December 14, 1939
We sailed yesterday on the S.S. Cleveland, via Hong Kong-Shanghai-Kobe-Yokohama-Honolulu-San Francisco. In Shanghai we are doing some shopping, principally with respect to fur coats, of… Read More »December 14, 1939
We sailed yesterday on the S.S. Cleveland, via Hong Kong-Shanghai-Kobe-Yokohama-Honolulu-San Francisco. In Shanghai we are doing some shopping, principally with respect to fur coats, of… Read More »December 14, 1939
The typewriter is too intricate for me. The date of our going has been definitely fixed as Dec. 13, sailing on the SS Pres. Cleveland. Our… Read More »November 15, 1939
This evening we have been listening to broadcasts of Chamberlain’s speech stating that Great Britain was at war with Germany. After months and months of… Read More »September 3, 1939
Conference w/ Eisenhower on various matters, re Velasquez & Garcia etc. He tells me about Gen V not being able to function on the basis… Read More »Saturday Aug 12/39
Tea at Lim’s –Dalao, Romero, Manzano Moran absent. Pacita was present. Lim talks and traces the case of the Scouts. Most of his talk was… Read More »July 29, 1939
News in Bulletin re Scout Officers not accepting offer. I went to see Valdes on this news. Valdes sent for Lim. Lim agrees with my… Read More »July 28, 1939
Legaspi, Albay When we awoke this morning it was still and hot, and Mayon clad in a transparent wisp of white, thrust her perfect cone… Read More »July 24th 1939
We are back at the hotel in Legaspi and I’m nursing muscles that daily golf and riding never discovered. I’m afraid that I was not… Read More »July 23rd 1939
The wind is howling and the clouds are racing across the moon, giving us fitful glimpses of the surrounding mountains and the bay and the… Read More »July 22nd 1939