Beautiful day, about 60°. Office in the morning. Lunch with Jay and Pagie. Some Jewish leader appealed to Meany to come out for giving U.S.A. arms to Israel. I said it was a provocative move; and unnecessary because Washington must take care of that. Israel, in order to win world sympathy, must studiously refrain from provocation. I congratulated Jay on his early debunking the Geneva spirit. Pagie told me that Dr. Phan Quan Dan 【潘光旦] was at odds with Diem 【吳廷琰]【1】 in Vietnam. Diem has proclaimed the republic, but Dan insists such proclamation should await a people’s constitutional convention. This is a technicality. Beneath it is personal ambition, and it does not augur well. Told Jay and Pagie that Ben-Gurion’s offer to meet Nasser was a tactical gesture.
The U.S.S.R. proposed that Peiping and Romania should be added to the Committee to study effects of radiation: this is a nuisance proposal, to force the other side to say no.
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【1】Ngo Dinh Diem吳廷琰（1901-1963），1955-1963年為南越總統。
參考：“Ngo Dinh Diem,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed Dec. 24, 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ngo-Dinh-Diem。