Rainy and cold. Gave my article a thorough revision and final shape, to be delivered next Monday in Central University. P. Z. King 【金寶善] came with four petitions for money. No national head of health is in such a pitiable condition as he is in. Sweet dropped in, asking me if he should ask New York to get money ready for emergency here. Told him to go about it quickly. Evening, dinner with Sumner, Economic Adviser to American Embassy here. He was mainly concerned with China’s post-war trade and economic policy, particularly with China’s stand on bilateralism in interpretation of most favored nation clause. He was afraid that such interpretation would create another era of mutual discrimination and block the road to a freer international economy. I told him that, the newly recovered sovereignty of China was quite precious to the Chinese, who had found from bitter experience how merciless others could be when China was weaponless. In the old days, we could not even have a tariff for revenue. He said he wished nations would live less by their memories. I said I wished nations would not carve bitter things into the memories of others again. I assured him that China would not throw a monkey range into the machinery and that China might refrain from committing herself to bilateralism until she finds herself forced to it. Upon return to home, found a former student, waiting to speak to me about a job.