Saturday, 4 March

Heavy snow, dull

The Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation closed their conference today. I sent Shaozhou to sit in. When he came back, he said they ratified the amendment of constitutional law and established their defence and foreign sections. All the speeches were almost the same as Molotov’s report.

Yesterday British planes bombarded Germany using 12,000 pound bombs. The power was so great because killing machines have became more and more developed. People are only concerned that they cannot kill more. This jingoistic [see original, chong ding wu zhi] call for war is really a great evil.

The American Government ceased diplomatic relations with the Argentinian Government.

At 11.45 in the morning I studied Russian.

Military Attaché Guo gave me the news from the Military Ministry, saying according to captives, since September last year, Japanese airplane production has increased to 1,700 every month. This is attested by the increase in the number of pilots, this seems to be true. Therefore we shouldn’t look down upon Japanese strength too much.