Long talks with Kizer, Price 【畢範理], and Johnson, explaining to them (1) Local agencies for administering relief and rehabilitation, (2) the type of foreign experts needed, (3) the scheme of public works relief. On the whole, the thing went off very smoothly. 錢乙藜【昌照] came at 11. At first, he inquired about CNRRA 【行政院善後救濟總署]. Then, he talked about the necessity for the modern and liberal elements in the government to co-operate, otherwise, the forces of corruption and reaction would triumph. He urged me to go ahead with CNRRA, for, he said, T. V. 【宋子文] would give me his support. As between him and me, he did not seek contact with me because he wished to avoid embarrassment to me during the Kung 【孔祥熙] regime. He admired me, he said, for administrating the budget the way I did. The rumor that he had a grudge against me on that account was entirely unfounded. Sent to T. V. two documents, one offering my resignation as Director of Political Affairs 【行政院政務處長] and the other asking for $50,000,000 for my office, mainly for buying houses and for buying cars. Sent in a memo to C. 【蔣中正], recommending for my successor either 周梅蓀【炳琳] or 邱昌渭. I had intended to recommend 顧季高【翊群], but my own hesitancy was enhanced by 錢 and I dropped. Teng 【鄧介松] urged me to add the names of 陳之邁 and 張平群. The former seems to me to be still unformed in character, while the latter is at bottom mediocre. Evening, dinner with the Chen brothers, 吳達銓【鼎昌], 鄭道儒, 張道藩, 葉秀峰, being some of the others present. Talk centered first on Chinese cooking; then calligraphy, with a high metaphysical tinge.