Folders 111-120: 8 February 1944-16 February 1944,

Containers:

2, 2

Scope and content:

Got his first issue of the New Leader. Thinks it’s anti-communist but socialist. Oil line from the Persian Gulf to Alexandria will help ships in the Mediterranean area and those coming through the Suez Canal into waters near Burma and India. Western terminus may be Haifa. Reading “The Lone Wolf” – has succumbed to mysteries. Has read one by Raymond Chandler. Too late to find a “Will You Be My Valentine?” “Why do I need one?—you is my Valentine you is.” Hopes Esther can again spend 5 or 6 days at the Williamsburg Lodge. Read “The Great Impersonator” Heard from Louise’s cousin who teaches music at William and Mary. Hopes to attend a concert with her; Miss [Natalie Jena] Rosenthal. Fellow Seabee is going to IBM School at the camp. “That’s International Business Machines—big and complex things that punch out the card records.” A few hundred men are in the camp brig. New enlarged library. A “shul”, a synagogue for Orthodox and Chasidiim Jews has been built at the camp—the first for the Navy.

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