Had a long talk with Yang Hsien-tung 楊顯東, Deputy Director of Hupeh, CNRRA 【行政院善後救濟總署], specialized in land tenure, somewhat leftist, with a vague socialist tendency, suspected wrongly by the authorities of being a communist. Told him about the world ambitions of communism, the terror practiced everywhere, the tactics to destroy all men with good reputations now working in the government. He felt at the beginning that the war might be stopped. Hope he changed his mind. Asked him about land reform: if the tenant contracted to 37.5% of his crop to the government, could he not be considered the owner? With government giving to the landlord 13%, or ½ of the tenant’s pay. He thought such a reform could be carried out. Would the burden of the tenant not be lighter under the government than under the communists? He thought yes.
Received the call of a young man, son of a girl cousin, now working in the Central Co-op Bank.
Took the 11 p.m. train for Nanking.