Wednesday, 23 January

I studied Italian on my own.

In the afternoon, Mrs. Xia Jinlin visited me. She told me about their living conditions in the United States. The living standard is high and it was comfortable to live there.

The senior personnel of the United Army of Western Europe calculates that at the moment it only had 18 divisions, while the Soviet Army had 24 to 26 divisions in Germany and Poland, also it had 150 divisions of reserves; so in case of a potential war it could not mount an effective defense.