March 30, 1946 A Very Short Letter, Working On Revisions and The 2 Month Old Cookies

Dear Mother & Daddy,

"We didn't get one speck of mail today.  I guess your letters will come Monday.

The weather has been just wonderful.  People were complaining about the heat yesterday.  It was in the 70s.  I really like it.

My practice teaching is coming along just fine.  It is lots of work but is easier than the last time I was out.  We haven't been any place or done anything.  B is working on his dissertation every spare minute.  He is going to the library this afternoon.

We had a letter from Francis Jr. yesterday.  He had gotten the cookies we sent so long ago.  It had taken about two months for them to get there but he said they were in good shape.   He had received a promotion and he said his rating was equal to a sergeant in the army.  His ship was getting ready to go to Panama.  He really is seeing some far away places but I guess he's homesick.  He said the Philippines had lots of lovely scenery.

B has a weeks vacation beginning this next Friday so he is looking forward to using the time to finish the dissertation.  When this school year is finished we'll feel we have really accomplished a lot.  At least, we hope to finish a lot of things.

There isn't any news and maybe there will be more next time."

                  Lots of love,

                           B & Bonnie

NOTES from Ann:  From Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day" entry on March 30, 1946:

"I imagine that everyone these days, like myself, is taking out maps of the Near East and studying them with interest, in order to follow the questions that are under consideration at the UNO Security Council sessions. Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, Palestine and Saudi Arabia have been just names to many of us. Often, we have not had a very clear idea of how much territory they covered or where they were. Now we are going to hear about them day in and day out, since what happens in the Security Council affects the peace of the world."

For newsreel footage of the UN Security Council meeting on March 28, 1946 in which Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet delegate at that time, walked out on the discussion of the growing Iranian conflict:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miiCz9MPqc0  The conflict arose  from the Soviet's refusal to relinquish occupied territory in Iran.