Monday, 10 March
Thirteenth day of the second lunar month
The Generalissimo at the Peoples’ Political Council meeting yesterday came out with the truthful facts about our case regarding Communists. He has taken the greatest pain to maintain cooperation with them in view of our life-death struggle with the Japs. The Communists, according to facts revealed by him, took the utmost advantage of a common difficult situation to grab whatever they could get their hands upon. It is awkward enough to have to fight an enemy unequal in size; but at the same time to have behind you, one who, professes to be your ally, whilst picking your pocket all the time and threatening you with a knife at your back, is more than human nature can stand. I firmly believed him when he said he felt it was the greatest pain in his life.
The U.S.A. Senate has passed the Lend-Lease Act with quite a good majority, in spite of such a long and heated debate. President Roosevelt came out victorious and he may now have a freer hand in helping the sister-democracies of the U.S.A. including China.
The Nazi diplomatic drive in the Balkans seemed to have a certain amount of success. Besides Bulgaria, Yugoslavia will have to join the Axis. I have a very low opinion of these Balkan states. When left to themselves, they quarrel with one another over trifles, but when faced with an honourable war they invariably capitulate. The U.S.S.R. put up a very feeble protest against Bulgaria’s capitulation. But what can the U.S.S.R. do? Can they forget the Germans with such weak allies as the Balkan states? I pity the brave Greeks who now have to face such unmatched odds. God bless them!
Dr. Wang must be in a bad fix again. He sent me several blank verses on Wu Shangying together with one of his sportive letters. Wrote him the following.
[Fu’s letter to Wang Chonghui is as a joke, also a poem. The main content is a joke. Refer to original.]
Xie Baoqiao called and stayed till late. He confided to us his troubles with his Sichuan woman. Women are untamable animals and those of Sichuan the worst of that ungovernable breed. He lived to drown his sorrow with wine, but it made things worse for him. I stuck to my principle of non-intervention in family affairs, as no matter how bad a quarrel becomes, it always ends with a happy peace. So I allowed him to talk nineteen to the dozen without expressing any opinion.