Very cold, sudden drop. Morning, delegation meeting. At 10:30, sub-committee on disarmament: Poland reproduced the U.S.S.R. resolution for another debate: simple wasting of time.
Lunch, invited the six Arab states; Lebanon did not come. Made a mistake in seating: Saudi Arabia was placed lower than Yemen.
At three, Liu Yu-wan 【劉馭萬] came to talk about Korea. At 4:30, Dr. Chang Myon 【張勉] of Korea came: exchanged views. He was much worried by China’s withdrawal from Mukden.
At 7, dinner in the Embassy: farewell to Wang 【王世杰]. At 9:30, his train to London pulled out.
Went to the opera to see a ballet: invitation by French government. Met Parodi there: he regretted the outcome of the Monday meeting on Berlin, evidently thinking that a little more concession might do the job.
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During the period of association with Wang, we had only one difference. He thought China should have made a bigger effort to keep Manchuria, whereas I thought that we should have withdrawn long ago. The loss was double: Manchuria and a half million armed force. He could not see that. My contention throughout the civil war was: more territorial expansion was secondary; good administration in the territory occupied was all important. If we could achieve the latter, eventually we could unify all China. Without it, unity was a house of cards.