A very cold day. Morning, played bridge with wife and children. Then went across the river to lunch with Little 【李度], the new Inspector of Customs. Judge Helmick, Nichols of American Red Cross, Loy Chang 【鄭萊],【1】 Millet【2】 of American Embassy were there. Wondered whether during Shakespeare’s time, London’s streets were like Chungking’s of today? At what point of time, did London assure its modern government? Returned at 3 p.m. Played games with Sze Pao 【蔣居仁]. At 6 p.m., Fu Sze-nien 【傅斯年] came to chat. He read section III of my article in Ta Kung Pao 【大公報], and said the latter part amounted to one thing: “U.S.A. also had bed bugs,” and would tend to uphold status quo and complacency. T. H. Chang 【張道宏]【3】 and Wen and Mrs. Wen came to supper. At 9, Fu came again and we had a good talk about history: topics, (1) why China never became a maritime power, (2) relation between city-state form of political organization and maritime expansion, (3) tragedy of Germany, (4) Napoleon, (5) France after Thermidor 【熱月政變] and present psychology of Kuomintang, (6) Hu Shih 【胡適], Monlin Chiang 【蔣夢麟]. Had a bath.

【注】
【1】鄭萊（1892-?），英文名Loy Chang 或Cheng Lai，字蓬仙，廣東中山人，美國哈佛大學學士、碩士。
1930-1934年任財政部公債司長，1935-1944年任財政部關稅署長，1944-1946年任財政部參事。
參考：Chinese Ministry of Information, comp., China Handbook 1937-1945, p. 643；中央研究院近代史研究所，〈鄭萊〉，近現代人物資訊整合系統。
【2】Charles S. Millet，（1908-?），1944-1945年任美國駐華大使館二等秘書，後曾任駐廣州、上海領事。
參考：U.S. Department of State, Biographic Register of the Department of State (April 1, 1951), p. 308。
【3】張道宏（1898-1976），安徽合肥人，清華學校畢業後赴美留學，先後畢業於克拉克大學與西點軍校，返國後娶段祺瑞二女宏彬（又作式彬）。
曾任稅警學校校長、天津警察局長，抗戰期間負責中國中部地區公路運輸，1946年曾任農林部總務司長。
1956年獲准赴香港探女，1960年移居美國，1962年返回香港，後定居澳門。
參考：馬列，〈段祺瑞的二妻五妾〉，《傳記文學》57卷4期（1990年10月），頁47；鄭雪玉，〈西點軍校的八位中國畢業生〉，《傳記文學》76卷6期（2000年6月），頁26。
蔣廷黻曾在1965年3月13日及1961年1月7日的日記提到他曾是張道宏婚禮的男儐相，以及其在1956年逃出中國的情形。