Wednesday, 9 September

Fairly warm, pleasant breeze

Gave notice to Mr. Yeu, our landlord, this afternoon of our removing back to Sartrouville at the end of the month if the M.S.A cannot get anyone to take our house. I showed him Fobe’s letter and he was quite nice about it. Arranged to keep Zhongxiong’s room.

Mrs. Ting Yuzheng called. She was full of gossip. I had a hard time to tell Kitty not to repeat any of it.

The British are going to test the new and terrible Cobart Bomb at Woomera, in Australia, soon. This new C-Bomb has the effect of an A-Bomb, but with killing radio-activities twenty years after the explosion. How this world progresses in the methods of killing!

Tchervenkov, the Bulgarian Premier, declared today that Bulgaria is ready to settle its outstanding problems with Turkey and Yugoslavia and wishes to re-establish diplomatic relations with the United States and Greece. He mentioned also her new interior policy of raising the living standards of her population as has been done in Hungary and Romania. This shows that the USSR is continuing to ease the cold war and trying to change her foreign policy gradually as I had foreseen as far back as 1946 when I repeatedly told my colleagues in Moscow.