Wednesday, 24 March

Nineteenth day of the second lunar month

Mr. Doorman, the American Embassy Counsellor, visited me and he said he would be transferred back to the American Foreign Office to research post-war issues.  He has lived in Japan for some 20 years, and also worked in the American diplomatic institutions in the Far East for over 30 years, therefore he knew a lot about the Far East and the Soviet Union. He personally thought the Soviet Union was adopting an aggressive policy towards Europe and Asia in disguise, and taking a look at her attitude towards Poland one can see what she is trying to do. Even towards Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia, the attitude is similar. In the future if the Soviet army stepped into Europe first, then Western Europe would be occupied first, and the Communist system would be implemented. This bad influence in the politics in the regions was worrying, and without doubt the Soviet Union would be the country which was the most difficult to deal with after the war. He also said for the past decades, that American policy in the Far East has been to balance power between Japan and the Soviet Union, and he was one of the people implementing this policy, and had been doing it for some 20 years. But now it had to be changed to cooperation with China, and only then would the world and Far East peace be hopeful. He was quite amenable towards China and also straightforward.

In the evening the American Embassy invited me to go and watch movies.