Arizona sun., 1948-01-09

RouLhora Presidents mes
sage is no bigger
than the one which jammed the SEN
ate to see Senator Bilbo barred.)
Cowboy Glen Taylor of Idaho. how
ever. stole the Republican show. A
difficult broadcast. 1t looks strange.
indeed, to see Joe Martin and Sena-
tor Vandenberg sitting there presid-
ing with Truman below them at the
speakers desk.
January . - Had a birthday but
didn't record anything. It couldn't
have been important
January 16 - Press conference at
the Polish embassy. (What a change
since broadcast from the drawing
room in the days when Hitler be-
gan to show his claws.) Now the
Soviets have what Hitler took. Mo-
body believed word of what the
charge d'affaire said as he insisted
on the purity of the governments
prediction activities.
Invited to tea for Otto (Hapsburg)
of Austria. Couldn't make it. (How
are the mighty fallen.)
January 80 - Broadcast from
Roosevelt's bedroom at Hyde Park.
Just as he left it. Bedroom slippers,
dressing gown, the last magazines
that he looked at before he left for
Warm Springs, Fala's dog biscuit.
January 81 - Broadcast from
Poughkeepsie. It's centenary of
Smith Brothers cough drops - all
the employees wearing boards.
February 7-Palestine is boiling.
February Is - Took Elizabeth
(godchilO through White House.
February 10 DR.. and Mrs,
Stephen Palmer (pastor of my par
ents' church, First Presbyterian of
Lockport, NJ Y.) called.
February 20 - Heaviest snowfall
of year begins. Attlee announces
India to be freed.
February "a - Baby senator's din
ner. Commentators as pitchers"
grill freshmen senators ''up to bat"
at Press club. I had Flanders of
Vermont, Mccarthy of Wisconsin
and Robertson of Virginia.
March 12-Broadcast from house
radio gallery again. Presidents
message on aid for Greece and Tur-
key. Announces Truman doctrine.
Presidential party departs in Sacred
Cow. Nat Nathaniel PETER, profess
sor of foreign affairs, Columbia uni
versity) addresses forum: Get out
of China-Chiang is a crook"
Late in Marcia southern Jour-
ney. Daytona Beach, Pensacola.
filed with vague memories of my
grandmother stories of her pre-
Civil war days here. Lunch aboard
the carrier Saipan. Birmingham,
Admission - southern hospitality and
sympathetic audiences.
April 9 - Back in Washington.
Saw Maurice Evans in Hamlet. Z"
Very modern. Gravediggers' scene
omitted, Ophelia finds her flowers
pressed in a book. However, l liked
it.
April % - Farmers don't hate
daylight savings time any more than
do. Washington on regular time,
we get up an hour earlier AS hard
habits.
April % Poor Richard club of
Philadelphia gives me their "cita-
ton of merit" Had a very jolly
luncheon. Wally sits next to me
(Wallgren, cartoonist of the Stars
and Stripes). Later the United Busi-
nessmens association gave me a
public service shield.
May Day - Mexico's President
Aleman addresses joint session of
congress- Later we meet him for
cocktails and an interview at the
decorous Blair house. state depart
ment's guest residence for VIPs.
Terrific crowd, heat, the poor Presi-
dent nearly pushed into the garden.
viva Mexico, viva Estado Unidos!"
May 16 - Called on DR.. Loudon,
Netherlands ambassador. He tells
me he is leaving. It's not often you
establish pleasant friendships with
officials whom you may know very
well professionally and socially. DR..
Loudon was an exception. Hate to
see him go.
May 2O-Boys back from foreign