Friday, 20 August

Volume 6 of the War and the Working Class magazine published an article, saying that it was not necessary for the Soviet Union to take part in the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill, because what the Soviet Union needed now was action not discussion. If the British and American armies didn’t open the second war zone this year, it would help delay the defeat of Germany once more. Britain and the United States hadn’t experienced the pain of their territories were being occupied, so they couldn’t sense how urgent the problem was. It was a clear expression that they were dissatisfied with Britain and United States.

I received a telegram from the Generalissimo. According to intelligence the Japanese Gaimushō dispatched its advisers embarking from Shanghai on 6 July to North China, and took the route to the puppet state in Manchuria, via Siberia to the Soviet Union for further action. He asked me to investigate.