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To me, allowing any kind of a woman to dominate you is without redemption. Sophie (Müller’swife, ed.) was not easy to live with but I made do. My God, I recall when I brought her to Berlin. I hadbeen living there by myself quite comfortably when Himmler started gobbling that the Führer liked to seefamily men around him. Think of Goebbels and his endless array of opportunistic tarts. So I had to bringthe lot up from Munich. S. of course, had no idea about how to conduct herself in the rarified atmosphereof the upper circles of the SS and I had to keep her at home.Reinhard (Müller’s son, ed.) became a pleasure to me after a time but the rest of them were anuisance. S. made such a fuss about leaving Berlin at the last. I got special seats on the train for her andElizabeth (Müller’s daughter, ed.) and she kept coming back. We finally got her out but what a problem forme!Poor Anni S. (Anni Schmidt was Müller’s favorite mistress, ed.) was far more upset about mydisappearing act than Sophie but then I cared far more about A. than Sophie. Women cannot be dispensedwith and it is almost impossible to live with most of them.If I find another one, better than Irmgard, I will have to see what can be done. I., after all, is agood secretary (if too demanding) and she knows a great deal. Well, there are always solutions. I. wantedto type up these notes but I think not.A check for $9,683 for the sale of some of the paintings. Always welcome, money is.Tuesday, 24 May 1949Germany is now a new state with old (Konrad, ed.) Adenauer in charge of the shop. Not much leftof the country now and last year was a disaster as far as partial famine was concerned. Thank God Trumandid something about that. He does not hate Germans the way Eisenhower does but then Truman is notJewish. If it weren’t for Truman, Eisenhower would have let all our prisoners of war starve to death and asit is, nearly a hundred thousand were either murdered in cold blood or allowed to starve.Eisenhower did exactly what he accused us of. Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.The bringing of democratic culture to the benighted Germans certainly cost America a great deal.There were over three hundred American Negro soldiers hung for murder and rape, a figure no one wantsto talk about. At least the Americans took time out from their looting to revert to type. I wonder if theexecution party wore white sheets?By the way, Truman dislikes Eisenhower very much and as Truman has this attitude, I gave him aphotocopy of my file on E., suitably embellished and translated for his reading. I am told he was veryentertained.I have nothing at all on Truman which would cover more than three pages and none of that bad. Iheard a very decent story about T. In 1945, when he was Vice President, his old patron, Mr. Pendergast,died. P. was a typical American political “boss” who had offended the wrong people and was put in prison.The man died alone and in poverty and the only one who went to his funeral was T. Much criticism at thetime but that does show the man’s character. I doubt if I will mention it to him the next time I see him.Character is the most important thing, after all.Forrestal will be buried at the Arlington cemetery tomorrow and I have been asked to attend as amourner. I detest public shows but my general friends would like me along to meet others. The Swiss clockmaker triumphant at last!Up early in the morning, take Maxl for his walk and then into fancy clothes for the services. Carwill be by for me no later than nine.Wednesday, 25 May 1949A great and solemn ceremony at Arlington, the Invaliden Cemetery of the Americans. (TheInvaliden Cemetery in Berlin was where all the notable German military figures were buried. ed.)There were two loges, a green marquee, all manner of important people including formerPresident Hoover, Truman, his Vice President (Alben Barkley, ed.) and a number of Generals includingBradley, the Army Chief of Staff and Vandenberg, the Air Force Chief of Staff.I sat in the box with the military because of my honorary rank and had the interesting experienceof watching the President and his cabinet during the entire service.A full artillery salute about an hour later and at about fifteen minutes to noon it was all over.Forrestal’s grave had a simple temporary marker identifying him not as the Secretary of Defense but onlyas a naval lieutenant.The cemetery is quite beautiful in the spring and I ought to take the time to come back and look atthe mansion which once belonged to General Lee, the Southern leader and, from my readings at least, one