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way 10 - CalleQ on LIT. 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 60.
May 20-Boys back from foreign
ministers conference in Moscow.
Baltimore Suns Paul Ward and
Washington Posts Ferdinand Kuhn
addressed the overseas writers off
the-record. What they said con-
firmed other off-the-record confer
ences with high officials. Not much
hope for Russian-American amity.
Couldn't Get
Maple Sugar
May Fl - Hear violent argument
vermont maple sugar is better
than Ohio maple sugar. :" Affirm
alive: Presidential Secretary Will
liam Hassett of Vermont. Negative:
DR.. Louis Tuckerman, bureau of
standards, nuclear physicist of
Ohio. Later broadcast my willing
ness to judge if given samples.
June - Secretary of State Mar
shall, at Harvard, outlines ideas on
European recovery.
June II - Dinner and forum.
DR.. Chisholm, Canadian minister of
health, gave splendid talk. He be-
lieves it will take a lot of educa-
ton to change human beings from
"the kind of people who 60 to war
every Is years." Still no samples.
June II Rode the "Train of
Tomorrow" from Martinsburg, W.
Va, to Washington. Sat in the astra-
dome, glass-enclosed second story
of the pullman and watched the
world 60 by. En- route, called the
White House from the drawing room
phone.
July 8 - The air is full of flying
saucers. So are the airwaves and
the newspapers. Typical mass il
fusion.
July rs - Off for week in New
York state and Vermont. Showed
my wife scenes of my hiking days.
Climbed Mount Mansfield again ION
a ski lift. maple syrup, $40 gal
lon.)
August q Back to tropical Wash
ington. Re-stocked Office aquarium
with guppies, black mollies, zebras,
angel-fish and jumbo snails.
August 1l-Preview of film "The
Roosevelt Story" Good historical
documentary, but commentary quite
out of tune, for those who lived
through most of it.
August 10 - Tragedy - angel-ish
succumbs and is eaten almost alive
by the predatory, if sanitary. snails.
August 20 - Bill Benton, director
of state departments "Voice of
America" program, calls us in for
criticism. He has a rather impress
sive factual report on its effective
ness.
September l6 - Back in the ABC
broadcasting booth at the United
Nations in Flushing, N. Y, to watch
the general assembly re-convene.
Too busy to make any diary entries
from now on.
September q - Returning to
Washington. Progress at the assem-
bly, seems to be caught in the
"njets," but there is will to peace
there which will hold the organiza-
ton together to the last ditch.
October IA - Interview with Stas-
sen.
In huddle with state departments
second-level experts. Marshall plan
by no means ready. Paid for my
own lunch.
October 20 - Folks in Upper
Darby, Pa, seem less interested in
the '48 presidential campaign than
in the International situation.
November 10 - Folks in Oak
Park, ILL.,, seem more interested in
the '48 presidential campaign than
in the International situation.
November l6-MCd Decade of
Destiny" program on Richmond
News Leaders WRNL station for
their 10th anniversary. Smithfeld
ham and more Virginia hospitality.
November II - Extra session of
congress opens, Presidents Euro
pean aid and domestic anti-inf1ation
message received with polite but re-
strained enthusiasm by the major
ity party.
Delivered a learned discourse:
"Journalism: Its Cause and Cure"
December - Television inter-
view with Senator Flanders of Ver-
mont and Senator Lucas of Illinois
on initiation. We didn't do much to
bring down prices. but our temporal
lures rose slightly under the kliegs.
December l2-Of to Florida.