Folders 581-590: 24 July 1945-28 July 1945,

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6, 9

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Talks to a Y1c in the ship’s service office, who tells him that there will soon be two sets of barbers to try and prevent similar problems from happening. Reads Arthur Miller’s Situation Normal…; admits to some of the sailors that he had been a lawyer for 8 and a half years before joining the Navy. Reads about a white woman from Alexandria, Va, who was arrested for refusing to move from the back of the bus. Reflects on the defeat of Churchill’s party in the British Parliamentary elections; theorizes on what will happen to the Japanese, and how the Allies will attack them, mainly through more and more powerful air attacks, not a land invasion. Talks about the price and quality of clothes he can buy and try to send back home. Talks about playing checkers with a friend in the department; talks about the department picnic, with a “quartet of colored men singing.” Reads about peace terms, rather than surrender terms, that the Allies send the Japanese; talks with a man who has been working in the camp prison. Writes about an incident where white sailors followed “several young Negro girls” back to their house, where they were attacked by “Negroes” and also about another incident where a fight broke out about moving to the back of the bus; both of these incidents provoke a debate in Recht’s office; sees the movie “Junior Miss”; talks about one of the men in his office getting into a car crash at the intersection of Duke of Gloucester Street, Boundary Street, and Jamestown Road. Has some further comments about the fight on the bus; man who crashed the car gets two weeks restriction to base. Reads an article in Collier’s about the comparative income between races and why governments have failed to equalize it.

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