Saturday, 27 January

In the afternoon, Geng Chengzhi came with his wife. We talked about the matter of Huang Qiang and I asked him to reply to Huang Qiang in detail directly.

In his speech yesterday, the British Prime Minister, Attlee, attacked Stalin, saying that the ambition of the latter exceeded the Tsar. Attlee said the Soviet Union now possessed one hundred and seventy-five army divisions, twenty-five thousand tanks and twenty thousand airplanes.