At 9, Price 【畢範理] et al. came for regular conference. I requested that, hereafter UNRRA 【聯合國善後救濟總署] personnel wishing to join any field work should first receive assignment from CNRRA 【行政院善後救濟總署]: agreed. I then took up again the question of river shipping, reporting the conversation with Butterfield & Swire’s 【太古洋行] agent, a Mr. Price. Went over certain cables on the port program. Afterwards, Price told me that Gen. Pechkoff 【貝志高], the French Ambassador, had told him how the Chinese Embassy in Paris could issue visas to Brediam and here I could block his coming. Wrote to K. C. Wu 【吳國楨] immediately about the case, to get him prepared for an answer: Embassy permitted him to come but could not permit him to work with any particular organization. C. 【蔣中正] appropriated 50,000,000, instead of the 75,000,000 I asked for office building and equipment: a kind of left-handed justice.