Heat wave unbroken. Finished the pamphlet today. The final section is devoted to foreign personnel in China’s service: I gave a few ludicrous examples of Li Hung-chang’s 【李鴻章] efforts in that direction, paid a tribute to men of all lands who have highly developed their instinct of workmanship, and urged China to be bold in this matter. The final section is, I think, the best section of the pamphlet. 胡安愷, a man from Hunan, chemical engineer, came to urge me to do all I could for Hunan’s industrialization. I took advantage of the occasion to question him about the oil industry. Learned that cracking tung oil was hopeless and that oil presses need not be set up in Shanghai. 羅貢華, Commissioner of Civil Affairs from Hupeh, a party politician, came to talk about Siang Ho襄河, but he had no exact knowledge of the problem at all. He was surprised that CNRRA 【行政院善後救濟總署] plans were so huge. When I told him that I was trying to get some 1,500 technicians over, he asked “could there be so many?” The man is just a sleek politician without common sense. Chao of the Ministry of Communications handed to me a copy of MOC’s 【交通部] revised program: foreign expenditure US$ 338,000,000, and domestic expenditure, Ch$400,000,000 of 1937 value. How the latter figure is to be financed puzzles me. Only hard thinking and planning can pull us through. Evening, dinner with胡鐵崖【善恆], 楊公達, 魯【佩璋], Vice Minister of Finance, 凌【鴻勛], Vice Minister of Communications, 賀市長【耀組], were there, talked frankly against bureaucratic red tape.