Folder 661-670: 18 October 1945-24 October 1945,

Containers:

7, 7

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Theorizes that the reason that they cannot release as many people is because of all the sailors returning from the Pacific and being released first; hears that a show at the Ship’s Company theatre was delayed a half hour so that the CO and his group could finish ice cream sundaes. Feels that the Navy should pay him and other yeomen more money since they need them so much as to keep them longer than other sailors; talks about expanding a furniture for cash business he used to run. Talks about his interaction with Martin, a German PoW; talks about how the way to get towards true racial integration is to find the way to have people “want to treat Negroes like any other human being.” Gets a call in the middle of the night from a man who was supposed to leave at 0005 and the dispatcher read it as 0500. Talks with Kennedy about the way the demobilization is going. Thinks about compiling a list of music that would interest “infants and youngsters.” Has now been in the Navy for 2 years; wonders more about the “freezing” of yeomen; talks about his political affiliations in college. He and Lew talk with a man named Phillips, who is a Zionist and wants to have more information about Jews and other racial minorities in the Camp library; says that the Chaplins’ School at William and Mary is closing. Writes about how Bill Maudlin is now satirizing service officialdom; the Navy is reclaiming all mattresses issued to men when they arrived.

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