Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-16

than the one which damned the SEN
ate to see Senator Bilbo barely
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. 1t couldn't
have been important.
January 16 - Press conference at
the Polish embassy. What change
since I broadcast from the drawing
room in the days when Hitler be-
gan to show his claws.) Now the
Soviets have what Hitler took. No.
body believed a 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 19-Poland's phony cleo
ton. Ate a large chow mein.
January 30 - 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
(godchild) through White House.
February 10 - DR.. and Mrs.
Stephen Palmer (pastor of my par
ents church, First Presbyterian of
Lockport, N. W called.
February 20 - Heaviest snowfall
of year begins. Attlee announces
India to be freed.
February p - Baby senator's din
ner. Commentators as pitchers"
grill freshmen senators "up to bat"
at Press club. 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 Chang is a crook"
Late in March-A southern jour-
ney. Daytona Beach, Pensacola,
filled with vague memories of my
Civil war days here. Lunch aboard
the carrier Saipan. Birmingham,
Admission - southern hospitality and
sympathetic audiences.
April 8 Back in Washington.
Saw Maurice Evans in Hamlet"
Very modern. Gravediggers' scene
omitted, Ophelia finds her flowers
pressed in book. However, l liked
It.
April IL - Long ride in the coun-
try. The Japanese cherry blossoms
are out and the town is crowded.
April Is - Beginning series of
broadcasts on veterans housing.
Actual stories of how communities,
through cooperation of builders, la
Dor, citizens groups and veterans
self-help, solved their housing prob
lens.
April 20 - Farmers don't hate
daylight savings time any more than
| do. Washington on regular time,
we get up an hour earlier. AS hard
for me as it is for a COW to change
habits.
April 20 - 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 Bust
nessmen's 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.