Tuesday, 19 September

Fine, quite cold

I studied Russian from 11.30 in the morning to 1.30 in the afternoon.

This afternoon, Shaozhou met with Secretary Litvinov of the Soviet Foreign Office. According to him in Dongan in Xinjiang it happened that the wife of a person from the Soviet Consulate was arrested and slashed by Chinese military officers on the 13 of this month. At the moment the Central Government is trying to do its best to rectify the Sino-Soviet relationship, yet this kind of activity is going on. With regard to this the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs called several times for meetings. They thought it was possible that some of the old personnel from Xinjiang province did it intentionally to tarnish Sino-Soviet relations. To sum up the Soviet side is very concerned about this. He handed Shaozhou a memorandum under the name of the Soviet Government, filing a serious protest to our government asking for stern punishment for the military officer. Xinjiang personnel behaving like this made us feel very sorry.

The Central broadcast has publicised the documents of both sides with regard to the Chinese Communist Party issue. The Chinese Communist Party might not accept the Central Government’s proposal, and the twelve clauses mentioned by the Chinese Communist Party are absolutely unacceptable to the Central Government. For the latter it is enough to prove that the Chinese Communist Party is not sincere regarding cooperation. Matters have come to a deadlock. I do not know what I should say.