Office in the morning. Looked over the new statistical quarterly.
Evening, went to Hardy Burt’s party in honor of Toledano’s new book Hour for Reckoning 【Day of Reckoning], which just came out.
Met there Mrs. Vogel, Prof. and Mrs. Budenz,【1】 etc. Budenz thought the chief difficulty with Americans was their lack of philosophic training. Told him that the pro-communists and the anti-communists all lacked philosophic training. Very few were excited about Marxian materialistic interpretation of history. What has contributed to the communist cause in the U.S.A. is the goodness and goodiness of the American people. Marxists exploit deliberately that goodness and goodiness. For this reason, the Reporter is more dangerous than the Daily Worker. He half agreed in the end. Mrs. Vogel turned out to be a beautiful and charming woman, well-educated too.

【注】
【1】Louis F. Budenz（1891-1972），前美國共產黨員，此時任教於復旦（Fordham）大學。
參見1950/4/20注。