Saturday, 30 September

Rain

During the public address the day before yesterday, a certain Reisner talked about the Indian problem. So I asked Secretary Qin to listen. Today he reported to me the main content. It not only did not have any criticism, but he emphasised that the interior situation in India is very complicated. This is enough to prove that with regard to the Indian issue the Soviet Union is avoiding stirring up any ill-feelings from the British side. I think we should also adopt the same pragmatic policy.

The London broadcast said that the Polish President Raczkiewicz sacked the Polish Commander-in-Chief Sosnkowski today. Yesterday I talked to Canadian Minister Wilgress about this, but he was afraid that this would not meet the demands of the Soviet Union. Because on the one side of the Polish exile government they wanted themselves to be the majority, which meant they would take the current five parties as the core and take in several members from the Communist Party and the Polish Committee of National Liberation. The Polish Committee of National Liberation, demanded the 18 committee members as the core and only allowed three or four people like Prime Minister Mikolajczyk to join. The rift between both sides is great. Mikolajczyk is a good person but he cares too much about his personal morals. Though he earlier openly opposed the 1935 constitution, if he was asked to insist on this, it would place the Polish President in a very difficult situation. Mikolajczyk mightn’t agree to do so. Also he seemed to be quite suspicious towards the Soviet Union. Therefore when he met Stalin in Moscow earlier he asked Stalin if he wanted to turn Poland Red. Stalin said he absolutely had no intention of doing so. All in all, Mikolajczyk might not be able to cope with this kind of difficult situation. Minister Wilgress said in his personal view that it would be better not to talk about the basis of law, and for both sides to offer the same amount of people to organise the provisional government. Then wait until everything has settled down and then let the people decide on the constitution and other issues. What he said was quite reasonable.

Pravda today published E. Zhukov’s article, recounting the military and political difficulties of Japan at the moment. Its tone was apparent. It said Japan will lose the war soon. Politically though Koiso Kuniaki tried to get the support of political parties and the industrialists, there has been no change in the policy. This proves that the Soviet Union is against Japan. So I abstracted it and cabled it to the Foreign Ministry.

The conference of China, Britain and United States with regard to the post-war peace organisation started yesterday at Dumbarton Oaks.

For the last few days the Soviet army has entered the Hungarian border and also Maka city. The news from Switzerland said there were demonstrations of people showing discontent towards the government in Budapest. The Hungarian Government did not really think about its own strength, but only wanted to take a small advantage depending on the strength of the aggressor, which in turn put its people under such hardship. It is pitiful.

In the past few days the war in China has not been good. Areas around Wuzhou and Luoding have been lost. It is pitiful to see my home country like this.