Terribly hot. Dictated a memo to T. V. 【宋子文] on the finances of CNRRA 【行政院善後救濟總署], enclosing a cable from Ray to Rooks to the effect that shipping could not be resumed because CNRRA finances had not been placed on a sound basis.
Ray wrote me a fault-finding dispatch on the sale of Quonset huts and air conditioning units and mules.
Afternoon, speech before the staff society of UNRRA 【聯合國善後救濟總署]: (1) my personal position in Chinese politics, (2) peculiar position of CNRRA, (3) characteristics of the Chinese government’s machine.
A. C. Hou 【侯藹昌] came to show me how sales will fail to cover expenses. He was wrong in over-estimating expenditure and under-estimating sales. Told him to change figures.