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Dec. 3 Friday
[[strikethrough]] March 28 [[/strikethrough]]

East. I have seen.

Saturday - Dec. 4.

Morning in the garden with the children, lovable & charming.

Lunch with the Hacohens, who have a quiet, very nice house.

Met Liet [[sic]] Colonel Prat - Israeli War Office, Weill, engineer, member of a large Kibutz & Mr. Joseph, a former resident of Rangoon - on visit from England to wind up his business affairs.

Papa would have been proud & pleased to hear Hacohen describe our family, all its members, to his guests.

Mrs. Hacohen is making a special [[strikethrough]] luncheon [[/strikethrough]] Dinner for us Dec. 12! She will be busy this week writing an article on her impressions of Tokyo & Hong Kong but said she would be at home to me [[sic]] anytime I cared to visit with her.


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Shwedagon          Sunday Dec. 5th
[[strikethrough]] March 29 [[/strikethrough]]

Eve - Saw a poor American film, with Louis & Dorothy: Scandal at Scourie. Theatre smelly, rats in orchestra not infrequent. Poorly cooled by fans - expensive seats reserved in Balcony as in Japan. 

Sunday, Dec. 5th

Drove with Louis to see the famous old Temple & buildings— Shrines— 

Dome of the building - solid gold leaf - jeweled with Topaz. Took an hour just to wander about seeing the Shrines, to study them will take many more visits. Everywhere, priests & natives spend the day with their children, cook & sleep in front of them. Vendors with colorful offerings of flowers, candles, toys forming picturesque groups with their families, near the shrines and on all the levels of the long red stairway leading to the Temple. The Shwe Dagon Pagoda (pure gold plated) is one of the existing wonders of the world