Another beautiful day. Wrote to Sze Pao 【蔣居仁] and Yafeng 【許亞芬]. At noon, went to marry two young members of my staff. Afternoon, went to attend a memorial meeting in honor of 范旭東, who died about 10 days ago. Met Adam Sah 【薩本棟], who came back in my car. On being told that Peita 【北大] may start an agricultural college, he was all against it, in fact pronouncing all such collages to be useless. Was surprised by his dogmatic spirit. He told me that 10 professors of the Union University issued a manifesto against C. 【蔣中正], among the 10 being 張希若, 陳岱孫. 周梅蓀【炳琳], 李繼侗, 聞一多, etc. It was a great surprise to me. I reminded Adam that in the days before the war, I had frequently expressed the idea that C. was our only bar to chaos. I was, I said, of the same opinion today. It seemed, I added, our friends in Kunming were living in the Republic of Plato. After supper, walked with 慎言 to C. M.’s 【李卓敏] place. He said that UNRRA 【聯合國善後救濟總署] was displeased with the fact that while we requested UNRRA to get ships, the Chinese government had independently approached the American government for ships. Well, it was UNRRA which suggested that we should ourselves approach the United Maritime Authority.