Sunday, 29 January

Seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Yiwei year

I went to the restaurant in the morning because both Zhongxiong and Hua took the train to Bonn this morning. I arrived at the restaurant at ten forty-five, and saw Zhu Guang had tidied up the restaurant. He takes his responsibility for his work quite seriously. But Defeng did not show up.

Eisenhower replied to Bulganin that he declined his indirect suggestion to bring about a mutual and friendly cooperative pact for twenty years. He said that such a clause had been included in the Charter of the United Nations, so it was meaningless for both sides to draw a treaty with the same terms again. He also said that the improvement for the current situation should come from the improvement of spirit. This is exactly what I had expected.