Thursday, 20 May

London broadcasted about the conference between Roosevelt and Churchill in Washington. Most of the talks were about how to counter Japan. Minister Song also joined the conference. Looking closely at the original text of the report which Churchill delivered to the American Congress, it seemed to have the following tendencies. 1) He didn’t mention opening the second war zone in Europe. He simply said the air force would increase the bombing of German military industries, therefore we could feel that Britain and the United States didn’t think that the German threat towards the British and Americans was too big now. 2) He concentrated on Japan, proposing to meet with the Generalissimo and Stalin. It seemed he wanted the Soviets to make clear their attitude towards Japan. They thought that the threat from the Germans wasn’t as strong as before, then as Japan was the common foe of Britain and the United States, it should be at the same time the enemy of the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union didn’t want to become an enemy of Japan, it might be that she still wanted to be friendly with Japan. In the future, if Britain and the United States used up all their strength, defeating Germany and Italy with the Soviet Union in Europe, then Britain and the United States would still have to fight Japan, and the Soviet Union would have spare power to dominate Europe. This was of course not what Britain and the United States wanted. Therefore, they wanted the Soviet Union to express its inclination. If the Soviets tried to link up with the Allies to fight Japan, this would be fine. Otherwise Britain and the United States could use their air forces to fight Germany and Italy, and then shift their major power to Asia to defeat Japan, to make it submit at the same time as Germany and Italy, or earlier. Recently the Soviet attitude towards Poland and Sweden seemed to make some people in Britain and the United States suspect that it had territorial ambitions.

This type of change was important to the future of China. We should on one hand cooperate with Britain and the United States, and on the other hand maintain a friendly relationship with the Soviet Union. With these we can sustain the Allies as one. During and after the war we should cooperate wholeheartedly and this will be useful to the future of our country and the world. But it is a pity that the Soviet Union is not happy with my stay in Moscow, and is also worried about the Japanese. The Soviet Union doesn’t dare have too much contact with me. I regret that I can not do much.