Wednesday, 28 June

At noon Hamilton visited me. He will be transferred back to the United States soon. He has been quite honest and good for China. He said during the year he has obtained my assistance on many occasions, so as a friend he felt sad to say farewell to me. I asked him to take a cigarette case for Mr. Liu Kai.

Qian Chengyong is back from Egypt and Iran. What he bought this time is quite satisfactory.

Today, Counsellor Liu went to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see Secretary Litvinov. He is very unhappy with the unreasonable actions by the Xinjiang authorities towards the Soviet Union. He also said that what Chairman Chiang promised was not implemented. I thought I should report this to the Chairman, so I asked Shaozhou and Jingchen to prepare telegrams to send to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chairman. At the same time we informed Liquan.