Busy with preparing the ship for the communist areas of Shantung. Major Lowndes and Dorrance,【1】 who are going on behalf of UNRRA 【聯合國善後救濟總署] told me that the LST 【坦克登陸艦] going could carry 5,000 tons: that another ship company carrying 2,000 tons should go to Chefoo 【煙臺]. I insisted that the second ship should go after a long interval. Delivered confidential letters to Mi 【宓賢弼], my representative, to dismiss C. C. Liang 【梁傳琴] from his post in Tsingtau. Hua 【華鳳翔] came from Nanking to discuss with me the industrial programs, public utilities, cement, brick, glass, and oil presses in this order of priority. Taylor from Australia came to tell me about the shipyard managed by Captain McNair, and manned by Chinese, who turned out to be good skilled workmen. Instructed Victor Shen 【沈惟泰] to prepare a press release on the relief ship for the Shantung communists. Bought 巴金: 家, 春, 秋, and 愛情的三部曲, and 老舍: 駱駝祥子. Bought another copy of 憩園 for X. Chatted with her and took her to dinner. She objected because I had not asked anybody else to come along, but finally she agreed to go. At dinner, we found that we did not have much to say to each other. Then we played bridge with C. M. 【李卓敏] and Sylvia 【盧志文]. She seemed to be quite spirited. But when I offered to take her to the car, she seemed to wish to go alone. I can’t understand her moods.

【注】
【1】應為Albert A. “Pete” Dorrance（1894-?），1916年自美國密西根大學畢業後，擔任駐上海美孚煤油公司經理，至二戰期間遭日軍拘留，後回到美國。
1946年回到中國，任聯合國善後救濟總署駐華辦事處區域分處副處長，1947年10月離華前的職稱為行總儲運廳副廳長。
參考：“Alumni Repatriates Bring in News of Three Swintons,” The Michigan Alumnus vol. 50, no. 13 (Jan. 22, 1944), p. 237; “Shantung City Welcomes UNRRA Relief Supplies,” The China Weekly Review (Mar. 23, 1946), p. 76; “Post Scripts,” The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury (Oct. 27, 1947), p. 2; Mrs. I. H. Wynne and John D. Morrell, comp., A Record of the Descendants of John and Mary Dorrance, of Oneco, Connecticut and of Foster, R. I. (Hartford: Conn. State Library, 1947), p. 29。