. One wondere "hat other fetters we mlgit free ourselves from by further application of
the Bannister Theorv.

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March 1, 1958 #*> Setauket

Did I brag last weak about ay pi^r 1gails*as I weather*fore

"odarsyte"rm*oWne8ha.d Woelvler 2o4l'hboouurrss hHoouurrss oorf steadyy d84o>wapnxpeotuer sfertomowfhiscehafathrelrnee

was no protection short * ** 1B*u{ worked but the strong gusty

11 skins The pull of gra y

Fortunately Thursday night when

winds ma de the rain seem horizontal. ^Fothe building with

the storm was still on I

* behind me. She too was supperless

IarnednetiCroerdo.tnoFfofr,twyhofihvaesmtihneutdesinlater at nine 8e'ecilock whenclIarh]adteallempohsotn-

finished washing up.af^Ly_^M -m which in the absence of her husband

ed tha t she had a dramatic Prtl-

s!ie oam8 with Jean, her

in South America she sought my a^ioe. |ooPatlBg business, who stays

accommodating assistant ^nberinter

(perhaps this is the time##

in the apartment when fandy Wark is away,

varlety.

to say Isabel's decorating often involves p ^ personaUy interviewed

NtuhresiRnagilawacyolEdxpsrheesshdadelbieveenryam-an

who

iinnssiissted

that

he

leave

a parcel ea Ibl

for Irene at the Clark's. After she naa signeu

nhuaan remains".

discovered herself to bet^ Knowing tha t her colored maid

^ would

walikKout

naV8r

to return After a

she great

deal

popped it into her dress closet and looked tno aoor.^ tolophone and

of palaver, during which it *as clear s

apartment the Instant

ask Irene ihy she had not rushed down to Isab^^P^the position

sthhaetfofuonrdItrheenen'ostesatkuecktehde fewer peopllfet wwvho0 muiixexdeidn^t^ he s& itura8t8i8lopntt.heI

better, Isabel went down

Isabel came haok up# Before she had

managed to keep Jean wit , ,

came Irene note in hand# Decline

^ f pay gtold h r fiinngistheedsittedlolwinngour3it.ovrhtaivaet^aaPbrpa^n^dvy,P^wwhi^cbh boyy wthmat^ timea3Ihaw3asofshearrvifnagl,h r

she explained that she had b at the Vermont crematorium. They

they were giving up these th0 aab88 to her when

facilities and she had instruotedthra

P

iate March and

smswazi zfeztf a

-a.s aw-

ssk

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"*u'

u, . It 1. amur .ft.r.n.

SStSoS'S *T-

te9d tweoatdhienrn,erh.utA fMeasrttihvaeanodoassion as TTuueessddaayy is thB e m joinath0bWi8rdthcodlaoyreodf Ji*

and Jay, the latter attaining 18, After^d^ ^ and put in oategoiies

slides, whioh he and sorted out aft

transitions from swimming

so in future we hope to be 3par* *TM gbQs. Today was better, we had

taolostnoowfseseunnesanadndwabiamckentoougjhj^* c*o!nanttiinnuuee tthheepprroocce^s^ s o^ f meltintghosungohw iIn

the places it had drifted. Soon we are g s 3Qaok ln town or at the

may take an earlier trala ^Jf still refrigeratoriess apartment.

0oane8

0of^he

background studies I have really heen fasoinatLug

lone for thf office self-analysis operation^hasjeally

of tta

as it shows oonoretely the 3eapa a^ i ^ too busy "doing" to appraise,

speakers This may

bureau operation# Us^ be useful in spring tbe

Lad5diittiioonna^i^ handovserIl0hnagvte

heen The

asking luncheon

for in too genteel a manner t bring

beinp Msta*w I only know

far Lord Hailsham was a groat success

8al that

wwheatdoIitamhatvoeldt.hanEkveend tmheosperowfhuoseTl^yffoorr'^acceerrttaaiinn ppeerrssiissttence. We now

examine "summer work" to plot the holiday period#

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March f, 1958

The "subjest to change with or without notice" mode of life in Seta^et was

.

Sunday. Bill Pateman, a classmate of Jim's, and i wiie, TOO

won Moll**s collage roommate telenhoned they were lunching at the Three Village inn an

wnuldliketocall. At the moment young Bill and X were finishing our slide sorting and

telling the Patam.n'e where they could reach Molly and Jim by telephone we set about

rfrtne S*r5i5wtorU bad created. Nothing haooened for a couole of hours and I

gave UP all thought of seeing the Patemans when they arrived with a vounger Pateman broker,

Mn wife ard their eon. By th time thev left we decided not to go out for dime r ana

barely managed to make my usual train.

Monday TMrning NenovFord.anEnglish

began her trial c.riod as my secretary. She livee with her mother and sister in tne cottage

of Se Elleworth Bunkers (our Ambassador to India) at Oyster Bav and drives in withthe

f I t HI works t the UN. I must tell her that William Bradford, a orinter, started

commuting^frrm lister Bav^Ibout 280 years ago end used a sailing sloop

start ocasei oned by their having had a prowler the ni^t before,

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oouol e of hours because of an agonizing abcessed tooth en I we

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IinI tthhef lcoonncc^otcttoionn oft S an.se! work pappers for the Bomarudatodf r,,Dfitrescttoilrsl amneoetthinegr wmeemhoornanedutmhat

fe'gin to fear 8rf Sanation and clotting and planning for which these documents are

"background will coirtinu for months mora.

Thurdav#s luncheon with the American Friends of the Middle East turned out most

-vortb while I not onlv had a chance to hear the presentation of John Duveen (a Chicago m-

mrof T^ zsz^nis^r^ of Z l r a e t L n a n d f o r m e r o f f i c i a l i n v a r i o u s e j e c t s o f t h e U

S

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restore a war disrated economy in countries Aere ihere ^s background of .table If free society, albeit badly shaken by World War II and its aftermath. But sod to the uncommitted (underdeveloped nations) largely meant help toward economicallvdnodernxj; aweaa where are no free society nolitieal backgrounds or at best inexperienced and rat.

tentative governments.

To kepo the balance I lunched with Max Varon, Israeli Consul to Pniladelohia end

member of the New York consular staff on Friday. It is a neat arrangement where he keen.,

end aroointments secretary in Philadelphia and goes there three days a month to conduchfietnsss on a regular schedule in a hotel suite with theability to go more frequently if need be. We spoke of the new mergers of Arab countries and I confessed to some doub s o.

She alleged plot against Nasser's life iinanced by King Saud of Saudi Arabia. Varon, ai Germ-n Jew, said that Goebel's ii"ht hand man in the Nasi propaganda ministry went af , . :?r.,,r to Cairr. took an Egyptian sounding noma and is now a rerv key oereonalith In E^p7ien propaganda Ind intell.ig.nce w.-. He then went on to exol.in that an Amen.an l^^akLg S exhaustive etudv of wire taming and other tared evidence in our courts

p,d conducted a most frightening experiment. A most innocuous statement was

wort.

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rf fej-vA hours siotr*R"*ce axnerts bad rrodutad a most damning ta. ...

j

ri?^yl1abla from different narts ard atringing them together, eyenreuaingtha *

rtVfir _nd GVer BCr0in to uit their

Varon also sroka of the important con, 1.uti

m=da in many countries o* the world by German scientists, technicians ,

p others

who hava migrated ^in the last 20 years. He and 1 have been trying to l'oM together

f,r the lest four months and I w=s glsd it finally came off. I still, hone that the ha

million dollars S-.ud is eunrosd to have paid for Naseer's Ug^d-toon c .u*wee mr.e into the Egyptian treasury and used for heavy industry eouirment . It is such a loveiy

joke on the very rich and always broke Saud.

Aunt ABnie^and^wiotter^teacher^from^St.^Agnes^School^had^di^s^i

SSSSSKffit: ?oforrowUtov DTMr arrives. There i, still no ice in the refrigerator and I am struggling 'ii

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March 1% 19S8 ~N

We h*,d fir levelv da^s of sun justbelow freezing at night and in the mid-40*s during: the DAV (All ver"- helpful for u<ng the window sill fo** mv limited SUPPIV of
food which needs cold. The building owner and I have come to an agreement that I reallv need a new refrigerator* To out an end to this off and on operation I rjn puite willing to ~v fin extra th^ee dollars a month pent. Our negotiations are riotous--he verv considerate
of me and anxious to oleosa, *hile I am appreciative of hie attitude, never mentioning that if I went to the authorities I could hove him ordered to srend much more than the cost of a, r^f^geroto^. Nor do I suspect that he ie turning in the old box as a dovm oavment *hile w'th w increase the installments are paid and in the long run he gets a new box at no cost.
Oh no, I am too genteel for that. But being in the fourth week of no scviee mav soon have tt begin calling a spade a sande.) But tp return to the great outdoors. Thursdav night three of us had a long council of despair about the office from seven to eleven, with some
constructive overtones. As I came home it started to rain and during the night tlB re was pow and sleet. In the morning there was thunder, lightering and persistant snow on tor of several inches of SPOW. A vital Police Planning Group meeting wa scheduled for nine ofclock I sallied forth earlv to find the streets sorov with slush* Before I could gst a taxi I
noticed that the speeding vehichles solashed the mess right back to the building line. Lueki-
1-* the snow pfcich continued heavily most of the day melted quicklv and. at least in town is now gone. At times the fall was so heavy that Lon<? Island City docks were obliterated and shire, tugs and tows in the river often anoeared as ghoetlv objects in the river, throwing up a great bow -wave. The plotting and planning sessions interfer mightilv with mv own rou tine to which an attemtr te produce a BIG luncheon on economic developement, the new phrase for foreign aid, involving asbh personalities as Nixon, Harriman, Acheson, Dewev, Stevenson.

Up with the birds in Monday to meet Amv Dewar's train at Grand Central, but enough

dax*d "to **ueh off in a cab without checking incoming trains on the telephone. So I

arrived at 8*40 to find tha train two hours late and went on to the office to give things a

push there. There had been a derailment somewhere and the crack Twentieth Centurv limited

was three hours late to her two hour delav. It was wonderful to see her looking so well

after the frenzv of parties and moving from place to place she had just enjoved in Ontario,

There was a great snafu about their tickets for "MY Fair Ladv" and I suggested she ask the

Cosmopolitan Club to see what thev might do in the way of cancellations for them. When I

got back to the Club a little after six for an early dinner and a long talk, she greeted me

with news that we were going that night. About five-fifteen two tickets had been turned

back and she snatched them. We had a wonderful time enjoving every minute of it, though I

kept thinking how much better Edward Mulhare is fittod for the lead than Rex Harrison, who

must have been somewhat saturnine. It pleased me so much that I

no longer feel I must

go to London this summer to see it, This, of course, raises more immediately than ever in

mv mind what I shall do with rav holidva. I must knuckle do*TM s soon as my income tax is

finished to solid planning. Amv ie urging me to go to Pentioton,

To get mv mind off th office about which I had a long and Involved dream last night I have b*en reading a gre*t combination of things in bed. "The House of the Beach", a firet
novel of the horror variety bv E.L. Withers still in his mid-twenties. A gripping tale of a 12 ^ear old girl, "ho relijeg that her step-father and aunt are trying to rounder her. Not ce^ng for Else Maxwell, it seemed only fair to read her "How to do 4t", in which she falls bask on historv and reveals Oueen Hatsheosut of Egypt almost 2,000 B.C. was a great party
giver in Thebes, Although I have not finished this it is noted that despite the historical introduction, she had to run in at the end of the book the favorit recipes of Perle Mesta for stuffed eggplant, Claudette Colbert for snailB , Cole Porter for Kedgeree, Alfred Lunt for beef petties with carers, etc, Standbv is John Evelvn's diarv, where I am now readv Vol I and em wandering through earlv 17th centurv Italv with him at the moment, having finished the second volume. In it I was interested to find that on November 30 Evelvn had in 1684 "Dr. Fiennew, son of Lord Sav Rnd Seals, preached before the King on Joshua XXI, ii" beacuasw Silver Fiennes son of the presort-dav Lord Sav and Seale was at Garsington when I was there with his wife, John Wheel r-Bennett's niece. It seems that through the vears a vounger son has freauentlv been ordained as Oliver has been. The citation has gone to John on tie chance
that Oliver mav one dav preach on the text and make the historical referrence. Of course, for all I know tha familv records mav be fili d with the full sermons of all his predecessors--
but it was fun anv wav.

Ifey 18

fetwt off to London o hi. holiday and the daily oos.n that It

has not boon possible to pay all the attention I should hare to the ^^" dovelopo-

" t' in the world at lerge. & .porfiolally the Lebanon affair i. probably tuo moo.

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the potential of the mM 'reh orwie with the Al^erian oe.rtone

eould neon the end of all wo and other western countries had build . No doubt the treatment of Nixon is South America should hare raised say c*uy&.nist.ce

haoklee but inatead^engendered a righteous indication frl In view of the results it would seem that either Mfcehington wae in moysmaJ. xg TMoetf mtters they should have known about or failed to take into account intelliTM It LS! Certa^y the italics Brothers have to be exonerated, or replaced. If

wv avful <feanee the State Department -lid not know what sort of a climate of opinion the

*ixona were being sent into , the Central Intelligence Agency and Allen W. p*n shuld ZnllTJS il reputedly in a portion to stop misguided endeavor, with his direct
aecess to the Ahlte House, I hope to follov the bearings and eftematb with an eagle

eye*

Ihcn I first heard that Eisenhower had order U.S. Marines and paratroopers tobaees

two hours flying time from Caracas* I was aghast, now I hare cooled ofx and t

that order issued in wrath will do ue great damage the world around* I wt that with his

military training the President put hie faith in tho old axj-om ox njchr; ya y

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Franee --"A 4how of force can prevent the uee of force." In nJhJL TI

Lfre

of force may have sav^d MWkS lift

M r %*** kftied :.t; &C

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the end of his term, we Bhould have been saddled with John Footer Dulles as Presiden

For protection frorj this eventuality I am profoundly grctaful.

Friday I had a very amusing and possibly profitabe forty-five minutes or an hour

with Sir Leslie Munro* President of tho United Nations 12th General Aaacnbly. We sat

in the Delegates' Lounge at the UN and talked about has future, sh: e

peppered

brother tried to catch Sir Leslie's eye and bow. His conversation with

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with "Good a, ft,ernoo. n, +Ml r.i-Aacmtnbasshadfofrlg"p-- flivfobrowthede manodremimutpteorretadn. t Hneewjejars three ?Let .fca as iitt

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that capaeity us. alected ?rwi4it of tha General Assembly last September , " 5.

Eeanwhile the political party to which ha belongs in Hsw laalw.d too uiiuu . .. . .

hga been warned that he ia out of a job ae toon as hs oeaaei to be Goner

President, feybe X'U undertake to get a series or

ve substantial

GA President to take to the platiomi--a gamble as he will have to a a

_

fee after years of speaking as the Ambassador without. He has a heavy frame and --

ful bush auburn eyebrows, a diamond (?) in the rougi with a big voice and similar opin-

Ion of himself.

Mills wo are on the other side of the Paoifio as it ware....I have been amueed by

the ttate Department's refusal to allow the Chicago Zoo to import a

Canonist Chins on the grounds it is a resident of a banned country, yTzoo people are going to put up a sign explaining to the children ttat it is all a

mistake, there is no such thing as a Giant Fanda just as there seems to R0 B

on the Asian mainland called China. I never did find out wt

ed dusk from Hong Kong and it a proposed importation into tils country.



Kong ie politically clean as a British Cr<wn Colony so or. the surface i^seoredn.l

right until someone raised the curious question, dldjsirLaps e pressed, or the egg. from which they were hatched might have come from Ocmunist China.

Although it has been quite oold and damp, spring times along epaee. The

chestnuts In Csntral Park are lovely. Ky home emarlyris.^i^ o l d V i r g i n i a

year is getting ready to open. I hope to go Churday afteraocntc

. trgiirui.

bw train and fly baek Sunday afternoon and Maall be diaguated if it flo
^ back ia turned. But the Blue Ridge Mountains should be lovely, ae X should not

March 21, 1958

(?tf/nar>d ine

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' Si/lvanias

Winter officially departed last night with a vicious final swish of its
tail, which did little to add to the convenience of the distinguished visitors fromVancouver. In fact the lovely weather Amy had in her first few days deter iorated badly in SNOW on the 14th and 15th, which at least in town had disappeared
by the time Douglas and Pat arrived. Their train was only 40 minutes late due to a derailment of a frieght train--curiously enough the same sort of accident made
the same train over two hours late the Monday beforeI

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The family fared well in their finding taxis for their last day errands yesterday and even better when the Cos Club produced another pair of cancellations for "My Pair Lady". Ann Bay struggled through heavy snow and deep drifls to come
down from Westchester to join my dinner to the Dewars at the Cos Club and go to the theatre with Douglas. Amy, Pat and I finished the packing, did the telephoning --
how wonderful it was to have a clear connection to CaulfeildJ--and got Pat off to an early bed. She has had a wonderful, but tiring time. After seeing more rain than snow falling when I went home a little before eleven last night I was disgusted to find several more inches had fallen in the night and more falling steadily. It was excellent that Douglas had ordered a Cadillac to the hotel for eight o'clock. The Park was lovely as I went through it to the ship--wet snow thick on every twig with
bark black from the wet.

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The first thing I saw on the pier was the handtruck laden with the 14 pieces

i

of Dewar luggage and found them just about to have their papers examined. Entering

on the Promendde Deck we went down one to the Main Deck and first saw Pat's inside

single room with its stall shower. Her color scheme was red and cream with gold

j j threads . Very compact and attractive. Then down the same alley a few doors to

-N? what I called the bridal suite--a delightful twin bedded cabin with two larger

1 x than usual (almost the size you would find in a house) rectangular windows. The

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Myalls pannelled in an interestingly patterned blonde wood, the drapery, bed covers a etc. a pretty French blue, wonderfully large closets with sliding panjiels and

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an additional hanging space with luggage racks on the way to the bathroom, so commodious that it would serve as a dressing room. Another feature I liked was

the five foot passage from the corridor with a full length glass door,,..with this

closed as well as the corridor door one would hear nothing of corridor conversations.

Of course the whole ship is spanking new, completely aircondifcioned and the staff I

saw seemed above average in disciplined friendliness and desire to be helpfu). As

the luggage had not been delivered the ladies toured the ship, while Douglas workdd

on the forms. A fine theatre with the balcony reserved for First Classeflectivelly

done in red upholstery; the restaurant seemed on the small cozy side, if rather forward

on the ship, many of the tables for four and most of them round. The chef had made

wonderful pastry,polled fruits, fancy cookies, and glazed meats to display in the

restaurant foyer. Forward on the promenade deck is a big smoking room and coctail

bar. with windows in an arc . This room is dark wood panelled with colorful crests

just below the ceiling. The Lounge is done essentially in wine colored upholstery,

but not monotonously as materials both solid and striped were used in the grouped

chairs... A charming little Drawing room reserved for non-smkers contained a

couple of writing desks. While small the Library seemed well stocked. There are

accomodations for 175 first class and 7 or 800 tourist. Although the ship is small

she is delightful and although it was snowing hard and the clouds low, the whole ship

had a splendid sense of daylight and airiness.

By the time we got back from the inspection the flowers had begun to arrive--

Iris and well opened Sweatheart roses in a white bowl had some unusual shrub for

added greenery. The Harabers send a stunning arrangement of white roses, white and

rose snapdragons and a few rose colored tulips with white stripes. Fruit from Mrs.

Hitchcock. Beautiful yellow roses in a heavy grenn glass vase. They sailed in

good health and better spirits. I'm sure this willXb a ***

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March ?3, 1958

It w lovalv to eoeet a verv fit looking Douglas Dewar and somewhat slimmed Patricia on their arrival Mondav. He has come through his Deration well and enjoved his few days in New York before they all sailed Friday morning on the Svlvenia for the wedding they are amending in Scotland* The ship is the latest addition to the Cunard Line* usually on the Montreal-r-Liveroool run* using New York and Halifax during the winter* Thev sailed in a, snow storm* the last, we trust, of a tenacious treat-em-rough Old Man Winter determind not to give *yar to Spring* I wish the shin was more than 22,000 tons for the sake of their comfort, though even with the snow siting down there was a sense of airiness and daylight through the vessel. Given anv sort of a break on weather, thev should have a lovelv crossing* A good deal of rest is indicated for all the family after the mad^ Dace at which they went all week* Douglas wa luckv and picked UP a pair of "Mv Fair Lady " cancellations for Thursdav rapping off after mv farewell dinner gesture to the familv. Amv, Pat and I then went back to the Chatham to finish their packing and telephoned the family in Vancouver. It was good to have a word with Mary and Helen and know thev are pleased at mv prospect of geing to British Columbia this summer.

Th roads north were reported so bad that Maria and Hank are in town for the first week end since Christmas instead of skiing for the sake of their health* I was amused uoon going there for dinner Fridav to find they had been in Central Park for an hour or so on their skis that afternoon and glowed with satisfaction and fresh air. Last night I went to Vera's for dinner and then on to "Sunrise at Campobello", a moving and admireobly performed lav be ginning with the afternoon on which Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with infantile Paraly sis and ending with the ten steps to the lectern at Madison Square Garden when he nominated A! Smith for the 192* Democratic Convention. Dora Scharv has written a skillful lav find developed the characters of various members of the family giving each his or her moment in the center of the stage without detracting from the main theme of the FDR fight for mastery over his body and his continual resistance to his mother's domination and desire for him to lad a secluded life at Hyde Park* Ralh Bellamy does a heartbreaking job in showing the early struggles with crutches and is excellent throughout* We enjoyed Henry Jones as Louis Howe and had some Question as the almost too young make-up of Mary Fickett as Mrs* FDR. The lines were so good that I want to find a CODV of the lav* Apiece in today1s Daoer contrast ing the new and old leads in "My Fair Lady" interested me very much, a it gave support to mv thesis that Mulhare is more in character in the Professor Higgins' role than Rex Harrison* It also points out that Sallv Ann Howes makes a mors defiant and less wistful Eliza than Julie Andrews. The papers are also devoting a good deal of space to Maria Callae, pointing out how meanly she treates her mother, who in the first instance had made it possible for her to have voice lessons at not inconsiderable personal aaorifice- Even the NEW YORKER takes a crack at hr lev for a^lauee and ruthless attitude toward other members of the cast*

The ^ef^igrerator situation has progressed to tve point of what to get end where to put

it. The management insisting thev cannot replace in the same location..*.which is the onlv

t in my t/nv gallev, Question: would I refer it in the living room or mv bedroom \ I

onlv bo~e I have something, somewhere befc s

*nn*e ccm^s the end of the week. The brilli

ant

ttfiaY, while a. joy after so much enow and cltud this week, is not heline the few

items of food stored on mv sunnv wixjfdww sills. There will be no chit-chat next week, so do

not be alaire d,

This afternoon I am supposed to go around the corner to heir the Consul General of Pakis tan celebrate Republic Dav if I do not change mv mind. Tomorrow we have a. big Committee Meeting at the office toward which all too rae.nv people have worked too Isng. SuoDosedlv if tho Board Committee "buva" the staff produced program get a green light and shall then m^ve into andi >as more discussions for the implementation of the plan. Should tomorrow's meeting not drag on too long or take too much out of me I shall look in on Prince Ali Khan's rcovtion for Pakistan's Republic Dav on mv wev home, P~obebelr these on both lists will stav awav tedav and turn u1** in droves tomorrow, so I might be wise to go todavin the hope of gome usful conversations. Decision therefore as to which of the things I hoped would be done today can bo put off for two weeks. Time will tall.

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Happy Easterf It begins to seAm as if spring must be just around the cornier, though
lok as I ^ould there were few visible signs last week Ah l^ng Island. Crocii were in
bloom, but thev never seem to have verv good nee, daffodils and other bu!!ts had thre
or four inches of leaves shewing;. Aunt Anni *nd I went to Martha and CI eve former night Soturdav. After tea w* drove along Jones Beach and saw the sea erosin which v^ad done
considerable damage in the storms of recent weeks..,,a levelv sunny late afternoon but crisr enough to make me glad I had ^orn mv heaw winter* coat. Palm Sundav brought out a sl-igMlrr "larger than usual congregation and a verv god choir, which sang Stokowski1 Beneditite vrv well (I nl^avs think the words a little presumntxous, all verv well for
t>4 whls aod the fowl^s to oraise and magnify the Lord, but not to bless him.) In the afternoon F**n came with her family. The little bovs were dressed differentia for the fr^st time *n mv si^ht end were very cute. Thev are a.v**eed that a bab" Tmmv would be acceptable, should God barren to be f-'aah out of babv Cathvf come earlv Julv. Thev era ouite cley that thev prefer a sieter and ^ouM have her christened Catherine. It seem th names come from +bose af babiee thev ha.ve recently met, an nimtl e as that.

Aunt Annie and the new refrigerator arrived almost at the same moment, but el as the later is for Alternating current whi1e mint An direct. Tt remains to be seen if the ra,,tAr ^ burned out **en they turned it on. Meanwhile I have two refrigerators and still ue the window sill. Thev **ave in the meanwhile changed mv current to alternating end I can now possess et long wanted steam iron. It looked as if mv radio would have to be re placed, but this morning I carried it out to the reraif ehero, and heaven be praised it
is all right.

The nartv of Prince Od Khan ws pout<4 with double the number of guests to make

sense. It is said that ca^s were being bought for $10, and from the few noor1 e I was

able to greet was clearly the UN diplomatic set, I could sort out a good manv characters

who either bought their cards or crasMd. It is reported that !*#,000 canapes wers ordered*

Once in a while one get ner a table and found he bad ordered also a good, many sotted

flowers, Easter lillie, a*ales and so en. Champagne

uonosed to be passed (a

noveltv at these pacties) but the waiter ware unable to make much prowess. I rather

liked him a^id -ft happened we were able rchejige vather more than the uua"! formalities.

However, time will tell if he will be useful in tha roll of representing Pakistan at the

United Nations. Going there after a grisly three hour Committee meeting in the oxfice, I

was ^rheusted after half an hour and glad enough to ascaoe. The next dav I ha^ luncheon

with an Egyptian at the UN Delegates Dining room, who aid be had looked for me the even

ing before but agreed it was a mess- Hassan knew Alt Khn in Cairo and calls him a nice

bey". I had looked uoon this luncheon to find out official attitudes about the United

Arb Republic but got little more than a diatribe about ho-* unfairly it was reported in

the NEW YORK TIMES, especially on the editorial rage*

Since I last wrote th final issue of this volume of SAS has gotten into the mail and -dth the Crunsetlor of the German Emvassy as sneaker finished off the season's Ofi
the Record luncheons. This group has decided to srOit itself amoebalike because of steady growth 6X1 al08^ unwieldy size. So next winter there will be sixteen speakers to get unless 9ome hardv souls re willing to give the same speech twice. Recently the Univei*itv of Vir-'r4* rang me UP to see if I could get fifteen peakec to giv*0 a week of their lives for travelling expenses only instead of the four provided for the past several years. I begged him for his own sake as well as mine to make it eight and then when^ne had digested that we could think of another increase the next year. This long hard winter
seems to have germinated expansive notions all along the line.

A wave of colds is rampant in the office, and very stupidly when he was feeling badly himself and the personnel man was too Fred started direct negotiation for a raiso, He has gotten into an awkward situation and I'm not sure how I can mediate the situation. If I fail I shall probably lose him. A prospect which fri^itens me as it looks more and more *
as if the on-trial-secretary would not work out. It slows me down too much to have to work with two greenhorns at the same time. I think a form letter will have to be concocted to acknowledge letters and telegrams to the effect that the sneakers bureau has gone fishing and the inquirer had best look elsewhere for help. I did manage the last of the three hour service Vesterday at St. Bartholomew's and went back to work until 7s30.

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April 12, 1958

Written by courtesy of Molly and her typewriter in Setauket* Yes terday I nearly crawled back into bed for an indefinite stay after I lookefl eut and saw snow again in the roof gullies of the houses across the street. Although the radie reported slushy streets when rain fell en two inches of snow honesty compelled me to admit this was not true in my neighbork) od. S I was brave and went aleng in the hope something nice would happen in tne office for a change. On Monday Mrs, Chandler, my records secretary started the week dismally at five minutes before nine by telling me that she had always loved ships, had married a shipper and after his death was more interested in the sea than ever. Therefore she had decided to take a job with an offshoot of the Maritime Commission which had been offered her , Somehow she figured that we had due notice although I had madA spo olal arrangements for her holiday t begin on the 16th so she might go to California with her sister and stop to see her mother in Minneapolis on the ^u7* Sevan working days seemed quite all right to her, Aftor utiiniim the work on whieh she was to conoontrato and starting the kechAnery for a replacement, I tried to get down to the dyfs work# Tuesday morning Fred Nunes, my a ssistant, went through a fine speech on how much he liked his job, respected me etc*, but felt that "management" was in effect lacking in
Plicy he would have to go# I talked with him patiently and after scratching my head came up with an arrangement I though I could sell personnel# In fact I went straight to John Nason with mv plight received sympathetic hearing and was told the discuss my plan with hiS

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fef?onnel and et bac* a unanimous recommendation for his OK#-

7 f ld them on a *15 a wellk increase for Fred. Nason said OK to 4

Tiei^o

insisted on $10 not #15# This I sold to Fred and I thoimht

inittl *6ll until he learned from the grapevine that another man who sits

jast across a partition from him had reoently gotten a big inerease and Fred

GBv*thi* +?i tciA ml ot^e-

Td and ha\t0 ba hrought up to that salary--an inerease of $22 was,ff a^ry that 1 was <iuite prepared to let him go but cyJttee ^ a t we bad a whole new problem# They admitted the

me as i? ^thn^eyy hnaadd ssuubbmmiitttteedd t blackmail and wtoerW e haibohuU t to do it asgoauinndedTthoe

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the earlier judgement en Fred Ld this t? I

over Sd Cire

hear the vrdiot w asked him to think it

t . f r S 2 : s s s s \ r ! J S 2 TSS.jmk sr',;,*" in front ff hi

L^n ? WaS rady* ot course they dangled a oar rot

I drafted a mono on the settf laoreas later, Friday he aooepted and when

others for a long time to come. It would be grislv to s+*rt-

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asm: ars-ysasvss E*sl?5'8' *r^S.rais5sr* , s, aIosMtiilll h.flvU. nless someth~ingz happened aaif^taerr it lie.frft for t+h>e,. office yestveoradusv

nagft whir*h hm miio+ . "

end English# He has asked me t write a

.... b, ssr * S^JS^SS^SSJIS" translation. This ia going tTbe^^C^8 d DOt M

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weather and once had

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UVvy 3"Jt' a' i.nri'l ?0, 1958

Harnv dav, when I returned from Setauket last Sunday evening the new refrigerator wee working. And not too soon for it wee 75 o/o outside vesterdev. Soon I hope to
make the mental adjustment and begin to eat at a more natural level instead of the "in x rom i,he shor a.nd aown the gullet" Pattern. Last Sunday was a lovely sunny day in which to cian UP the rock garden. Most things survived the winter but were in need of feeding! The Kennilworth Iw from British Columbia came through the unaccustomed snow end jye well. Villous 'vsre taking on that lovelv greenish yellow without showing leaves, red bud maples pooping with their small flowers but #aks and Norwav merles showed no swelling of buds. Daffodils and forsvthia. hold promise but no performance* Both Bill and Fred seem/ to shot UP inches in six weeks. This week the UN produced daffodils in solid beds and "na turalized " in the ground cover ivy, some of the more sheltered hawthorne have lengthened buds^but no bloom. The magnolia and forsythia at the south of the New York Foundling Home are in full profusion, while Cardinal Soellman's magnolia is far behind. (I have felt for several years he ought to give them a little more attention.) Thursday New York unveiled its "Salute to Spring" with huge tubs of tulips bordered with pansies along Fifth Avenue and other strategic spots. The bulbs planted in the Park Avenue center
graBS strip struggle up but are not yet in flower. I had aletter from Tracy written
in a blinding snow storm in Berkshire on Easter saying his daffodils hd produced hand somely and many had been used in the church. Yesterday one from Larry in Madrid ending It is cc"!d her#. T> you think Swinburne knew what he was talking about?"

The big excitement of ih ipeek was th4 Museum of Modern Art noontime fire nd the

*?* *Wction of at lea#*. one of the Monet "Water LUySri#t. Because structural

changes for th*> Installation of air-conditioning and springtime rerainting was going on

the smoke and fum^s were especially dangerous, On wo-kman, who unlike his fellows* was

not at luncheon died end some thirtv ftrcmen^ were overcome bv smoke. The staff are

created with wonderful rformance in carrying out pictures into the garden --sow of

which were subsequently scccped uo bv truetcfa and carried to their homes for eafetv,

Elinor Dean Wilder*# office was three floors over the bl*e and as the elevators were busy

taking children from the second floor and the stairway was imrassable by stored material

+.0 be used in the construction job thev wre stuck. Her boss, White, racked up a statu#

nd slashed t^e seal ed windows to giVa them si~. Fvartuallv they ware taken do^ in the elevator. Nelson Rockefeller, chirma.n of the Board, ws,s returning to Ms office from the

museum when he heard the fir9 engines and dashed back. He i said to have snatched a

e-.net from the side of a truck and acted an guide through the building for th* firemen.

Charges and counter charges have been flung about in the cress. Next dav the aged, Infirm

prd neveTN-attendp^-rsating members of the Board turied out for re-^rts and approval of

ri*ns. Philip Johnson, head of th* architectural division of the Museum, "-ho^ x knew

well 15 veers ago. racked, them all with a "~e are all guilty" speech. He explained that

architects drew plans for what they thought desireable and then amended them to cowrlv with

building code and fire Prevention regulations, He was not an architeat before the war,

"uch less when the building was erected in 1939, and oresumaklv spoke for the profession

rather tbafc pe^onallv. The ouaint thing is that the Fire Department

ma.de a routine

chech 19 da's earlier end given them a cleen bill of status. It is interesting that thev

started receiving unsolicited gifts immediately afterward.

Monday noon I took mv staff to luncheon at the Mont d'Or. As * treat fr- Mrs. Chandler, who derarted the nxt d*y, Th lack of organization and Precision of expression in thB memorandum sh" did about th various ster# in her severe1 routine responsibilities rather shocked m- Fa|-tunatel.y she turned it in ee.rlv enough for m to correct if for her to >ecopv. About six-thirty lank too1' me for a drink at the "Ton 0f the Tower" overlooking the UN Par* and the^Eaet River. As the light faded, th riy or became ooelesceni and
1 o,eaneY ?n ir.ice buildings made the** blazea of light. Maria has begun a complicated convae --father, mother and five children each with a musical instrument, Tt sounds fas cinating and will, keer her hard at wnrV until thy go to Oak Beach for the summer, ( i
cll it the Might Watch.) The snow in Vermont is still dee- and the- continue their ski ing askends. Hank XeoV# as if he had just returned from two weeks in the Caribbean,

Fridev nxg^t I dined at Vera.* a alone a"d ara covered, a lot of ground conversationally She had not heard about *>v Indian woman shaker charged uHth ehnn lifting wi n child's rtr- fce/wm. entangled in the f-inee her sa-i. Biff excitement effici-

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This is "Level Devw and a cloudless blue *kv hines on the parde nw blaring down Fifth Avonu* from 6*rd Street south, much to the Aggravation of the shoo keener. They yipped that parades kept awav customers and should either be on Sunday kr begin at the better of Central Park and go urtown. The Mav*r turned a deaf ear on anneals^ and flew off to Ireland. (It seems to me that he has just returned f^om Bermuda or the Carib bean--nice worV if VOU can get it.) Considering the fact that I dictated at the office until after nine last night and hence had much too late dinner, I managed an egrl-
this morning. The ioundrv is out, the radio is back with its b-aca of neTM tubes and several other needful errands done. Heaven knows when the rest can be taken care of a* there was showdown late yesterday afternoon in the office in which I lost. It seems inevitable that I'm to run a BIG LUNCHEON on Ma- ?lst end all mv energv *4.11 & into that and keeping the routine going, The latter will not be eev as a great many yak sessions
have been written into nor book and Fred Nunes leaves on Mav 1* for his earlv holiday, Jr*.
Chandler's successor arrived on Tuesday and I hone will work out well. Her name is Frances Flack, and I can foresee a Tot of trouble on the telephone in our getting eath others calls! Correspondence both personal and business will suffer for the nxt men1;
without doubt.
An executive concise meeting of the FPA Boa** on Wednesday afternoon made me late in going over to the UN Delegates Dining for the reception given by Ambassador and Mrs. *bba Eban to celebrate the Tenth Anniversapy of Israel, Looking at mv watch at fire minutes of seven I said to th person I wea talking with that it was time ty leave as wa had been invited to stay until seven. The nawer was "Not at 11. Invi ^tions have been issued in two w*vae, A whole ne1" gpour of people arrive at seven." Sure enougo, as I went on circulating I soon discovered that the diplomats had been asked -or ,,?30 to 7 and journalists and others from 5 onward. As usual there was ouite enough news, gossip and stuff nicked, up to justify the time and energy expended.

The Russian move of chafing us in the Security Council of risking worid ***** through launching Strategic Air Command rl enes on any sort cf radar warning neliding flights of wild geese indicates either irresponsible charges for the sake cf discreoit ry ue in the e-es of the world or a breakdown in their intelligence system. Even I knew about the checks end controls of the planes going beyond a certain distance fT,<TM base withotft the Personal approval of the President. T must admit that I had taken the view .nd have wondered how, should the necessity arise, Eisenhower could be found on the eolf course in time to rive the command for the planes to go on, Whether ;he Rusa-an Accusation was malicious or based on incomplete information, it would appear to oe a bad tactical mistake on their part, and should do them more harm than their c,eyer ewar, to the American riniet, whose talent seems to have been overlooked here, has done them
good*
Maisi Cash is on tour to check up on accessible members of the family visiting ,wo sons, her step daughter, her brother scattered from Boston to Philadelphia* oho m good enough to include me in this family roundup and we had a wonderful evening cn Thurs day bringing each other up to date. We covered ehough ground to realize that I ougit to go to Virginia in May to carry on. Maybe I can do immediately after the May SI uncheon.

Chill nights and good sun most of the week combined to hold the flowers on tus

bulb plantings and bring on additional bloom with most delightful result, also the

ornamental fruit tr*es now begin to be patches of pink as added Plea^res* 1 now1 being Sundav--ohill end cloudy with promise of the same maether for the next- sevei*. ^

days one can hooe that this status QUO will be extended for a lf6r

cf.

me^t than is reasonable to exeect, No matter if one shivers a bit, After such a a**-*

winter soring flowers are especially' Precious. During the night we iOS. en hour as

Daylight Saving Time became effective. From nor on all travel holds tne -de- azar\

of'moving into an area -hioh ha declined to accept the time shift and confusion reigns.

Unfortunately I failed to ask Maisie if their part of the state would move clocks. How

ever I have mu<fc to do before that becomes of active concern. For example, just when

mv fur coat gets into storage and other winter gear is cleaned and put away are more

immediate questions in my life.

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May$ 1958

Complst candour compels me to admit that all week I have too subtlely I have

resisted the May 21 luncheon and am now in the midst of on in which I have little

zst The Honorable G. Douglas Dillen, former Ambassador to France and Deputy Under

Secretary of State for Economic Affairs has not to me what it takes to turn out a good

crowd on " Economic Growth in a Divided World". But this is it, in the Waldorf's Sert

Room for what T hone will be 55# cash customers. Friday I worked until almost eight and

w*nt back to the office to negotiate a lower rrice with tie Waldorf on Saturday prepare

the time table for the various operation sters, the memorandum for the little helpers to

use in answering the mvriad of questions people always ask, etc. Thursday was made

gloomv bv having to reach two men I had persuaded to go to North Carolina to sre.ak to an

experimental intercollegiate conference of blacks and whites* to tell them that the

affair had been cancelled# Presumably a survey had been mp.de reeulting in encouragement

to proceed, but ^jhen it came to getting delegates the verv people

had said "Do it"

were fearful to or unable to secure college administration authority to send the students..

Either the people in Atlnta who conducted their initail canvass were h, eking in judgement

or t^c climate for intergration has wd> rsened again in the southern states* It is frustra

ting to have put five hours in helping w^th a urogram, and net have it come offI

Mv personal adjustment ot Dsvlight Saving Time has been very poor this vear. Either I arrive at the office at 8t35 in the morning about 9*45, but in either event I am mis lead bv afternoon light and stav much too late. This dispute too manv days with torrents of rain. (There is a great downpour at the moment, but once more bands plav on Fifth Avenue for some sort of a parade. I fear the audience ^s being rapidlv washed awav, ) New York is such fun--now thev have installed oversized ashtrevsabout two feet in diameter
on pedestals at tve busier intersections. Part of the "Keen New York Clean" campaign. I am glad to rerort that the hundreds of artifical dogwood blooms wired on the ginko trees in front of the Hattie Carnegie shop as a. gesture to Easter were removed in time to
allow the leaves to unfold. That small detail had worried me. Central Park is lovelv with flowering trees and shrubs and tiny leaves on most of the trees--this I notired yesterday from a taxi on mv wav to dinner on the west side.

Mv hosts were Peggy and Saul Padover, fellow guests a Mr. and. Mrs. Turner and Oliver Carlson, the latter from Los Angeles. The talk was good and as Peggv and Saul h*d recently been to Detroit, where he and Carlson lived in th ee.rlv 30*s it was fascinating to find that the recession, e^en wit^ the great unemployment in Detroit bears no relation to the
conditions there of the depression. The Ne1- Deal has taken care of that. Peerle stAll eat thanks to unemployment ravments, do not lose their homes thanks to the "small type" clauses in mortgage arrangements, which enable many people to keep UP their interest che^e-es but temporarily stop th* amortization payments thereby extending the life of the
mortgage. In the Lo/s Angeles area Carlson reports PSOPI are still keeping their mutual funds investment payments, although the investment people had feared not only cessation of pvments, but withdraw*! of eouity funds. There was a lot of talk about California politics and although a Democrat Carlson was warm in his comments on Nixon's ability although Peggy badgered him persistently.

Last Sunday night I went for dinner with Maria and Hank. Thev had closed their ski season the Sunday before after a final run down the mountain with rivers of witer also traveling down the slope under the snow. At the bottom they formally shooV hands
to congratulate one another on safe arrival and greed they had better stop while still whole. It was fascinating to see the large familv group Maria is now working on after she had had one sitting with each of the five children and the mother. Since then she has had a sitting with the father of the family, who is the seventh figure. The compo sition is interesting--father at a piano in the right background, mother and two children on a. sofa , one child sitting on floor in left foreground to balance papa, eldest daughter standing at left and another boy leaning over the vack of the couch, A musical instru
ment is more or less attached to 8ach child. The very young looking mother is making the plac8 on an open music score. With other commitments I hope Maria will be able to finish
this before they want to go to Oak Beach for the summer#

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May U, 1958

Yes, here we are agaia witk Molly's machine. Spring is making its appaaranea akd all tke oak traas have tka aarly yellaw groan witk ycllowisk baiga boards at tka and of aack twig* In yastarday after noons sun I did a little more cleaning in tka rdak garden and later beugkt seme ajuga, wkite rook phlox and a box of gaillard. After Rogation Sunday blessings I planted tkam tkis morning, mare of lass in between spits of rain* We hare dissevered some ckarming wkite vial-- c/ lets, vfeioh we samakow missed last spring*

Tuesday a Madison Avenue bus driver and I failed to synchronize --as ke was a real cohboy I want smask against a stanchion instead of into a seat whan he started witk a terrific sweesk, I thougkt a rib was oraoked until I got to the doctor the next day and got my back put back in normal alignment. The rib is still sore but the mind is at ease. The offiee is in such a state of depletion from measles, flu and an epidemic of pregnancy that I simply cannot afford to be out.

President Eisenhower's threat that ke would support in election all Republican candidates who vote for the administration aid and tra de legislation must kave left the concerned candidates troubled or me that hdeepheansdincagmuppaoignnethd evireryowanfsfetrcetnivgtehl*y, (bIetinhgasenleecvteerdseaenmtehdeto strength of his military record.) But before the Republicans could digest that statement, out came the offer to support Democrats vfeo voted for these bills. Does that muddy the picture, or clear it up ?

We ha ye used the phrase "two bits" for 25# and I for one

means two pestas--eatoh worth 12$ canto. X seen tofthSaWvee&.pPi!c!bkabelyd up

a let of odd and not too useful information of lajfceV The next item came gratuitously from a waitress at a big reception, when I was

\s

wx?Tyi

Sooto11 ahe explained that people drank it as it

tthhaini anything eiisnee, %(Trrnue or f*aolsree,ofI witoualdndnsottayknoonw.t)heTirhifseleetads

V

* The oanny Sootb laport Irish whiskey , keep it

/JRSy??M

tbaa 8811 " Oa*o*** to the Irish rich,who haro

i2

as;

aging I ITl

merely pass it on for an amusing tidbit.

u

li ted fan

t spring meanders along witk tulips and but twice in the last week my hard headed build

ing management has given heat. Welcome though it was *he face

us aeiitlleyTM Th,u"rsad"ayala?fteSrnt ouonnnetrhTeedsun broAkseothlirdou^gehkthoef criloinudnsumbbreldll, , nlJ and a ">up of school children visiting the ON burst lt, , loud oheer. Clouds swallowed up this sign of cheer in five mirute*

bu. it was a good omen for two hours later it really did clear After(/ two sunny days, however, we have gone back to dullbicy again, i tone

?;an sety b3! tangerine ha t back home without the heavens open-

luncheon w a!^?*y 1 sbaU undoubtedly have to work on the Dillon

Mavbe there T

a P! S th* follwing weekend to Virginia.

pnoaL ssihblle ifn Lth?isaanevyer0endMinygbdraamlnpnaensds.bo aore interesting than is

hrttiy ~%JLpU (

TlJL^c^ Ji^L^ A<A\ i

oV^V' At-^ May 18, 1958

f'. -M' "

*M; feg^SXlatioart^ttS^roertTn^

- Palio^Fa-SSial oloup*

EJT\52r^l!S%VS3i,. u..* ": * *

meexmg, e

,,++AM-fcion I should have tn the serious develops-

hs not heen r"~si ^ n ^*y Sup9rficiaily the Lebanon affair is probably the most

rtorfce m the wor^d a -g' P jJffffMjjf French creis with the Algerian overtone

~S?ottefS^untri,, had build around theFrench.

No doubt the treatment of Nixon ia haokles but insteadengendere p -

Beem"that eUtoer Washington was in abvsmal if

ScaV-meters thev shc^ld^ave kno^about or failed-gJgSJl*,

s r a s a .^ s t g s g ^ a i s Hixons were being sent into , the Central

,4th hie direct

eeeT\hf mteHouee. X hope to follow the hearings and aftermath with an eagle

eye

"ihen I first heard that Eisenhower had order U.S. Marines and paratroopers to bases tro hours flying time from Caracas, I was aghast. Now X have cooled off and < that order issued in wrath will do ue great damage the world around, 3e vautev of
m t?rialTi,t-aflry.-"traaiinhoinwgotfheforPcreesidcaenntppruevt ehnitsthfaexu^se oi lor^es..."^in"a^n^ox^neri euotton this show enforce may have saved Nixon's life and had he been killed and the President died before the end of his term, we should have been saddled with John Foster Dulles .* Pres.,. . For protection from this eventuality I am profoundly grateful

Fridsv I had a very amusing and possibly profitabe forty-five minutes or an hour
,1+h S<r Leslie Munro, President of the United Nations 15th General Assembly. We sat <. * * ! . -- - j r .
L..11... y. ; w. ;, = =-1,- '* TM ' w, ,,

Ydth "Good afternoon, Mr. Ambassador --for the m^, ,, , p

three hats ae it

parti-Uy risin', to the lesser he mere -Y ^owed a._. -.u. were Ambassador to the U.S., and Permanent Representative

.f'

' w

z

t9fothre.U,Nw an,d in

that capacity was elected President of the General Assembly 1 s Septempe i_i a

Meanwhile the political Party to which he belongs in New Zealwd racdc^a.ed ^

has been warned that he ie oirt of a job as soon ae re

amint8 for him as the first

sgat*ess fut hus^auburn eyebrows,"a "amend (?) in the rough with a big voice and eimilar oP*nion of himself.

vh&j&sxsz' zrsrjsrz xrr;;,v:isistfi rs.ss*.<^ T-SJ^SSSnSfe

r*;: XSK

= irrxx-

ttd-

might have come from Cormnunist China.

Although it has been quite cold and damp, sprin-

la"9"

chestnut- in central Park are lovely My

SwM Virginia

rbavsetraisingaentdtinfglvrebeadekj tSounodpa"eaa.fternoon and a.all .bedi.gusted^if it flowers while ny hack is turned. But the Blue Ridge Mountains should be lovely, so .1 sncvia

complain.

MAL g

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. 7** ^,'A ' aVx(f, "' *<7< rha.^ Ereeport-- typev;riter, Dievee1s

wthoirnkgpT,waottIelnornnggr,ewaSbt eu+et elix 4ttsciiovteeX m tCeSTeWh.ear.lidD.oirlfXtcvoanbb^ollewodokhm8ienonagrbwsoau^atn1ad0l:wilnfe>ewotxld

SSTS'S

UllV%^ol^U fe^sriaxon.

that Louis XVI was^ong too and ;}* J*%$ f mue-t say

on^rafflpf'B^L^^oeln tv,et,nt of the Chairman of the WA Board I thought,

Thursday, afternoon the ^A ^tcV>iL.-- th1genteel middle

birthday party and a love^^cors^

-ones,0 This also

size ones, which I greatly pre- 31 ><* - StoItv' took Fridayoff and

served to my

as a si^ris

se e

ndoff to everyone

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something well ville at midni

ear ght

ned.. by my

The

late afternoon ^ak pu. ,ir. C, - .

I'aisie :shd Jim met me and

wafattecrh, ththeo1ug*hmoinlelyderlievveento^yoZet^e

went

straight "to

b^ecdu,

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I
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was
be

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l

asleep at nine when about an invitation

the for

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ce Iri

teleyh -^ sh A

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in Montana, a lovely with

M* Alas, the weather_was not B??*'

Maisie and I went

iris, roses, peotu.es and J'H iimeheou to "ive the faithful black

sa&ss srsjr%sss

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Sunday afternoon, wnxen I had eir, wu. xuc

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Saturday we worked in the garden, the r:axn

u:p ^"W^tt s

while we were at luncheon! That evening we went to.!*

for dinner and Sunday after obwrch.went heith

of thelr

for a drink. I have he,there pften

tj.eat ls being with

MfriaeisnidesananduJiemnj,eyandthXe-u.'-x, urh. a.ti.*f_.in.!t<he_

'yb.ce.^a-r-u'-itfiiflyl

countryv3,

the
llfe>

mountains and savoring even lui i y

. -

whatit is

It must be confessed that air

hihpton in lessthan an

in Europe. The line wpLdi c r -, hour was all right, but I took a dm

xew

f th

w

y

Eas

t

ern fli

han ght

dled too.

things from Washington to hew ... -^ ,

tut wben j gdhhome

tr&sz AthsealawmaayrsylwleishIithoaudmcpos vseoreudthwith^a bbrorwonwcanpoernbVagnwdaas ylo.veTlyhewbiathg

K'^rLpf iruiL.:. ,, **,

*

for this week

TfeSSt"fa.fteirr-n'roifoinr1aI camSeatuhredraey toFrfainndcamroeuwghitlhy, htheer sfaammeilyth^gs

saJSa-asi

Took tTbo|e to

Yesterday"^

not visited since Olivia James gave 1Westibrook found lady slippers, jacks-m ohe pnlp -- ^ azaleas, early rhodedenrom and be^xttif^i lew 0r

tae .v. ^ the pinetum.

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^%*y " June 7, 1958

It is hard to believe but we have had several T*h<tt-is-so-re.re-es-a-d|tv-in-June dpvs and two of them in succession. It is good to be alive, I have always been aware that these "ideal" davs are few and far between and so treasure each one for itself lest it be a singleton, Toda-"" wa used wisely, if not anorooriate}Yi, First, the much needed permanent, then the fur coat to storage and oh bliss, the ourche.se of the long denied steam iron with Aunt Marv's Christmas check. Of course, since early April I might have had the iron as soon as they gave me the alternating current to make the new refrigerator w^rk, but I never seemed to have the time to buy it. Since November I have been trying to purchase the gray Eaton letter oarer I like, and todav settled for rose as the grey is "#n order"..the writing surfiaae is nice, I hope the color won't seem too awful, alreadv I'm a little shattered, as the box is a nice dustv rose, but by davlight the paper is clearly rink*. Then I went to the office for three hours and feel that at least next week's wo-*v i's lined up and further through the dictation of a couple of belts of memoranda and 1Iters,

Last Sundav we went to Jerry's third birthdav. He wee ecstatic to be host to a "big person's party" the day after having a small frv "do" the dav before. iTust before I left Martha -nd Clave, Frn teleohoned she had just learned that one of the Saturday guests had co^e down with measles. Mondav Jerry and Bobbv were whioped off to get shots end the parental attitude is that this mav be a blessing in disguise that thev may have light coses and get it over with. Hie grandparents, however, are dearly conscious that F^en may go off to the hospital for her confinement leaving two sons convalescing from measles. Time will tell. The doctor's theorv was that since they were known to have been exposed and there is a virtual epidemic, it would be unwise to give them the massive doe, which could back-fire and make them dreadfully ill.

The office has been tense this week with the Board of Directors* meeting which among

other things voted the new budget, allocating funds, which in the face of the recession

we do not have and I am fearful we may not get. At recent Policv Planning Grout)

meeting was talking about the possibility of there being an across the board cut in

salary. Not only did the Board pass the budget, but the next day I had a note from

Nason saving that it included a raise for me "long over due....and some measure of the

appreciation which all of us feel for the grand job vou are doing." Of course, I

am delighted, and must admit that there have been times when I have been Dretty disturbed

about inequities in salary and. uneveness of accomplishment on the part of other depart

ments. Going into the office today creates no precedent. Three of the requests for help

this week have been odd and one very time consuming. Col Dunn of the Military Govern

ment Association through long FPA membership just dumped his problem on me when Gov.

Williams of Michigan wired he could not sreak at their annual luncheon, Dunn thought it

would be nice to have me get a panel of three or four people to talk about U.S. Foreign

Policy but withdrew that when I pointed out that the first Saturday in June would find

almost everyone either booked up with Commencements or out of town. Alas, my guess wa

all too right and I ran through 2n possible people before I got. a substitute. 0 f course

h* had nn fa*, but it is a good audience. Another silly one was a telephone call from

the Embassy of Peru in Washington asking me to run down the text of a speech a former

president of Ecudop had made in New York on May 15 to the InterAmerican Assocsition of

Radio Announceps, so far I have not found anyone who even heard of that outfit, but have

not really worked on it yet. Too bad the call come after I had met Larry LeSeur at a

cocktail oartvf Somehow he did not impress me as he was very upset about the death of

the proprietor of Harry's Br in Paris. Perhe~. I v-vo iised something, but I always

felt that a place to stay away froml Ke ws something of a relief after talking with

George Fielding

who had had rather too much to drink, and awfully anxious to tell

me about his new book "Victory Without War" and how Eisenhower could be a GREAT C in C

of an allied force *r<* a bad president. I have known George for so long that I could

not shed him

I moved from the terrace indoors* A price I paid for going late to the

oarty after the Board meeting and signing mail (as the Board adjourned at 6:45 instead

of 7), On the 19th I go to Albany for the weekend with Aunt Annie & the 20th'to Setauket,

Tomorrow I have dinner with Aunt Marv before she goes to Mohonk for the summer,

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June 22nd, 1958 Setaukvt

Fran*a third son was born Friday night, eight pounds eight ounces,

a big baby for her bone structure. He will be called Thomas &t the requesst

of the tw elder boys. The weather reports were so mixed when I packed to

come here Friday afternoon it seemed best to put in a raincoat and a bathing

suit. Sure enough yesterday was another wet one--the fourth or fifth in a

row. I have managed to get some good work in on the reck garden setting

out petunias, lantana and ageratum plants. But the real work came in clear

ing out a lot of stuff iris, day lilies, rambler roses and honey hucklesuckle

left from the previous owner as cover for the bank. Today is beautiful --

scwliemamrindgryanadirdtecbllaureedskiyt

and a hint "perfect"

of en coming heat. but I'm passing.

Bill has been No-one can remember

when the moutain laurel, with which this area abounds, has been more plenti

ful in bloom. Everywhere I look from the screen porch the woods are fufcl

f pink and white drifts. In fact it is so full that many of the florets

have been crowded off and make a white carpet on the ground. A few days

of heat and it will be gone. I was lucky to have caught it.

A week ago yesterday Aunt Annie drove me to Williamstown, Massachusetts over the Taconic Trail, levely in its spring lushness. After luncheon at the Inn we went the attractive and new Clark Art Institute, built of white . Imperial marble from Vermont to house their unusual collection of paintiigs rare silver and connoisseurs* china. Mr. and Mrs. Clark were discriminating collectors with an eye for the unusual Hor example there is a Mary Cassatfe unlike anything of hers I have ever seen before. Among the 33 Renoirs are two self-portraits--one done as a young man and the other when he was much older. Happily they are hung on the same wall , though not side by side, for easy comparison. "Miss Linley and her brother" by G-ai&sboreugh charm ed me. They seemed fond too of Pissaro and have among many others a small picture on a broken palet. Lovely small Degas bronzes, beautiful old English and early American silver with emphasis on salvers and coffee pots. The things are beautifU^yinSchso--wDnreasnddesn6. lBoovwd,lyChtehlasteai.Meqiusisteenforagmootngtoothtaekres.
J0?* th* President of Williams College house, chaining early Federal building given by ay great grandfather to the oollege. Sunday we went through almost as lovely country to Cobbleskill to meet Alberta and JacK Rogers for mid-day dinner. Their spirit of fun impelled them to give fain"d? the trip was adidfefd* grlaivtyt .leBa"cCkhteor'NsewDYaoyr"k vgeirfyt cIomfGoorotdabtloyseoen tthheem Bnpire, leaving Albany a little after six. It was fine to see Aunt Annie before she set off for the Cape and then Michigan on visits*

w j TlUs

going-away-for-the-sumaer period I looked in on Aunt Marv

Wednesday afternoon between a late afternoon committee meeting and dinner

altnough

she

d o e stnho\tTlAe aBvoea?bdy

at
mot

tohru0n9t6i lCT^ube.s d

aHye,r

tAruunntkM

awdaefl?eeiandeys

to
ai

go
l?

Tuesday on the -Gripsholm" though I shall not see her. Fred Nmes is biok

from his holiday and we agreed that the new records clerk whomTe had on

Jtll US T fhr ^* (Pr thin'

thinks she is perfect yet did nothing

fi! ? i8J- aggrieved. We have parted but I doubt if we have heard

he last of her, suspicious that she has spread a web cf Doison through

from collegeFrg?ird,laanldr1 eadayrainbot tb hekaolfifiicoensa.nd TmoamyosrtraorwtItirynitneirtno^bSae? akrh^.r

TMJoSv

'"T*1"

"* July 14

It will not boee ppoossssiibbllee ffoorr l me t to?leaEvseseoxn,Cmoynnheocltiidcauyt upnltainlnitnhgefoSrunndeaxytoryear.

onday atfter--sometime must be kept for packing and closing the apartment.

^CXJjs?l "^aty June 2P, 195*
H^rvev Pike, lov*l alumnus of Williams College? h^s told me whv the Clark yut their collection in Mlliamstown. It was fear of destruction of their treasures tr' *n $u bomb? Shunning large cities and points of strategic value, thev selected, accessible to many schools and colleges a situation nicely removeij fr^v ker industry transportation importance and other likelv targets, He also explained the aiz and bembmoof qualities of thi cellars, Williamsteam is the gainer. I h^ve not heard w^at tests have been mad on works of art for strontium 90. which I am certain is the cuase of mv increasing feeble-mindedness.

Twice this week I have dined at Vera's. First iwdth the co-head.mistressss of Emma Willa~d School and their Dean, all on the wav to Eurone. It was delightful evening -*lth a lot of good talk, though it saddaned me to see Anne Wellington looking so badfv 'n need of her holidav The second time a formp FPA. cpl^egue and h^r husband were the aueets, and the evening depressed, hr-fch 0f us. Grant has not been well for a year and they came ur from Florida, where thev have lived in retirement for five or six vedra, f-r a change. They had been to "My Fair Lady" the night before end. took -ositive pleasure in not having enjoyed it. Nothing we could suggest inclined, them to tr" something else. When they lived here thev went regularl" to the opera, concerts and. the theatre, I naolTM**Ivsknsouwspiectt.ed I would, not like to retire to Florida despite its favorable tax situation,

Todav mas l-yel? again--just the da? to wash the living room curtains, which sorely needed the attention. Since my ch"r refuses to reach and barelv stoops, it has never seemed yd se to even take them down mvself and Tmve her wash them. Then I went to the hair dressers, bought a little tfiite oioue hat end quite a few other small hut time, con suming errands befoee the household shopping. I have mapped the travel for my hoiidav -non-stop flight on TWA New York to San Franciso nd after a stay there, bv United to Vancouver, orobablv by sleeper to Pentioton and b c> to Vancouver* ere after a stav ~I > Helen and Maw, 1*11 pick UP a N-rthwest Orient flight from Seattle which stone only in Portland and Chicago, Much as I love Visoounts the Vancouver to Montreal Vis count flight two ve^rs ag* left me annoyed at the TransCanada airline, and I rather suspect many Canadians evoid them to if thev are flying to New York. Now to see if I can get the reser vtions I want.

The "Disr^of John Pvelvn",which I We been reeding fo- a ver, -aieed e great mrnv questions in mv mind about England, and the world of the 17th century \ last*'

V ? * ? ? ? Ty f.th R"*wers i n the 3*C0nd volume of the Winston Churchill Hisotrv Of the English Speaking People. In fact I -m en&pving it so much that I ma- en* ur

r:T?1?g ^s^ole^monumental work. No, it does not bother me in the last to start

r \Pon ? ' Which is in Volume 2, I started Mr. Evelvn midstream in Volume 2, which

th^ pnlv one obtainable Brussels last summer. And speaking of Brussels, are

excitement over our building at the Exposition there? The

TP 5? critifirasm that he has dispatched poor George Allen, the

J ?f

\ Information Agency, to look into the orange peels floating on the POO!

-Ml

aV8#UM F^Sd Mnn#9

ther 0n his holidV and thougrt one of the

hnllrtlruJ

colios! ed andS

nroy?ide'rf,ree

lcaoym.mteonrt-e'dan""de

w,re
reet

facilitiekse.enHeofr>eapaorftteedr

tthhaetRuesuscihan

e is

^ro^f the Russian exhibit that even several weeks ago the finish b*a

haen won, off their floor covering leaving a very ehabbv imnression. I wo^ierlf^e

i.aofoi +oV'T 2*** tku?10e of *wign friends as to wh-t would b interesting and

'

s T*

had luncheon v.e^stneargday with a very 3*-=*+ Polish, Catholic lawyer

Ifa.t the t+hhilngs w*hi*cCh,r<>m#o8sf t imUp'reS'ssfeodrhtihmewfeirrestlargelyinthtoislee owaesttaWkeof"omrongtrhasnIteSd,suSd '

^iere is a horrid report that we are to have 27 or28 sunny davs all summer, which is terrixvmg the resort business. Certainly we Vve had much more rain than usual and I begin to notice quantities of flying inserts of unidentifiable variety. This afternoon as I glanced across the street I was conscious of "things" flying lastly at windo?/ heightmads me think of the way flies hover over a rand on a. warm summer afternoon. For the most par* I have been too busy to notice the weather and even loose track of the calendar.

Setaukrt--July 12 , 1958

Grateful as I am for the use of Molly's typewriter, there Is always

margin or rollar difficulty for ma em a borrowad machine. Plaasa baar

witk mechanical, as wall as mental, shortcomings* Om Independence Day

I assartad my parsomal fraadom by paying bills and otkar ckoras in tha

apartmant during tka meming and tkan want t tha offica for five kours

lovaly solid work. Tka vary kind nigkt spperintendent passed tha time of

day witk ma as I signed into tka deserted building and tkan like a swaatia

turned on tka ooiling system for tha whole area of tha building, so I kad

air conditioning in wkick to work* It helped materially! Saturday moan

ing I want out by train for luncheon witk Martha and Clave, who than took

ma to sea Fran and the ;aew baby. He is a very good infant for although ha

was pining to go back to sleep allowed various people to hold him while tha

doting grandfather took pictures. Ha was dressed in yellow pants and yallnr

trimmed white skirt. Although two weeks and one day old his father had

parted his dark hair on either side and swept it yp into a cock's comb offa c

--very smart. (Tomorrow I'll go in at neon for his christening.) Than

ma over tha Cap Tree Bridge to Oak Beach to spend the nigkt

with Maria and Hank Harris* Fog was beginning to creep in" so wo settled

down at once to cocktails n tka sun deck and were soon driven into tka

sunporch by the chill wind. Maria has finished the big canvas of tka Ckapin

tis Pr*PariS to enjoy tha little house at the water's

v1? axt day w kad a suPrb swim and picnic lunch in tka #### few feet between the duok-board walk from tha porch and the sSat water, read

the Sunday paper and detective stories. Despite the fact TWas almost cold

sitting in the sun, it was evident from the atmosphere tka t New York was a

Jungl. and I weakly abandoned ay private plan of going bask.

With considerable trepidation Hank and 1 set off at tea ainutes of sevea

+-!? >a0.rnin "d TMust iave b*#n

Wead of the big long weekend

office

a?ta8h:2n0;-- t,&owenre

or w" aad excellent time and thanks te ay levely weekend I

he dropped as worked busily

at the until 7:50

ve-v ill 8uaulated aail at heae that night was far froa good. Helen is rp,eIct+eLd Hto take IfrothaeVVanancoououvevrertoGePneenratiloHtooaphpaitsalb, eethneabnaigndhotnterdafinroaI hthade aecxhed

th.

h .

A* 5 ?

riB San Fracoiso 19 ooapletely booked Bj^the ail registered I was to tired and te depressed t de> any-

and

aslP thinking how much I had enjoyed read-

Tuessadaayy II mmeennttiioonneedd t the forme"r fPluretsiindgenat soaf FthaestAiamee"r.icanByUsn"ievrer^suitcvkiwfn

I Yas witkut a place to lay ay head in San ?r"ciscl! he urd

of

town

la0
booking

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prothduecSedherreastounltchanadint.haAt nteilgehpthoInwe rcoatellfitvoetho-en ir-ior ut

S hhadr ma!d^ e ia fmf is'ta?ke and? ba ol omkoesdt md ei dfon ro tAoupgeunst. 20T h tahn5 rkouh ge^ ha v 2e5natIaidlTi chdoefnotarint ehde to hl eef l r

night duty could do nothing but leave a note for th^ day crew and^hu?Lv

ss/irsst-.s1 they arranged for ae to bo at the Palace 21st through 25th with the ?n+h

nLht'c^r/H*8111^*. 1 have Tary

bhat^bere will be a Sunday

aloi^ in the week X have picked up my transportation net witfernt kfirto

p to the oculist and the speotaoles on ay aoso.) Another lucky day I celleoted $21 in robate on my last year's charter flight t Europe*

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August 6, 1958 Banbury Point

PURELY PERSONAL.

Never a dull moment' there or here. Mrs. Petri seems dominated
by desire to gain strength to take cobalt bomb treatments. Last week to seak to move from one room to another - now being readied to sit in a chair.

Among the excitement here was a murder three miles south early Monday morning, yesterday a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman shot while
interrogating a suspect ten to twenty miles north, not killed but man
escaped. Radio filled with warnings of 'lock your doors", "give no lifts", search out buildings and keep your car locked". As Mrs. Dewar and Pat and
I went out after dinner we found four horrid looking characters playing cards on blankets near a car with a BC license. This about half way be tween the house and highway along the private road which twists up the hill and around ravines and through 1he orchard. They agreed to go when we told'em to scram. However we returned to the house, phoned the license plate to the policeand accompanied back up the hill by Mr. Dewar and Hurtz (the gardner who carried a rifle) set off for town with the knowledge the car had gone. However, returning about 1:30 "the car" blocked our way much closer to the highway, only two of the men visible on the road. Quick ly they got in and pulled up so we could pass. In doing so I noticed a
dark spot in the road behind the car but could not tell when they reached the highway if they went north or south. At the house we found Mr. Dewar who had been exhausted by a very hot afternoon of shopping in town, had had little rest from the near hysteria of the German gardener and wife( chambermaid) and the stoicism of Chinese cook and his waitress wife. At one point they locked Mr. Dewar out of the house and eventually when I got to bed at 7 AM I discovered the eager beavers had not even latched the screen door from my bed room onto a sun deck which has an outside stair to the lawnI How I laughed Ml

Today as we went across the lawn for luncheon served under the pine tress, I noticed smoke on the side of the mountain across the lake. We
decided itwas a new forest fire - some 400 in the Province - and wondered what set it. The fugitives, our young things in the car, seem as a bit of glass.?or the Sons of Freedom' who are first class arsonists. Alas we heard on the three o'clock radio news confirmation of a report Mr. D.
had gotten on the phone - an RCMP plane scouting for the fugitive had crashed, killed three policemen and set the firel

These are skeletonized sketchs of some of our excitements!

After we had the Sunday good report from the hospital, Pat got on the phone and 25 or so people came to tea Monday. We have had people for dinner and cards, etc. I think I'll go to Vancouver, Tuesday, but
may go to a Garden Party at the Lt. Gov.'s at Kalowua on Wednesday and down Thursday.

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August 30, 1958

It was soineiMng cf a scramble to get off to the nor-ston WA New York to ^nw

Francisco flight for - holiday after the three day roller discission at^eex ?t
was desperately hot there and the Griswold Inn , two houees built in 1790 o2rec2d

by e covered walk, pleasant but only .partially modernised. R,,t T Md7 \T a

flight leaving a brilliehtlv clear Mew York, nothinv to .e*. x,, + x

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^ wh'JereU Ju7H .ie O ahd ^HT al w^ereSM srenT d?n*a2few+J"dpvJqol~ mho * Tam/Mawaer,y a ~.jndm^s^n-rne *
pleased mp, el so the tSt that Sen Jose was once the capital -fSj^wSa T1"" 88rd*n

a lovely day at Berkeley, San Rafael where we had a d^k 'dth SlhS ^frS^Sb

in tie srendy new jouse with a breathtaking view of the Bev and dinn^-r n+ +hn &i+ "V""

in Sausalito with another lovely view of S*n Francisco T h T ^ r , a"

in the Presideo, the loveliest anay post ^^ ^11^^^/^%^

Steed, of barren pare.de grounds. I was luck" to see en rf, nf Fddd,,t r

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comnander of the Western Armv Defense between Spokane and Sen Diego, I did

Command and not begin to

srseenedas lml utchheopf eM onl!ettnTohr oppin^ g about

things I wanted to xn Sen Francisco, /ton, Derar telenhoned me there that Box.2 p.+ f
we, gri.eri.aelY ill with oencer of the left lung and could not t on^td ^o/ -*ioh

was a great shook to me. T knew she was in the hosoital for tests but the !?'l22

I h~d from her mentioned workine in hr e-rden

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earlier,

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her * *< her oxygen tent.

G-rdn P*rtv for PHyro u

/ f ^trv for a long weekend to po to the Victor?*

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ws 9o cure 'that HeV,, could nrt'live^h't ba'' TMd fr+'h to the hosc,it"1- Th" doctor

ertvireinftrihoonu^rcs inv.h* he y, iei2, 2're2n2ln area ttax.k^i"n"g*with othsrfomremabnedrsMoaf"t'he^familv#1

kniing d2gs He2n 2

traffiC int Helen'S r00"-

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be >XM and the 0"+ f the room Douglas had a

able to 00^2, h2 tlTit 222t2L r2ea'o7dandrt

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I otammed the oar door

weeks. Much of 2e wkSnf 1 did Zt J? **?*>} {*' "T9ral dW end difficult for

dknoeowto1r.ofevlit,,eththee!

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2ofaL2 xT!? T seere+'Orl1 duties to

Mary

le"dS 803 re1ativ88 and Helen. At the

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part of mv oo-oeesions but I

i! I" t lone weekend there eo I only took

so,,e ^At as a res2t of hen1 2"

1Wlen 1 flew11**"* Helen had gained

from growing and durin? th d_'t8rminatin to take the treatments to hold the cancer

reacted the rodnt of being lifted into

^ ^ ta th Caulfeild house Helen

alone on her feet, 2nd dlfrensl2 22 the2L2 During our absence Marv was sunnor+P^ " ni^1'

nC* ?tandin for a oaent thou^i retaining the o+her two.

from San Francisco with her family

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August 30? 158

British Columbia was celebrating its Centennial, recovering from the visit of H.R.H.

Princess Margaret (#10 left Vancouver in the early hours of the day of mv arrival), a

drought which followed an extremely mild and dry wilt er, a heat wave and Vancouver itslef

gay with the Centennial Festival of song, dance, films and drama. Ths 250 mile drive to

Skaha Lake was hot, since we did not start until after one o'clock. After we had crossed

both passes (4,200 feet) and reached Cooper Mountain (a big mining operation now closed

by the world drop in the rrice of copper) the power drive on the Plymouth station wagon

went out of whack. We coastAd in neutral down grades, braking when necessary and crawled

up the next in Iw gear. Although it **s after six o'clock we were luckv to find the

Plymouth dealer still in back of his closed shop and he repaired the malfunctioning button

Tt was good to arrive and find the daughter of the house, Pat, and George Paine, the re

tired doctor ^ho spends his summers with the Dewars to greet us, and the evening coolness

beginning. Most of the time T

there it was about 90 during the day and in the 50'0

at night. Hie house is built on a point on the west dide of the lake and so gets what

wind there is since the surrounding mountains push any wind into a north-south direction.

Mv breakfast appeared whenever I rang f*r it, luncheon was at 12:30 was buffet under pine

trees between the lawn and the lake, tea at four in the north porch, drinks there at six

and dinne^ anneuneed at 6:30 for either the dining room or the terrace overlooking the

lake. (Meal hours have been advanced bv ftelf an hour on account of the "men on the place

vho are fed".) Because of the hot sun Pat and T usually swim at five and no matter if I

only have one drink before dinrer, The first afternoon Pat went to rest after luncheon,

Amv was too keyed ut> to do so and we plaved a new card game called "Spite and Malice".

During which she excused herself from the table to take a nitroglycerin pill (both she

and Marv carry them all the time.) About fiva Pat sent to swim, although I promised to

join her I decided on a shower instead and en route to the shower room heard dreadful

noises from Amy's bathroom and found she, still feeling discomfit, had taken a big svir

of a to-be-diluted gargle instead, of her stomach medicine. Rushing downstairs I was

luck" to find George Paine passing in the drive and sent him UP "bile I got drv mustard

from Seto in the kitchen. After she had taken that George thought cornstarch would also

be good and still clad onlv in my nyl^n negligee T collected that vhile he got on the

phone to doctors in town for a stomach rmmo. At some point Dougl is appeared from his

little two room house by the lake where he maintains an office and sometimes sleeps ii$

the bedroom. He prom^tl" telephoned t^ Vancouver to get the nerscrdntion and antidote.

Stomach rump cancelled and Amv refused to cancel the arrival of people who had been in

vited for cards after dinner, I was une'-s" both about her and. because I had not slaved

Samba for two years. She bore UP well and I won $1.42 to rav great amazement, Ths fifth

r>eel of the dav--ceffee, sandwiches and cake is served about eleven^

Sunday two s-'eet old girls,^!$jlntvres, whe h-ve an orchard on Middle Bench over Okanagan Lake came to tec, could, get their car started, Lutz the German gardener (iShose --ifa Ulla ^its on take too) tried to fix it but we ende1* by rushing it into position so Amv could rush it with her car. Innumerable attempts failed, finallv the two bumpers
caught together and we had a time separating them. We phoned for the the Mclntvre's m*" to c^me and tow them home. Mv guess is that thev had let the water evaoorate in the radiator and thev froze piston as wn discovered the water very low. The telephoned report on Helen was encouraging so Amv decided to hove a tea on Monday, and. Pat got busy on t e tele-phone issuing invitations. Over twenty prr e people turned UP the next afternoo
manv of them I knew from previous visits and had a wonderful time as it had been too hot for anyone to bother with parties and few of them had seen ore another in weeks. At noon we went three miles south to the Kaleden store to implement the party supplies which had
c-me b the Dewars* truck from Penticton in the morning and found that Anita Budde had been found, bludgeoned to death in her picker's cabin that morning. The Mounted Police with two men being taken in for questioning stopped at the store to ask about the cashing of a check for $4.81 ar.d as we went home bv a different road be passed the site of the
crime arc rot"5 oed a tracking dog and more RCMPs. Tuesday a Mountie tried to question a
siispePi o.t Summerland about 16 miles north and was shot in the neck and "hand and John Morrison witha "I'm sorry to do this to you" slipped away into the bush. Then the search *as reel-lv or, radio filled with descriptions of Morrison who had himself been a nicker
in Simmerlanl orchards the vear before,and was credited with being partly Indian, born in Ontario, capable of changing his appearance quicklv, a. surefcb woodsman, etc., etc. The public was warned not to give lifts to hitchhikers, to lock UP at night, etc., etc.

August 30, 1958 oage 3

Y/adnasdav n luncehon I noticed smokeacross the lake half w*y UP the mountain and

Amy remarked that the smoke looked "dustv"* We groaned and fe3t that here was just one

more of the 400 forest fires burning in the Province, which had led to the closing of the

forests to lumbermen and in some areas to cambers. Later we learned that a RCMP plane

had been following UP a clue that Morrison was on that side of our leke and flying low

"been caught in a down draft and crashed killing the three Mounties. People all over the

olace were reporting things, other districts were sending MPs in to hler co^e, the radio

gave steady comment and the populace really go* hysterical. That night we went in to

play cards with Hazel Khc*, who lives along with a good manv trees and shrubs around the

house, She confessed that she had slept with all doors and windows locked# On the ?/ay

UP the almost mile long private road from the Debars house to the highway we sswa parted

car drawn up near a place where gravel had been taken and four very unattractive young men

playing cards on several blankets. Amy and I got out and invited them to leave, one was

acouiescent but another very stjjLy one was for finishing the game. (Personally I was most

afraid they would start a fire and as that portion of the property is filled with ravines

nd uncultivatable and therefore unirrigated hillside quite out of sight from the house

it could get a desparate start before being discovered.) We turned around, v/erct back to

the house, telephoned the MPs giving the license number and follov/ed by Douglas and Lutz

in another car set off again. Amy carried her hunting rifle and Lutz his. Of course by

tte time re got there the boys had gone. But at Ii30 on our way back their car with doors

on both sides blocked the road much nearer the highway and opposite a gate into the or

chard. Awkward moment in which we agreed to rush by if they did not respond to blinking

lights, which they did. On account of grades and turns I could not see which way they

went on the highv/ay, but did note a dark spot behind the car on the road. Upon arrival at

the house, Douglas came down in his dressing gown to report that he had had a bad nimht .

Wh*n ha and Lutz had. satisfied themselves that the

thugs had gone off toward the

highway and not along another road Amy had advised, he went for a 15-ttle stroll to enjoy

the peace of the Point. When he wanted to enter the house he found he was locked out by

the very jittery wifle of Lutz. With Oriental calm Sato thought the whole thing silly as

he admitted "Bossy-man" into the kitchen. Next his calm was broken vhen George Paine*s

son came zooming in to see his father and was furr.ous that Lutz was cut brandishing his

gun. (Perhaps here you should understand that George sleeps and reads in a large room,

over the boat house end even further removed from the house byt quit close to the lake

are two other small houses were the Chinese and German coyPie have their ouarters# There

is also a three room bath and kitchenette guest suite over the combined garage-laundry-

sewing room.) Douglas had just gotten to sleep again when young Paine zoomed out. If he

had. more adventures we did not listen but told him our latest, whereupon he insisted on

dressing and going UP the hill with Amy and could not be argued, out of it. Off they went

with rifle implemented bv two large flashlights. I stayed for by this time Pat had gone

off to bed end was alone in the house aid would bo terrified if she caufit on to the es

capade, as she did. Going UP to my two room suite I was amused to find that with all the

looking up no-one had bothered wfcfch the door from my bedroom onto the aundeck which hea an

outside 8tairway practically from the driveway, though they had locked the other door

leading into the upper hallt Collecting my writing material I waited for news from the

road--No sign of the boys but the spot on the road was vasoline evidently taken frcra the

five gallon can kept in the upper orchard tool house for the clee-track. The next day the

orcv~ri foreman swore they did not keep gas there anymore, etc.

Meanwhile Penticton got fuller and fuller of people who had come for the Peach Festival
and Thursday we took a picnic luncheon and went in to see the Scuare Dancing in the street anp the Parade. Very elaborate floats bearing not only Penticton*s new *nd old queens with retinues, but those of other towns. Some coming from the states and the secure dancers colorful in elaborate costumes, often the man's shirt matching the girl's fuller skirt. Th^t afternoon we took Amy into the train for Vancouver so she could have a day with Helen and help her divorced son Douglas Adair on the trip back in his car with his almost five year old twin sons for their two week holiday. They arrive Saturday after we had started dinner with a young woman rho l^ter in the eving had to be token to her parents in Summer-
land and a trailer with D.A.'s speed boat. He is mad about water skiing. The twins and I made friends t^e rBxt day. Duggie, eldest b?/- four minutes is a chatterbox and very sweet, X^n is painfully like his mother in l^oks and tem-oerment and gfren to streaks of meaiines3.

September 6, 1958

G

The second -reek In the Okanagan followed much the flame Pattern as the first,--

_ _ ,, T>eoi5le. for dlnne ,

n^ i ^ -for

cnrdse

hot b-"" dev, cool at newsnaue'rs tiered

nigh general.lv> rumors x off on him somewhat after

p.

#-ere Morrison wee hut both radi^ ^

^ twioe falsely reported that hie

:reflumably reputable orohardist

0C,.sei,nR and food taken. One night

house anc. ;s -

, -Tfn -een the southwest corner of Okanagan Ls.ke, th.s

and beaters and 400 motors responded to train their headlights

sitKasrisr^:rss^rs.'s*^"' rod o broadcast for .
=vFr Me.

through it cerefullv, Everyone had his own theory and

Vd his house entered j . .nnvinced h*r had c-ossed the borden near Nighthawk and

onthe lsth d^5

or-of^heluddelurfer3

H. was -cognised by a. Horde; Patrol

Offife off dfv, Claimed to be working at en orchard Just north of there and '^esd did

h-ye a satchel containing smong other things **"

Tonfte t sherriff sent fT


sss nrtrs ^.,rad I lost tfok of the storv when Canada started extradtion proceedings as he

T^ad U a f

p In the Washington hospital he let drop that he had been in

have known Morrison, whose real name turned out to ^teyens, in ifans^

her women friends in Vancouver are supposed to be living m terror x

,, ,.- TM.isrsrs" and kill them too. rr

It all gave us plenty to talk about.

migrated to Canada a: the tur ^

, .

d their children to school, to

They refuse to accept the sovereignty ^ . {,eliaVe in peace and love, but are first

record births, deaths or marriage^, e

y

.. There was an epidemic of

class arsonists and love to blow things UP

^erSa fs captured,

bombings and a few firss during my s,a' .

^ goote to check their outbuildings

the Mounties alerted all persons _ivmg ii nd be on the lookout for fires set

i ** w th" Douvv,abors Amv reported B^bury life

this to os on the telephone an

,

or mv hot be sleeping there are a

as in addition to the six buildines whersoflc e may

-

nothing of the all

good many sheds and tool houses in connexion with tbe orchard to e

x left

torortont pump house to get the lake ot.ro,the orc.^.rds. ^ ^

i.y were

th9
constructing--one was killed e .a zn ,nw a i tarnvd ttohesa-vSeenhsisofeFyre-eseidgohmt".staArftteerd atnhe~e~toorrypthe *

JI,,,

fs taken to Vancouver to ^aoeced became a martyr

^imnjnoocceennt^ yd.f9i.rr tfe b.P~rdovbieneon,aatlta8cnkdzetd

FbY ed9 eraplaidGoovfernRmCeMnPt,swwheorehandegctia ,.ng <nth -

of the Doukhabors to effect a; mass

+ rtntion

Gnd held finance the

return to the USSR. Canadian tax payers to pay the



greater freedom

rSlement in Siberia, where the Doukhabors are sure they will nn. f..

than in Canada.

The variety of diversions with the twinsp^ben she l&tdclran table, hod her

r&f-S2s^^sS^^ ,,v f itV pl Primarily UUa took oare of the boys ,an< - W W in phens

^ ^^^f w

vfctfifA:hTcste Klr*with0thI1aaohdr?o^ng added'o. new r.oe-ange-interest. As

"friends of the familv" th*v

4.

Sept, 6, i958--rage 2

which Douglas paid them, took their o-der? fYoa

'Tt

skied with Dongas Adair twice 7^^!! T *5

tirae ehb9'ts against foreman, swam and water

got back to the fruit aid generally enjoyed 'WITL fT *ile the regular nickers

time but wonder how euscessful it was from the Derors ooihZZ!lswT^ rf * "'onderful

me in a

'T 1" ^ to in*uda

Smith house, -here Princes! Ifergaret he^st^d^ ,^^0? ^"*+1? f BrUC9

Pontoon Bridge in tie world across Okenaeen flvl 71 .

, L , pe" the lonS83t

uo 40-45 miles, an expedition which somewhat wilted out^artv'finer/7 T fsy and W9

on the lawn under some nice big; t^ess H-?O WRMAW. + 1 J - J.?

^ were received

take us out of the crowd to the patio' "hereZ w^, ^ 5?"f" ** Ms nayal aida *M

was president of B.C. Electric for yearly-great friendf "f Defers) end that e.s soon es the 90n bn^ iL*. l t

T ^ *Md (he bosses and the

tea. It was delightful not onlv to see "the

**' '<sn/:r* and Mre* Ross would join us for

when I was at Banburv. nd sH doom in +5ie ah d e

' 'lad s't^5red overnight once

ing, though diet!nctly exclusive! We c^ld nofsvMd 1

al ong in the oueue but had nocZcTtoZ,Zl7!i '?g at oenie we *"*' 3aking

sfifiJgg ^z.v^trz\v r* i

SSSS

Lrth; ^tfh^ta
a counle of aides to greet the ^2TM*? the

&ss
"fh! '

-i^r^T^^rt^efleX^i ff

Shffad^rrtlon

snet trek a rrimitive

fTM TM r' ed^0d"fr9"

know who",

She him

choadllerecftuasesdsotoon

brtie^e as ^

tStTwaS had mada w

Ufs in

wilderness,

^ described and said she would telephone

no telephone! hTSi!! handed ?!

estimate. In the wire she admitted there was

Am. K.A*5*?111in complained that all too often the lnri rlLSS?!! ? !!T? difflcu^ at times. He

it had not my

mbeoetnhearp, pIrovamednaontdmivt8*ig*9terrrettTylievgrup!enlli^ng+v,

Shekel d +1

hingS 'M *** 0ohedule * VSr and over R?ain

after
"x am

her In olSuSnTtr^^r

b^th^^onlrTl ?^ fet^Ter

boss when she was in who is suite heavy.

charge

of

tho

ffi+80

Prie?"

*

A j.. .
Anu3lug that


93 should

R

ne was *iQr

later many Ross,

saZ&ssi Si

?s .f ri s sri-a, r.n.tr;rs:; -i^r, *; -t ?- - <.* s "

^.,,or

rr^TiririTC'^'Sir.:

5lSJTtZ r 3T;. 1 P?rti0Ulerly 9nJoyed ^

Browns as he had b!!n In a TO

was fiillleedd. SwSithTlioSvSeliyt things fZ rom the Far "FV as6td, mGoestrtroufdetheBetliymeaa t-ed ^upsanfo.r ltheae ihno!etne-n

He?C?l-^Iinrh2S

t0 hSar abUt h8r SOn's

in Ottawa and again enjoy

progress that' nothin-e5 Z "0IT e*^'tl"s haPP9n9d but were so encouraged by Helen' e

hoaoital visits

?" Vnportant- sinr'e mV reivrn the news is spotty, even as

addressed bv Hsl ao

Z V r8ceiV a letter "ritten and even the envelope

tST lSe n iUng

Ld
Md

'y-aPhraii!

caus1ingcnae

gfroTM od

tev
deal

reopf orratiinng.

th(Aatrreivninxg-ratwvoshdoawyss

aadfhteersioTn-se

be-
ft

September 6, 158--page 3 m sre,,t a week in Vancouver and arreted for Helen to have a W net in her room.

of

, , itsM"dfrliiegrh, t

ch,ooonleerWd.Bay,s,.v,

MWAvt+fni though_ -tio

lust under eiecht hours end New York was having one

m e tte^dihtyujm^ idity

by

cont^ ras^ t wam s yhig^h

end I have hs.d
frem tfc6 air

F anrtexttrhaeorbduisnawrays

""rk'ed

by" a

C. adilUc

ddrriivveenn

by

a

young

bov^ , sitting,wehvereer

I could ob-
here frcm

servo well, X gave my ea

^ humidity with low, threatening oloude

m Z m- M X Ind aTelndVn to the Guy Russell's for a fondly tee for

t^avfthS r%^cS"^tb out and do eomewriting, it was good to eee all the adult members of "the family so quicklvs

^ office -resented all the customary riles of things to be gone through but we

Tie otiioe tbs^^s .

...

f

3*3 Volume V. Manv people were

% ^oeHeaSr &S the ISice was closed in^ohange

for our working on Columbus Dav, and 1 went in and got an

cf^dtat.cn

rn ^nd swimming.

h0Uday'

Now it is Sunday (7th) and I shall soon go over ^r^oheon^it^dunt Uary.^o

returned from Morfhonk this week.

about the situation in B.C.

Tner

MA to t e l l Rov. Yesterday several

leaving my watch to be repaired.

although Ell* went into Texas an*

I

Qf thingB Douglas eSreoially asked

a

'

-ours we

aro.,,+ ftrwnds

nn^ shopping? including

.

P q r e l l o f r e - h u r r i c a n e w e a t h e r ,

^rto See vast quantities

> - , . ,__i ,,j pjjin valleys and henoe

ofr,f:th0^vhTMi^!iVeneeBm^TM^nrabout ^'e distinctly uncomfortable and I looked
tz ?% - irs;*=; ^ a r l t H : - - a f ernoon of writL a n d

*&

G-i

rho^In^f^TMingfa^%^inr^yy The adventures of Blum, for 14- years their Ambassador to
isrzfsx

lj\o?" "rl&fo

" D rinfr

days of

ttesXi

sssfer

if tsSS2

show and. witnessed the manner in vdiich deGaulle s ad - ~

into the front areas and arrlaud, vhile those who do not favor him are le^^^

the outer areas, where their complaints are

hea^Vifth Republic. She is

the September 38 referendum will result

to'holiday there,

completely sold on motoring in Europe as the happiest we

f\ fib / !\dQ<u> _ (-JlijlUn _ I

, /hm-*/. Aoo-W //*< , i_> \ ' "'Vu*^H^n_

'

I

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September 14, 1R58

After luncheon with Aunt Mary lest Sunday as T was bringing the conversation to a close we heard a clap of thunder and I suggested T had better scramble home, we looked, out the window and found it had alreadv begun to rain in torrents. She admitted she was uneasy in electrical storms so I stared another hour. On the whole she had a
pleasant summer, but is glad to be at home again. Returning here to collect an umbrellajust in case--I went on to tea with Ruth and Ror' Cox to deliver Douglas Dewar's many messages to them. With everyone back in the office, things are humming. Thursday the Indian Finance Minister, Desai, spoke in the ground floor auditorium and then the select few went upstairs with him for refreshment and personal conversation. A very strict orthodox Hindu with special personal health problems we had milk and orenge juice for
him. The Euphrates Bread I suggested for inclusion in the cocktail tidbits, made a great hit. Afterwards T. went up to have dinner with Vera so we could support one another in listening to Eisenhower's speech on Quemoy and Matsu. The new speech writer is less
than brilliant in my estimation. Perhaps the long end curiously slanted background was wr.se for the rank and file, but the speech left us more scared than ever. His pushing off the whole responsibility on poor Jake Beam in Warsaw to work out a solution was to
me a great disappointment Beam is a fine career diplomat and an expert in communist matters, butt The leaked story of Admiral Felt's ^rotests to the Joint Chiefs of Staff about the wrongness of our policy is omnious as one can only conclude that some one felt the situation so grave that he called attention to this reaction of the man on the spot. The latest Eisenhower story* When asked "Mr. President, what are you
going to do about the Civil Rights Bill f" Af'ter a puzzled frown he exclaimed with a diow if impatience "WhyS I told Haggerty to pay that a month ago,"

Ten days ago when Vera was in Paris she had an hour with the Foreign Minister, Couve de Murville who said he would like to speak for the FPA during the last two weeks in September wb.ile here for th# opening of the new UN General Assembly and talks with
Eisenhower-Dulles. We cabled the dates we preferred and asked for his preferrence and
receiving no reply telephoned Paris on Friday. French situation too critical for him to stay as long as planned, and anyway he felt he should not creek on-the-record in these circumstances -- no doubt fearful that something he might say would be construed wrongly about French attitude on Xuew-^Matsu. Anyway I am off the hook on doing a big Party
in much too little time. However he would still like to talk at lunch or dinner to a very small group intimately--six or eight. None of the French here know anything gjj out his schedule for Washington talks. Tn fact it was only yesterday that the French here telephoned during the few hours I srent in the office the sad news that he could not
accent our cabled $#$#$#$$$ invitation--and I did not have the heart to say we had already had the news PA hours earlier. It is interesting that tie French Ambassador in Washington had cabled his su^ort of our invitation.

Two weeks ago Frida^ X ordered a few towels for Dolores Russell at McCutcheons and was saddened to find that in the move from their five story shop on Fifth Ivenue to a
single ground floor store on East 52nd Street they have given up rugs, furniirue, women's clothes (which I liked) and yarns (which I have used exclusively for years)
Then I discovered that my gift had never been delivered and hrd to go in yesterday to raise a little fuss. It is a mad situation--the store is stocked with very limited supplies and all orders are filled from a warehouse. So far they have not worked out inventory coordination and when the warehouse is out of stock, they reorder. I printed
out that I should have been told originally that at best delivery would not be made for a week at best. I susrect poor administration and the superior clerk told me that there is also a union fight about jurisdiction over several staff members who belong to one union and are claimed by another. Meanwhile the customer suffers, and I for one shall hesitate to buy there in the future.

Two Jewish holidays this week will complicate life, Thursday I move from one
four o'clock committe meeting to another at six which is scheduled to last until ten, Friday I go to Setauket fcr the weekend and may or may not be able to write. I'm still writing notes to the Pacific Coast to reorle who were kind to me, which if only momentarily reminds me of some delightful times there.

/fa~

Xa-Viy,

^

JuJjt\. 'Z-ts* -^Ac - '

f ^*^.<2

September 21, 1958

It iQ I dl,ii and dreary day ahich fits my mood precisely, Thursday, though the wether was good turned out to be even worse from the standpoint of "yak" sessions

than anticipated and I started to cou#i, (My assistant Fred had had a cold all week

though gamely came to the office. I suspect that when I am not about he usee my

telephone. A trick I must put a stop to at once.) When I got home about 9*30, merci fully earlier than anticipated, I had a small temperature and suspected T rouj.d not

go to Setauket the next day. Sure enough I didn't but remained at home, '/hen not

on the telephone to the office and Molly and Jim, I most slept. Yesterday I thought

of writing but did not do that or read or listen to the radio. r'y mentality was 4p

to no more than playing my right hand against my left in seven*! ro,Jnd

'Srp*'*e ^

Mal^c*". I may have drawn some conclusions on the best mechniau o~ pla>. Mo ,,

suggested I go there in two weeks, so I'll try to get my "flu" shot on Friday in case

it has an after effect as it sometimes does,

Mondav night I called. Maisie Cash in Virginia because I had seen a notice of her

aunt's death without mention of when the funeral would be and thought^she might be

UP for it and would stay with me. The funeral had been that day and in view of the imminent Cash departure for Pakistan she did not come UP, 1*11 see them this coming

Tuesday just before the" go to Idlewild, She and Jim will only have a few hours in

Hew York, \fter' that I'll go on to a reception at the French Embassy here to meet

the Foreign Minister. Their parties are always crushed, but I usually see a lot of useful people, so I'll go. Great problem--what to wear* The forecast is for werm^

weather nd their airconditioning is newer adequate to the number who attend, Tnaian-

University has just conceded that in most parts of the world the weather has been

"unusual" end admit that weathermen are having a hard time convincing the layman that

the atomic bombs are not behind it all. However thev do not explain what is the cause

of British Columbia experiencing "one of the warmest and driest summers in a hundred

veers.", nor why the British Isles and most of western Europe had the wettest June

fifty rears ^fh the trend of unusually heavy rainfall continuing, fr.'.c

o

has been wet with Benghazi, capital of Libra have rain in the midst of its usual five

month dry spell* Wisconsin had a freakish localized drought ?.n the sou.tr who e

surrounded by excessive Precipitation elsewhere. The water at Atlantic beaches has

boon colder than usual since mid-Julv and Japan's current "rainy season" is as much as 75^ below normal. We had torrents of rain early in the week and the las; three

d^ys h-ve alternated between a steady drizzle and a steady downpour. Wednesday evening

Vers1s plane was "layered" over Idlewild for an hour and a half before they could land

although they rere scheduled for LaGuardia. When th-ev did finally rut down she steeped

into water up to the ankle.

At ">ast I h-ve been given "Parkinson1 s Law" end em greatly enjoying it. I think of so many People -ho would 'Injoy it, vut noting that my corv is the tenth printing suspect xhat everyone else has already enjeved it. "Beautiful Bets1* Bonaparte ^ gave me some lovelv escape, when I could not bear to think fo tha office and i s robl --part of whish are seated, in a struggle for newer which would be amusing if it were not so patently disruptive of necessary and desireable progress. At least this I can let a"d.rl -long over mv head, or under my feet, just so long as I do not become involved. It is bad enough to have to worry ebnrt Quemov and Matsu I The latest^Eisenhower story
c^ncsme two English tourists who stopped a Democrat in front Of the b/hite House an asked what that "building was. He replied "That is the tomb of the living s^dier.

Sorr** to be so Pedestrian, but now vou know how I feel, (Of course I shall go to the office tomorrow.)

TL.L^/

-TtJL <,

k^cjv^y TA.awj, fW&t^

September 29 1958
Twenty degress makes such a difference in comfort* Friday ever.inr X sweltered at half past nine with 83 o/o and high humidity and tonight it is fO, clear end dry*..so fine that I took the 5t21 train in from Martha and 01eve, -here X had been overnight in order to wash my hair and write this* Hitherto/ it has been much too d^mp and hot to contemplate ? sh-mpoo end I*ve been too pressed at the office to make an appointment at the hairdresser. Whne X wrote last X had flu* though I only knew I felt foully. lionday the doctor made the diagnosis but adde^ despite temperature (Mine not the weather*s) I might go to the office late and leave early. The leaving early was the hard r-rt, in fact too hard to be adhered to. Wednesday evening I telephoned Martha/ X was really too low to go there for the weekend, but she told me that Clove had phlebitis and had been home since t^e previous Friday. X did a double take and went there yesterday afternoon. Five years ago he had the primary veins removed from his legs and left calf phebitis bothers me. However the doctor is please^ with his progress and put a plastic "boot"--really an adhesive bandage up the knee on him, told him to stay at home another week with the leg up though he no longer ha3 to stay in bed. Xf improvement continues he mil be aliwed next weekend to go to Charleston on his holiday# Last night we had torrents of rain and I played "Spite and Malice" with him. Today Fran brought her family for mid-dsv dinner and later the Colbys came for the afternoon end supper. No doubt he wi.ll he ready for a ouiet day tomorrow.
The early returns on the French referendum surprise me only in degree of aypraval given de Gaulle. Sixty rsreont is what X had expected, the eighty reported in the early returm may not hold up, but shows more unanimity that one would expect from the individ ualist French. This Sunday voting habit of theirs reminds me that they do not h*>ve regu lar catchers at the rolls as we do, unless de Gualle h^s changed things, but catch the first peorle who turn ur to vote and impress them into service for the day. Casual, I call it.
Tuesday X broke away from the office for an hour to see Meise *nd Jim Cash off from the air terminal on their Pan American flight to Faris on the first leg of their journey to Karachi. As mi^ht be expected they were both numb with fatigue with the peach harvest, D*~vid* a wedding and all the business of preparing for a two year absence in the oast month. Although the aisignment has lost none of its allure for them, I was sorry to see them go. In the course of the evening Max telephoned from Montreal to ask me where the'"' were. He had just phoned Crozet and was startled to hear a woman say "X am Mrs. George Washington, Mrs. Cash has gone to Pakistani" The house has been let to friends--he is an ex-Foreign Service Officer.
Sir Leslie Munro came in to see me on Thursday "d seems to have lost much of his bounce. Perhaps the round of official parties has gotten him down. Also no doubt after have served for several years as Ambassador of New Zealand both to Washington and the United Nations and for the last year as President of the UN General Assembly he may well realize that having worn three hats at once, it is something of a let-down to have none at all. In June we started out to get 15 engagements for him. across the continent. Now he is hammering that a dozen constitute a killing stint. When we began he was to have bean on his way back to New Zealand, now he is going to stay here. This informed us in two days of very hurried collection of documents, affidavits and schedules to rersudde the Department of Justice to give him a non-diplomatic visa. He was not exactly gracious about involving us in this without any warning. Personalis Ifm rather fed up vdth the mn. This is not just induced by my general "lowness" I doubt if I have had temperature since Tuefkav or Wednesday and gradually the quantities of extra vitamins are pushing me over the hump. It will be nice to test my restored disposition on my little helpers in the office tomorrow..it has been something of a struggle this week for me to suffer their stupidities gladly t

Neat Friday I hope to go to Molly and Jim at -Seteuket for the weekend postponed from a jeek ago. It is sti.l amazing to me to find the country green anl lovely --none of that
tired, browned off appearance of grass, plants, shrubs and trees so apt to dominate the September landscape. If the^e is good weather next weekend T shall be hanpy.

TJt,

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' (' October 4, 1958

'

Mollv and Bill met Jim and me at the Stony Brook station lest night, and poor Bill guessed wrong and dashed to the fron.; o? thefar'we were in. while we used the rear door and he missed greeting us the instant our feet touched the platform--a rather moreiaportant incident to him than to us. ft. ail shook our heads sadly at the weather prospects end bravely said rf.ll, we shall have fun anyway" and agreed to sleep late this morning. T our delighted amazement the morning gave promise ox being a good dav as indeed it has been. Perhaps not as dry as one might wish, but nevertheless a sunny, windless day without clouds, >e all 1 sleep late--by the time Fred appeared for breakfast tnere we^e three names on the blackboard for him to telephone . Molly nad a s.iipme..t of bulbs, most of which we have gotten into the nice moist earth. Last weekend I was intrigued by a folder Martha had and still mean to order some more. Aconite and guinea-hen flowers (Fritilliaria) sound too amusing for the rock garden to be missed. Hope I Cc.n order them in time to get them into the ground;

The dogwood berries are lovely and some of the leaves are turning. The sumac is red, but everything else holds its lush green . This morning I was enchanted to find a great many clumps of Indian ^ines in the woods. Not that their almost sickly white is pretty ^ut they have always interested me and I do not remember seeing thai thrusting up through the de*d leaves since I was a a,.id.

One more or less experts to nave people generally eome-away-

at-the-seams after a long, hard winter. But I am

^

the amount of siokness by which I m surrounded. My assistant anu

I both still hack, here Molly and Jim outao me with

oughi3.

Cleve was laid up with phlebitis for two weeks and Wednesday Col

liad an operation in Georgia for varies veins, whioh involved

"stripping" out his primary system of veins from aip to a.iKle o

the ri*ht leg....a tedious rather than dangerous operation, "bich

Cleve had

legs fine years.ago. We ar. wonderously

we all have a second8ry set of veins built in to ,#ke over in cas of need. Martha reports that her bTOther-in-lawhasunexpIhin,,d

swelling in his legs and her uncle has just had his veins stripped.

I'm inclined to think that the extremely damp summer has sometnr g to

do with the colds and flu. My only explalnationfortheveintraxble. ^o. stronium 90. Italked with Thelma in Marietta bo oh the initio

before and^the night, of Car s operation and found that

it beautifully, though he had a bad period coming out of i

^

tic When he t^ied to rip off the bandage until and orderly and his

special duty nurse got him under control.

The tension and backbiting of the well known rat rate had scae

special impetus this week with a Boa rd of Directors meeting. Most

> ,,a

t our so called "betters" were not m the usual mood

of (^nthusia sm and interest which so often ma rks tne firsu meeting

after the su^.^ After that sort of a week itwas.sp.ciallygpod

hfl ve some time to poke in the rook garden, admire the growpn 01

the lantana and plant a lot of spring bulbs with Molly.

DR?n

Ire all fine and have been in and out with swarms of friends . Bill

is singing in the ohoir now , seems to enjoy it and has a verj

voice! He may turn out to b. the musical member* of the family.

-453 /M^t

7^-,

Aaiu^( ik^^, October 12, 1958

Happy Columbus Day to you, and a beautiful autumn day it is. I had not planned to go/ out this afternoon to see President Eisenhower* bux cars are already parked into the . curb instead of along it in this block--so I may. The radio has been filled for 24 hours with news of the beyond-gravity rocket and now the West Germans chide us for havL ng an nounced we were trying to do something vhich this test will not achieve* They probably have a point that it is better to proclaim minimal goals and then be happily surprised if they are exceeded with a "well* we had haped to do better".

Two weeks ago Maria and Hank went to the Clark Museum at Williamstown on my recommen dation euid were as delighted as I had hoped. They spent three hours and plan to stop in ere throughout the winter on their way to ski* Maria has a special passion for Renoir snd was entralled to see seven or eight she had not previously encountered* At dinner Tuesday night she explained that Sterling Clark had had an inferiority complex about his brother Stephen and strove continuously to exceed anything Stephen did* So, when his brother started to collect pictures and other art objects, Sterling tried to top him* We agree the motive may have been dubious, but the result is splendid* At the studio I saw a very interesting self-portraix Maria did out of doors during the summer at Oak Beach. She is wearing shorts and dark glasses and painting from a large mirror has made herself appear left handed, but I like it very much* There was also the beginning of a portrait she is now engaged in of one of Consuela Vanderbilt's granddaughters--a, lovely looking blonde* We fear that the vary modern gown she wants to be painted in is a poor choice* Maria hopes to get her to decide on something softer and less angular and without a huge stiff-figure -distorting bow.

Larry,who is entering a hospital in Lausanne today for an operation, has come up with a lovely abbreviation "FPARR" -- while difficult to pronounce is usefully^descrip tive of the rat race qualities of my job* Incidently it nas hit on all uu,Tne nigh bl.is week for advanced assininity. For months we have planned to have a 40th Anniversary celebration next month, which will also serve as the kick-off of a big fund raising campaign. Nason has decided to "involve the board of directors" and as should have been expected they have taken more staff time and come up with fewer results than if the hired hands had been set to doing the job. Tuesday morning there was an entire staff meeting at which Nason knnounced there would be no luncheon on November 11* Afterwards I had to ask him if he meant I was to release the reservations I had made for the yValdorf Starlight Room and the Aston*s Ballroom (double dealing necessary oecauss the Board Commi ttee could not agree whether they wanted a program to attract 1,000 to l,600^or one which would command an attendance of only 600 to 800). Yes, I was to squirm out ox both hotels* Friday afternoon while I was on xhe telephone to a Persian diplomat who was telling me he had been summoned to Tehran and needed to get out of a double date he had accepted from me in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for Thursday, October lo, I was /urgently called to Nason1s office with several other people and told that the November 11 luncheon was on/ again* The original time-table I had charted called for sending copy of the announcement to the printer two days earlier* Needle ss to say I went to the ofxice on Saturday to try to keq? next week from being too horrendous. Incidently we v/ork tomorrow in exchange for the Friday before Labor Day when the office was closed, though I workdd* Also we^ are expected to work on November 11 in any/case and get the day after Thanksgiving off-- and I have every intention of giving myself a lovely four day break then I

A man I know recently went to Beirut to the American University there and reports that the University has managed to keep aloof from the political and military mess there and despite the largest freshman class in history have had to turn a?/ay many promia ng applicants. He feels that the presence of U*S troops was beneficial and humane in effect merely by being there* The men were courteous, well behaved and won the hearts oj. almost all* One officer told Ben that it is easy to get men to fight, but the largest thing in the world is to get them to a place "just to sit"*

Pre-parade parking builds up --I may break down later and ^ see how the President looks in as much as the official reviewing stand is at the end of this block* I suppose he will approach it from a car which wixi pass my door* Rationalization--I1d get some sun ana nice fresh air in so doingl

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October 17, 1958

I hope this switch to tinted paper will not be too hard to take--we are out of this grade of white and new white is horrid. If there are more typing errors than usual blame it on my current thumb trouble* The last week in July I closed the car door on my own thumb one night whan we were particularly disturbed by our evening in the hospital with Helen, Now the nail is hanging by a shred, catches in everything and the plastic bandaid I have been wearing for protection as well as cosmetic reasons has given me a nasty rash. The last few days I have worn a very thin white nylon glove.on the right hand. Odd looking but much better than the finger cot on the rash* At midnight Sunday Amy telephoned me that Helen had died* Poor dear after sixteen weels in the hospital and a gallant fight she is released from her suffering* As Monday was Canada1s Thanksgiving the funeral was at two on Wednesday in pleasant church at Caulfeild, St. Francis~in~the-Wo<Lod, With the time difference 1 went at five to St* Bartholomev/'s and read the burial service and the hymn Helen and I discussed one day in August. "God be in my head, and in my understanding; God be in mine eyes, and in my looking; God be in my mouth, and in ray speaking; God be in my heart, and in my thinking; God be at mine end, and at my departing*" I've known Helen for almost 40 years and
in 1926 went to Vancouver to be her bridesmaid.

Finally between eight and ten on Tuesday night after having been turned down by a dozen people I landed the substitute speaker for Bethlehem and worked out how he was to get from Washington to Bethlehem 36 hours later arid alerted the people on the^ receiving end where to fetch him and general instructions for care and feeding of this stout character who agrees to squash his plans for Thursday and Friday morning in crder to help out* The warm, humid weather we hav9 had all week has not contributed to one's zest in coping with these emergencies* In fact the week before I just "chickened" out of Prince Aly Khan*3 reception* It was a dis3piriting day and the crowd at his last party made it physically uncomfortable and in the heat it would have been horrible* Furthermore I just could not face the Fakastanis on the day their consitution had been set aside and a military dictatorship imposed* Bob Clifford, who phonedme in the after noon when I was wavering, said "Oh go and have a good time* Indians or Arabs would ; e crudied by such a situation, but the Paks will carry it off*" I must xind ou;, ii they
did*
Isn't it impressive that we new, have a population of 175,000,000, though I often think it would be nice to live in a smaller country where one had a chance to know more about decions and the people who make them. The lack of clearing oetween Mssrs* Eisenhower, Dulles and Nixon is confusing enough without further conflicting views from other members of the administration. By the time the Democrats have gotten in their two cents worth, my feeble brain does not know who believes what, if in fact by t. ev day they Btill stick to 7/hat thayannounced three days before* It is. curious that so tew people know anything about the arch conservatism of Rockefeller's running mate or Lieutenant Governor--h6 seems proud to have consistently voted in the state legislature against all education and social welfare bills* This seems quite contrary to cue Rockefeller idealism and broad humanitarianism, I wonder if when Dewey arranged the slate poor Mr* R* understood what he was accepting*

Robert Valeur was the opening speaker for the Series Anof the Off-the Record

women's luncheons on Wednesday and was brilliant on "France under deGaulle"- This group

has grown so in the last several years that it has been necessary to divide them in half

like an ameoba--but it means that I have to find them sixteen instead of eight speakers ,

unless I am lucky and get a good many who will speak twice on different days* Robert

came early and stayed late so we had a good talk* While I am happy for him, I am sorry

that this is doubtless his last year as French Minister here* He has already been here

longer than they usually leave a man in a given Embassy, but his move wall probably mean

an Ambassadorship and that would mean a great deal. He means well but be does em arrass

me when he talks publicly about my having "discovered" him when he taught at Columoia U

but then I soften and on parting receive"the double accolade?* H will be oack on Wed

nesday to repeat the lecture. I went to the office today to try to get a speeder for the

November 5 meeting and failed. Meanwhile I have begun a flirtation

could

mean a giant project with 15 Ambassadors in April/ Almost wish I muff

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Octber 2&~L958

Oh my, what a gloomy day this is- The plan to do an errand for Douglas Dewar , buy a hat for myself and" several other "on the town" errands has been quite knocked out. The second flu shot on Wednesday is giving me just as much reaction as the first and of course with the heavy humidity and torrents of rain gives a splendid cough irom the good old post nasal drip. It sounds anti-social but I was glad to have a Telephone a few minutes ago calling off a luncheon engagement, It is just as well that my last
season*s black velvet hat is bringing forth many pleasant comments from those who do not realize that it is the old hat worn hindside front this season I Naturally I can never resist telling those who mention it what I am doingl !j

One difficult, and only those who have lost a right thumb nail will ever kno?/ how difficult, phase ended on Wednesday when the-hanging-by-a-shred nail was eased off. For the clinical record there is now one third normal nail, a deep indentation and a compensatory humped up third and the tip third plain quick. By hopeful pro gnosis is a complete new nail by Easter,,,,no idea when the slight pins-and-needles m the
pad will cease,
Last night at quarter of twelve my assistant, Fred Nunes, telephoned me that he was greatly upset, felt he was not carrying his full load and that^out of loyalty ~o the Speakers Bureau and respect for me felt he should resign. It is quite true that*
he has not been doing all he should for the last month and that 1 &ve frequent./.;*' had to do things which he should have. I tried to calm him down and said this was nothi^ig^ to talk about on the telephone at midnight when we were both suffering from Friday-fat,imSf and promised him a pyschdgfcric hour the first thing on Monday morning, loanwhile T have drafted scrae outlines which I hope will give him a sense of my desire GO help and in the long run streamline one of our operations and ultimately ease my lot,^Some how I must get him out of the horrid habit he has lately fallen into of interrupting me to repeat in too great detail routine suid inconsequential conversations he has had, I trust I feel brighter on Monday than I do on Saturday morning,

Last weekend I had a real brainwave for my November 5 speaker day secured Paul Niven who has just been sent out of Russia, The USoR thinks that CBS
has been unfeir to them and closed thds radio news gathering office, ly lacaes are
enthralled with the idea--I hope he does not have "mike-fright]' in reverse when con fronted by 150 women, Monday night I had a peaceful dinner alone at tie C-.uo anu then saw some extraordinarily beautiful colored movies of Turkey taken by <;eil Douglas. He began with the remaining monuments of the succession ci ancient oivi^iazaulcus an ended with most spectacular shots of jet planes flying in formation. In oeween vhere
were fascinating landscapes and amusing close-ups of bazaars with their attract/e wares and interesting shoppers. Needless to say it was all most synthetic -,o oux "staunch ally" with no mention of the rather bad financial plight the Turks are m.

During the week Judith Lis towel's nev; book "The Golden Tree" arrived. Either I

was sicker than I knew at Garsington a year ago when I read the typescript or it_ ae

been completely rewritten. I still think she_has made a mistake in writing fw to

quite distinct markets in the same book, but l like it. As her royal*4.6s^g

educetion of her young nephew, who was held hostage by the Communists in Hungary *

eight years, I hope it has a fine sale. As there is only an English edition so far,

T think I shall send for some as Christmas presents, which woulo^ certainly be

than giving John Wheeler-Bennett's book on King George II,

Already, a

S window displays of Christmas gifts. X can't hoar it, I reosived last year still sit in the big glass howl to be cneckad against the list.

Ne* Friday I have bean invited to a reoeption

Hellenes" by the Greek Ambassador to the UN, Af<,er it 1 jra - -

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Melly kas beem pei emougk t# let me use ker typewriter# At tke meme&t it raims ami I write wkem I had pluiei te eemtiaue yesterday tahfeteruanedeemr*stsankduilnkgptlhaanttinhge#andBiIllwiilslacstoionngdaossolmeeetkheiuntgftoorgaetwheeartksheoruwl&dtfict the rain be persistent# Would that I had finished the planting when we returned from early Communion^ As it turned out X did not some until yesterday morning # Seldom travelling by daylight I was interested in seasonal changes--the oaks are largely russet, swamp malpes bare, Noway either green or yellow, willows and honeysuckle sitll nicely green# The low bush blue berries scattered through the woods are bright red# There has been enough cold to discourage summer flowers from continuing to bloaa, though as they had not had a really deep frost some valiantly oontinue#

Queen Frederika of Greece was charming at the Friday reception, her

fresh and her smile warn and easy. She looks too

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of the bored-stiff- daughter , who received with

her and I thought her gray-beige brocade suit-dress unbecoming, but her

hat was a lovely tourqouise and helped the toted effect enormously#i The

Pierre ballroom was only pleasantly filled, so it was a good party from

my point of view, opportunity to talk with people I liked as well as those

I don't oare for but should be pleasant to. (I wore my tourquoise lam

sheath with the black hat as my hair is too far from a shampoo is show to

the extent revealed by its matching "hat")

Going down Fifth Avenue to Penn Station yesterday I was not as dismay ed by Plummer's window with a backdrop of Christmas ribbons supporting glistening Christmas tree balls as I would have been 48 hours earlier# Friday my still-somewhat-mixed-up-assistant five Christmas presents for me when he was overtown on an errand of his own# This slightly raises un moral about the too rapidly approaching December 35#

Wednesday night Vera and I went to see the Ceylon National Danc?s who came to this continent for the Vancouver International Festival# It was amzing that seven people achieved a program of such beauty and variety N.M Guneya, the leader, is so revered that Ceylon has created a postage stanp with his picture on it# With the end of the Ceylonese Kingdoms, which for thousands of years had supported the hereditary profession , these distinctive dances were threatened with extinction# Guneya estab lished a shhool in his village to continue the training# Both his son and daughter a re in the small troupe# She is delightful and wore a gar land of "gems" around her slightly atilt jet black top-knot, which gave a gay and appealing note# The Kandyan folk dances were gayer than the more ritualistic Buddhist temple dances# The most spectacular were the fire dances where the two men who performed them thrust their hands and arms into torches burning with coconut oil, then held the torches under their chins and finally put the flames into their mouths# The similarity of sense of humor was striking in a mask dance from South Ceylon, said originally to have been created to divert an ailing queen and to have been successful that she forgot her malaise, We chuckled or laughbd so
much that we must have echoed her amusement#

The death of the Pope and the election of John XXXIII has brought so much of interest to attention that I have not been able to keep up with i t all* At one point I bemoaned the lack of Boy Scout training on the part of anyone Inside the Slstine Chapel to make a proper smoke signal# Fortmately I was able to listen^ to the voice of the new Pope the evening of hi s election and liked its quality# My selfish pleasure at reoeiving "a plen ary indulgence" was short lived when I discovered that it waw only good to shorten my stay in purgatory by a few days# I had hoped for something more immediate --such as eating steak on Friday V

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November 7, 1958

Yes, it is only Friday but X have half an/1 hour fhd thought: lt_woyld te^t&ll to make a start as I must spend most of tomorrow in the office on t..e details o- _ ,,ne .a. Anniversary doings and Sunday is first for rest and letters in what ^^m^lf'cn3una trip to the hairdresser is not squeezed m tomorrow, 1*11 have to do it myself on ounday afternoon. The attitude of the "little people" in tne office goes worseand uorse. Vy pride prohibits me from Degging them for after hours work and not one of them has volunteered, hhnce plenty of overtime for a couple of upper echalon people and me, thgh Nason skipped out Thursday afternoon for an Exeter Board meeting, which hardly seons < A business to me,.said she bitterly!

0> After luncheon on Monday my two little handmaidens--the transcriptionist and the

combination file and record clerk waited upon me to announce that they were

giving

two weeks notice--hardly that as the next day was a holiday, so actuaily it as

working days notice and the personnel director was out owing to the death a his fr.ther.

ijher. I commented that It would have been decent or them to tell me they were job hunting,

'MiereuporTthey bath ineisted that the jobs had fallen in their laps and were embarrased

that I believe them. Actually they are not great losses, though it is a nuie^o-

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to break in two new people simultaneously, After seeming more his normal self last wee.

vr-d has now sunk into the doldrums again and I simply do not, have time to feed his ej> -- result he rolled in today at 1:20 after I had sent one of the male c3e rks over to his

house to # see if he needed help--his only explanation was that he was so depressed e . ad

or, slept well oecause of an upset stomach and so just stayed ouv. No regret ana 1 rear

I no longer trust him and certainly doubt that ne will last long. : T seem to have wounded

him deeply when I told him he must never call me after 10:30 at night,

Wnen '$ saw all the people at my polling place Ou ruesday, who had crept out of "beds of rain" to vote I was sure that Harriman would not be elected. I really was neyei very enthusiastic about him, and while I think Nelson Rockefeller is a fine man with splendid
ideals, am sure that he is, probably unwittingly, the innocent in politics and will con tinue to be lead by the nose by Dswey and the Republican machine. I. was car to me that Dewey ran the nominating convention and put across a rank conservative as Lt. uov.a man whose record in the State Legislature is consistent voting agams, u.l bil .s for education tr social welfare. During the campaign my blood boiled wnenthepaidradio "commercials" for Rockefeller gave him credit for having secured social million people of zhom one million were New Yorkers, I ran into Mrs. Isadora Labia m the UN delegates lounge #M Tuesday and mentioned it to her as ^^"-o^thecampaigning for Harriman in Harlem (and elsewhere; to see how many of the men c. .estreet had fallen for this. She admitted many had and tnat it was alee, oh-- a--. huBband ore in a position to know the facte in this instance, far Detter than i. 1 iad gone over to the UN to see Sir Leslie liunro and had to decline brandy at 11:30. He had had a fine time making hie speeches, but found it fatiguing and was taking -,k. orandy for medicinal purpose!. Nationally the Democrats did rather better than -F^ted, but probably in "off-year" elections the party out of power has gained ever s i n c e -16 of Madison. Somehow the Republicans do not seem to be finding much comfort in t t.

Also on Tuesday I had a letter from the lawyer of my landlord advising me they pro

posed to demolish the three top floors of this building, remodel them for

accommodating more than the present number of tenants. It invited me td get out before I

was shoved. I'm not very upset as I ton sure Isabel and Sandy Clark will go .

having just spent $4,000. on new walls, floors and redecorating. The end o. next week

I must speak to them about it. my summer holiday, (My char did

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for a couple of months, never being up town when they are open.)

It is amusing that Rudolf Bing has fired Maria Callas^from the Metropolitan Opera

and the Dallas Opera Company proposes bringing her and their

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several opera early in January. Leo Corrigan, who seems

a year

ment to be kind to New Yorkers, is said to have a personal income of .,75 million a year.

I note that he refers to an opera performance as a "shew . More tun.

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Best begin vdth the correction--on Tuesday I learned that Corrigan, whom I mentioned in connection with the Dallas movement to Give-Callas- a-New York-hearing has no great fortune himself He is merely a front man for that arch reactionary Hunt, who is reputed to have a $75 million a year* This item was picked up during the 40th Anniversary initial doings early this week* Doings which 'will continue during the program year* Things were too thick for me to attend the Board of Directors meeting on Monday afternoon, but through changing at the office I made the Founders Dinner--a nicely sentimental occasion with pre sent and past Board members their spouses and believe it or not at least half a dozen of the original Founders. Tuesday we transported the people attending the day long Conference in chartered buses to the Waldorf where I had arranged tk seating for 465 people* There were so many events requiring registration that this had been a difficult task and there were rather more goofs than I care for. For example Mildred MacAfee Horton was to be at the speakers table, in the morning I had a note from Nason'e secretary saying 3he would not be there* She was scratched from the seating list, yet she was the first p rson to turn up in the guest of honor room for a glass of sherry* Some tactless person had already told her we had not expected her and I had to sooth the ruffled feat/hereof the wartime Commander of the WAVES* and get a place card back for her* Senator Javits did not show up when it was time to move into the Sert Room end. when he appeared some ten minutes after the soup had been served I started to take him in through the crowded room* It might have been a week befcr e an election in which he was running instead of a week after one in which he/ had not been a candidate from the number of,hands he had to stop and press* The progress took at least five minutes. However the luncheon made the first page of the N*Y.Times tie next day and I suppose I should forgive him.

My little transcriptionist found she had to go to her new job and Friday instead of working for us, but the Personnel Department found a dream young man as a temporary to 7/ork until the post is filled. I hppe it will be possible to resist an official disinclin ation to my desire for hie permanent secretary* We have selected a new Records Secretary, who comes tomorrow and will have two days with the old one for break in purposes* Fred Nunes is still uneven, and I suspect his heart for a reason I cannot determine is no .longer in his job. I have neither time nor disposition to drive him every step of the way* Last Friday he and I had a two hour conference with the American Council on NATO pebple and it is evident that we are going to be deeply involved in a three ring circus culminating in April* Dinner probably on April Fools Day for over a dozen Foriegn Ministers andAmbassadors to the NATO headquarters in New York, and then many of them travelling in teams across the country, plus a great ground swell request from "little organizations" for NATO speakers any time from mid-March to the end of April. The Advertising Council of America is turning loose their whole mechanism on NATO for six weeks, involving Presidential Proclamation, radio and TV, full page ads in papers, editorials, posters, car cards for buses and subways-' the Y/orks. I had hoped that if this came off I might get a quick trip to Faris out of it to lay out guide lines for the Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors tooting about the country but this now seems most unlikely*

Yesterday I had some blood tests made, bought a blue Robin Hood hat and went to the ofiie for several hours quiet dictation, largely o basic memoranda on the NATO project's three levels. In the evening Edmund Wilson1s critique of Pasternak' s "Dr. ghivago" in the current New Yorker fascinated me. He began by pointing out the inadequacies of the Pantheon edition translation while admitting the difficulties of the task* The difference in syntax between the language automsticsdy calls for paraphrasing* To illustrate he says s a 3ect2.cn descri bing a Y/inter day begins with a ter/se two-word sentence thai means something like $The weather was struggling to recuperate," This comes out in Pantheon "The weather was unseason able"* Query? Do I learn Russian to get the whole beauty or settle for V/ilson's very long review and skip reading Pasternak--should I ever have time?

In October I wrote 79 letters here, maybe in the next six weeks fewer will be written and the Christmas cards addressed* Larry Karris has completed his Lausanne convalescence and started to drive to Madrid as the snow moves from the mountains to the valleys., uudiih Listowel arrives six weeks ahead of schedule next weekend and has asked me to deliver the silver, china and other oddments I loaned her last year. The s5Jver h d better no polished today in view of recent defections by the char-who hates the job of silver and braes anyway.

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Friday evening reading some of the letters of Lady Diana Manners and Duff Cooper written during World V/ar I befcre their marriage, I found a nice bit from her --"One needs liesure to enjoy the weather*" I feel the same way and have decided to stay at heme the lovely bright day and not go to the all day conference of the .American Association 6or the United Nations. In the first place I spent three hours again dictating in the deserted office yesterday--this time about the January 9 luncheon when we present the overseas correspondents of NBC, and secondly did net wake up until ten this morning , I have a firm rule now--no alarm clock on Saturday and Sunday and an hour from my bed to the Hotel Biltmore v/ould have been a scramble! Another bit from a Madrid dispatch in the Herald Tribune this week reported a Spanish Government new rule to the effect that all employees in official offices must spend at least three and a half hours at the job on every working day* If I could $#$$$ wcrk a Spanish day, there v/ould be time for the weather.

Although on his autumn golfing holiday, important ney/s can be gotten to the President

Hov so with Mr. Dulles while ne is a*t Duck Island.*.where ho and Mrs. Dulles are roughing it without running water, electricity or telephone. He requires a complicated combination

of the Canadian lighthouse keeper, a boatyard man on the US shore and a hydroplane pilot,

and no doubt an involved message center in //atsrtown, M.R. One cannot help wondering how

our allies regard this during the Berlin crisis. If he likes Martinis pe rhaps life at

Duck Island is made lively now that they

come in little plastic bags ready to be

snippeo. open and consumed. So handy for Martini lovers to carry in the vest pocket or the a purse.

Oh Wednesday Charles B, Marshall, former member of the State Departmen t Planning Staff and more recently political adviser to a succession of Pakistan Prime Ministers said some rather harsh tilings about Fak5.sta,n to the Off--the^iRecord luncheon and curious dissimilarties between the thousand miles separated East Pakistan and West. It does seem unfortunate that the capital is the 1b SS politically advanced <r conscious part of the G0v.n\,ry frem which most of the leaders are drawn. Later that day Niven telephoned that 1 would not speak on Decemoer ICth to the second half of the group ]/{as had been oreviously agreed. Personally I am not sorry as X did not think he had much new to say and. he,d not
bother to organize that in a logical manner--but it is a nuisance to have to scramble for a replacement.a task X must really did into tomorrov/. Niven did not uoll the nicest Russian story I have heard recently...First Moscow woman raves to friend "Isn't 1ne new seven year plan wonderful?" Seoorid.."Is it? How?" First.. "Oh yes. My husband, who ^ork in -oat department tells me all about it. Don't you know that by the time it is completed every Russian family will have it3 own airplane?" Second... "Really. How splendid* If we cannot get butter in Moscow, we can fly to Minsk or whereever there is any for out butter. That would be lovely."

Thursday J. agreed to have luncheon with the director of Foreign Ne\7s and the director of Public Relations of National Broadcasting Co. about our January 9 luncheon at the Waldorf. There was some pressure in the office to include Rowson and VanSlyk from TFA and i pleasantly capitulated and waited until thet morning to reserve a ta.blo at the Ken's. d'Cr and phone BBC that it v/ould be our party, not theirs, and about my two companions. Come 12.20 x learned Van Slvk had.not appeared in the office and asked his secretary to call his home, wake him and tell him vhere we 7/ere. Rowson v/as in traffic court and sent word he would join U3. After pleasantries ard apologies on my part at the Mont d'Cr we get along with drink and then food --Rowson arrived half an hour late having left all his money wiin the judge and vhen the check was presented flubbed even with my passing hini the necessary sum so that the NBC senior paid the bill. Van Slyk arrived over 45 minutes late, just as he had a year ago on a similar luncheon, what goons I have to associate with! We did manage however to "get the short on the boards" and accomplished all we should have. The NBC Public Relations man in a lighter (?) moment asked if we'had heard the slogan for "Brotherhood week" ..."Bomb tne Church of your Choice". If that is wit, maybe all the goons are not in FPA.

^ast Sunday night I heard the Danish National Orchestra and liked, it again in Carnegie Hall as well as at Tivoli, summer of 1957. They handle the strings magnificently.

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December 3, 1958 10 p.m.

Haying just finished my dinner after the second eleven hour day at the office in suoosssion, it is silly to start writing now. But it is uncivilized to go be bed right alter dinner and i am in such a silly situation that I really want to share it. Perhaps

cne best way would be some telegraphic chronology. A week ago V/edensday, the day before

Thanksgiving, Fred Hunes popped into my office and announced "I am resigning as of December

19.

thereupon my telephone rang and he ran out of the office gtad enough not to have

to discuss^ his statement, A3 he well $$ knew I was scheduled for one cf the OTR luncheons at once, then a policy planning meeting and as that ran until 4:45 I had only time to

and leave for Albany* At the PPG meeting we discussed the big projected WO undertaking for April, my misgivings about it and the difficulty of doing it with a

na,/ assistant, hence I was instructed to write Paris that we were bowing out and send copies go tne otate Department and other interested parties, I promised to draft and asked for suggestions and recommendations on the draft. I did my part over the weekend but could not get time to show it to Nason or anyone Monday.

L10"dr-y was a horrendous day with piles a mail innumerable problems but a fairly good

o^aiv^H+h'+h +n W^V S?-d he !aS ncrt little secr8tary wh otsuld walk in and" resign

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30 'L 1101,106 and would have to write a proper letter of resignation.

Urns nas not as yet been presented,) The conversation left me in a great fog of confusion

about his real motives and frustrated completely. Needless to say I have snatched

conversation with the Personnel Director and the Executive Assistant to the President--*all

very oime taking. At the time he was leaving Fred left a note on my desk reporting the

assistant to the Director of the American Council on NATO whose boss is in Paris had given

third

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"Parin i- uiU?d Wth rUnrs that you are t0 be invited to spend the

tnird week of December in Pans1, (in the middle of October I had written the U.S. Am

bassador *o NATO that the project was so complex, so capable of different handled and yet

so dependent on very precise and personal information that it was a pity the FPA had no

budget to permit my going to Paris for such negoiation and act gathering. No answer on

Pcini*) Monday was no easier through the absence by illness of both my clericals.

^ Tuesday a number or unexpected drains on my time, and I might say patience, plus a
very critical situation in I Father large program I'm doing for the University of Virginia
involving 44 speeches. This came to a head and I had to turn to and polish/ this off,"' Had Free not been less than firm with a key man he was negotiating with the thing would have

letters

I which

rhafd +teoago

er; , Result 1 out that night

stayed tefe *honei^ as late and finally dictating those

as I could, which could

then wait

typing until

loday began with a distinct uneasiness of still receiving no word from Lord Lindsay

to to

-oe^Tto speak to

the

Off

the

Reccoonrfdi1lrumnacthjeoonno.f

his oral acceptance of We started calling him

my at

oral invitation Y .ale and could

to bin not

g .roug- o lm oi anyone wno would take a message or give any information about him.

ne was to come to my office at noon, or meet me on the second floor at 12:25 for 12:30

luncneon and one o* clcok speech. At 12:20 I laid on a pinch-hitter, at 12:40 I wrote an

introduction for the cnairman and sent for my unwilling victim. At 12:50 Lord Lindsay

appeared, A student drove him down and got on the wrong Parkway, he was filled with

apology and had plainly never thought of stopping to telephone and been three minutes

laoer. -Q did have some very interesting things to say about China, but he certainly

li M*? ?\mQ*

?n at was over 1 hriefed the staff on the January 9 luncheon

with national nroadcaetug overseas correspondents, consulted with two different program

cnairmen and then called the American Council on NATO woman, I am not at all sure from

but donrt I have fun? J I J

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January 4, 1959

Best wishes for the New Year with abundant health and happiness. V/e shall all have to keep on our toes to keep up with 1959, if its initial pace keeps up, Whee*in the first three days a new speed- record of seven miles a second creating a new satellite of the sun (curious that it is alternately called Lunik and l.oonik), a coup dletat in Cuba and a new flag for the U,3, You carry it from there as I have net yet
seen today1s paper,

Christems provided a fine four day concentration of family. Aunt Annie came mid-clay on Wednesday and because her train was reported an hour late she had to wait that long for me at Grand Central because she tame by a special section arriving on timej V/e went at once to Martha and CI eve at Freeport, where Clevee had already arrived from college, There was much visiting back and forth with Fran and we v/ere lucky in seeing the Santa CIaus excitement of her three samll sons, The candle light Christinas Eve Communion at the Church of the Transfiguration was lovely and Cleve and his fellow vestrymen^ had a big job fitting in all who attended, (Clevee was at the Roman Catholic mass with his fiancee,) It was abeut 15 o/o degrees when we were out of church about 1:15 so there was little dalliance to admire the beautiful full moon high in the heavens. Christmas day we had supper with Fran and the little boys were still bewildered by the plethora of gifts, though the tzr ee and a half Jerry and two end a half Bobby each had a favorite to which they kept returning. Since^cowboys are a source of great interest to them Cleve had converted an old play pen into a jail, comrplete 7/ith hhndcuffs and a padlock and also fastened tracks for electric trains on a large piece of plywood--yes, you guessed he IS a doting grandfather. Jerry rather com plicated life by asking how Santa Claus had gotten these large objects down the chimney. Y/hen someone said perhaps he had rolled them up, there was a quic$ retort, .ou roll paper, but not wood#" He was momentarily satisfied-with my query as to wnether having once gotten into the house via the chimney, could not Santa Claus then open the door and carry the large things in? As far as I knew no-one dared to push the r atter o . 3.3 permanent acceptance of that possibility, The three boys spent Friday with us,while Fran and Sal took some friends out to luncheon, and were very happy with tour adults dancing attendance. They came back on Sunday when Molly and Jim brought their th' ee young men for luncheon. Not having seen these boys for about two months their steady upward growth was noticeable, A tall-for-ten Bill was remarkably good with his wee cousins, whom he
scarcely knows.
I fear the office pace plus the holidays began to show on me and since none of the family were able to accept my invitation for New Year luncheon here, Aunt Annie went baok to Albany early on January 1st. Despite hoards ot peojple going to the inauguration of Governor Rockefeller that day sne reported by telephone in the afternoon the journey had been comfortable, With all the hoc-haw about the Pari3 possibility J. never did say that my four days with her over Thanksgiving had been awfully nice, ,/e had turkey at t ie - -0 of a most interesting woman doctor friend a few steps along State 3tree from Aunt Annie s apartment and enjoyed lazy fat snow flakes driiting down into the park across the street. In fact there was some slight guoW fall each uay I was there, but Friday when \.e plauneu to drive over the mountains xo wiliiamstcwn, there was every prospect of a blizzard and the project was e.Dandonned by xne time we had gone ten miles in swirl3 of tiny business like flakes driven by a high wind. What with that trip, xhe uncertainty o Par^s afed an unheralded quick trip to Washington I never did finish sending, out my Christinas cards, I left tte office and a Regional Representative conference at 11J30 on Dec, 13, was in tk State Department at 2:30 for NATO project discussion with seven or eight men. It was clear to me that they want me to do the drudgery and will rely on diplomatic channels to give them maximum credit with minimum wot*/Ik and that Paris is out. In fact when my trip began to be talked of again ten days lator, I stood off and looked at the idea and con cluded I would be most unwise to accept in the event it is offered again. ^ we already have 1200-1300 reservations for the January 9th Y/aldcrf luncheon--I should have worked on it yesterday but was too tired after staying until 8:20 Friday. Tomorrcv/ vdll begin a hectic live days for me made worse by what I suspect is a nasty major of- ice politics crisis, I shall plead luncheon pressure xo stay out of it, but the backwash will surely impede ray operation. I'll hope to have enough energy left to write again next Sunday,

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' January XI, 1959

There is nothing like a little extra sleep to start one off on a restoration of energy# This process has begun and there is prospect of more before long. Friday
afternoon John Nason came around to my office to express gret satisfaction in the Waldorf luncheon, understanding of and appreciation for the enormous amount of extra time work T had put into it. He expressed the hope I would stay home on Holiday and Tuesday as compensation, but taking a look at the mess on my desk agreed to my clearing that up (ha-ha, this Would take three weeks) Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and staying home Thursday and Friday# I hope I can manage that. I had ordered 1645 places at the hots}. seating guests in both tiers of boxes and finally under the balcony on three sides of the ballroom. Up to the very day of the luncheon checks from out of town came pouring in and it seemed to me these people had to be taken care of. We probably turned away i'lfty people, who telephoned reservations in the'last week. The panel was moderated by diet Huntley in. an even more masterly manner' than lost year and the seven overseas correspondents home from Moscow, iaipeh and way stations were competent. An unexpected note of drama was added by presenting the report on South America by long distance telephone from Cuba, where Herb Kaplowkiiad been detained to supervise the B C team covering the revolution. Evert the President's State of Union message annunciated while we were aire: dy c.t the ia;1e vas given in capsule form by Huntley# No-one was more glad than I when it was over5 Twice during tne week I had congratulated myself on getting away from i e oifice before 8:00, only to find when signing out of the building that I had forgotten to wind my watch and it was later than I thought! With all of this ther9 have been the usual number of plaintive long distance telephone calls from Dayton and New Hampshire, to say nothing of Boise, Idaho, ...dear Miss Pratt a speaker has cancelled, please bail us out by find sereone else. Ileas which I find impossible to ignor even when my hat is empty of convenient rabbits#

All week I have been indulging in codeine to kill a cough, it is wonderful stuff and would doubtless have been more effectively useful ha d I remembered to take it with great er regularity. Even through using taxis to the office did not altogether offset the re
action on me cf high winds and deep cold# It seems such a waste to have all this great
windpower go tc #&$$$ no useful purpose --other than the probable driving people to buy
mufflers and larger warm clothing items# Heat here has been 3potty, which has revived my intention of not spending another winter on 64th Street. Yesterday when I went in the afternoon to help Judith Listowel with the titles and precis of five lectures she will offer through a commercial agent for next season, she suggested that I take a place large enough tc also accomodate her during the three months she again plans to be here.
Am I too old a dog to adapt to a housemate? She gave m<b a cup of tea from a lovely pound cannister she had for Christmas with the comment that this special tea sells at $20 a pound She was pleased with the ideas v/e evolved for the agent# Then I went up to Vera Dean's for dinner and talk about'her new grandson, the office .and a speech she was making at the Ethical Culture morning service today. I listened on the radio and thought it went very well in spite of last night's huskiness of voice#

John #7heeler-Bennett has been made a Knight Commander of the Order of Victoria-- a rarely given knighthood reserved for those who perform special service to the royal family. He and Ruth sent me a copy of the American edition of his "King George VI-- His Life and Reign" for Christmas# It will be fun to send thanks to Sir John and Lady Vheeler-Bennett. His book and Pasternak's are next on my reading list# Latterly "Green Mansions" 7/ritien by William Henry Hudson in 1904 and soon to be a movie, the new Farquand book, "Tall Ships" about the U#S# just before the war of 1812, "Christmas with Robert E.Lee" --his post-bellum presidency of Washington College at Lexington, Virginia , "The Claverings" by Anthony Trollops and a lovely English thriller called "Tether's End" have provided me with the brain-wa9hing-read-in-bed materials.

The visit of the vily Armenian Miyokan fascinates me. He has been very cleverand will this time doubtless take home with him more than the recipe for ice cream. Are the de*instrations helpful or harmful to the American position? The uprising in Lecpoldville. is cf especial interest to me as a friend of mine is U.S. Consul General there and has his wife and three daughters with him. At last Belgium is tasting the bitter fruit of anit-colonialism, when they seemed to think they would be exempt. All of the Cash possessions sent by sea freight have been lost by collision and ^'reen route to Karachi I

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Two new terms seem to have come into use in weather forecasts. At luast I have never before been conscious of them. Snow "showers" heretofore reserved in my mind for rain, but the dictionary throws in hail and sleet. The other term is "drippy", used when humidity is extremely high and it seems to me not always accompanied by actual percipitation. however if one thinxs of the slang connotation of a drip too, tne word is most appropriate as such days are most disagreeable. Thursday was just such a day and I was happy to sleep very late and spend most of the day on the Chesterfield reading "Dr. Zhivago"--absorbingly interesting from many standpoints. The tendency of most of the characters to faint or become totally unaware of their surroundings under almost every situation of shock--good or bad. The hero long separated from uxs family, oy events following tne revolution finally receives a letter from his wife reacted iri tffcis manner for a period ox hours if not days. The Russian classics have taught us all that as a people they thoroughly enjoy self examination and self recrimination and readily work themselves up to torrents of tears and anguish, individual or collective. But the swooning I was not prepared for, especially as it so often deprived the individual of a fine period of sadness. The book is filled with extremes of joy and sorrow, heat and cold against a continuing background of change, fear, brutality and privation. Family ties, enduring friendships counterbalance the excesses 01 informing and vitiousness en the part of those drunk with their mistaken ideas of the personal gains they feel en titled to from the "new order". There is a very interesting emphasis on the 3cope of the flooding emotion which lead 30 many to a life of dedication to improve the lot of all the lower orders of society and the stamping out of the way of life of the former upper classes.
There was an emergency meeting ofthe Policy Planning Group on Friday morning on a subject I felt so keenly about that 1 went back to the office and once there was trapped for the rest of the day. I am supposed tc stay ut on .'oncUy, hut urn ret at all sure I shall as things which need to be done keeping popping into my mind that it may be better to go back and keep the operation rolling rather than be confronted the rest of the week with the need for working under pressure. On Wednesday Louis Fischer spoke at the Series A women's and scored a great success--he does Series B this week, forking on a book on Indonesia he spoke largely of that but concluded with a sermon, his text was that if we are to be effective in tne new nations we must take from them as well as give to them. Among the things he suggested we might take were gentleness, kindness and basic principles of their religions as well as understanding their "pluralism"-- ability to accept two different attitudes, -which to us would be mutually exclusive. The ladies loved a tale he told of manners in Indonesia--the Postmaster's ..ife ambitious ly wanted her son to marry the beautiful daughter of a petty nobleman. Ere. Nobleman invited Mrs. Postmaster to tea. Now in Indonesia when one goes to tea and none is served the guest realizes she is unwelcome and departs chastened; when the tea is served immed iately after the guest arrives it is a sign that the pleasure of the guests' company is slight and again departure is early. Mrs. Nobleman served tea and not too early but accompanied it with a banana, not only unsuitable for tea but a very common commodity when banana trees grow on every corner. Mrs. Postmaster therefor realized that her son
was a common thing not to aspire- to the hand of the beautiful daughter of noble family. Marriage was not mentioned in the afternoon but the project was dropped.
Many of the slick magazines are carrying an advertisement for Medaglia d'Oro, the Italian espresso coffee for afterdinner with the slogan "You would not THINK of serving breakfast coffee after dinner." Would they be horrified if I wrote tham that I fo&nd Medaglia d'Oro a splendid waker-upper for breakfast, especially when made in my nice Italian coffeemaker purchased in Bournemouth? This week I had a greatly delayed card from the Greens in Leopoldville with the happy news they^are off on home leave and to be re-assigned and left the Belgian Congo in December. The Russian Ambassador has been very clever in building Mikoyan's itinerary here with emphasis on business groups--so powerful vath the White House--and usually employing hosts who have recently made trips to Russia. The dried spruce and fir of ray Christmas decorations cane out of their great vases days after Epiphany but serve now as excellent kindling in the fireplace when the temperature is again in the lev; teens with unremitting high winds. I must take steps about my summer holiday--such thoughts sj auld help to keep warinl

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At j.8 five o'clock on Sunday afternoon and Xlm only just getting to my desk. Judith Listowel is back from Canada, delayed because she ran a temperature there, and needed help on a couple of: letters concerning her contract for lectures of next season. Before I knew what the weekend would be like I agreed to go to luncheon there today and work with her. No, I did not stay home on Monday and by Friday had
decided I must either go to the office on Saturday or work late Friday tc make a real dent on the clean-up process. So, I dictated until 8;30 to avoid the trip down on Saturday, and was still asleep the next morning about nine when Eustace Seligman telephoned to find out what 1 had dene about getting Willy Brandt, Governing Mayor of West Berlin ior the FPA. The answer was I had been too pressed bv other tnings xo cio anything. His retort was tnat it was not too late to take a crack at it right now. Because all my telepnone numDcrs used when he was thought to be coming earlier were in the office I went down anyway. Eustace and I telephoned back and forth end finally without either ol us getting Joim wason I went ahead and sent a cable with copy and covering letter to tne proper German here and time will tell whether we have r, sceech on the oerlin Crisis on the su tgrnc-on, cf Fe ir.ery 11. One very useiul bit in the
education oi the Cks inr.an. oi the FiA Board of Directors as' to_ what my :job involves we.3 accom.plisned and ne was impressed by my having access to telepno*ie numoers he could not
get ana uhe amount, oi checking back and xorth. 'aria and v ;nk had not gone sk5,ing as they planned a.r c-sk-oo me tor ainner wnere last night. It was gooci to see them aft ex u couple of months with only the odd telephone call and also to see both the finished portrait of the motherland five children and a colored transparency of it. Hie father of the
family was left out of the big canvass and is nov/ three quarters finished in a separate pictjire.

Wednesday night I went to dinner at the Nason's two members of the Board one accom

panied bx W-.j. and uwo two new executive directors who had corrie for orientation. Don

Fr>or of Cleveland is iirst class but the man from Dallas struck me as bavin a pre it"*

low vitamin content, interesting but long session soaking up at 11:15, Jackson Spears

ner

member, president of Burlington Fills, impressed me most favorably, a Texan

with a good mind and a pleasant manner. His wife however was very corporate-wife and

kept making asides^aoout how thrilled she was that the stock had risen an. eigth that day,

the excellent fabrics the mill produces or something. Her black sleeveless cocktail

dress was lined with a lovely shade of American beauty, clea| rly x t. Burlington product,

_,x^ryone na.s buzzed this week with impressions of Mikoyan and the general judgement was that ne threw away whatever he had gained by loss of temper on Monday. Afterall
you cannot pop aoout the country saying "I'm here on a vacation" and then make demands o. tne State Department and expect to have them granted officially. At luncheon on Wednesc-ay Louis --isoner told me Troyanowsky, the interpreter had several times in the Economic ulun speech altered "l have suspicions" to ^misgivings". Poor young man I felt very 3orry _or mm as I watched last Sunday evening in the "Meet the Press" program on Verars TV.

Because I must spend most of tomorrow at an American Council on NATO conference

wxientney begin oeaimg the drum with a lot of adult organizations for observance of the

April^llATO Tenth birthday, I have put off until Tuesday the breaking in of two new helpers.

One girl is temporary to work with me on the NATO project of acting as clearing house for

the schedules of speakers on NATO --a nice girl named Patricia Maguire. The other an

oiuer woman, Mrs. Steel, as permanent I trust Records Secretary. Thursday or Friday

I 11 proouoly go to Washington for another session v/ith the Department of State in the

"ope several ^ bales of red tape can be cut away from the way they keep insisting the

it

1oreignxministers and ambassadors be handled in April, The date on which

ohey will become available has already been changed and I sit in the middle with groups

fykwhtb f?gm* m mm ImSSS a J. o/ei one country expecting to have a foreign minister on the date ori- insOly suggested

and h07, long mil my P and*?F fctsrtfThose ar*e the iv.o baignquestions.

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:bru&ry 1, 1959

Knowing my devooicn to the oooks of Anthony Trolltpe^ though X have never sampled

those of his equally energetic mother, ycu v.ill undei'stuid my react: r last right

when I came upon the following in the current MEW YORKER: "The hazards of translation

ai

old a: u.rr Consider one recent literary catastrophe in Prague when the

title of Lucy Fo&te Stebbins' and Richard Foate Stebbins' boot rThe Trollopes, the

Chronicle of a writing Family' was rendered into Czech, with unl'orgetta le orevity.

as j-he Streetwalkers.' " It seems as if I should drop my current reading c-f John's

biography of George V and get to a Trollope at once to show my leyalty.

Although it is Sunday I have just been given a telegram from Fhillipe of. the

vifeldori saving ^nat lie must know if we a,re going to have a *taTQ dinner on x*pril 7

The answer is that I dc rict know. Friday the State Department telephoned me the

first news of^presumed talent--the Dutch Foreign Minister, a couple of Ambassadors

r.nd e. sp.i -r>ling o. others ,,wth the request they would like to I ar on Monday of my

proposed matching up with possible functions. This ever the telephone and when I

fSu6u ' )r ^i-.tten confirmation there was an audible gasp . nd a reluctants#rt of "Well,

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: e.ppily I did not have tc- go to Washington last week, but that trip

hangs over my head like a sword of Democles on a thread, the tensile strength of which is weakening.

In the fullfillment of my policy of "seeing and been seen" I went to the official Indian reception hhserving; tne anniversary of their becoming a nation. Simple as tie embassy is in this-block uninspiring from the horde of strange characters picsuiably devoted to India who. attending such things take up space. Amongst the others there*' ^01 e so.iU useful hands to press. Cf course they only serve fruit juice.

n

.j f"*re:LS^or willy Brandt of West Berlin found it impossible to accent cur

caf-ed rnvr.raticn of last Saturday. Lis reply came.at 6:SO on Wednesday. By' Friday '

j. found myself agreeing to have a,GOO announcers"itsA luncheon, or. Febr^arv 11" s^or^ored

by several^ other organizations. As h.e; arc char-mV-.g *1*.5C fci it, I suspect "there"

are not being flooded with reserv-tions. It was possible to make the condition that

Ve; SJ>vo ^ - Prj*me places for our people until two days before the event! Alas I

snail not re acne tb go myself as there is an Off .'the Record luncheon that day. Last

weu-iesuay . r&dcrickBeland, Ambassador pf Irelt.rd tc the UH and chairman cf the Fourth

.c:..ir.ittee, vnch this yec.r is dealing with the. difficult questions raise^ .fo -v'r-ca,

spoke to tne Off tl e becc-d ladies . nd pie^v. tU- just

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amount of snow. ...e rumor that Pasternak is coining to the US seems fallacious to re,

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biography of Ceorga V and B.t to.Zllol'TlTll S^SS"**' *

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and a oprinl-linp 0f others with the request thev noul H lTj * 00"P1# of *kassadore

Proposed aathhlng up with possible functions. Thi8te"thitel!nhow* ^f

asked for written eonfinsation there was ar ludlM. ,, I -J telephone and when J

VtSiZ if you insist." Happily I did not have %TST^USSuHiLT*t*P*a!e

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cabled'toirttatlon^o^lest^Saturday^

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spoke to the Off Z hwd lJ^L^ !difficult questions raised by Africa,

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7* aspiring to nationhood.

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acti-colonialism, where., KZ2!TM2l5Sf aotiT^lon is toth nationals and

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to whh*

52 10 r0ttnf ?*? suff^ ** women. Other its.,

about 12/5 colder in Raw York than list^e^ But"j1"1*'

thi" wintor ib ha8 b">

amount of snow. The rumT +hnt pw* } ' w tiM,nkful " have net ted the same

but I must ohejk itf^TeLfV!!!?!!

t0 " US eeeeu fallacious to me.

now Danish ship, in Copenhagen I am di strewed

Haviae BMB ,e* T9IT fine

the north Atlantic TiyT Itta*T^,^!^'in*ia* ot that ^b -hlP in

cannot help wishing that it^s ownew.

ice berge to bo drifting about, but one

ability, at least thrSs.rt!r 2S^! t Ltt manio bd claimed unsink-

in ti.eir annoyance at that eont

" 8^ookfI* ^ ayopathy is with the British

that the lrttiTwill U .. !tC W '5a9r can ttm, yOU apart from the fiart

annpunoed policy about bids.' Ifce

"PP^ciably mors. f9 havs departed from an

"-thi. was all worked o^ ^th thea ^ f!!8/1': fUd,1,h ln ^ plaints about tSrtft

b,eEjM ****" virgind -obooi.

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It is no+ o^ten t^ot I am able to bear the onera brn dc^st on Saturday afternoon-and al~s, this is "Tales of Hoffmpn" --never one of my favorites when I went on Mondey" nights regularly, whether I was to he*r so-ietMng I liked or not. As I have always been interested in John Brownie both for hi professicnalperf^rmnce and his having become a e^nme^ afte^ establishing himself as chartered account in Australia, I try to hear his program which preceeds the Metropolitan broadcast. In "Backgrounds to Music he reminisce* ^nd plavs records of operatid stars with whom he has been associated* Today he used several of Kipnis to my delight. It is ironical that the three opportun ities I had had this season to attend the opera have been on nights I could not go.

There is a no" afloat that Paternak is coming to this country, his Americ n publisher denies it, yet it persists from diplomatic origin in Paris. I am trying to find out from the State Department if he has applied for a visa. The more I think of
"Dr. Zhivago" and its allegedly being a Pasternak biography, the more I dislike either the character or the author. So I am now embarked on "Safe Conduct" published as Paster ns s pvtooi ^Taphy and shall have to report later oh my conclusions, meanwhile I quote from pa ge 2,so you may savour the style, a snatch of a journey by rail from Moscow in the summer of 19^0 when he was 10s "the rushing embankment was suddenly held in check by the brakes, ine^e ^ras a glimpse of birch trees. The buffers snorted and sknocked against one another along the whole stretch of railway track. With relief a cloud-piled. qk' tore itself from the whirlwind of singing sahd. Skirting the grove, an empty sarriage and pai, flinging itslef forward as though dancing "the russkava" hoboed up to meet the passengers who had just got down. The silence of a road-way which had nothing to do with us was yet disturbing momentarily, like a shot. It was not for us to stop here. ..... Meanwhile a bend cought us up, and the wayside halt, turning slowly like a page that has been read, vanished from sight. The face and the incident were forgotten, presumably forgotten forevsr. "

Last Sunday when I saw Aunt Marv, she loaned, me Sir Harold Nicolson1s "fPcumev to

Java", which I took happily thinking I would leanr something about Indonesian. It happens

thrt 250 friends of Nicolson gave him an "enormous ohecgue"for his 7nth birthday. He

spent it in going with his ^-ife Viie#t B'ackville--West to Java, The round trip on a

Dutch shin 5 s spent while he "examines the problem of contentmentwhich largely seems

a study of melancholy, misanthrophy and other lugubrious traits ae revealed through

reading Creel-, Roman, Austrian, French and German diaries and essays. Interesting;

but not what I exoected. Meanwhile his wife busies herself with her biography of

"La Grande Mademoiselle" and the letters Virginia Wdfclf lad written her--which

Nicolson feeIs whould be published separately and not mixed up with letters to Lytton

otrq.chev of whom ere was afraid, w ileMshe had to

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Last Saturday I spent E nice piece of time plotting and dre.fi,in- /hat I * ouid a y

to the Borrd of D:' reactrs on Wednesday in five minutes to explain the facets of the

Speakers Bureau for the inxormation oT" new members and the remembrance of the old ones.

John No.son did - am me that the three staff members who were to mhke cr~.l reports were

"ex e ;r/ -.1c r

erou we were t<&5 time did not permit hearing us and to please

put i. in writing for t..em. to "c*d.S Reports from the' State Depprtment about sneakers

from the NATO c 'ntries dribble in and I am begin to take first stem in firm arrangement

--though t am e long way from satified that this will not be a fiasco. Meanwhile we have

hal "ore 7 o, o weather, which blew up ray sinus md impaired the health of ray three helpers

--the Sneakers Bureau has limned along -lib all of us feeling less than human and doubt

less thinking ho- noble we each were to ha in at all. By the end of the week I went back

in desror tion to codeine with the result that vesterd-<y and todrv I have been better.

After replenishing my supply last night I noted in neighborhood, shoo windows an odd. -

Japanese flower arrangement--seven or nine small white chrysanthemums as a clustered

base for three slender, nude willow shoots which towered a good 20 inches above* and

"Fruit of the Rose" Jam with a picture of rose pips on the labll --this I should like to

sample*. The milliner's show diaphanous and thinly boflowered hats, while my one idea

is to keep as much of the cold, cold minds off my skull as possible. What a mad world.

Stony Brook-Setauket-Feb#14, 1959

Typewriter by courtesy of Molly. The weather leaves much t<k be

desired as it has all week--one day so foggy that the airports were

idled, the next too cold and then a couple of unseasonably warm* Of

it was cold and windy on Lincoln's Birthday when I elected to go in to

the office and get a lot of dictation out of the way, so as to be able

to leave Friday for the weekend with a calmer conscience# The head of

personnel had scrounged an electric heater for the billing

who

was far behind and working on the holiday, so I assumed the

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not available, although I had been told the night before that it would be*

Shivering I accomplished a lot of work with comparatively few interrup

tions and was made very warm on leaving to find from the elevatro startr

tha t we had only to telephone the engineer for heati One more illustrafr

tion, which I should not ha ve needed, not to put any faith in Personnel*

Sunday already# The papers today a re filled with gloomy diagnosis and prognosis on Dulles# Were he younger one would have more hope# The Wfly the President clings to him makes me apprehensive, nor does it seem fair for Christian Herter, arthritic ridden as he is, to be charged with seeming responsibility without actual authority# If all the policy mhaakepsr*nhoetlkdntohweinsgamoeurvoiwenwsmiabnodutisBearl"isnecirtetwowueladposne"e,mwhtiidciherw-i-lblutcopnefru-se Moscow to our advanta ge unless it more confounds our friends#
At last the electrician came Thursday morning so early tha t I gave him coffee to warn him up, so now there is not only light in the bathrocm again but two other outlets which troubled me have been fixed# In the course of this negotia tion the house agent gave me a friendly warning that the owner had been cleared by the housing authority for his alleged demolition and improvements so that any money I spent on the place would be money down the drain# Little does he know that for years I have gotten shabbier and shabbier instead of renewing slipcovers, draperies and so cn# I only hope tha t I can do my weeding out and arrange for the move with out sacrificing my holiday to the job this summer# The possibility of buying a small house here and renting it until I retire has been pointed out to me this weekend# Construction is about to be undertaken for a State college in Stony Brook and rumors are flying around that a nearby laborato ry is about the expand# Optimistic signs for rentals# It happens that a good many Pan-American pilots like this neighborhood already and are more likely to rent tha n to buy# Incidently one os them is quoted as saying of tha t horrible Electra crash at LaGuardia ten days ago: "Let's face it# Human error# He undershot the runway#"
This week I ha ve been reading the experience of Boris Morros, who for ten years served the FBI while a member of the NKVD--so far I am torn between amazement tha t everyone who wants to know anything about the USA can do so with the greatest of ease and a scorn for the combination of cops and robbers childish techniques of the Russians# Maybe before I finish I shall feel differently#
The usual comings and goings with and without notice go onhere # Friday night Jay and his date went to pick up Fred and his date at a school dance. Finding that the younger girl had some leeway in time they started to Smithtown for something to eat and had a flat tire# Jay tele phoned his father tha t the spa re was flat too and please to come and fetch them# Contact was effected and then the second car ran out of gas# The denoument came when it was then discovered that there was air in the apare \

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February 22, 1959

_ _ Being l%shingion*s Birthday I h*n -fTM v >e titanic battle between a huge cold front fvZ Z "etieulous about the truth,

Till warm front from the eouth. During the ef wITJ k ? Md *" 9<JUhlly bulky

and although it is 23 today, the north

? hd 80T9ral ^fihte below ten degrees

tell u. that tomorrow will be dlff7TT fTC tte 811

foreoa.teS

upper hand and may bring rain. Heanwhilf too

T"* at lart 89ttia8 the

hare overdone the matter and had fatal fire! ^SLM* trag to heat their homes

brought death to 23 yesterday. The L,,.J" Wnter-home-fires as they are celled

reporting nicely on the earth's cloud OTerlS"8^

"8ather Mtellite seems to be

sprays 1 brought from stony Brook last waatZd ^ ?, 9 Personal note the forsythia

m& with a profusion of yellow b.u
Bunny window in November and taniilised fnt.

r48ap0Dded to water and warath ing I brought into my

strength of the sun and f"gauTone at !tl TUT' *?"<">** the increased

the color is .maverick mau^ 4,en l had to1Ptl

kT: bl0fl"9' A "der

red tomanehe. Nevertheless 1 feel rewarded for 1,

d8ep Purple or the lovely

with tne number of promising new buds.

onths of patience and am well pleased

m* Tr'dld

c8rt^t iiidh

mVZ t0

N*r* fhilhansouic

overdid his answer to the criticism that he hj

!'< Bernstein conducting. Cliburn

Moscow by giving three concertoe-the Mocart ss ?! P*toirs beyond the things he did iT

he composed at the insistence of Clara before +hl? ^?r' the Schumann A Idnor (which

Major# The reviews would eventually be

-ere wood

not in

very

eSSu^^w Saf*Laad *"* 1 ^tary but implied that if he

nraeti.ed .inr!c+

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llTT. f^t'were unkind, though they aU Mttn7k?v f ^ Plaalst,e evening 1

seemed socially in at ease, f^,plf ,h!r h!!!

h? 18 8 Sreat pianist. T* h#

S*

"hen he was playinl he

"f4*"J"5*"1 ha turned the back of hi.

haad "hen he eeemed to fert hf M*!?VP\8t9ly loat ia "h* he was doing,

ud ,, !v!r?r?

!?Z*l0Dally h9 b"at his head owttsvI!bZfc* passa*s betW or different-

*9r the piano. I had the feelin*

m

9ftan rai,sd his chin

with thc'condu^Z^F^Z.Z01^ th0Ught f audlencs' though the^lZaZ?^^"1 25* ttoaullcehringcatshteerbsowttoemre ooufi^et+ZuTin*Z1y*3"1^*1!^8u9r12Jbhe wroowulditbseeemfd tTml Ztt hnit knees were

> y . S 3 . 1 S ; . * " 2 r z J X ' X ' s w ,, " S S S ' "m Garden which high school students may attend 4 w-? Bbilharmonic concert at Madison Sctare

^rl8^ T T1" by

hack ^rth

1 thoroughly e^oyZT

cpoMn1LceaTrtOo, Z.*its

*1 I01* Premiere .beLcautsenIigdhitd + nir-

on th* Sesasoiotn-- s vaio1lin

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the Prime Mni^tfr oZZf qZ.Z*

eohedul. Poland for the 18tt b^foZ th^9"0?8 *?d

on the 18th...,o h. hafZ

ba9 "^ving baSly.Zr^vZ

of Embassy was acceptable to me. in f Zr prPsad subetitute, Eamonn Kenned" M r5 ??d

Tuesday morning brought a

8 bettar Job^ wTSZi S yrt ew '

Korea on the UN cenetary there would +fiJ ,

unrc Mria8 he feared Ms special

a U. of Michigan speech on March 6th and *,,fger n ""tieipated so he might not be back e

I am only left to wonder wheTthe cLZfn

1* 8 8taadby for him. That took tiZZnS t

? Va leu t r.epl"acement telw ephxon,e"d.thartShJZ SLt!reH f aT o'o"srary.

iws.2;xL"*r, Testerday morning, P,nn HailTth.

but would carry on if I did nothear fZ! m

toWD aad had the eusphoionlf a Zre thZ.*

that he is on his way. Tou see why it is difficSt'i^plSZf^^iriff 1 080 r#U*

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F.bruary 28, 1959

Wll, hwrw * are at the end of poor Febrwuy robbed by a day each bp Julius Caesar and Augustus to give extra prestige to their respective aonths. There & a note of false spring in the air eonfiraed ehen I spied a convertible with its top down as 1 cane up from th office absut five o'clock. This is a much more serious note than the straw and beflow ered hats ladies have been wearing for weeks while pulled out of the closet my cold-winddown-around-the-ears model to go with my fur coat*

When myex-boss and former Ambassador to Israel James McDonald offered me hie opera tickets for 'La Traviata" I accepted with pleasure, though I have just drwn the check for the Thursday performance I invited Vera to go with me and we were both interested in the Tyrone Guthrie production and the new Oliver Smith sets which featured great staircases in the first and third acta stealing needed space fcr the ballet in the Utter. Of course, no exrart on ball re i hay# always quarrelled with those rf the Metropolitan but felt that under Rudolph B Bing hhy had improved. This was an excej* ion--the Spanish dancers seemed to think they had to introduce can-can when they were dancing on the huge card table because of lad fo space.

17?? !

6 **** a 8atunninS entrance down the curved staircase had it not been so dutterdd

with badly costumed members of the shorus. Having heard "Violetta" sung from Galli-Gurri n.

Licia Aibanese got off to a very disappointing start but improved as the opera progressed.

rank Guarrera sang a little better than adequate Count Germont, but Eugenio Pernandi was still and pompous in action and less than adequate in voice. 7h/ house was sold out days in advance

calls taken and ^ a*ft fle1a6srt^h1alfraan?deofsen tributberoskof otuhteapSoooord" m waenrye *to*s*s*e*d* orenptoeatthede sctuargtaei,ns f or they were all rather meagre bunches of roses and two of violets, which seemed to me approj nate. Tbert was not one comfortable looking chair in the entire four sets and 1 felt Violetta

suffered little hardship expiring on the floor* 1 forgot to see how the oritlea treated the performance, but I enjoyed the evening far more than my caustic comments might imply.

Krushchev*s smaiing speech of Tuesday seems to me to be ill timed and unnecessarily incon siderate of the Position of Prime Minister Macmillan. Here it not well known that the Russians

would rather have theConservatives in power in England, one would speculate that this had been

?er^ y toJ*TM popular support this trip might have brought Macmillan in the oncoming

llirns.eind

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? put " d0TO t oo more attempt to split the Western

tilllance and admit that we can anticipate several more in the next three months with inoreased

frequency. Early in the week 1 wrote my best contact in the British Embassy and reminded him

that if the Prime Minister should come to the U.S. in March and have time to make a speech in

to eupjly the platform. Testerday late D'Aroy telephoned from Washington

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rumor stags, but if it were possible there was no doubt but that

we should be the sponsor. How 1*11 pull that off on short notice while shotting the NATO men

around t e country for their share of red carpets and doing the April 7 dinner in the Waldorf

J do not quitssee. The eountry-wdie NATO project moves slowly with maximum confusion,

ocoas oned both My S -.ate Department interference and slowness on the part of the Prime Ministers

S v.f0!!

8J agPe* t0 speak **d ^ bo5lig of the "little men" in the respective

Washington Embassys, who have probably made ridiculous and groundless assertions to their

governments. On the NATO April 7 dinner, I'm caught between a fight with the Waldorf for the Ballroom and at the moment insufficient talent to fill the ballroom and pay off

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0 "freeloaders" we are sure to have. Personally I should like to cancel

Last weekend I did managae to get enough rest to make fine progress in killing the cold

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me 8Ance "febe hliday and to make an excellent start on the income tax. I

aJear\ag 1^d made a mi8take on th deduction figure, which cost me beI #f?Pa tax^paid^ J* ie *eKer to let sleeping dogs alone and not claim a r un a,d j I won t even figure what I overpaid. A dosen books were also plucked frmoa the

beginiing on the task of moving. But the great collection cf family papers upon

MA++??^9 ?r f3 ????? in ^8 than remembered. A quick look reveals great-grand

ni^il Civil

WfiT> War

savorlHdieeri/pianrSeAnmveen^lop^etsitslhionwginhgimthtaot

practise before the Supreme Court, his light-of-love (I presume) paid

letters of a the collect

postage, great grandfather Jackson's receipted tax bills for quite a bit of New York real es-

X wonder if Van Qiburn***w*a*s sIu^f5fB eridnisgcofurormagetdhebyhutrht isfi,ngiterdwoehsicnhowt alsoookps eraastyedtoyessoterrtdaoyut. when I heard him play.

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This has bee* such a silly week with all certe of contradictions and reversals TOP example* at a stance party given by the American Friends of the Middle East Nuri Epen ckidod mo fop keeping myoelf mway fro the for so long and then said "You know the Ministerial Meeting of NATO may take place in Faris instead of Washington! rt Ho countered my consternation by/ insisting that there was a strong feeling in Europe that perhaps the Foreign Ministers should not put the Atlantic between themselves and home base in such parlous times* This wae at seven o*clock on Tuesday* By ten on Thursday ht was on the phone saying that his Foreign Minister would be available for speaking April 6 through 10 and what was I going to do about getting hi good platforms? I could not resist a "So they are gcming after all"* and went on to explain that arrange* ments were already ade for Zorlu to speak in Chicago on the 8th I let him telephone a man I do not like in Detroit* who nevertheless controls an excellent platform while I got onto Minneapolis and by Friday he was fixed up with three nice dates* No doubt by noon on Monday Nuri will bs back asking what slss we can do for him The Tuesday party was strange because the invitation read six o*clock and when I turned up at quarter c seven people were still drinking and admiring some very charming Turkish miniature water colors* Ve were then herded into another room to hear a dialogue between Dr# and Mrs* Lauren H#Seelye Americans who had taught for 15 years at Robert Collegein Istanbul* As I was to have dinner with Maria and Hank Harris it was necessary to slip away before they finished their instructive conversation about Turkey and its people* Hardier * or lea booked up* members of the audience who were able to stay for a 20 minute documentary film must have had a very late dinner*

Another reversal was Thursday when I wae chairman of a staff committee to arrange a party for Irwin* who as office boy had been very good to me and even after he was promoted to film projectionist could be called on for off-beat help* Irwin* son of a Russian immigrant furrier* leaves for his military service* While with us he had learned things about parties and we were anxious to have his at nice as possible in every way -- flowers* punch* food and presents* The FFA even allowed us to have it at 4*30 and I had promised to turn up to help with the final arrangements of polishing the glasses* etc* at 4* A totally unrelated consulitee of Board members wae scheduled for 4* and Nason had told us staff were not wanted* At ten minutes before four I was notified that our presence was requested from 4 to 6$30* screaming I arranged for someone else to substitute for me in the arrangements* went to the Committee Meting from 4 to 430* down is pour punch and and eheer Irwin from 4t30 to 5sl0 and back to the Committee from 5sl5 to 6i30* To my mixed chagrin and delight the party cleanup had been completed and I could dictate to nine o* clock to make up for lost time* Irwin was so pleased thai he even gathered up all the wrappings of his gifts to take heme and in his excitement forgot to take the photograph of his fiancee from his desk and had to return for it on Friday#

Friday Aunt Annie was in town for a school meeting and I had dinner with her and the head of the English department at the Statler Hilton* It was good to see her looking very fit and have a chance to insist that she come back later in the month for at least a few days of their sohool spring holiday* A most terrific gale buffsited me home* which caper* ience made me especially interested An a rather long discourse on the weather thie morning#* this winter has set records for cold* for blizsards* for pereipitatien in many parts of the country# Froat has penetrated six feet in places (three in the Albany area)* which bears out my fear that we should have a late* oold foggy spring-**contradictions crocus blooms in Washington* D#C. and puasy willows popping in Martha*s yard--though that bush is notorious in my experience in its disregard for conditions* Martha and CI eve fly tomorrow for a week at the Edgewater Beach hotel while he attends a convention*

After working until five yesterday in the blissfully empty office* I gathered up house hold supples and reached home in time to hear the end of "Keistersinger" on the radio* Hope I can manage to hear "Wozseck" next Saturday* the premiere of which had first page raves in the N#T# Times* After dinner Emily KimbroughtS "And a Right Good Crew" seemed to offer a good change of pace in its report of a canal barge journey in England with Dorothy Stioknay and Howard Lindsay (Life with Father fame) as part of the crew# No reflection on the author implied* but after 40 pages I was so sleepy that I went to bed at nine and slept the clock around* One should sleep an hour for each 15 pwngdc* but I8m not 180f$t

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March 15, 1959

f Oeyehaejuet called me reporting safe return from Chicago where they had a
from Albany And will arrir"e*o*n !t?he*251?s"t"t!ohasTteayhawdith *metfoeordasyevneirgahltdAauynst, uAnntniile Wceadlnleesd day of Ho^y Week, Evelyn UaoDenald arriv ea tomorrow from Toronto but 1 shall only be able to see her one evening, tomorrow. John Howard, Conservative Member of Parliament, and his wife arrived from England over this weekend and I'll have a big session with them tomorrow to orient them for the tour we have set up for his speaking. He was to have cone a year ago and had pneumonia instead. I hope that they do not expect to be widely entertained by me as I simply do not have time for them, yet realise X should make hospitable gestures#

1 must make a correction in the February28 chitchat-- The NATO project does not

involve Prim* Ministers--Foreign Ministers,Permanent Representativesof the member oeun-

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Ambassador) and various members of foreign ministries

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nation* s delegation to the Ministerial meetings in Washington#

Both the ApM.1 7 dinner and the arrangements for speaking around the country move along

bwaictkhwamradx#imum frustration# It seems some days that we progress one step forward and two

*

having preferred the "pay-as-you-go" tax system, Rockefeller's arrangement

for the state taxes passed this week is fine with me# I am one of those people who

realising that state taxes at a hightr level as to be paid this year, manage to feel I

have saved a year's payment through the forgiveness of 1958 tax# The admission of Hawaii to statehood has fascinating overtones# I hope someone will get around to an overall

census showing how the addition of the Islands and Alaska have done to the proportion

of whites in the total American population# Unless the flag manufacturers do a mighty

promotion of 49 star flags quickly in Alaska and among collectors of "rare items" they are going to be stuck with a great inventory# At Wednesday's ladies lundieon Roberto

Esquena*i-Mayo pointed out that Cuba followed the Spanish juridical system and had always had three judges and no jury in trials# As he is thoroughly Latin with a better sense of

dramatic effect, including a wonderfully expressive face, than of organising his smterial he satisfied qualms about the possible illegality of the trials of the "Batista butchers" and effectively won their admiration for him and for Castro# For a good many years he

was one of the editors of TIME, Spanish edition, but resigned because he could no longer

stomach the tampering with the truth proscribed from "on high"# It will be interesting to see if the appointment of Clare Booth Luce as Ambassador is confirmed* She may pay the

husband's highhandedness# The Bolivian report was certainly badly timed for

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evening 1

dinner with Ted Higgins, Executive Director of the Pittsburgh

FPA who had problems about his very good TV "Focus on the World" program for today and

their big annual two day forum of late April#

Recently a Mr* Seabrook of the HoUtenohAmerican Line telephoned to give me messages from Mary and Fran* Mahlmayer whom he had met on one of their ships in the Gulf of Mexico# They had asked him to remind me they were hoping I would visit them at Hilversum this Sumner and indeed I hope I may# My check has gone to the UN Cooperative for the BOAC charter from New York on June 5 and leaving London for return on July 14 (all plans will have to wait until the NATO do it over)* This will give me six weeks of nights and week ends to pack and move out of this apartment# A couple of days ago I had a communication from the Temporary State Housing Rent Commission assuring me that I did not have to move until I had a Court Order and that the landlord had agreed to pay me at least $100 to get out#so far as I am concerned this will be "found money" toward the expenses of moving $
Yesterday was wonderful#got ay bundle to the laundry and a dress to the cleaner, did not fail victim drivers game of splashing slush from the fiy.e inches of snow on pedss-
*** *n *our hours at the office made another email dent on accumulation, heard enough ?f Alkan Borgte "Wozzeck" from the Metropolitan Opera to know it is "too modern" for me,
3*TM 8 * m98t *h ,thr* Bon'th 'Id grandson, whose parents were at a wedding. They j .ined us for dinner and I heard officially about Charlie's going October 1st to the Is gal department of Ceneral Eleotrio. Bie babe is angelic and we all had a fine time.

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After 36 hours there are still traces of snowA cornices and the Rockefeller

Plaza planting of Easter lilliee and tulips ie ruined by the cold of Friday night's

mixture of enow, rain and sleet* In fact yesterday morning the temperature was 27 o/o*

Today is sunny, chill but almost windless. Last Sunday was brilliantly dear and so

cold that I wore my fur coat when Aunt Annie and I went to Freeport, where Fran and

Sal were spending the day with their three small sons* The latter are much given to

ung TV trays as stand-up desks to write their names* At almost four Jerry includes

other than his own in his accomplishments, but Bobby a year younger settles for his own*

Just before our train we enjoyed driving along the 20 idle strip of dunes as far as

the Cap TFee Bridge* The brilliant blue sky refle cted itself in bay and ocean and the

strong wind produced white caps and J.ovely mares* tails in the surf as well as streamers

of sand across the rati* Splendid to see from a warned car, but no tem^iation to get

out and walk in*

Aunt Annie performed yoeman service in clearing up the furnished suite possibility in a number of apartment hotels for me* The result is the conclusion this method of life is much too expensive for me* The higi contender for my patronage now is a nsw building at 333 East 46th Street, which will be completed in August* For two and a half times my present rent I can have approximately the same square footage and literally five minutes from my breakfast table to the office desk* Within a month I shall have accomplished the necessary checking to be sure there is nothing else either better or less expensive* However, the frustrations of two busses in each direction would be something to avoid* The tenants hers have all had a communication from the Rent Gontrol Authorities warning that the landlord is getting permission to demolish with ensuing excited conferences and recourse to a lawyer for us to bring suit* I have declined to join them to the initial tune of $150 and count on the six montha delay between re ceipt of eviction notice and its terminal date for moving* I must move by September 1st anyway or I shall be so involved in the office that the transition could never be achieved* It is a long way from being out of the woods, but I begin to take heart even without made any progress in disposal of things I cannot take with me in jjygy; move* Aunt Annie also gave me a new breathing system for the stairs, which I find most helpfulAnwould I had been using it for the past 25 years* Breathe out at the bottom of the flight and in on every second step* Not unlike Australian crawl breath ing and gets me up without/ huffing and puffing*

The NATO dinner is not going well from the standpoint of those who are clamoring to pay $17*50 a cover for the privslege of attending, ^lile the large number of those we must invite free accept readily* I went to the office yesterday to see what was in the mail and found a disappointing few* Uorton White of the American Council on NATO is pleased with himself at having secured the Air Force Symphonettes $$ tp play dinner music without cost* But it means we shall have to feed 30 of them at $5*80 a cover and to comply with the Musicians Union regulations employ a "Standby sextet" at $140 or so* This is not a budgstted figure and adds to our problem. I knew he was anxious for this socially pleasing addition, but he knew I regarded it as a frill to be undertaken when we knew we could afford it $ The jrioe of co-sponsorship is higji and my temper gets mors and more frayed* Happily the State Department is quite content with the NATO project of countries* Ambassadors to NATO and a few Foreign Ministers (four speeches by Turkey*a Zorluand one each by Luns of Netherlands and Lange of Norway) in various parts of the country* From my viewpoint it is a piddling result into idiich I have put a great deal of time and energy* My early Dutch settler blood curdle s at the way the Netherlands Embassy says "Yes, lovely* We accept this appropriate invitation" and then come back with "So sorry, Ambassador Stikker wants Albany on another day and won't do Binghamton at all*" We are now trying a third man for engagements in Texas and Arizona, tfiich they had agreed to for the first two in seriatum* I hope the local groups say they can't do it now*

Yesterday I had an enthusiastic letter from the wife of the Conservative MP re porting on thier first week on the road spent in Toledo* I am afraid their heads have been turned and they will curl up and die when they soon get into the series of one night stands ahead of they* Evelyn McDonald arrived via Washington and brought me news of the Greens* I could only see her one evening with minutes during the office twice.

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D-Day minus two--April 5, 1959 A week of 10 to 13 hour workdays including Saturday left my poor mind in a ' fuas of fatigue when I delivered the table chart to the Waldorf last night at 7i 30, but has at least brought us pretty close to the BIG EVENT, The co-spnscrs are filled with "special requests" for rearrangement of work already done although they were provided on March 10 with the time table of work schedule. We get the floor seating done and then they have to have at least 25 people reseated. As we us the system cl names listed alphabetically with assigned table numbers and guests pick up the list upon arrival and find their tables, this wort of switching is a source cf confusion at the dinner if any clerk is prone to human error and fails to make the change on any of the several involved records* Other aspects of complying with their requests mean countermanding instructions already given and make my blood pressure mount as I am constitutionally unhappy at doing the same thing twice. Sometimes it is easier to comply than to veto^ their bright ideas, I think it is all coming out all right* Meanwhile I get a chance to use different brain lobes through interruptions of long distance telephone calls asking for a speaker on economic developement in Pittsburgh for their big annual forum; from Vermont wanting a Latin American speech and Harrisburg about to go press with their annual meeting notice, which concludes their season's program, and must have someone talk about Africa, Another respite from the problems of the dinner was the need on Friday to say H0fa, my dear" and"How grisly" when Vera came in to tell me her travel experience in making a special trip to Rochester to meet with the University President and others together with a representative of the Ford Foundation concerning what the University imagine would be a fine grant to them* We had agreed that she should go up for it, although we suspect that it was boondoggling on the part <f the little man from Ford, as indeed it did, have been having such dense fog that one of the Queens sailed for Southampton, got into the Lower Bay and anchored for what I think was over 24 hours and might have been almost 48 before they dared to proceed to sea. Nevertheless Vara elected to fly to Rochester on Thursday morning, was telephoned to at five in the morning and told to go to Newark for her seven o'clock flight. Getting a taxi to the town terminal was no mean feat, there they were told no limousine avail able but eventually one was procured for the nasty, low visibility 12 mile trip across the fogbound Jersey Meadows* Confusion and de^tlay at the airport, finally she ordered breakfast but before it could be brought the flight was called. She paid and fled. After further waiting in the plane they were airborn for five minutes when it was announced the landing gear was stuck and the pilot had asked the airport to spread the foam on the airstrip and they would make a non-wheel landing in NEWARK, Ten min utes later the nervowd passengers were informed the landing gear was now working proper ly and they would proceed to Rochester, Happily mechanics worked $here and she reached her office on the campus at 10j30 The little man from Ford was due at eleven and turned up at It30, Somewhat later Friday a near hysterical friend of Mrs. Steel, the woman we had had on trial for Recrods Secretary and who was not satisfactory enough to keep beyond the probational period and whose service had been terminated and we had not seen for almost three weeks, telephoned to tell me that she had died that morning. The friend thought Mrs, Steel was still a valued employee and personally was suffering from an overwhelming sense of guilt in not having gone to see her in response to a telephone call that morning. It was a difficult conversation and the friend made clear to me things which the FPA personnel department should have discovered before they insisted the Speakers Bureau give her a trial--for two years she has been an advanced cardiac ease, having been in and out of hospital, for much longer she had been an alcoholic, and had little regard for the truth. Later in the afternoon my assistant la?.d an equally difficult session with another friend of Mrs. Steel's, who telephoned to find out where the brother worked. the plight of the Dalai Lama, it rather looks sauscihftiRmeed aChsinaavahialdabloevearnrdeamcuhcehd iinttseerlefst and would regret it action, Nehru is in an unenviable spot reminiscent of that of the American Embassy in Budapest with the Hungarian Cardinal a slfinvited two year guest.

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Hurrah, IT is over all but the toting up of expenses and the final report. Everyone seems to hare been impressed and pleased with the smoothness, charm and elegance of the Tuesday night dinner honoring NATO's tenth anniversary. But I am still angry with the way Philippe of the Waldorf behaved right up to the last minute and con vinced that a joint sponsorship affair is almost doubly hard to administer# Especially when the executive of the American Council spends most of his time on tertiary items like arranging for battleships to be in the harbor during the week and when I put a point to him for agreement he says HyesM and then two or three days later comes back and reports he has since talked with his chairman, Frank Pace--president of General Dynamics--who says "no" and meanwhile FPA clerks have been following the "yes" line. In the final analysis ws had four Foreign Ministers, the Canadian Minister of Defence, the Deputy Premier of Greece, 22 Ambassadors, the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe (Noretad), his Deputy (Sir Richard Gale) their seagoing opposite number Admiral Wright and half a dozen others on the double tiered dais--no mean protocol problem to seat* Then the wives of many of them were placed at "Honor tables" on the floor where we had to seare up enough men to balance them and be sure a few could carry on conversation in French in case of need. The usual number of dignitaries regretted and then accepted--one man was at the Dais, unable to come and then on Tuesday back with us. Brentano of Germany accepted and then pulled out to be back in Bonn for the Cabinet meeting to cope with Adenauer's announcement that he would become President* etc.,

Again as usual everyone on the floor was president of an important corpora tion, had a ranking diplomatic guest, was hard of hearing or had some other reason for spec ial treatment in seating* These foil numbered over 800. Because ws wanted the dinner to look even more impressive than it was I filled the best tables on the floor and then put about 150 people in the balcony. Morton White was insistent that we have dinner music,which was pleasant though uhbudeted, and secured the Air Force Symphonettes--a string orchestra of 30. This involved feeding them at the Waldorf and keeping the peace with the Musicians Union by paying $150 for a standby sextet, which we had play at the reception for Guests of Honor. This predinner gathering should have been for 150 people but grew to 250--1 dread seeing the hotel bill for this and may have to fight with Morton White as he "had" to in vite everyone who had done his organization any sort of service in connection with his national campaign for a "Salute to NATO" as well as his parents, his aunt and uncle, etc*

The speeches were not newsworthy -- as the Foreign Minister of the Nether* lands said "We cannot tell our plans and strategy for the Summit meeting", but were informa tive and lead incaly into one another. General Norstad, who has enormous personal charm, was undoubtedly"the most popular perhaps because we only gave him ten minutes and he stuck to it. Poor old Paul-Henri Spaak rather went on and otyf. One day I must read the press releases as I was numb by the time ws got to the speaking and have little memory of what was said.

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in Hie Kanneloupolus home an "odd" woman turned up* These big Mdo"e always are accompanied by curious requests* In fact I
am so hardened to them that I thougrt I knew all the possibilities, but this party brought a fresh one* Fred had already gotten the taxi and Patricia Maguire and I leaving the office when the phone rang* Not knowing what it migit be I asked her to answer even at risk of delaying us* It was the representative of a foundation, which gives the FPA a generous grant, he could not find his collar button and dress studs could John Nason lend him some? Why he ealled the office I shall never know as Nason is listed in the telephone book, but warning him that Nason would be leaving in ten minutes to fstch the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands and his delightful wife, Pat obligingly gave the correct number as spare studs are not something we keep on tap in the office* By sheer chance I ran into this character when he arrived at the recep tion still with dress shirt sans studs* He assured me his dressing would be complete in & few minutes*
There was a rather personal complication in the afternoon* About 3s 30 a florist box was delivered to me with a nice appreciative card from Elisabeth and Hohn Nason* Before I could open it another arrived with a card of grateful thanks from Morton Whits. As "working staff*1 I really prefer not to have a corsage, two presented a problem* Having learned only that morning of the engagement of one of our staff, also to be working that night, I asked her if she would give me the pleasure of seeing the Nason*s large and very beautiful gardenias on her* Since her husband to be was not providing her with flowers she agreed, I called Elisabeth Nason, thanked her, explain ed that for intersorganisation reasons I felt I had to wear the American Gouncil on NATO flowers (three pale pink orchids--spray variety) and about Lillian's engagement and all was well* When I staggered home at quarter before twelve I found my door barridaded with an enormous florist's box, which one of the tenants had taken in and according to a note had opened at lit30 watered and deposited* This turned out to be a very attrac tive 15 inch oblong green ceramic container filled with a curly le&f croton, ivy and half a dozen other small plants with an overwhelmingly graceful note of thanks from the women of the Off-the-Record Luncheon Committee for the selection of speakers* The next day we had the last luncheon of their double series for this season--which has been something of a tax on my time and ingenuity, I must confess. Neverthelsss I was touched by their note and gift.
The Iheeler-Bennetts arrived on Tuesday but I could not see them until last night when thy had dinner with me at the Cosmopolitan dub and went on to "The Rivalry" --an interestingly produced play about the Lincoln-Douglas debates and pre-civil war tussle over states' /rights. Almost every time "slavery" was mentioned , cat could not help translating it "segregation" and realising that the emotion of 100 pears ag/o still still prevailfin a great many quarters. It is staged in the Chinese manner, no use made of Hie curtain, only one set with stage hands wandering in at intervals to provide an extra ohair and table for a "non-debate" sequence, only three major actors and eight very minor people* The play could easily be put on the road with a very low budget for propaganda or campaign purposes* It will be interesting to see if this is done. The Tl^Bs had a fine crossing and are in excellent form* They had enjoyed the plays I had ordered tickets for apn request on Wednesday and Thursday nights when I collapsed to an early bed* Sb Www of today for her Charlottesville and her mother* He goes to Canada for a few days on the "Queen's business" and his own before joining her. They will be back for a bit in New York before they sail on May 27th Oddly enough Martin Hutton from Malaya travels both ways on the same ship, but in a different class* He was in the office on Thursday morning for hiw briefing on the engagements we had made for him to speak in the interim. Not a great many, but he is quite content.
Now "Tosca" is on the radio and I must get on with other things to be done before I dress for dinner with Vera, where I can<6 hear about her week's activities and tell her about the dinner and several problems of the office which we must discuss before she haves tomorrow for Rochester*

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Part of the "be good to me" campaign ia to have a sleep in the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday if X feel like it. Imagine my surprise h en I woke up on Sunday, after a much too long nap for the things I had planned to accomplish, to find f00" falling heavily I Accompanied by sleet this continued for several hours when happily the temperature rose and by morning all the "stuff" was gone from the streets. This on top of a couple of warm days which had brought out the daffodils in the UN park. Two or three more warm days this W#TMek produced bloom on Cardinal Spellman's nagnolias behind St. Patricks. While the flowers are smaller than they should be at least -Si ere are more of them than for the past few years. Maybe he took my mental suggestion and gave them some needed oare. In fact it has been so balmy that the office has turned on the cooling system and most of the staff is yammering they are too cold. Of oourso the cold cones on the weekends and it was well after one last Sunday when Dominic saw fit to give us any heat, I spent the morning writing notes on my lap in front of an open fire. When the office airconditioner is too enthusiastic I rejoice thai I frequently wear a suit to work, or slip into a sweater which is kept
the year around in my desk*
Things aove along in the housing department# My fellow tenants are bringing auit against the landlord, since I plan to move it seems both dishonest and a J**}* of money to join them# Naturally they are annoyed at me, but I hope to support them by going to a Temporary State Housing Rent Commission on Tuesday afternoon. 1 am quite willing to protest the lack of heat and other services. Meanwhile I have oollected floor plans from two other new apartments near the of t ice and reinxorced my view that I probably cannot do better than move into the building in the same block# While I may pay almost three times for approximately the same square rootage but differently divided, I shall spare myself the wear and tear to say nothing of the aggravation of riding two different bus lines between house and office# Everyone says I will use the time saved in transport at the office, but I have other ideas. TBhon I sign a lease a further report will be made*
Hie extra helper I had on the double barrelled NATO project left on Wednesday without tears on anyones part* I gave a small party for her in my office that a 'ternoon, which pleased her# In the midst of trying to clear up the project so as to get back to the great accumulation of normal duties, the Dutch telephoned me that their Permanent Representative to NATO was flat on his back with lumbago ana not be able to go to Albany for a meeting that night! In view of the fact that ^tikker had insisted on a change of date and Albany had arranged for him to see Governor Rockefller and be introduced by the Mayor, his illness rather upset the applecart# No-one was available for substitution so the meeting had to be cancelled. Is there a relation between alcohol and lumbago? I hear that Stikker controls the Heine
works#
Recently I heard a horrid discussion of radar on ships# It appears that one should be trained in its use to take a reading wait three minutes and take another then with ordinary navigational calculations one arrives at a "fix" of the other vessel*8 course# Everyone now being granted a master*s lisense now must take such training, but it is considered beneath the dignity of existing masters to go back for such instruction. We have seen the result of such bowing to pomposity#

Tomorrow I go to Aunt Mary for luncheon and the Eustace Seligman's for cocktails. Next weekend I hope to be at Stony Brook with Molly, Jim and the boys, eager to see how the rook garden emerges# Meanwhile the week contains several committee meetings, e settling of accounts with John Howard, the Coservative MP, at the conclusion of his junket about the country--always a tricky session. However, he and his wife seem to have had a nice time and his American audiences liked him and fcne Canadians were crivi tal. Not seeing when I should have time to buy a spring hat, the old ones have come
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As anticipated Hond^r was a hectic day and because Friday was just as ba^ here I am doing, or at least beginning a chitchat on a Monday evening instead of over the weekend. Friday began with a nine oEclock appointment for a complete physical check-up by Dr, Scanlan, very time consuming. Everything checked out nicely except my left leg circulation, which le/d to the order "No smoking", As under the NATO pressure consumption had been very materially stepped up, this is going to be particularly hard to put into effect, I have already cut down by twothirds and plan to be off completely by the end of the week and still retain my dis position for everyone*s sake, I also had my first typhoid-para-typhoid shot and half the tetanus dost. This Friday we finish the later and do the second of three on the fonner, In view of the desperate illness of Eleanor Gibson several years ago I deliberately opened the door to the typhoid shots which I la ve not had since I went to the Orient, We had a busy day in the office until I had to go to the FPA Executive Committee meeting in the late afternoon, where Eustace Seligcan chided me privately for not going to their cocktail &rty last Sunday and then publicly announced that while he disapproved singling out staff members for special mention he wanted to call attention to the terrific job I had done in connection with NATO*" When it came Nason*s turn he ad libbed about my difficulties with the Foreign Ministers and Ambassa dors and their engagements around the country in a more interesting than truthful manner and contrary to my specific request announced that I had "made" $2,500, for the FPA on the dinner.
All of this kept me so late that I had to have my dinner in town and then take a very alow train to Stony Brook to arrive there about quarter of ten. The Long Island Railroad is celebrating its 125th Anniversary with great fan fare but the wqAfcpment I had was antediluvian in the ears where the lights worked properly, the doors did not, the trainman was young and inexperienced and I arrived tired and out of sorts, The family are all fine and Fred and Bill have shot up another inch or two in the last two months, Saturday was a heavenly day and it was sheer joy to work in the sun cleaning up the rock garden, resetting stones which had been loosened by frost and so on, It seemed a little early to buy annuals as the grape hyacinths were making a fine show as were white violets, but the perrenial alyssium merely giving fine pro mise, The count ry side was pretty with Norway and red-bud maple in full bloom, forsythia making splashes of gold, grass in that vibrant first green, daffodils and narcissi in fh altered places nodded in a gentle breese, but in exposed areas hardly showing well formed buds. None of the tulips and hyacinths I planned rather late have appeared and I did not have the heart or energy to do any exploratory digging* We lost an hour in the night to Daylight Saving Time and Sunday was as horrid with chill ea d spatters of rain as Saturday was magnificent.

At 19 Jay is the proud possessor of a ten ton truck and a contract--oral --to haul sand and gravel for a constraction company. Being a minor he has registered a "trade stylfi" at the county seat of Pratt Trucking Company, joined the Union, expects to pay off the bank loan during the summer and told me gaily that the next time I came he would report how many trucks he controls then. No doubt he and his father know vhere he stands, but I doubt if his mother does and I am sure I do not, For the moment lets put it down to rugged individualism.

Most New Yorkers heaved a sigh of relief when Castro fe ft the city. The strain on those charged with his safety was tremendous. Reports varied from 500 to 1,000 guarding him during his Central Park rally with all the modem equipment of batterers of flood lights, walky talky, and no doubt a fine supply of tear gas as there doubt less was no opportunity to control a crowd with fire hose at the spot, A friend, who went to the big luncheon given by the Overseas Press Club at the Astor testified that he has a winning personality and a sense of humor, I am aftaid I consider him an in experienced idealist vho unwittingly may lend his popularity to people whose aims are quite the opposite of his# It has been clear that he opposed dictatorship in Cuba and in other countries and heartened a vast number of oppressed people in neighboring nations. He may not last very long himslef, but the emotions he has raised will trouble the western hemisphere for many a long day.

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The phrase "as long as a wet week" struck me as apt and especially appro priate to this week* We hare been at the mercy of a front since Sunday and the weather man himself found the continual "showers today and tomorrow" monotonous and began to vary it with "showers today, cloudy tomorrow" leaving us to draw our own gloomy conclusions* My shots induced reaction and the taoering of smok ing | added 5 *-/4Ur & struggle to keen going* At moment life has not been worth living* especially when I did stuoid things like drooping mv bus transfer int* the post box along with office letters b-ing mailed on mv way home at 7:30*
Some of mv friends have borne with me --dinner Tuesday with Maria and Hank at the studdo where I sew the completed portrait of a n$enist whose hands she has tainted suoerblv. His familv presumably know all too well how uninteresting his face Is and do not mind the attention taking ouslitv of the hands* At any rate they like the result. This was a difficult commission* made harder by the thwe8 or four "prettv young women" she oaSnted in raold succession just before getting down to hard work on the man* I think she felt stale and minted out and in danger of being defeated bv this last man. Another night I had dinner with Judith Listowel* mho is busv writing a novel and correcting galleys on a book of Modern Manners designed for the new rich of England. Her publishers exrect it to be a best seller for a couple of years in a hard coyer and then reissue it as a caper back for the less well-heeled* As I glanced over the sheets, it would seem that she has done a first class job without appearing to be patronising though she had been instructed to put in such details as in leving the tablewthe fork is placed on the left with the prongs UP". She ... will flv bv jet to London in three weeks and wants me to stay with her there at the moment my clans awe so nebulous that I am not even sure I want to stav in London at all* Maybe in the course of the next month I shall get caught UP some en rest and be eager to anjnv the theatre and other diversions of the city*
The Turks gave a cartv this week to show a film on Ataturk, I could only stav for the first cart and found it made use of good newsreel shots of oreWorld War I visits of the German Kaiser ard contemporary leaders. Great skill must have been used in reproducing them as the flickering and jumos usually cresnet in such old newsreels were lacking* Nuri Eran asked Dorothv Thompson to tell us about her interview with Ataturk. Not hs-ing aeen her in two or thre vears I was shocked bv a recent acouired stoop which adds vears to her arcearance* She began with vigor and humor an** for a while delighted her audience but soon Otto Toliechus (New York Tim est) and I were whispering about dates she was mentioning, especially in relation to her age* It was evident she had approached her interview with the Turkish dictator with awe and had been comoletelv cacitvated bv him* I began to wonder as she explained his reasons for state capitalism* whether it was not this interview that started her enthusiasm for the Arab world, which more recently has become so intense that she is charged with anti-Semitism* Giving no sign to her audience of concluding, Mr. Eren auietlv rose, poured a glass of water and handed it to her* I have never seen a suaver or more effective method of terminating a speech.
Yesterdav morning I went to Dr* Scanlon for the second round of shots, but when she saw large bulge on mv left biceo she decided that we must wait for this reaction to subside. Tomorrow I am off bv afternoon train for Washington for two dys of conference on India and then a day of seeing people. The French, the Dutch, the State Department are already lined UP. We shall see how many of the hd. f dozen more I want to cover can be included* There is too much in the office and here to be done before I leave June 5 on mv holiday to stretch Washington another day* Although^ the hearing about the landlord's plans for this building has not yet resulted in a hearing, I rather suspect his drespis will hot be approv ed* Given the strength I shall move in late August anyway, and wanted to sign the lease bv this time!

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was not time to go across the Potomac for luncheon , !! 9r1-9nd9 Embassy. There just

Category Of "fun". I came back o,, the rf+emlll

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P"B*aS <*<> it wee in the

not ouite so interesting as going dc-n on

CBgresslo"I 9nd found the trin back

arlv auiater. While northern New Jera.y v, I afternoon when I oasead fran enring to

to observe natur. arc infmucnt from the t^in^rT-ft

that "oportunitiep

bloom and arrived through Progressive stages to I kj J

tr9e" nd foravthia

candles of bloom on hor^che^ta, mlaaaa ff a-!^ f"

fuU leaV8fl "" tR999

wreath showers of white. On the return f,,r * h.'" "d "w\TM8"8 9CC9nted bv bridal

flowers decorated the interestingly structured ,7n

I Wa3hlnett"1 lavendar Cataloe

veer for dogwood, there used to be a lit be^en SH y I"!' aiR would

a. row

some, marv of the trees had erares bloem,

nd

and while I saw

back

S ZT rU! + th8 B8t8 ^ brought'

stunid goof Frod wtdo while I m8 mwmv Bnd ^ Ur,Q"]f* of ^rKncia., one of which I

thought UP. He did not look well onlhulsdlv^ ^aome edminietrational difficulties he hid I

nenoda of temnerament i+, win be tough.

"aye to cone with another of hie

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ts still too ewniisn^or ttI+e#Iond"

th""1!TM *1* -- d9' *v"d r0luJd of shots. The tetanus' l

(Actually last Saturday night it was wo Jarg^nd

th! trouble

did last weekend. I

"hives"on mv right arm, I wondered if T oho, i i " ?r 7

wd't,< m "utcrooDing 0f

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tvrhoid end diagnosed w "biyee" ae ebincl as rX"'*" W9ahlnSt"n.) She gave me the second I

It is doubtless nsvchologieal, but I take li++? "rIer' ? medication, lotion and rest.

I

is Shingls. the visable bulls irritltl ml morl InlfIf,1" ad?lttioE ^

I know

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where and looking quickly to ace if I ,m "brHn~ ,,,,+lr'n'I,V8 I linking it hurts elee-

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that this ia definita warning of fatigue and T m +? Ver *, Xt must b" <britted



reason why I should abandon Europe T 'oh n V

ciing accordinglv. Sc.nlen eeea no ' I

At leeat I -m not ruahllg IboH IIi'.

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Yesterday there wee a brie f nried . m0r"1"g d h Jud'th looking at apartments as planned.

room, kitehen and bath at 10 Mitche) ' PiL? ftIy B*Im Hi^ohoo,,k --ntd to sell her three-| Another friend, who has .o anSarfttmmeeln+t tthhelrre., nwe!ar,ly f^ai8 nted wlnhTen lsvhe*teartdheth$17a,0sk00ingshe wnt

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Progress iw bain* wde with the shingles but the aide affects l*ava little xei for life? Tuesday for better or worse I took the bull bv the home, cancelled ray trip to Europe anolving for repayment of fare end wrote the appropriate reorla with great regret. Kh?t appeared to be a fresh outeropping over on the left shoulder that evening thorough!* frightened me and sent me scrambling to Dr. Scanlan the next morning. Her - associate confirmed the diagnosis and a series of B-12 injecti.ons was added to the treat ment, Since then the original eruptions on the right arm gradually subside and fresh ones appear, submit to treatment and do not become clusters. It is onlv honest to admit that I coddle myself, have gone back to smoking, take sleeping pills and try not to do one thing more than necessary.

Sunday night I had dinner with Maria. Hank and Judith at the studio and compared notes with Marl* on what she found helpful two years ago --liberal libations of alcohoi. I was successful in fighting off Hank's insistence that I tak* home part of a bottle of Polish vodka, which he considers better than the Russian. Mondav I took Charles Buschong, who is leaving our staff to get hin PhD, to Lunch and found that he had had shingles in Feb ruary and had another session of "do's and Don'ts" from his experience^ and took cheer from his testimony that one does have pain in unrelated areas. This one grins and bears with the full knowledge that this virus of the nerves finds its victims in the too fati gued and that in time rest and the avoidance of worry clears UP. The office is not a graat help, though I make a point of going in late each dav. The Speaksrs Bureau ha been deprived of its temporary helper as the result of a fight between inert characters in the Personnel Department and the Union. For three days both Fred and I spent a great deal of time in negotiation and intrigue both as matter of simple justice and our own self interest in keening Carol until she had cleared UP a backlog of work or a permanent employee was found. Just before I went UP to the doctor for a shot on Friday I accepted the defeat and told Carol to prepare to leave at five. For a well brought UP giwl two vears out of college she behaved verv badlv, refusing to accept the refusal of the Union to grant our reouest for extension of her temporary emr.1 pyment beyond the term stipulated bv thfc contract. Even after she accused me of compromise, I asked her to prove she had not had the stipulated davs of work and offered to refight the whole thing if she had a leg to stand on. She couldn*t end to get rid of her I gave permission for her to talk with the Personnel Director and the Union Shop Chairman--a process which took her most of the afternoon and reduced her to tears and left me with the feeling that she has not endeared herself or the Speakers Bureau in either auarter.

On the other hand I have had rather interesting interviews with the English widow of Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee, a rather uncoordinated lady lawyer, who wants to come back next autumn for a series of lectures on the humanitarian services of the U.N. She enlivens her talkg with tape recordings of the voices of great men making important pro nouncements. Unless I misjudge her efficiency she would probably sav "Now let us hear what Sir John Bovd-^Orr said on this subject" and out would come Sir Leslie Munro's boom on quite another matter, which would remind her of some facet of that subject and off she would flwlly* about this totally unrelated affair. Th day before Nirmal Chaudhuri, Calcutta native and U.S. citizen of one veer. He haa just returned from an interesting trip around the world and has collected some useful material. In several instances he told me things I consider "off-beat", little known and doubtless true. Several atempts to talk with Generalissimo's (CliangKaiSheK) son, to i* head of secret police in Formosa, were unavailing but Chaudhuri is convinced that as son as the old man dias th eon willin accordance with a secret agreement already made hand over the island to the Red Chinese. On the other hand he would not be surprised to see Red China admitted to the UN in the on coming 14th General Assemblv of the UN. I suspect that Chaudhuri has ambitions of becoming a U.S. Congressman even aa his former compatriot Saund of California.

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Amy. bless her hospitable hesrfc, has asked me to spend mv holiday with them. Has address

from about June 8 to Ju$v 8 will be c/o Mrs. Douglas Dewar, Box 2*7, Penticton, B.C., Canada.

Meanwhile I do not fuss about moving or finding the new apartment, will probably spend this

next weekend with Martha and Cleva, and read a lot--Storm Jamison's "One Ulvsses Too Manv",

"The Trial of Dr. Adams" bv Svbille Bedford* "Miss Plum &Miss Penny" bv Dorothy E. Snith &

"The Privilege wa Mine" bv Princess Zinaida Sphakoyckov-- strangely all women authors!

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Msv 24, 1959 If there i an unexpected fragrance about thie sheet it is just that I write in front ef a great bowl of l\v of the vaUevwhich soring from a, horizontal sorer of pink bush honev suckle, The latter was presented to me b almost three veer old Bobbv, who must have clutched it in a tight fist for twentv minutes from his house to hie grandfather's, No one axreci it to survive the ordeal, vet it b*ohs raa singly well. Tomorrow I shall doubtless be rainfullv aware that I picked the lilies ravself!

^ f"" * I*""*"** -hich is always ore-, ceeded bv his ,tvl4ngand cutting the front since I refuse to give uo mv back

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Protests that he is cutting too much and the usual bland smiles

aInn*d when si^mceombhedrritf our t tihefr*e misln^norfttwenocuugih' f^ or mv tra^diatigoenatol rpoerlml.a.n,ejnutstita mass of softly curled white hair. Martha nd Fran s-v it is becoming I havenot oassed judgement. At 1-aat mv coiffure is not ruined if I Hear mv hSr".

Bv mid-afternoon Then I reached Cl*ve and Marth the weather had turned cool after almost a week of horrid heat and humidity We went earlv enough to dinner at The Candlelight in Mnhasset for me to see how lovelv the sowing is. ... in a rather mixed up war, Asaleas anJ rhododendrons at the eame time, not el wave with the most oleasing color combinations as the planters had clearv counted |sn successive blooming. Long nendsnts of wisteria hanging over Per sistent tuli a, great splashes of oriental roooies in front of etartlinglv white snowball bushes. The dogwood, which has been outstandingly beautiful on long Island is over save for some of the rink. All the trees are in full leaf and the viId cherry trees in peak of flower, ale* h*rse chestnuts. We noticed that manv 0f the Nrw waples have extraordinarilv large leaves. It was n eye filling drive, though the tulip* at the ~?t.urant, vfcioh had been magnificent s0BtMilolnldosvve*l*v*. bean rlaced in all but three beds--one of about 75 white were

This ftemoon the little bovs came for birthdav cake and ice cream and*we got back to our weekend project of eatablishing a bird bath on the back lawn. It could not be on the traditional pedestal lest a grandson will it over, so it wa *laced on a carefully contrived base of a cemant bl*ck and bricks carefullv covered with earth. Clve had a stroke of genius and nut a rim of sod around the base and I planted violets, bonevSUCkie (to hold the soil and be trimmed ) and then added red petunias, I hope thev will be removed as soon as nestureiums make rrograss. A trip to the nurserv produced nothing we thought suitable-- though Martha did get some fine fuschia Plants,

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I had scheduled

v** from Malave conference with

twwaontoinf gthheisR"ewgrioapn-aulpM

Directors, But everything ws somehow accomplished, even ifi Director from the

FPA Atlanta office turned u at 2.30 for a 12 noon appointment, Protesting that

he thought nis boss had told me of his summons to luncheon with some one at the ~

Ford Foundation* After a new cluster of outcropping on Monday, the shingles have

steadilv improve,, and the trios to the doctor for more injections of B-12 con

tinue to keep me arriving late at the office. The UN Cooperative has sent my

refund so the $306. I was prepared to sacrifice is back in the bank and ready to

go te NoriAwes* Airlines, which has confirmed mv sr>ace on Flight 4l on Saturday,

June 6 nonetop New York to Seattle. Since the latter is one WjU standard time

end Vancouver on daylight I'll stay the night in Seattle and flv on to Vancouver

Sundav morning when Mary will meet me. I am h*^ing she will go on to Penticton with me for a while.

Po<r Mr. Dulles, I am glad for his release but sardoniclv amused that he is so mourned bv the very people who complained most bitterly about "brinkmanship"

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After the brisk clarity of air and ekv Sunday and Monday the heat and ' humidity settled in again with all its disagreeable, energy saoping traits# Poor Walter Schvinn, here on home Wye from Saudi Arabia and its terrific dry heat r<mmotlv caught cold and had to spend most of one dav in bed. Result I was not
free to lunch nor have a drink with him on Wednesday because of the FPA Board of Director*8 meeting, We settled for a good chat on the teleohone and the hope that things will be better in late Julv before he starts back. Monday I lunched with the Whe!ensBonnetie at the Knickerbocker Cl ub, which h reciprocal relations with one of his London clubs, Brooks's. Ruth did not I*oV M w*n a* vh*n thev
arrived and was frustrated bv her faijure to find several things she wanted to buy# John looked splendidly and was haopv with all ha had Accomplished here and in Canada, partly on "the Queers business" and prtlv his own. Hi current pro ject is gathering material on John Anderson, who bec*me the first Viscount of Waverlev in 195? for a biograohv# Lord Wavarlav has had a Horatio Alger career, the son of a poor Scot, who had to work hard for- the eight rounds tuition at the Ga^pga Watson'8 Collage in Edinburgh and through tffailitv and mo^s hard work made
a solendid record in British in Africa, India and at home. All this has led John to a aide interest in Alger books, some of which are now being printed in oaper backs. He was enchanted at fhr off*r to send him four conies I had salvaged from the family books at Bavport, While in Charlottesville chitting with the service station attendant, the latter said he was glad to hear that John had made his wife some kind of lad*# The material Katharine included talks with Eisenhower and Tru man (two separate trips to Washington) Vanorar Bu*h and countless others,

Tuesday in a fit of absent mindedness I agreed to see Judith Listowel fcr the return of my silver, china and household bits and pieces she has been using at a ti^e T should havs been at the French Embassy meeting Finance Minister Pinav. She was exhausted and somewhat distraught on the eve of her departure bv jet for London#.# ar entirely unsatisfactory meeting. Bv Thursday night I wae too exhausted to go
to the Irish Ambassador for an "Evening Partv from 9:30 ran to 1:30 am" for which I was sad# Saturday being Memorial Dav the office was closed on Fridav, but after
t o the doctor for the final tetanus shot and making four purchases at the near by B1oomingda!e*s I joined mv administrative secretary at the office for some clean ur work, (He gets time and half for the day, I get nothing) but the satisfaction of having tossed out a lot of clutter.) My purchases included a drlp-drv cotton with an overall pattern which made me think of tip W.H.Hudaon "Green Mansions" treTvcal forest. Yesterday I mothproofed the winter clothes but forgot t| blankets. Progress is being made, though my papers here are still most untidv and today will nfrfc be long enough to out them in order, as I must go to Aunt Marv at some point.

The Delegates Lounge at the UN stripped of all furniture startled me Thuredav

at lunch time. It head, been denuded because King Baudouin was expected at three

o clock for chamgagne. He seems to have made a verv good impression here, in fact

the NY TIMES wrote a nice little editorial about him ouoting the part of his speech

before the joint session of the Congress where he disagreed with calling America a melting pot, feeling "a mosaic" better since for in it each nation, people and

race

has come to its shores has been privileged to keen *ts individuality,

contributing at the seme time its share of the unified pattern of a new nation#"

After several davs of more or less aule*cen$e rav shingles were very irritating II weekend sod through Wednesday, A new left am "bunm" was unsuccessful in attracting a cluster, one feeble second began then both thrught better- of it and withdrew. Dr, Scanlan warns this mav go on for -eeka. Mv ticket for next Saturday reads: Northwest Flight 1 f^ora New York at 2:30 June 6: United Flight 393 from Seattle at 11:35 am Juno 7? United Flight 128 at 7:45 pw Julv 10 from Vancouver and Northwest Flight 10 at 10 p.m. Seattle to New York# all flighta are nonstop and I
am due at 9,40 a.m. on the Saturday--same flight I had last year getting home in time to iav in supplies. Meanwhile e/o Mrs, Douglas De^ay, Box 237, Pentieton, B.C., Canada

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Pat Dew^r has been good enough to let me use her typewriter this afternoon for a feeble attempt to catch up on two weeks# The less said about the last week in the office the better--a breathless whirl already receded into misty memory# Several important and rather complex things came up in the office and Friday I slugged it out until nine o'clock in an unavailing attempt to leave things in moderately good condition# By the time I started my dinner the telephone began with Aunt Annie calling from Albany to wish me God speed# Unable to take time for the hairdresser I shampooed my hair and went to bed# Saturday morning the NY state in come tax had to be laboriously calculated and the first half year payment made. It is a wonder that the hurried packing did not result in more curious results that it did....#for example half a dozen pairs of gloves and no bed jacket# In the end I flipped off to the airport without doing all the notes I had counted on polishing off# The North West nonstop flight to Seattle was good, they fed a full load well# At 18,000 feet we encountered enough turbulance several times to require seat belts, but we arrived on time and I was more than ready for my comforatble bed at the Olympic Hotel# I felt a little silly at nine o'clock, their time,to ask for an eight o'clock call in the morning but by my time it was one a.m. and I had risen at seven# To my great amazement we stop ped at Bellingham on the my up and as there was some cloud I had elected the Puget Sound side of the plane instead of the non-visible mountain side# It was fun watching the wee islands and ruggedly indented shore line with which "Tug Boat Annie" had so many adven tures. Mary and her eldest daughter Poppy met me and it was lovely to settle in at the Pilot House Road place with its superb view of the entrance to Vancouver harbor# The garden was gajr with roses, iris, foxglove,rhodedendron, the tag end of the arbutus tree bloom, lilac, snowball, broom and dozens of other things#
We spent gentle days with a lovely ramble Monday to the Cove to see the new boat in the family and along the shore to see the large anchor fastened to a rock as a memorial to Captain Caulfield, who had established his home close by Point Atkinson# Mary's house is his original home, to which various members of her family have made additions and im provements# That afternoon I slipped on a wet step and fell tidily with my right knee under me# Most extraordinarily my hose were undamaged, but both ankles were strained, two toes on might right foot badly bruised and my knee very painful# This ended wilks and dictated rather more rest than I would have had otherwise, but some wonderful oint ment from England called Arthripax after a hot epsom salt bath did wonders# Poppy came down from her house for coffee with us each day aid frequently for tea in the afternoon# All Tuesday it rained and consistenly the temperature ranged from I4.8 0/0 to 6, so the oil burner kept the house comfortable# By Wednesday I was up to a little gentle gardening in the afternoon before people came for a drink before dinner# The next day we went to Poppy's for a drink with another neighbor after we had all been to Park Royal on a shop ping spree#
Fric^y Douglas Adair left his office early to drive his fiancee Mary Louise Bauer, Mary and me to his parent's# Despite Friday afternoon traffic we made the 2J?0 miles which included going through downtown Vancouver and over the mountains between 1:30 and 7:15* There is still a great deal of snow on the mountains and a one point the forest was so dense beside the road that snow remained in its shade to within six feet of the passing traffic# In more open places there were many wild flowers, lupine and wild phlox making patches of blue, yellow splashes of dog daisies and pastures filled with butter cups, mustard and daisies# Everywhere the new grown on trees adds a contrasting shade of green# Amy, Douglas and Pat all look splendidly after their stay in California. The #pr spring has been so cold they do not expect much of a fruit crop and the wild asparagus is still about for the picking. The night before we arrived Douglas fired the chef, but Amy got an excellent local woman temporarily and we fared well at the gala dinner last night for Mayy Louise's birthday# Mary and I elected to take the Bandbox a two bedrooqi, sittingroom with dining alcove, kitchen and bath suite over the garage. She makes our coffee and the waitress-chambermaid tidies up when we step over to the house# Maybe we
will go to the big house now the weekenders have left. The lake is still too^^ld'for
swimming, but the peace of the mountains is already getting in its sootM-"5

June 2o, 3->y
Pat has gone rowing so this time I have her machine by implied permission only. As I shall probably not write another chitchat from here, a sketch of the future may be useful, Wednesday, Dominion Day is a holiday and rather awkward in view of Thursday being the Dewar1s wedding anniversary and they are giving a cocktail party. So far Amy has not been successful in obtaining a permanent replacement for the chef Douglas fired the night before our arrival, A couple of Pentictoh matrons have "obliged" in succession. The one who agreed to stay until the man could be found has now gone home with flu. We have not suffered at all. For either one or both of the "dailies" who come out with the orchard men from town have turned to, except on Sunday, Since we limp along with the Estonian butler and the Austrian waitress today, Amy asked at luncheon if we could do without tea today. However, when she proposed this to the waitress, such a change in routine was not to be listened to and in a few minutes I shall have to go down stairs again, \my is still troubled about canapes and "fancy" oddments for the party, Mary and I were successful is persuading her not to have a big tea in ten days time and feel that a real achievement. On Thursday, July 9, the butler-chauffeur will drive Mary, Douglas and me to Vancouver, He has a Board meeting or two and I will have about twenty-four hours, probably at Pilot House Raod house with Mary and on the 10th take my night flight home.
Last night we went to town for cards, the night before for an evening party to meet a young Englishman who teaches Japanese language and history at the U, of B,G, During the w^r he applied for Turkish language instruction and was assigned to Japanese, and made that his career. How familiar it all seems. Somehow we usually all get down stairs by eleven-thirty in the morning and go for an hour's walk. Today Amy drove along the "old" road which leads from Penticton to the U,S. border to apoint we had not explored before-- although not more than two miles from the south boundary of their property we found large clumps of ground cac tus with rose colored buds and a a lovely cle^r yellow flower and raariposa lilies. I have never seen the cactus ofi the Banbury property, though there is a hillside where there should be plenty of mariposas soon, Yesterday we went to Okanagan Falls to the Green Sage "Museum" of Okanogan Life--which turned out to be a series of rough trails leading from one enclosure to another.,,, rattlesnakes, gophers, beavers,
mountain goats, pack rats, porcupines and a grat collection of birds. It was great fun and well worth the scramble from group to group. On the way down we saw two bald eagles in a dead pine tree at the edge of the lake, which after we had had a good look obligingly gave a fine demonstration of their soaring about. Mary said the eagles all live in Canada now, and I must admit that these were such evil looking birds we can well do without them. Our national emblem eagle is certainly idealized and bears little resemblance to the nasty creatures we watched^
Monday-June 29..*tea intervened after which Pat and I became very involved in an afghan I am helping her to make from odds and ends of wool Helen had bought. Then I was delayed in dressing for dinner by a tramp's eviction from the premises by Rudy, the man who cares for the " house garden" aid lawns, which are under are subject to continual spraying. He invariably sets a sprayer near the rose garden when I w5nt to cut the dead blooms in the late afternoon after the sun has moved frcm there. If he seems me he promptly cuts it off and then I feel I am interferring with his rotation plani Thus far we have failed to catch on the TV any of the pictures of the Queen's progress westward. The local paper is more concerned with the Cherry Queen and the two Vancouver papers give only indifferent coverage, although I must confess my reading is sporadic at best. We all avidly follow the expose of a self styled "Bishop", parden me, "Archbishop of the Temple of the More Abundant Life", who operates from a "palace" at Burnaby near Vancouver. He has assumed the name of Wolsey and claims degrees from universities which never heard of him as well as high sounding non-existant institutions. In addition to deserting wife and children he has had a lurid career of faking whatever seemed to offer money or power for 20 years,

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July $, 19^9 FLASH . * On Dominion Day, after turing the matter over in my mind for 2ii hours I wrote the office that ray return would be delayed by a week. The Dewars all urged me to stay longer and despite the rest and comfort I am enjoying the great void, -which once was reserve energy, seems still pretty big* At the same time I wrote for flight space for the 17th instead of the 10th and keep my fin gers crossed, that it will be confirmed I should have liked to make it two weeks more, but my assistant is scheduled to go on his holiday on the 17th and I cannot leave the Speakers Bureau uncovered Should transportation create need for a major shift I'll let you know, otherwise I should be at home about noon on July fan- 18th The present plan is that the Dewars and Mary and I will drive to Vancouver on Wednesday, the lth I expect I'll go back to Pilot House Road with Mary for two nights Haines at the Point Grey Road house is really too old to take care of four, and the Dewars still keep an open mind about going to Victoria for the Garden Party, but"it clearly understood that I will not

The 38th Wedding Anniversary Cocktail party on the second was a great success, We were prepared to have it indoors or on the terrace and lawn up until one hour before the guests arrived The house was filled with masses of flowers, my con tribution being two arrangements of Scotch and Canadian thistles laboriously cut with some slight loss of bloodi Benches, small tables and chairs were arranged, on the lawn and the butler had set up a large table with the bar At last we opted for outdoors and thank heaven the afternoon remained fine ,, About the time people should have thought of going home, a huge turkey and wonderful homemade hot buttered rolls and coffee appeared on the long table on the terrace Amy's thought being that people who had come so far, should have something for the road We have never taken time to make a final count, but my guess is that we must have had almost seventy people The staff were superb, not only working like beavers all day but managing to give us dinner somewhere about nine

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This mroning Amy, Pat and I went to torn to church at St Saviour's , where

Canon Eagles have some ideas of his own about how long a communion service

should be--five long hymns and all verses of each I lost my he^rt to a small

altar boy, who was clearly participating in his first service and had to be

guided by an older unordained young man An interesting sermon on the desire-

ability of more frequent communion

The waitress is laid up and while Amy

and I were at the drugstore getting a perscription for her and seme more vitamins

for me, there was a heavy deluge Later when we were having our after-luncheon-

card-game there was another violent storm with some hail--we hope the cherries

which the pickers will be after this week were not damaged We were glad we had

picked strawberries for the table yesterday and red currents for jelly yesterday

after tea The sun is out brilliantly now and I should be out ater the black

currents which we had marked in our minds for picking today It is fascinating

the way things "come-on" all in a rush One day I rush to Amy with the news that

the first nastursium has bloomed along the driveway and three days later I picked

a hu&e bunch

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Two weeks ago four prisoners escaped from a minimum-security prison on Vancouver Island , five days later Hazel Knox going home from a party after midnight saw a man in her shrubbery Her challenge was answered by "I'm in trouble Please telephone the police to come and pick me up" Very cleverly she took him to a neighbor's were she knew they were still up and then had to argue with the R.G.M.P that she was not playing games with them and really had an escapee
travelled about 2/0 miles and somehow gotten across to the mainland The other three subsequently surrendered.

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A refugee from the humidity in the airconditioned office X am. Things have quieted down and its seems a good idea to write here ' as my hand sticks to tne paper at home to the extent that balancxne the check book and paying a few bills is all the writing I have been able to UUf

011 Wednesday of last week Amy and the chauffeur drove Mary and a friend and me down to Vancouver. As it promised to be hot we

planned a pickni luncheon which was eaten in a dense pine forfest at the

edge of a roaring mountain stream.

Actually it was not as warm driving as

had3? ft th

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It as we reaahed New Westminister a hour after the Queen

had left there and the Veterans Hospital in Vancouver 20 minutes after the

loyal party had departed we did not get into any traffic tie-ups. Douglas

had been in town since the previous Thursday evening on business was having

a bout of bronchitis and temperature. Mary and I merely greeted him, had a

cup of tea and had the chauffeur take us over to her house.

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noon they still had not cleared my flight for that evening and so I decided

d just settle it and confirm my reservation for the Saturday night

Marv

and I had had a pleasant time and I got in a few licks in her garden In the

way of cutting back roses and things that the once-a-week Chinese gardener

was not permitted to do. Amy came for Thursday afternoon and agiin onSaturday

for luncheon and tea. On Friday she and Douglas flew to Victoria, where he went to bed in the Empress Hotel until time to go to the Garden Party at

Government House, which they thoroughly enjoyed as they saw a lot of friends

they had not seen in a long time

the Queen impressed them as being wWte

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speaking to about twnety people she reitred to a summer house

while the Prince went about chatting gaily with all and sundry. I have been

sorry to see newspaper weports about her being tired to the point of illness

and the press of England clamoring for the cancellation of the remainder of

the trip The functions and the travel are bad enough, but it seems too mL

for her to have to spend between two and three hours each day with affairs of state as transmitted to her each day in the official despatch box.

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Saturday afternoon Amy drove me and my luggage over to

fTan^l eHr StPPing fr & fGW minUtGS at her Club' ** were joined by Douglas

ar y dinner at the Ritz Hotel..,.agay occasion and a superb dinner

Gav

because Douglas had thrown off his bronchitis, Amy had seen her docto^ and'engaged

a cook, a man who had been ten years in the Canadian Navy and had excellent

recommendations from the officers' mess, and my health had been restored by mv

long stay m B.C.

The flight back was routine except that heavy cloud and

V late into n bhrugh raost of tie country slowed us down and we were 40 minutes

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The apartment was clean, but the humidity got me and

ep TMs o the afternoon. The office was serene on Monday and Fred had

great thoughtfulness in feeding me one set of things at a tlmef She ^w secre-

tary is a nice child and we think she will pick up speed as she goes along t am

still having trouble with the three hours time change. I am not hungry at'meal

to IIoIL w the hun,idity I,m sleepy all the time: I had to beg off from a
showier Fran is giving tonight for her brother's fiancee, Belli. faturdall

to Stony Brook, where Molly's brother and sister-in-law from Alabama will be Ld

tsoStLSShelthbWImdf

Aunt t0

MaI'tha ^WCeld6dViDeg fWriUthbeS D big

cA0u01g5utsatil8thpaartdy

they

are giving AnniS wiU

Stay with me a few days before, I hope, and again after she has paid a misit at

filSS ctrS*a

1S 3 Sreat break that tbe landlord's attempt to put us out I

64th street has been thwarted and I do not HAVE to move. I still want to if

weatier clears up and I can find a reasonable place and move before Labor Da

.C. was wonderful and 1 am most great to Mary and the Dewars for giving me

a fine rest and a delightful time.

And now into the heat

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August 13, 1959 . . . The Office
It is after six and the air conditioning is still on so I'll no longer hope to write from home , but bat out something here. The first weekend I was home from B.C. I went to Stong Brook to see the family there and had a fine time. Everything lushy green from their damp and almost sunless summer. Lots of weeding and pruning to do in the Rock Garden. The next I went to Freeport to help Martha with a big cocktail party she was giving for the bride and groom. Saturday was pretty hot and we worked liked beavers precooking hot canapes to be stored in tins, unpacked the next day and reheatedj preparing the cold canapes and packing them in damp tov/els in the frig# Sunday I did the dips. Martha is so hospitable that she had a great many varieties of everything. Happily Sunday was crisp and cool, so things like cheese puffs stayed right, whereas on Saturday they went limp in the short time it took to cool and pack "em. It was a nice party and people stayed and stayed. The matriach aunt of Delli's family said to Clevee "The invitation read 4:30 to 6:30. But I did not know if your mother meant 6:30 p.m. or a.m. " He replied "She meant you were not to come after 6:30 p.m." At 7:30 the major exodus took place , but it was 9 before we could waerily take ourselves off to get something to eat with a couple who felt traffice back to New York would be more than they wanted to cope with before 11. By that time Cleve and I had managed to run a couple of dishwasher loads and do the basic clean up and were glad enough when Martha
voted to leave the rest until morning.
I could have told the Colbys they would have bad traffic, but didn't. The Sunday before I took the train from Stony Brook to Huntington where Ed Macy met me We went to his house for a while on the shore of the Northport Bay and then with his wife drove to Manhasset for a buffet--FRA Regional Representatives from all over the country. The man from Denver had babysitter trouble and turned up a little before ten. Wanting especially to see his wife, I was conscious of train after train departing. Finally Dick offered to drive me to the subway and even between 11 and 11:30 we ran into so much traffic on the parkway that he took alternate routes. Home at 12:1)5 and in the office early but not too bright to do a briefing with the men, many of whom were new.
Last Friday Aunt Annie, just back from a month in Michigan, came to me for the night and we went on the 9:30 train to Freeport for Clevee's wedding. The Russells very thoughtfully provided little booklets with the Nuptial Mass in English, cleverly illustra ted with figures of the priest in the position he took for the successive phases. I almost managed to follow the service despite the rapidity with which he read the Latin version of the Communion and his very low voice, inaudible even in the front pews most of the time. Delli looked lovely without her glasses and in a long white silk crinoline , pearl crown and Fran's finger length veil. She carried a white missal with stephanosis. Her next older sister was matron of honor, Sal was best man. Jay and two ctf Cleve*s fraternity mates were ushers. Fran looked beautiful in the blue waltz length nylon organza dress, the other two bridesmaids were class mates of Delli*s at college. Martha wore a most becoming moss green lace sheath with a tiny sequin hat dyed to match as were her satin slippers. Mrs. Russell wore a ebige sheath, which from the standpoint of color did nothing for her. The men all sweltered in morning coats and striped pants. I was sure it would be hot and wore a strange shade of dusty pink pima cotton, which I nave cherished for several years, with a magnificent enormous black Italian horsehair hat and long black gloves. Afterwards we went to the Russells and had a look at the "loot" and then 62 sat down to a four course meal with delicious half a broiled chicken as mainstay. Delli^ used the knife from the carving set (Thelma and Cal sent from Georgiato go with her silver service to cut the three tiered cake. Aunt Annie and I left with Molly and Jim, Jay and his date for Stony Brook before the horde expected to come later began to arrive. The Russell house is not large and they managed beautifully. I was lucky in being placed directly across the table from Clevee and Sal with Delli slightly to the ieft and had a nice chance to talk with them, in between toasts in champagne, remarks by the two fathers and a very graceful little speak Clevee made thanking us all for coming. Monday morning he and his bride turned up at Lafayette, where his favorite Army Captian commisssioned as Second Lieutenant. Clevee did not bend a knee and Delli was unable to pin on his bars without the Captains help. In two weeks he reports to Aberdeen for his basic and time will will reveal where he is assigned. Delli has taken a job in Freeport Junior HS library.

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August 1.0, 1059

Th.rine the'earlv hours of this nooning Canada sent us a lovelv breath of dry air

.hioh^reot mder the -odden blanket of humidity which has stiffled New York for- sof It was not cold nor driv-n by a strong wind, but 80 degrees with at least 20 -
',n+ ff +he humidity provided a welcome change, not heralded to lost more than one day but nonetheless welcome, Monday was the moat uncomfortable-end admitted 90 o/o and*over 80 humidity. Result --eyeryone rushed un the airconditioners, turned on. tne...

extra fane and oreoared more ided drinks until mid-afternoon, sharao six Con hdison

cobles burned out from oyerload. The comnany then turned off Ifce^ +n the East River between 59th Street on the west side and 74th Strret on the e. t u +n ym+h Half million oeoole were left in a nriraitive stage, some for ?4 hours,

wi+houttraffic lights and later lacking street illumination traffic snarled, swank

hotels used a few candles at key ooints while the rest of the lobby remained a dark

cavern, neonle who seldom walked further than from a taxi to an elevator to get home a! the ohoice of climbing innumerable flights of draarv, unlit fire stairs or not

eoing hom^ M^v sought refuge in still oowered areas. The Waldorf! told me they had

exrocted a 50* room occuoancy that night and had

Sunolies of candles soon sold

-on* little stationer sold 3,500 in two hours--and oeoole went to the churches^-

at 1wet two of which gave candled w*y. Manyneonle were boredsittinginthe dark ^+1^11+ TV or radio and went into the streets where there was a fine display ot hee,$

S^eni^ and a rather Lzy, but yet full moon. It was mush too hot to cook that

evening Sd I met a friend for dinner at a Schraffts, much more and infinitely slow, but oerfeetly comfortable. Being in the unaffected area, I - ad

bit and went to leer> without knowing the extent of d*nnva ion.

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Th. mo-'l extraordinary thing banned last Friday night.

Gregg

w,ho_ yh.ad ,coorma,,e uTMp xf^_oomm ou.arrl-sten fp.oroloCclve.veeT'os gwievdedimneg aannodthweerreclheaanvciengtoonsetehethPeema,ch, -

Martha^andCRevedrovo them in to have dinner with me at the Savarin in thOfStaticn,_

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o^nHir conditioned, ** '

sta- . s-ss'rtr s th-.''arrived it was agreed that the fans ard location weighted the decision to rei aon.

tttseL tSr9h-d ^ bleat, eventually -e got cur drinks, end still Ister ordored

22r5\5 our meala,

the wait^sscame

' fg^outl

last cerson to start down the sta_r-. On

combined with another

d-.nt exolainsd that twoweekeeeoliorthePeach



unceremoniously shoved

train for Washington and now left at 7l45, The weg.n vers u_

carter got

.int,o a co_ac.Ih, with +tHheiirr lJ.ucgcgacge fyid the door bange,d. Itheixnoee1ctb,utuiesio.lu-ca.kv we wen&t

::r^i;e^sr^a and Page's aunt in Greenville and "Bee's"

mt in Rock Hill and driving them to Charleston.

The Turkish Prime Minister has accented our so Iwe been buev eaking the m of Iran and the Foreign Minisx

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pakistan has not

hua*.^ (S*inPcreimGeenMeirnailsteArvubandKhIanfear9the "little,,p^akksq b he er ree aarree ggooiinngg t^ o be^ sticAkmbyagsacb,oduotr

their boas Ohlv being

^ee e^u - ^ ^^OH is in session ,

has been replaced and Prince A1 Khan i n so tomorrow I have agreed to reoeive a "little Pak,

disgusted to know the

wiii^

^ onngidering,,

letter has already gone to Karachi. The Ruse an

jyenoh on our letter to de

our invitation to Mr. K. Nc acknowledgement yet from the,fe,, Paul G.

uGen.fuflml*en. tthiilsmyafrteoruntoeonrhfroarflaesccehnatsinbgeewn invitation ttoo'^oneenn txhnee Owfif the Record luncheon

seriee on October 14. Looks as Nsw York is so fucnv <n the

idefadotofbesfumTMme"ri,C'bbu^t

it

iTol-a^

it

must

wait

until

next time. I'll try not to forget the oddment- in mind tonight.

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August 29, 1959 Tom^rr^w miming I go to Babylon , there Hank Harris *dll pick me ur for a swim with thew a^d overnight at Oak Beach. I have not seen Maris. him since mid*r earlv Ma^* Mondav morning Henk *5,1 drive me t* town. Next weekend I had Planned to move but a there has been no energy for action to'sard that end I'm going to Stonv Brook with Mollv and Jim* Clevee and Delli were at Free^Tt for a few days this week to rack him ur for the Army and left vsterdav for the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland wh-e he will have a couole of months training*

The rrotracted heat* modified bv the drier Canadian air <mlv for Wednesday, gets us all one wav or another# T had hond to look at en arartment or two that day or snatch a bargain dress, but Bill, my administrative secretary, telephoned at 9*10 that he had an extremely oainful stiff neck. I recommended hot water commas and decided hie electric fan had done it# It was clear that he feared o*Mo, Ihough ha had spumed taking thft shots wh*n I urged thm in the soring, and said he would be in "later"# When he did not show UP by tw*, j telephoned s^d found that he had taken a long hot diowsr, felt better, dressed end started for the office but exre+ierced so TMuch rain that after ablock he went home again* With difficulty I restrained myself fr^m chiding him for not telephoning* As Fred was still on his holiday I needless to say did no personal errands and c^owa* a sandwich at rev desk, Friday there was a tele phone call from Portland, Oregon, ying thA-y would be haoov to have a French speaker on September 15 or 16. T protested that Andre Fhi"Hr would not arrive In the US until Sept* 18 and be on the Pacific one,at October 15, McColl said "but vour letter, which I have in mv hand save September 15 m 16 for the northwest*" Red of face T apologized and explained T feared the heat had gotten us# Asking Bill for a carbon of the letter> he admitted he had not made any for thelt5- or 15 notes I had signed# Being a, form I did not read them, merelv checked that he had named the organization of the addressee again in the last line I We can only assume that they were all wrong* Oh me*

It could have been heat expansion but I fear violence--someone or thing broke, a,

large heay r1atevlaas window in 25 East 64th Street this morning and last night en

T changed buses at Madison and 49th the street was litiered with glass from an eighth

floor bedroom of the New Weston Hotel* Speaking of shop winders many pf them carry

noticee of summer sales or closed for holiday* One bv mv morning bus etor reads--'

"Gone Fishin'

I have heard that three in a row are more specific--the shoe store --

announces "Gone to Italy for the new line", the dress shor> proclaims "Gone to Paris for-

the autumn collection " ~nd the candv store admits "Gone to the Bronx to vi1t relatives"

Friday morning a little blaok sports car draw up in front of me to drop a voung man with

a luxuriant black beard and. a blazing wed shirt* He also wore t*n shorts and a white

~ith helmet (Beard and. Heiwat reminiscent of the Begal lncers) was clapped on his head

as soon as he got out end before he was joined by miniature French poodles on leash --

one dog black the other a rather diriv white. So manv women have gotten such deer, sun-

tans that one looks twice to see if they started whiteor are mulattos, Puerto Hicans or

what* Often those who wear black sheaths look cooler than those in beach type sun. backs

and halters," whicv so mny of the tourists affect. An Indian man in a beautiful azure

blue turban, white trousers and long sleeved white shirt cut a more graceful figure on

Madison than an advertising executive in a dark grev strew hat, charcoal jacket and Ber--^

muda shorts also charcoal even if he did carry an attache case. On can see anything in

New York on a hot dav, but weekends the residential ( at least mine) areas are blissfully

deserted* One hears of a vogue with secretaries and the like for roof Parties on wa?m

evenings with portable radios and conversation* They use chimneys for their cirgarette

ashes*

Fred Nunes, my assistant, came back from the middle west Thursday and reports a

grat prosperity since his last trip two years ago-- everyone has airconditioned cars and

well to wall carpets, much building of new homes, schools and road construction* He was

vastly impressed/

These hot nights when I have yearned for an Indian rop bed end a rice hull filled wdg* to hold my head off the pillow such as Japanese women use, I have done a lot of reading largely novel but also "Rockefeller Portrait" --very sympathetically done* Paramount *a bought "A Manv Splendoured Thing" for $300,ono tax free fof the Communist author yi ho has somehow gotten a US visa and is on her way to Hollywood#.

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September 6* 1959

Last weekend Jav wet me at the Stonv Brook station with hie newlv acouired 1957 O^.'ls.e convertible--gunraetsl with red leather upholstery* verv handsome. I'm not sure whether he or Bill is the most intrigued with it. The weather left much to be desired--muggy with sorinklee of rein alternating with heavv downpour, Saturday morn ing the Sound View Association ran off their annual field dav end Fred collected a good manv tronhiee and a nastv es.sh on his heel. He and his best friend tied for second place in the high score for the dav. Although Bill had done well st year he shunned the activitv for reasons I could not understand. He did not even swim with Mollv* Jim end me before luncheon* he was perfectly well and enjoved rlving "Spite and Malice" with me in the afternoon* when the weather kert me from working in th ^ock garden. At last my three veer old office grown mimosa is planted on their lawn and in exchange three potted peiuni* seedlings are beginning to bl*om in w office. Saturday night we enjoyed "Five Pennies" with Walt Disnev at the Port Jefferson movie.

M*ndav morning plagued with an "air conditioning cold" or a" allergy I was distress ed to have an earlv call, before I left hote* from mv assistant Fred, After being tack f~om his holiday onlw seven working days he reported that he had a series of severe chills* and high fver Several telephone calls each dav have kept me abreast of the progress of his as vet not conclusively diagnosed ailment. Mononucleosis as of nine lapA nieht Is the favored Probability, as he seems to have manv of the symptoms of glandular fever with enlarged glands. Twice averv ?A hours he has bodv shaking chills, terrific sweating and temperature, which has gone as high as 105 o/o though latterly only just above 1/*3 ard there seems to be a lengthening of the trough between the bouts. As it looks now we shell not see him fcr a month* so Bill and T worked on Friday (a dav off given in exchange for an autumn legal holiday falling in midweek to given neorle a four dav Labor Da^ break at "summer* e end"). The first issue of SAS Volume VI wai t to subscribers on Thursday and as Editor I felt we had to have some uninterrupted time to make e beginning on the second issue due for processing late in September, Bill was glad enough t* get time end a half for the dev.

Thank heavens*I had a page long letter of deathless prose from the State Depart ment in effect saying that Mr. Khrushchev would not have time to lunch with us. Brora tome to time I have chided myself for not going into government service when I had a chance during the war* bu+ these bureaucratic* double talk communications mgjc e me re joice in nrt having exposed mvself to a life of such professional smbiguitv! We have enough to do with program all over the country* who suddenly realize the necessity of givno* program to orin+ers and finding they have no SDsakers and frenticlv tleohone for* immediate bookings at a oo4nt when all too menv speakers are hiding out in Europe or the fastne-s of a Msme camp without telarhone, Also we should be busier than we are a*out the October 13 luncheon for the Turks* the Pakistanis and Persians. Frida" Sir Lee-le Monro came to see me* ostensibly a courtesy call because he had been in Europe all summer, but actually to suggest he would like a few well paid sneaking datas be tween September 18 and 30. The notice is too short and the period dull, however I mav be able to gat him one.

To cool me eff on Friday morning I stopped and bought 150 Christaas cards because I hr.d bean amused fo^ a weak bv the sign in the window of a Madison Avenue bookshop. The weet' before I delaved going to the office until I could go to Arnold Constable to
a seft green ct+ion raincoat with zip in quilted lining* a purchase I have tried to ma^-e for over six months. It took so l*ng for my change to come that I sleeted a eu.it whi ch should also be good for travel next summer and may or may hot be very useful this ... autumn, if an^whan it ever csmesj Poor Aunt Marv became restive at Mohonk and came back to swAi ter in New York ten days ago and has been miserable. At least she has an air con ditioned bed^pom but claims she feels too badlv to se me, I should have sent her some-.flowers and still sha1!* p*or dear. Vera is due fro** Africa today and I hope to see her tomorrow as I'll have little time for her with a. week's work to do in four days and coverFd<A<its desk as wall! Martha and Clove took Dellt to Aberdeen Proving Grounds to see Glevea this weekend. He now has his orders--upon finishing Aberdeen Dec,8* he will have leave until January 2 when he reports to Fort Riley* Kansas* presumably for 18 months. W are gra+*fu! be was not assigned to Korea* though this leaves Delli stuck with her job in Freesort through June. Khsae will be no summer resort for the poor girTt

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September 19, 1959

First thanks to V* "G*ndien Higb" with have low temperature end less humidity, bright blue sky end wind from the north west --the proper ouerter for fair weather.
All this summer t^ere ha* been far too much from the east and south-east. Thmks also should b made for the departure of "Mr.K*" and familv from this city at least. He-- m^ved around with whirlwind sreed and the rest of us eat, hung up in traffic snarls. Studidlv en Thursday I west home by my usual route, by the Wldorf, and saw the collec
tion of demonstrators diagonally across Park Av^nu* and 49th Street from the hotel. Thir mny placards were too wordy to be effective ard. all thos* in the back were hidden by those in the first row or two along the curb. As the Towers entrance in on 50th StreA I doubt if the Russian reety gaw any of them anyway. When Queen Elizabeth stayed there graAt baskets of fleers were immediately inside the Auter entrance They rated no change
frnn the usual netted evergreen. Fridev morning to avoid the Waldorf I went on the 68th Street bus4 and down Second Avenue forgetting that the trucks clogged the latter espec ially on Fridvs, But did see the terrific noliee congregation at the Russian Embassy-- aurelv 50, both mounted and on foot nested in strategic clusters of about a do^en. The motorcade was very impressive when they went to the UN--at lest 75 motorcycle outriders wi th a sure blue helmets and about 25 car including two gaudv station wagons of press. *
AJPter seeing the arrival from the office window (and later the departure) we went down to the auditorium where there was closed circuit fV for the speech. It was verv interest ing that r*>en he spoke of China, the earner* want, to the emrty places of that delegation-- the onlv vacancies in the place.

Last week-end I went t Martha and Gleve for over Saturday night, it "-as crvstal

clear and almost cold but we enjoyed sitting out. I opted for doing nothing, though they

made pleasant suggestions. Delli cam for dinner and brought the slides of the wedding

rictures as well as some one of her brothers had taken when he was prospecting the mount-

sins notth of the Artie Circle--very interesting. The wedding pictures were fun, s"me -

rosed an* some candid, those taken inside the church are lovily. Chronologically the

next good news was Fred's return to the office on Mondav, the doctor still "leans" toward

mononucleosis, and he is still not working a full day, but the two weeks of intense

nreseure a*d w*rw real concern about him.

This week's general staff oarty for our

no longer voung bride was pleasant, though I was startled "hen the gift turned out to be

an electric ice cream mixer but was assured that this was something she all but asked for.

The buffet supper, complete with 18 turkey, for the women who had worked with her includ

ing msny^ nho are no longer on the staff was a nightmare. Two dozen perspiring females

in a not too large apartment, but Lillian collected a place setting and five or six

serving pieces, and somehow everyone seemed to have a fine time# Curiouslv enough her

pattern, International*s Joan d'Arc, is very like my great, great grandmother's which

wea amongst the silver I took to eke out the basic service for eight which was all the

hostess apartment had. That was during the last week of the devastating weather* which

put the final touch of disgust and exhaustion on most. It took me several days to ad

just and feel at all human. The weekend was cool enough to wear the new suit, Thich one

general admiration. It stood up well in mv estimation far after the up ard downing of

church end much just sitting in the afternoon, the skirt showed narv a crease.

The Russian moon shoot fills me with awe. Lacking the technical background to really
understand all thev went through to achieve it, I am impressed with their advance announce ment of arrival time. Mv arithmetic is not sufficiently r?Xibl* to *avs calculated that within two hours, vet thev were less than two minutest ... The long fine summer in England has produced some lonely stories. My favorite is the clergyman, who because of
the drought, postponed all christenings for three weeks. .. Fred begn classes in the sorhmore vea~ of the Stonv Brook School with two weeks of football practice, no doubt homing that he will be certain of the team bv his senior veer as Jim was thirty veare
aero. New actual classes have begun. ... It is now Sunday morning and I hove heard on the morning news that "Mr. K." lost his temper in Los Angeles last night and threatened to go horn*. I'm in close touch with the World Affairs Councils in Los Angeles and San Francisco and the people in Pittsburgh all of whom are giving meals and em still grate
ful I'm not. The Puerto Ricans demonstrating against US imperialism and used the UN visit as an occasion to damonstrate got into iivelv hassle with Russian refugee element.

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September 26, 1959

Officially it is autumn, but some signals seem to have been crossed somewhere. One night after having worked ouite late I wee having mv dinner here between eight and
nine, when the radio confirmed mv suspicion...it was 84 o/o, .Although it is Saturday
I've been at the office today to do the run down on the tour with Andre Philip. When I wee in Canada a letter from him was forwarded telling of his willingre ss to sneak
across the continent September 18 to Ocotber 18, although the time is bad I agreed and
we ouite content with ^at had been nulled together for him until a week ago. At approximately the moment he was leaving Paris bv air for Montreal (where he has a eon) a letter arrived on mv desk announcing that he did not have to be in Tokyp until a week
lo.ter than anticipated. Minor crisis. We arranged for him to be on Canadian Broadcasting
TV last Sundsv night and had a telegram from the~ beginning "Philip aiperb". He has made three other sneaches since then and instead of coming for the "session" with me yesterday, remained over in Boston for a luncheon given bv the French Consul General. He has grown a beard but ia In excellent form. We had four vears to catch UP on including the number
of grandchildren..now 14. He has taken to a beard, which improves his annrearance a good deal? lead a delegation to Russia and had 19 hours with Hhrushchev, who he thinks has done very well here, esoeciallv on the world propaganda front. Philip admits if deGaulb should die tomorrow t^ere would be civil war in France. The French have taken all local
trains off the ###0 tracks, handling that traffic by bus and lorrv and forbade long haul bus and truck bv the road insisting that go bv rail. For a comoaritivelv small sum auto mobiles are now carried bv train, so that those who want their own cars in the south of
F r>juce send them overnight to Nice while thev relax on a seven hour train. It is interesting
that after the Liberation of France, perpetual free use of the French railroads was granted to the survivors of the 80 members of the Chamber of Deputies who voted against Petain in Vichv. Philip is one of the 20 survivors and agress that this is a verv nice recognition-"better than a medal" said he. He is off tomorrow for four more aneeches, but I hops to have another session with him Fridav,

The attractive German gi^i, Marie Louis* Bauer, wh<ml met in B.C. is on her wav back to Bavaria. She met me for luncheon on Sunday between seeing friends in Lakewodd and
going on to Greenwich, but was exhausted to the piint of being ill. Being on the last Ian of her trio has clearlv made her family much in her mind and so beside being overtired I think she ia homesick and was certainly far from the gay,vivacious girl, whose 22nd birth-
daw we celebrated in June at the Dewars. She was to have lunched with me again Wednesday and turned UP at twentv minutes of five. Sunday she thought she was sailing Friday night but Monday when I telephoned to eee if she was anv better she reported that it was to be
Thursday night sailing. Naturallv the loss of a dav was a shock and the enforced, rest on
Mondav and most of Tuesday ursat all plans. I hoped to get to the ship, but had a tough day nd onlv left the office at 7t30 too tired to trek over to the pier.

This seems to be a, bad month for Freds. Last weekend Fred (nephew) was strick--- en with abdominal cramos, vomiting violentlv, and not a clear diagnosis other than that
catch all--virus. At the hospital thev gave him intwyenous feeding after he had been unable to retain anv flood for several davs. This seemed to buck him UP and he wanted to go home
before thev finished all the GI tests they were running on him. The technicians are so - - ,
slow that I suppose we shall not know what if anything they found until earlv next week. This is all very hard just as he is getting used to the new school. Already he had strained his leg at football, so I expect is consoling himself that he is not missing any of that sport with his tummy. The one thing we know is that it is not appendicitis, as he lost that appendage eleven years ago...with dramatic overtones in a frHzzitdd.

Thedrv air last weekend challenged me to wush both the glass curtains end the draperies and now I am struggling use the clean but very faded English linen drapes as lining for new fiber glass material Evelyn Tudor send me. I think it is going to be a great fr6shenfing-u~ note in my too-!ong-unthought-of living room, but it is rather a jo&* With luck I may get a slip-cover of sorts for the Chesterfield out of the same materail. Time will tell. ... Biere is a very good "Magic Flute" on the radio from Salzburg,
conducted by George Szell, sung in Gennan, which seems odd to mv ear, which has always heard this in English. ... Seems as thougjh Ike and Mr.K. were getting on well today.

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My, irimt a week NATURE has had- After her oceanic rest of several )P## days Gracie turned *ut to be fearsome, scattering death and great destruction from the southern seaboard to western New York state* Fortunately it was low tide when she hit Charleston, but her wind strength took manv fine trees including those in Hamoton PaHr, where roots are unusually shallow, I hone the increasingly extensive and beau tiful ezla plantings at Hampton were not all crushed bv the falling trees. It was too much when the oil tank (one of thirtv on the Cooper River) exploded about dawn the next dav. Roads to North Charleston RR station and the Navy Yard were closed while a vast army of Professional fire fighters and others used foam to try to put out the fire and water to keen other tanks from exploding, I loBt track of the Rocky Mt. snow at 27 inches, but susoect it is appreciably more. Once the^ get soma sun there will be plenty of flash flood thereabout- Meanwhile the torrents of rain in Texas and Oklahoma plav hob with crops and transport, Much of the week we have had spells of gale wind and some "showers", which drooped too much water too quicklv to do much for the parched earth. Today's temperature 1b forcast for 75-80 o/o and at ten o'clock the humidity was 87 %, With the advent of October I must wash mv lighter colored cottons and tuck them away. From the standpoint of temperature, it is hard to retire all of them!
Th attendance for the October 13th luncheon for the Prime Ministers of Iran and Turkev continues to build, Albs the beautiful plan conceivsd last spring whereby I was releived of total responsibility for these events, retaining only negotiations with speakers and hotel and breaking in the new man on how to ride herd on the staff doing the mechanics, has broken down. The next ten days will be hectic, and will certainly include a full dav in the office on Saturday and rrobablv several hours at home on Sun day. I had honed to go to Setauket for the weekend of the 16th but may well not make it.
Andre Philip wae largely the cause of mr working in the office from '8:30 a.m. to 8t30 p.m. on Thursday and almost as late on Fridav, University of Californie at Berke ley is verv anxious to have him and can use the dav I had counted on his doing his back ing. The catch is that California has abandoned daylight time, so there is four hours difference in time and we have great difficulty in getting together on the telephone. There is a very tricky situation in getting his fees paid to us in time to transmit the total, less the FPA's 20% commission and advances for travel on the zigzag Path he needs must follow. I let Fred struggle with Air France for determining how much thev would allow aginst Ms around the world ticket toward the transportation we have had to order for him. Haopilv their manager here was so impressed with the Philip prestige that he not onlv facilitated the involved operation but gave two Air France flight bagsone for Fred and one for jj^j^ce. ...verv orettv white oblong ziprered cases. Friday I had Philip for luncheon with Vera and John Nason, so they could pick UP some of his news. He was particularly interesting to me on theraethod deGaulle uses in running France..,, he makes all decisions himself, policies are carried out bv the largely able permanent civil service staffs in the several ministries, the Parliament does nothing, the mem bers of the Cabinet little. For example, like a school teacher he assigned the Cabinet the task of each writing,as a sort of summer home-work, hie Man for the settlement of Algeria, collected the results and proceeded to create his o*ri three way proposal--presumeblv without even looking at the Cabinet member's masterpieces. Philip is confident that deGaulle spent his ten vears retirement in profound studv of events and careful following of men who could be useful to him end thA nation and those to be avoided. He never gives a thought to financing---that is the problem of Pina,,r* The new "Independent Socialist*' partv Philip and others of Mollet's old Socialist party has recenty been strengthened bv being joined by Mendes-France and the members of his party, which was dissolved. Incidentlv Philip's naTM* is Scottish in origin -- the ancestor having married a French women and remained with her after the conclusion of one of Britain's for^vs into France, or^bablv a cemnMgn of 100 Years War.
This new Russian satelitte to orbit the moon end the *arth and take pictures leaves me wondering how the pictures are to be returned to the earth. ... Martha & CIeve leave tomorrow on a three week motoring holiday. Clevee & Dell! will stav at Miller Ave. over the weekends he comes up from his Favre deGrace apartment --f3 at 8^ Lafavette Sti

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Molly is generous with her typewriter, but it usually reseats aliem hands# I bepe tbis will be elearer than a erytogram but beg your indulge* straightaway# We bad a lovely afternoon dririag in to see Fran abd ber family and en route tbe still spotty a utumn foliage# Tbe simmer was so wet aad tbea latterly it bas
beea so dry tbat it is likely tbere will aot be aaytbiag Tory speetaeular tbis year# Oaly a few of tbe dogwood trees bare gone scarlet-- oae little patcb was really funny--all tbe elf growth red aad tbe aw late summer growth as green as grass#

Tuesday was a rery big day--tbe Waldorf luacbeen for tbe Prime Ministers of Iran and Turkey and a hotel set-up for 1176 covers* and a lse tbe beginning f my 34th year with tbe FPA. Through a variety of misadventures and nonperformanee on the part of other people the final ten days or two week of my 33rd year were cruel# I worked from 11 to 14 hours a day, including Saturday before the meeting and then spent the bulk of Sunday a t my typewriter at home doing doing details ed memoranda t various people who bad to have speeifie instruction on the handling f their respective duty points# The nly things I did for myself la st Sunday was to write a post card to Aunt Annie, tele phone Aunt Ma ry only to find her sister-in-law had died during the week# At long last the rent and telephone bills also got paid and the rest of the day was FPAs# As a result it seemed a good idea t declare tomorrow a special holiday for me# I'll g back to town at conveniens on Monday and not go to the office at all# It is espec ially important sliat tiiis gesture of indepeiiCtence be uiade now as I have been ganged up on. After the NATO dinner Nason agree* that I shoul* not hare the full responsibility for the Big Events on top of the speakers Bureau ant agreed that the new direootr of public relations was to be trained (by ae) for the wftjor jofe and that I would retain only responsibility for speakers and relations with the hotel. Well I wasted tine ostensibly trainin* Menkel. who iia

luncheon and anniversary# Martha and Cleve ot as afr as Tennessee on their holiday thir
grandsons clearly cannot wait for the return from "bacation" to deliver
Ntohte tIonodiIaonn#suiA tsf\oTbthao inA ed from the Cwheriok_ ees,o~f t.he GZreat Smo^ kt Mts#

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Can it be that all these earth satellites have altered tha natural rotation of seasons? "Eh ga.1 winds and torrents of rain we have vesterdav and today seem exactly like our autumnal eauinox siirrms, though a month late* Yet winter cold in Japan drives bears from the hills of the northern provinces to create havoc amongst the farmers* I wae fortunate in my weather for my nice Stonv Brook long weekend, although being there deprived me of seeing Lillian and Edward McGaw who had come on from San Francisco Brief ly --rrobably for General Marshall's funeral on Tuesday* The emphasis given to Marshall as a statesman and the spirit of his purpose in engineering the US foreign aid program for wartorn Europe seems to be used wisely in raising questions as to recent distortions in both our aims and oroceedures of global assistance. Very healthy, if only these reminders are not pigeonholed before they can serve as euideposts for reorientatidn of legislation*

Upon return to the office Tuesday I found a large box had been delivered Monday, containing a beautiful Turkish silver cigarette box from the Prime Minister with his signature ... A* Menderes *.*engraved on the front* The box also held a charming latter of thanks from him end a long fulsome letter from Nuri Eren, director of Turkisk Information here* All very nice, but now the question ..should I have the date and my signature engraved as well to avoid the possibility of suspicion that the box was lifted from the P.M$s office or residence? The first round of the future hand ling of FPA Hbig events" was accomplished yesterdav in drawing UP a chart, next week we tackle the trickier task *f elimination of routine work or giving me more staff, which is not in the budget* A minor aggravation in this was the announcement vester dav morning of mv new little secretary that she does not wish to remain in New York. She admits to having learned a lot, to enjoy he work in the Speakers Bureau and to have built UP a great loyalty, but feels she would be happier living in Cambridge, Mass* that in New York. Her parents will come in three weeks to take her there* We felt that she had only within the past couple of weeks reached the point inhere she was beginningto pull her wieght and now the whole training in process must begin agiint The Personnel Department revealed that so mejiy girls from small towns try New York briefly only to depart that several large corporations are making studies and surveys of the problem. I am inclined to suspect that it is not so much a matter of economics and living standards as of the psychological approach which most people now have toward their work and life. Even the unskilled and inexperienced must be pandered on the job with opportunities for "interesting and responsible" work, anything that is routine is"menial" end therefore to be avoided. The job is only something which provides the means to as much fun bet #n five in the afternoon and nine the next morning as possible . If that quota has not been attained, then inroads are made on office time and not a wor"* of opposition should be made bTr the emrXovep to those infringements* Alas, all too few have anv pride in doing a good niece of work and thus derrive themselves of the satisfaction of have accomplished something. Little of this applies to Lucia, a decent girl, well brought UP, but orobablv spoiled bv doting parents. Although thy live in Wisconsin let her go to University of Michigan for two rears, then Pomona for two more and polished that off with a veer of graduate work at the University of Geneva, joining her for a courle of months travel in the Ner East.

Dinner Wednesday with Aunt Mary, bao*- in black again for a sister-in-law w*>o died

while I was ton involved with the October 13th luncheon to notice anything or even.to -

check on Aunt Marv weekly on the telephone. I should have done so as I knew the woman

was ill ! Long talk on the telephone last night with Cleve end Martha. Thav had a fine

lszv motor tri^ filled with interest but cemnlotelv lacking in autumnal foliage in the

mountains. Clevee turns out to have a "Reserve" commission not "Regular Army", which I

had thought wee objective. He took this for two years and has now changed to three in

the hope of being assigned either to Germany or 9-riwtrfield, Mass. instead of Fort Riley

in Kansas. Unless he switches it would be summer of 1R6P, that he will go on the inac

tive list and begin a civilian career* s on industrial engineer. The immediate ouestion -

is what assignment instead of Fo**t Hiley. Did I ever sav that Jav now has three of thosa

large heritor \v\. #ks an'* ai lo s tw# driver# ? His #w shoulders and tore have developed

enowmouslv from his operation of one truck, he certainlv wo-oVs very hard. They "service^

the fleet" on Saturdays with pride of ownership dictating painting te keep the second

bah4t

"* uniflorm and smart looking.

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The battle is joined and I em struggling herd to see thet sufficient work is abendonnsd to more than compensate for the return of responsibility of the big lunch eons and dinners. My aim is to give UP sneaker management involving promotion, tours end naetv. sense of responsibility for getting the various individuals as menv fees as
thev think thev deserve. The stumbling block is the $5,000 we have earned and John Nason will resist this annual loss of income. However, it is now clear that his double talk two weeks ago about finding additional heir for me. Needless to say this is my last chance to change mv standard work week from 50 hours to the 35 that other staff members
enjoy, I hepe frr afTri f-ri by November 15 and the new yplicv effective January 1--with and enormous nublic relations job to be done meanwhile. ...worth it if I get waht I want!

The New York Sanitation Department, euphuism for street cleaning, groans at the de layed leaf drew. Thre are 536,000 trees in the city annually shedding 67,000 tone. So f^r only a tinv fraction of the expected "fall out" by this date have dropped. They worry that an earlv enow will bring them down and enow clearance will be all mixed up with leaf disposal. Maybe they noted the po4*on ivy reddened unusually earlv p^rtend-
i'3|r ? long hard winter with much snow,

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue at 88th Street has opened with extraordinary fan fare. In 1943 Mr. G willed two million dollars to build a new house for his Museum of Non Objective Painting. Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to de sign it, responding with a statement it was about time New York had one of his buildings, The intervening 16 - ears h~ve been filled with delav and controversy. It seems Wright
was not fond of paintings except as an adjunct to architecture end is credited with designing an interior to annihilate painting as an expressive art, according to Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney. Poor man he was stuck v*th hanging pictures along a *ix story spiral ramp around the open pit--unhorizonal and convex. One caustic artist
stated "A Picture , even an abstraction, is conceived as a window into the mind or soul.
It needs a wall, a frame. It cannot float like a ghost." Wright held a theory that picture* should "be viewed by natural lights-clearly on a bright dev. dimly at dusk. Artificial lighting has been introduced and described to me as so harsh on women* s complexion as to indicate that Wright was a women hater. The building has been liken ed to the Pantheon, which impressed me as dim and glooming on a bright Roman morning, so I can see the need of interior light. The N.YTIMES gave the nrening over six columns including a three column first page spread. Result ln,000 people tried to get in lost
Sunday, of whom only 60^ were successful.

The day after the Iran-Turkish Prime Minister luncheon we opened the OTR (Off the

Record) women's luncheon series with Paul Hoffman on "Foreign Aids Good Business or

Giveaway?" As Director of the UN Special Fund aid is naturally good and necessary. He

put his cas* with a rare combination of commonse-se and vision and was greatly liked.

These luncheons are so popular that we had to srlit the group last year into two series

leaving me to get them sixteen speakers instead of eight. To kee^ the gals content that

the groups are "equal in treatment though separate" I persuade some men to cover both

g^ups. The next two weeks Ferdinand Kuhn talked about the "Rim of Red China" --his

second appearance on Wednesday was the second meshing of the A group and we expected 222

wo .n, but 30 more showed up who had not reserved! The room used for the speaking has a-

fire law capacity of 203, but we had it set for 223, those who were not expected had to

listen in the pleasant lounge where the buffet

set up, hearing on the public address

system. At one point I picked UP rlates and CUPS to bo washed for reuse and noticed

seven young women sitting in a circle on the floo- chatting and eating. Needless to say

I have since arranged that reservations be closed at 2*0 in the future in the hone we

can avoid another such scramble--though the audience loved Kuhn and seemed to think the -

crush rather fun. The staff didn't and the waitresses and looked as tired as poor FPA.

food supervisor. Tuesday afternoon I went over to the UN to chat with a Buddhist scholar

who is Ceylon's Ambassador to the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania here briefly

for Part of the General Assembly. T dated him for the ladies on November 18 and per

suaded the man I had booked for that date to apps ar two weeks later. If Ambassador

Melalasekera does net make a hit, the OTR committee will chide me.

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We bent the deadline and last Tuesday agreed I no longer "m*r*ge" sneaking tours

except in occasional prestige cases of my own selection ard rid the Speakers Bureau of

mar*.! responsibility of providing several dozen people with sufficient engagements o ri?e them Here o/lees .te.dy Income. Ihie protecte us_from their nagrfng requests

for more business when no program chairman is interested in that speakers partieu ar

area of information, from the laborious task of Providing them with transportation

schedules end the necessary adjustments with speakers when Program chairmen want to

change topic or date alter an arrangement had been firmed up. We shall continue

handle the details of half a dozen FPA staff, who sreak from time to time and to con

sult with program chairmen^ making appropriate recommendations of speakers -o be pursued end dealt 'frith directly. To mv surprise Nason quickly accepted my recommendatxcn

Lpossibly because of a guilt that he had dangled extra heir before me

h he could

not provide. The delicate task of breaking the news to the speakers will ta<e time

but gradually I look forward to a more reasonable life.

Aunt Annie's str' was marred by my having a nasty bout with teeth and having to eo to the dentist twice. The poor dentist could not be sure whether the pa..nful infection would, vet worse over the weekend and provided me with telephone numbers *hers he c ould be reached including one for a Westchester dinner party Saturday night and a oerscrxnticn for codeine should the pain shift from aggravating to unbearable. Fortunately his ministrations and poultice treatments made an incision unnecessary. But I am m for a good bout with him before I get straightened out. It is curious that Thursdayevening when Aunt Annie arrived was not only a Particularly bitter point for me, but Cleve e worst with a boil at the base of his left nostril, Bv Saturday he knew that he end Martha could not come to us for luncheon on Sunday after which we were all going m the Cloisters. Because of the anticipated luncheon and the dentist 1 did net re :e Aunt Annie to the Cornelia Otis Skinner play Saturday afternoon s I hac1 planned. On
the whole she had * thin time of it and I am sorr"".

The cranberry scandal fascinates me--poor Mr. Fleming. Nixon's gobbling up of four servings of cranberrv sauce as a Political gesture in, was it not Wisconsin where the yesterday the crop was condemned?-- seemed rather overdoing the straining for headlines. I can't heir but wonder if we have not all been eating large quantities of things which would do us great hrm if any one item made us our sole diet. With variety and small portions they have added zest to our meals without damage. During the week I have been reading Allan Dmry's rather nastv book "Advise and Consent", vhich dramaticly shows the seamv side of the US Senate and its relations with a shrewd President. Like the last act of "Tristan and Isolde" deaths come with ^aoid succession toward the end. If arvone needs to be shown nowadays how easv i t i s to ruin a person*s character tor
sinister and selfish reasons this book doss it.

The ever expanding journey of Eisenhower around the world will be interesting to

watch. A man who accompanied him on one of his NATO swings insisted to me that the

President wee excellent in a whirlwind trip at shifting gears and saying the righ"t thing

with sincerity and charm in each nation. Does this testimony not imolv that between

Sherman Adams and Dulles the President was pushed into the background becming a sort

of Chalrlie McCarthy mouthpiece for their views? .... To celebwate the Publication

of Vera*e latest book bv Harvard University Press entitled "New Patterns f Democracy

in India" I took her to "Once Upon a Matress". A very amusing and well done musical

comdev based on the fairy story test of the roval sensitvity of the princess who could

detect a pea beneath the matress. The king had had a snail of muteness cast upon him

4a ich eave opportunity for a lot of first class fun. Another addition to the Hans C.

Andersen plot was the court prohibition that none of the courtiers could marry until

the prince found a suitable wife

With the featuring of Snowman at the National

Horse Show it comes out that Bill had riddsn him a lot at St. James when he was taking

riding lessons there deLear (sr.?) In fact Bill was riding him around the ring ?h

Snowman broke his canter and made a faiblv spectacular jump which attracted the rid'

masters attention. Fortunately Bill was able to keen his seat through this unexper

activity. It mav be vou will see story and pictures in LIFE about this champion, /

way to the glue factory when deLear bought him for his young riding pupils i

ilec=avyes.h'a!vweff!Tal?l?etnl0ennd?3psir^rfr'aer"',n:oou sgnhotw

t0 bfi less worried now, though we have reeentlv

practically had several

all the below

freezing davs. .. . One of mv rroblems is how to tell the new secretary, Ca-ol Blitz.

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shd** is too much for .ffioe hours. ... So far I have not

be * i-.od about my Buddhist philosopher turned diplomat, 1*0 socks on Wednesdav to a

la-ge audience, but susoeet I shall be. Mrs. Aim Kirk, wife of our formerii2doS

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and later told me she thought he was a communist. His eico-"

.:.fB cf the development of Asian nonalignment oolicv based on nonviolence and

. Uddhist tenets cf harm no living thing and love indeed kept him from saying hersh thinvs
H't tt>bils!\gr^o!wli!ng! bblfoc of naJti?o*ns think " andiS ac"t SaesfUtlhfeyrd* o.U f "s t0 un^eretand how and why

Friday night Martha telephoned me four year old Jerry would Part with his tonsils early Tuesday morning so she will be taking care of the other two little boys from
Monday until late on Wednesday with no time to shop for Thanksgiving, hence' no feast ow Thursday. For me this may spars me some difficulty as last Wednesday was my big'dsy ' the dentist. Soon after seeing the Ambassador of Ceylon off from his speech I bd five upper teeth end a large sac of infection removed in exactly en hour. Replacements 'are ready, I did my best to control facial swelling with iee but X susoeet I> Kanv * -as rather concerned as he telephoned a little after eight to see how^ was makL^ut

ddiieett*burtt I hops to be pTrL ailse:dtt\omTo^rrrno8 Swn :erwyhrde8nRrI,SgV obfSoe rtteixna,mT in, atiioHntta*fcablonr.edNwoitohnethien tshoeft

office knows what has happendd as aside from Wednesday departure at 2i40 and Thursday

treatments at lunch time. Although I am pretty limp there is ;m: TM; knowing that the pain of the previous several weeks is over. Pretty :

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of 0,6 Gelf indulgence pattern in which I have escaped in

la r e a g " 'Ko Qu3tion of Murder" written by Noreh Lofts but published

IStbVllf s+TMe !.F8w CUntl3 i8 mtur117 lald in England . Then I moved to France

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"pi'.Cp?'

Jches Waiting" in which an uncle tries to murder the nine

ear eld Comte Philippe de Valrry in the family Hautr.-Savoie chateau. Now I am moving

all around the world with the "Devil's Agent" by Hans Hebe...a cynical expose cf the"

Vvf? nyy365 of th world. In the best, or worst, Cermanic style there is over

muc philosophizing, establishing of Freudian motivations and dogmatic opinion. However,

it is serving a puroose for me.

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Community. They were considered so important that the Embassador and his wife (new) -

cmae UP from Washington as Well as Robert and Lois Valeur, whom I was especially gld

to see. Robert told rae again how grateful he was for mv having arranged for him to- make

ten sreeohesin three different cities of Alaska in October and also that acting on ad-

J, J* " givn in- on the telephone he has set UP three speeches in Puerto Rico in

e ruaw. Feeling that he will surely be assigned his own Embassy during 1960 he is

anxious to see just as much as he can from the Washington base, but drew the line when

J R? R 1 '""-d i^-ke te to fish for an invitation to Hawaii. I had such a good time

obr I top

or dinner with Maria and Hank--not reallv late for dinner, ,iust later

f..ny- i^had s^-id I would turn uo. It was fun to see them and interesting to look at the beginnings of two canvases--one of Harvey Firestone's granddaughter and her five'year

ol d daughter, the other of a six foot four inch most attractive man named Slater. As

this is life size its painting ^ses something of * uroblem, I gather that the"sitting"

when his widely smiling face was cainted was accemblished bv rolling up the bottom of

the canvas, but from now on she will have to stand on a. nlatform to paint the upper'por

tion. pie setting is an autumn wood, he waers the latest in hunting costume taken di

rectly from the Spanish and has the "broken" double barreled gun on his right arm. -

Hew York State is s* ^ard UP that $43.43 more for 1957 is being demanded* Naturally I nav under nrotest as tte higher rate on the federal tax would be hideous should they . make the same de^nd. Yesterday I actually washed several summer dresses for winter storage and begin to hope that I mav see davlight among the piled uo chores before total involvement in the NBC January 7 luncheon* We set basic patterns aver lunch at the Harvard Club on Tuesday--nine News men home from foreign parts and Chet Huntley*

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Nether 29, 1959

Let 118 hore the typewriter does not mrntinue with initial balkiness cn the

centre! locking point, as I have not time to fool with it. My lovelv long

weekend of resting, heeling and odd jobs is all but gone. Friday X went to

the deserted office to .she enother stab at cleaning up my desk and at least

succeeded in a physical sense bv dint of putting oUantitfes of records into a

folder marked " Dictate--as and when time re-its" and tucked it insC a

Tomorrow a man from the Univereit" of Virginia and one from Cincinnati wil- be

in for long consultations on progrsms and I must sign at lee'i birtv le ters

tailing them that beginning January first we shall recommend them for mgage-

msnts to 4rr'Pta audienees but not make contracts for them. The ug la

celebrate "Dav of the Republic" tomorrow and as the Embassy is near _ere on

wje+g iwenue I'll look in there between six and eight. My good ange.. tuxry.

me when I made a dentist appointment for tomorrow noon, as bv Tuesdav 'y"**

we Xu orobablv hare a bu. etrike-the neg.tiations do not

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determind to stor whan the contract expires Monday rt midnight. If

fc* dependent cn tnxi^ if 1 car." find tham o~ .v own two feet

"between here and the office*

Yesterdgv afternoon I planned to begin the distant Christmas

Jg

tuned in the beginning of the Army Nawy football game *<>" ^

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ettinc that I eew*d and listened. I have attended ar roanv n.. theae classics

that "although the radio did a ooor job of describing the color, *h\^u"llia6' was forgiven as he was first rats on the nlay. Navy's left halfback Joe Brtlino frcrr. winch-sier* Maes, is a superb and triehv runner and md three fcouehdc .

Army's vaunted Joe Da-enter (right end) who has an

,easing was not up to his standard, he fumbled a courts of times and treg entiy

failed to get the ball into the arms he tried for. Both team, labored under the

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tszjgrnsrmrMri$ *-tw#d mr-- The stupendous l^rv cf the ifirat oner* broadcast of the vear "Aide"

, -w*1c: e r>H

"The Tvohoon's Eve", a novel bv Preston Schemer, laid in Hong Kong tells

of the mission" of ,n OMe club woman to ^str-to th. ^stty

yidual for the Chinese^refugees.

export to

U^stlroroved to be hafched from eggs laid there and not in Wg**

*& olot is exciting and complicated by the ittxtude of an

himself married

It is dslightfullv tr-nsia. ^

haroens to an undergraduate

in 1958, Warm, droll, sophisticated tale ot wna

^^^^ the

spending part of hie summer holic.av n bush. The treatment is not political rtading but

^ eveas

the ornbleme comi.ng

fro, thb justiposition of the new wave and the old.

The suidi-'e or murder of Povl BangJensen has brought into oh,re **t fr

Leslie Monro's -000-" +0 the UN on

x^/X^HWEartens he interviewed,

survey, I felt he had erred ^

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of "50 year old

Since he knew such POO- - would be su+J--

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December 5, 1959

The overwarm weather mkee the shops' Christines decorations seem ludicrous -- rerhars because most have used a great deal of ^1 as central color. At a period when American gold reserves are dwindling, it seems odd"to make such an ostentatious display 'ven.athnsasonabie facsimiles. The busineesof addressing my cards, at least ihoee. fo. distent roints is a major preoccupation today. So much so that I had to decline tc see Judith Listowel, the has just arrived for three mdnths. A stupid, minor hut tenacious cold is rather complicating my
life this week.
Mollv writes that poor Bill is on crutches because pain in his risht heel persists. X-rays do not prove whether there is a future or'that small bones which usual knit into one by age 14 have failed to do oo. If the crutches ar.d semi-immobility do not c ear UP .h- s -
tlcn ir. two weeks, the foot will have to go into a cast. A telephone
(heck on progress reveals that Jim has e cold and p n -eye. . r peorle have colde than not t<-ese days'.

Last night X had dinner at Vera's with her daughter and son-in-law

and went on to Paddy Chayefskv's "The Tenth Man" (he also wro.e Hart ,

"Bachelor Partv" and "Middle of the Night" which ran for almost two ear.,

on Broadwav Before the movie was made.) None of the actors wore knowr to me, but they turned out to be the most amazing collection of c actors I ever recall seeing. The 4 ngle set is an Orthodox Synagogue in

Mineo]a, very modest (perhaps all the Temples --fine, large and imuressiv

one sees InTong Island are Reformed) and seemingly oontinuallv face .

with the problem of seeuring the quorum of ten for prayers, Ihe aet-o

runs from before morning prayers to just before aft-rrnoDn prayer3. .-,s sexton and a mystio with vhite heir and a lovely face ringed .nth full

beard seem rather more impore.nt than the young rabbi, ft-- - ...

cern about the social activities for fundraising . at the services are better than 60 years old, several of Poland or Lithuania with the implied color and memories of their past.

One man is convinced his 18 year old grsndde-ghter is peeseesed - Dtbhik (demon) and one by one his old friends are convinced too that

they must assist in the exorcism since long exposure to psychi.^r -

and institutions have cured the girl, who is something of * re---i us

fanatic when not in a state of seizure. This mey not souno

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Chrvfkv has found a great many things for laughter, different tl a-

the normal theatre's comedy situations. Needless to say

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suceessfully exorcised nd the girl (only women in the =aet) ]Baves

happily to marry the young man, who was dragged in off the street to

make the tenth man for the morning prayers.

The headline "Jet Pilot marries Jet Pilot" in the Turkish review

cf the" news fascinated me. It eeeme that several years ago the

government was not able to find anything in the law to koepwomenout

of Turkish Military or Naval Academies, so girls bsgan toJe nine the Qualified jet fighter nilot female married one of her xnaecu

line fellow officers. When one remembers that her mother douctlesswor

the veil and lived in seclusion this tale takes on added ^f*n0iler F o r example, N u r i E r e n remembers standing a s alittle b e . .h on a balcony overlooking the family entrance hall whileshe greeted her

huehend's dinner guests inquiring for their rives wd children. Before

her death,emancipation brought her the duty of actually'eittiirig a -

table ae hostess cf neriaehen mixed i'nner rarties. So countrv in wht h Eisenhower spends today *nd tomorrowon _ or "ceremonial" 22,000 mil. journey as y8u ehccse to view it.

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December 13, 1959

I could be mistaken, but it seems that this is possibly the sixth wet weekend in a row. Yesterday it teemed., today it is 54o/o , humidity 94$ and showers forecast for most of the day --the fog which blanketed the Ohio Valley a few days ago having moved along to us. Among the traffic accidents, the pride of the Italian Line and a freighter brushed sides rear Ambrose Lightship but without
damage, (The first time I crossed on an Italian diip I decided that in case of emergency I would stay in my bed and not subject myself to the exciteable crew, Twenty years later I only remembered the delights of the southern crossing and arranged for Helen and me to travel Italian. The Andrea Doria catastrophe a coupie of years ago gave muse, now I am shaken,)

Yesterdev morning I was shaken to have Vera call me from Wisconsin where was to make a luncheon speech, Thursday upon arriving at Muncif, Indiana, to speak at Bqll State College, she checked in to reconfirm
the flight out and was told that it had been concelled! Inquiry show ed that TWA bed presumably cancelled every reservation f her rather complicated journey save the first one out of New YorJU including the flight which was to have returned her to New York last night, and in each instance the flights were full and s^e could not be re-instated. Trouper that she is all the contracted chores at Ball State,except an earlv Friday afternoon discussion with some students, were accomplished . She was driven 40 miles to take a train to Chicago and then another to Wisconsin -- one of which was so crowded she had to stand for a bit. Upon di ecking into the hotel late that evening she collected a message to call John Nason, who told her of an emergency in the next BULLETIN
due to go to the printer Monday, Ke suggested that she write an article and have it in the office in time for the deadline. Without knowing that she can get back to New York as she has a nine o*clock class in Rochester Monday, she was wondering by the time she called me whether she should not have resigned to him on the telephoned If she gets ftome todsv we are to have another talk--smothing to her I hope.

My corner of th8 office zooms along with work on the January 7 lun cheon accelerating with 144- working days remaining. The rowers that be decided to give everyone December 24 off in lieu of an office party, so I shall be unpopular when I have to ask for a skeleton staff half day on the 24th and a full day on Saturday, January 2. It is quite possible that I shall not be able to write again before January 10, so as to be
on the safe side --MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR U Aunt Annie and I shall go to Freeoort on the afternoon of the 24th and from there to Stony Brook on the morning of the 26th, but only for the day as I must have the Sundav here.

Thursdav I had dinner with Judith Listowel, who will be here until-

early March, Her "Manual of Modem Manners" is selling in England like

hot cakes. The war weakened social class barriers, the Conservative Gov-

ernment policy has put more monev in the hands of more people, who ha"ve

no experience in graces above their previous "station in Life", so the

book is in great demand. She raised 200,000 pounds for International

Refugee Year this autumn and is shocked to find no one here (except me)

in a weekts contacts have even heard of it...the Year.

I was dis

mayed today to find that with Eisenhower in India, Hetter in Paris for

NATO meeting, Nixon has gone shooting in Georgia. Who minds the store?

What haonens in an emergency?