Tuesday, 4 March

We had breakfast tea at the coffee shop. Afterwards we went to the Shanglong restaurant to have lunch. Then we took a rest at the hotel.

At five we returned home. Sun Fo and his wife had gone to Paris. We talked with Baoqiao. He urged Kitty not to be so angry with Sun Fo and his wife. Kitty was fine with Sun Fo but still angry with Mrs. Sun. At half past seven we had supper at the Shanglong restaurant.

At twelve, Chengyong came to talk with me. The American envoys stationed at Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Balkans met in Paris for three days. The meeting ended yesterday. This was the third time for such a type of meeting, and it was chaired by the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, General George W. Perkins. The resolutions were as follows:

• They did not advocate termination of diplomatic relations.
• They were not optimistic as to the conditions of the various vassal states of the Soviet Union.
• With regard to the restrictions imposing on diplomats by the Soviet Union and its vassal states, they all advocated the study of retaliatory measures.

American Secretary of Defense Robert Abercrombie Lovett reported on the decision made in the conference in the capital of Portugal that Western Europe would build up fifty divisions this year. Only twenty-five out of these fifty divisions would be frontline armies, while the other twenty-five would be reserves. At the moment, the frontline armies had twenty-two divisions, therefore as a matter of fact only three more were added. Though such quantities were less than the military authority requested, at the moment the Soviet Union only has twenty-six small divisions in Eastern Germany and Poland (which is the same as in the past two or three years, without any increase). Though the reserves of the Soviet Union are quite numerous, it would take quite a long time for them to replenish their soldiers in the front to a level sufficient enough to launch an attack. Therefore, the Allies’ army would be enough to cope with them.