Folders 441-450: 31 March 1945-4 April 1945

Containers:

5, 5

Scope and content:

Hears a lot of contradictory information regarding China, its Communists, and the KMT; notices how businesses complain about the lack of business when they are actually doing better than ever. Fragment that talks about Walter White’s book. Hears about a dance contest for enlisted men, but cannot get down there in time; reads about a French pastor who quotes Pasteur over his door. Compares what he hears about the treatment of Allied POWs to what he sees the treatment is of the German POWs. Gives a description of the town of Gottingen from a book he is reading; has a friend who believes that the Russians will attack Japan as soon as Germany is defeated. Begins to get a cold wave after the beginning of an early summer. Tells Esther to tell one of the people he knows, Lt. Boreman, that he is to be a legal officer for the camp. Sees the movie “Hotel Berlin”; hears that the POWs are allowed a German newspaper from New York City; hears about Nazi leaders escaping through Spain to Argentina. Reads a book that is a “report on the Negro’s status in World War II,” that has an introduction from Eleanor Roosevelt.

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