My Easter dress is yellow. Mommy looked at it and seemed sad when she said I need a new one that isn’t so short, but I told her I like my yellow dress. Daddy looks so handsome. I haven’t seen him wear his suit in such a long time. He has been Selling Apples on the street, and sometimes Peter and Eric help him. I didn’t even feel strange about going back to St. Mark’s after the incident in the bread line (Mommy hasn’t even tried to take us back there since).
I liked going to Church for Easter, but it meant I couldn’t invite Gracie over, because almost all the dinner guests belong to the Bund, and Gracie’s Jewish. Aunt Wendla was very cross with me when I told her that Gracie marched in an anti-Nazi parade last month. And then Uncle Rolf told everyone at the table “The New Deal is a Jew Deal”. I don’t know what that means.
Uncle Rolf said that Mayor LaGuardia was revoking the permit for the German Day march that was supposed to happen soon. I love parades, so I was upset about that. Why is his parade different than Gracie’s parade? Why is the New Deal only for the Jews? Is it as Uncle Rolf says, and lots of Jews are working for the President and only helping the Jews? The banks closed and reopened for everybody, right? Is President Roosevelt Jewish? I’m not sure.
They let all the cousins leave the table to go play. We made paper airplanes out of these:
They made good airplanes – mine flew into the dumpster on the street corner!