Saturday, 9 September

Fine

In the morning the New Zealand Minister to the Soviet Union visited me. His name was Charles Boswell. He was quite honest.

In the afternoon, Life Magazine reporter Hersay visited me. He asked me about the Xinjiang matter. I told him that Wu Zongxin was an old comrade and Sino-Soviet relations were not as bad as outsiders thought. Both sides wanted to stay friendly.

I sent letters to Bingkun and Jinpei and sent US$500. US$200 for domestic use by Bingkun, US$100 for attending mother’s grave and asked him to remit US$100 each to mother’s brother and Quanchu. I try to fulfil my duty to relatives and friends. Wu Shupeng wrote to me that he has returned to Foshan and worked in the Liyi Company because he had to earn a living but he had no other way round. In the past few years he has been unable to work in Chongqing because he recently got a concubine in Hong Kong.

The British broadcast said that the enemy has occupied Lingling and pushed towards Guilin. My family’s safety begins to cause problems again. Luckily there are many relatives and friends in Guilin and there shouldn’t be great difficulties. I felt rather relieved. Zhongxiong sent me some very good photographs.