Monday, 15 September
With regard to the America-Japan negotiations, Guo Taiji showed me the reply to our country from the American Ambassador as instructed.
- The America-Japan negotiations are still preliminary. What both sides discussed cannot be recognised as a basis of negotiation.
- The intention of the United States is to solve the problem of the entire Pacific. Before negotiation the United States would come to an agreement with China and other related countries.
- The United States has no intention of violating the basic principles and policies specified at various times in the past.
- The political and economic measures which the United States has adopted towards Japan are due to the atmosphere imposed by Japan on China and various places in the southern Pacific. Before this situation is changed or disappears, the United States does not intend to change or abolish the said measures.
- If the aggression is still ongoing, and those countries being invaded continued to proffer defense, the United States would centre on its basic policy and continue to provide material, political and moral aid.
At six o’clock Deng Gang(鄧剛) and Han Hanfan (韓漢藩) invited me to dine at Liang Hancao’s home asking Cantonese natives to petition the government for a reduction in tax. At seven, Wang Chonghui invited Qian Tai and Lattimore to dine at his home. After that Wang Chonghui invited me to stay behind to talk. He told me that Hang Liwu told him the story that the Generalissimo has not recently been on good terms with the British Ambassador to China. Rogers was certainly one of the reasons, also there were some reasons that he could not tell me. Wang Chonghui said “familiarity breeds contempt”. He really did not think it was appropriate that our supreme leader should be too close to ambassadors and consuls. His thoughts are the same as mine.