Sunday, 9 July

Fine, sun

At noon American Ambassador Harriman visited me. He said Secretary of State Hull had a long talk with Minister Kung, and told me that the United States hopes Sino-Soviet relations will be on friendly terms. He also said that Vice-President Wallace originally decided to inform him by telegram about the negotiations in China before leaving, but still he hasn’t received his telegram. Probably it was difficult to send a secret cable on the way. Therefore he asked me about the Wallace’s negotiations in China. I told him that according to what I knew, it was quite satisfactory. He asked me about the matter of the Chinese Communist Party. I told him that the Central Government has already sent the conditions to Lin Zuhan, but still hasn’t received a reply yet from Yenan. The Central Government hopes that they will accept. With regard to conditions, I had no idea. All in all, if they can abolish their government and troops, and they can obey the orders from the Central Government, other things are negotiable. He asked if the Central Government allowed the Communist Party to join the central administration and maintain themselves as a political party. I said as far as I knew, the Central Government has long been willing to invite them to join. As for them maintaining themselves as a party, the unswerving attitude of Central Government is to adopt a tolerant attitude, only independent governments and armies are opposed. For example the Allied Army fought in Western Europe, the Canadian army was certainly an independent unit, but was it also under the direction of Eisenhower? He also thought so. He asked me about the Xinjiang incident. I told him that the Xinjiang authority was still not very clear about Central Government policy. I cabled the report to the Chairman.Yesterday I got the reply and the Central Government has already ordered the Xinjiang authorities to improve. Hamilton said he deeply believed that the Soviet Union could stick to the decisions of the Tehran Conference, and in the future it will join the war against Japan, and take a friendly policy towards China. He also asked me about Mr. H.H Kung’s opinion about the Sino-Soviet relationship. I told him what made Mr. Kung respectable was that he had no prejudice. He knew that what China needed was Sino-Soviet friendship, so he naturally advocated pro-Soviet. As a matter of fact the Chairman was really clear about the situation and has been adopting a pro-Soviet policy. But on the part of the Soviet Union, because of the Japanese issue, it dared not make it obvious giving further assistance to China, and the Chinese side was not very enthusiastic about  publicising the Sino-Soviet friendship and telling  Chinese people about the actual attitude of the Soviet Union so as to put it in a difficult situation. I asked him about the news that the Japanese economic group will come to the Soviet Union. He said that he absolutely did not believe there was such a possibility, because recently the Soviet Government has been very open in cooperating with the United States in every matter. The Soviet Union would not try to please Japan in this way so as not to arouse a bad reaction. We then talked about the war in China until 1.30 in the afternoon. He felt satisfied.

The British army has occupied Caen and the Red Army Lida. De Gaulle has met Roosevelt and I have heard that the result was quite good.