Friday, 31 January

Gave a party jointly with Xie Baoqiao at my house in return for the several given in my honour. Chen Bomei kept us laughing the whole night. He really is a jolly good fellow. Zhang Bojun came as an unexpected guest. He got drunk too.

Hitler in his speech yesterday, followed his usual habit of first attacking Great Britain, destroying England as “the paradise for the selected few and misery for many”, “her balance of power as the disorganization of the European Continent in favour of the British Isles”. Referring to the British intention to start somewhere a large scale offensive, he remarked ironically that he only wished that they would let him know in advance, then he would have that part of Europe evacuated in order to eliminate for them all obstacles for landing. After that he would speak with them in the only language they understood. He declared that the submarine war will start this spring and “every vessel regardless whether with or without escort which comes before our torpedo tubes will be torpedoed.”