Spoke at National Memorial on the work of CNRRA 【行政院善後救濟總署]. The people were intensely interested; the hall was perfectly still. The speech, however, was intended mainly for international consumption.
At 10, staff conference.
After lunch, went to the office at 1:30. Hendrickson, Kizer, and Olmstead【1】 came at 2:50 p.m. There was some confusion, because Yu Fei-peng 【俞飛鵬] was holding a press conference at the same time; but I persisted in going ahead with it. The conference began at 3:05; at 3:15, all the foreign correspondents streamed in. Hendrickson adroitly expressed sympathy with China, without committing UNRRA 【聯合國善後救濟總署] to anything. Received Patrick Shaw,【2】 new Australian Chargé d’Affaires. At 5:30, took Hendrickson to call on T. V. Soong 【宋子文]. Topics: shipping, coal, cotton, inflation, etc.
Hsieh 【薛篤弼] came at 4, to talk about the dike budgets: agreed on cutting down to about 6 billion: Yellow River and Yangtze about ½ and ½.
Ordered all regional staffs to go by special plane to their posts in order to get ahead of Hendrickson.
Evening, Yen Hsi-shan 【閻錫山] came to talk about Shansi. He said he expected a fair deal within my regulations. Of course, I promised.
【注】
【1】Ralph W. Olmstead（1911-1985），美國人。
1941-1945年擔任美國剩餘物資銷售管理局（Surplus Marketing Administration）及其接續機構之局長助理，1945年任戰時糧食管理局商品信用公司（Commodity Credit Corporation）副總與供應組主任，同年4月返回軍職。
後曾隨聯合國善後救濟總署副署長韓雷生進行為期六週的訪華行程，返國不久，1946年1月被任命為聯合國善後救濟總署駐華辦事處執行長，5月調任行政院善後救濟總署副執行長（執行長劉鴻生），6月離職後，曾任行政院長宋子文的中國糧食分配問題顧問。
參考：“Promoted by CCC: Maycock, Named Vice President to Succeed Colonel Olmstead,” New York Times (Apr. 20, 1945), p. 26; “China UNRRA Director Leaves for Shanghai,” The Baltimore Sun (Jan. 13, 1946), p. 3; “Olmstead Resigns from UNRRA,” The North-China Daily News (Jun. 2, 1946), p. 3; “Olmstead’s Shift Stirs Interest,” The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (Jun. 7, 1946), p. 1; Who Was Who in America with World Notables vol. 9, 1985-1989, p. 271。
【2】Patrick Shaw（1913-1975），澳洲外交官。
1945-1947年在重慶、南京的澳洲公使館擔任一等秘書。
參考：David Lee, “Shaw, Sir Patrick (1913-1975),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2002, accessed Mar. 19, 2021, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/shaw-sir-patrick-11667。