Tuesday, 15 February

Dull

The female teacher whom VOKS introduced is called Mishina. She can speak English and has taught Ambassador Kerr. She is now teaching in various Embassies. Though she is young, she is experienced, and her charge is 25 rubles per hour, which is much cheaper than Penskaya of ‎Kuybyshev who charges 40 rubles. We made a deal that we meet every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, three times per week. We will start from the day after tomorrow.

The German broadcast talked about the bombardment of London. It happened that the British Embassy were sending a parcel back to Britain, so I asked them to forward my letter with greetings to Qian Tai.