Wednesday, 11 August

 Eleventh day of the seventh lunar month

At 11.00 a.m. all the Embassy personnel, their families and I left Kuibyshev and together with the Canadian, Yugoslavian, Australian embassy personnel we travelled in the same train to Moscow. The Soviet Government was quite helpful on the train. The Military Attaché’s cook wanted to take a girl with him but was discovered by the Soviet inspector. He said she came to say goodbye but didn’t leave the train in time, so the inspector just asked her to get off the train. That cook was always very daring. The last case about the fire in the Military Attaché’s place has not been solved yet, so I asked Military Attaché Guo to dismiss him after settling in the new place.

In the afternoon, Minister Wilgress of Canada came to have a talk in my cabin and he is deeply worried about the differences of opinion between Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. He said that he had heard Madame Chiang went to America, and the personnel from the American Government didn’t seem to be okay with her, perhaps because she kept saying the United States’ help to China was inadequate. I said I have not yet heard about it. But according to the American newspapers, Madame Chiang seemed to receive a very warm welcome there. What Minister Wilgress said was quite strange.