Wednesday, 25 June

To Chungking by the morning bus. The car broke down on the way and it took me five hours to get here. Put up at Dr. Wang’s (No.17 Meizhuanxiao Street). From 4.00 to 5.30 the afternoon meeting of the Committee of Studying the Adjustment of the Current Administrative Institutions. Dr. Wang and I [were] elected as Chairmen of the first Committee to give a report on the relations between the National Defense Committee and the five Yuans. Chen Bozhuang told me that both the Generalissimo and He Yingqin think the Japs will fight the U.S.S.R. Naturally they have better intelligence when making their judgments.