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home, Déde rung up, he passed some exam
and asked me to go with him on the little
steamer round Pünkösdfürdő and back.
There is a thunderstorm hanging in the air,
so I can hope only it will pass before I have
to start from home. I am taking Marie
Pató with me too.

With regards possible future airraids there
are 2000 emergency beds only at Budapest,
[/strikethrough] 300.000 [/strikethrough] 30.000 in the whole country. The municipality
has ordered (in all silence) 20.000 coffins. Nice
auspices.

August 1. Sunday.
Italy seems to be before immediate changes. Does
the Badoglio government not turn against the axis
there seems to be a considerable amount of organized
resistence [resistance] in the North of the country (itself) which will
be able to disturb at least dayly [daily] routine of warfare.
I do not know yet the meaning of the following
story: Maort gets money for paying Maort people’s
salaries from the Commercial Bank. Yesterday everybody
got his or her pay, after this, a few hours