Saturday, 7 January

Twenty-fifth day of the eleventh lunar month, Yiwei year

[Private matter, one paragraph not available online]

In the evening, I went with Kitty to Mayol. We have not been there for two years, so the programmes would naturally be different. The Stevils Sisters, Alain et Alaine, Les Acropolis, Claude Gilly in ‘You Shouldn’t Read When You Are Alone (solitary striptease) were quite good. There were also quite a few dancers with good figures among the sexy girls. If Li Shufan were here he would never want to miss them.

L’Information reported that the American President had repeatedly invited Nehru to visit the United States in order to boost his chances in the election. But the Indian side wanted the United Nations to meet in India. It would show that India is the pillar of those countries of the Eastern and Western groups. Nevertheless, the US had agreed that the meeting would be in Italy next year and held in Rome. It is because in the next year the Chinese communists would be allowed to join, so it is inappropriate that the meeting would be held in either the United States or in Asia. The so-called ethical international view of the United States is virtually nothing. Chiang deeply inclined towards the United States to resist the Soviet Union because of Song Ziwen’s family, and this led to the current dilemma. I am not sure if he has awakened or not. But if he has awakened it is already very late.

The article also mentioned the proposal raised by America’s president about increasing assistance to those countries that are not yet developed.  At the same time, the author suggests that the United States should cooperate with the Soviet Union on such type of work. The recent international situation is that both America and the Soviet Union want to develop the economy of those backward countries as the basis of a power struggle. It is like two ghosts competing – with human beings reaping the benefit.