Made my report on UNRRA 【聯合國善後救濟總署] at the memorial of the National Government and Central Party Headquarters.
Ta Kung Pao 【大公報] publishes today, the first installment of my speech in Central University.
I began to read documents passing through my office and to write a series of lectures on “The Political Problems of the Pacific,” to be delivered at the beginning of January before the Formosan trainees. It is a very exciting as well as puzzling assignment. I mean to bring all historical knowledge and all my political sense to bear on this problem.
After lunch, Feng Yu-lan 【馮友蘭]【1】 called: (1) Kuomintang-Communist relations, (2) China and the Soviet Union, (3) the Greek problem: Great Britain vs. the Soviet Union.
Sze Pao 【蔣居仁] had a fit of bad temper because I would not allow him go downtown to see a movie.
T. V. 【宋子文] has detailed a certain Hsu 許to watch over things in the Executive Yuan for him. Hsu used to be J. Heng Liu’s 【劉瑞恆] man.
Evening, played 3-handed bridge till 9. Then I sat alone, listening to the radio. Transmission was very poor.
At the National Memorial today, Wang Shih-chieh 【王世杰] wished me to give a press conference. I put him off. Somehow, I don’t relish the idea of being the government’s spokesman.

【注】
【1】馮友蘭（1895-1990），字芝生，河南唐河人，美國哥倫比亞大學研究院哲學博士。
曾任開封中州大學文科主任兼哲學系教授、廣州廣東大學哲學教授、燕京大學哲學教授；1928年起歷任清華大學秘書長兼哲學教授、文學院長兼哲學系主任、校務會議主席等職。
抗戰期間曾任西南聯大文學院長、哲學心理系主任，勝利後，回任清華大學，1948年當選中央研究院第一屆院士。
1949年後先後在清華大學、北京大學任教。
參考：關國煊，〈自我否定的哲學家馮友蘭（上）〉，《傳記文學》58卷1期（1991年1月），頁41-47；關國煊，〈自我否定的哲學家馮友蘭（下）〉，《傳記文學》58卷2期（1991年2月），頁70-76。