Hot and damp. Kizer et al. came for a regular consultation. From their talks with the American Military, they seemed to be afraid that the emergency program might not get the needed transport: the bottleneck is not trucks but fuel. Talked about the personnel needed for the emergency program: again transport forces us to reduce from 200 to 100. 陸子冬, introduced by Chen Kuo-fu 【陳果夫], came to talk about relief and rehabilitation on provincial level: I think I will make him Director of the Kiangsu Office. K. C. Chu 【朱章賡 (C. K. Chu)?] came to talk about the budget for the prevention of plague. Received a letter from Lenning Sweet: that American Army at Kunming had agreed to supply the oil and the 25 trucks. Afternoon, received a delegation of Santung people: all hot air and pleas from large scale relief in Shantung. One man even suggested that I should build more railways in his province; another made a plea for river improvement. I lost all patience. Finished the section on health. Cocktail party with Boeringer 【Boehringer?]【1】 of American Embassy. Dinner with Chu Chia-hua 【朱家驊], Needham 【李約瑟], Roxby 【羅士培], Ku 【顧毓琇] of Central University, Mei 【梅貽琦] of Tsing Hua, Chang of Chungta, and Academia Sinica people: very interesting. Mrs. Roxby is a historian, in what field I don’t know.

【注】
【1】可能是Carl H. Boehringer（1903-1972），1943年10月至1945年3 月擔任美國駐華大使館二等秘書，1945-1946年擔任商務部國際貿易司遠東組助理主任，1946-1948年歷任駐華大使館助理商務專員、一等秘書。
參考：U.S. Department of State, Biographic Register of the Department of State (April 1, 1949) (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of State, 1949), p. 50; Who’s Who in America vol. 30, 1958-1959, p. 274; “American Chamber’s Director Dies,” South China Morning Post (Dec. 19, 1972), p. 33。