Received a letter from a Jones who wished to adopt Chinese citizenship and volunteer for the army, another from X applying for a technical job. Told them to offer their services to the U.S. government.
The papers either did not publish C.’s 【蔣中正] interview with UP 【合眾社] or published it in back pages. Reason: nothing new. UP tried for a scoop. C. gave the news out in a general comment. After a few days, he answered the questions of UP.
C. M. Chen 【陳之邁] phoned from Washington that demand for a blockade dying and that more and more people there thinking of an independent offensive on the part of Formosa.
Appeared on Chronoscope. So far as I was concerned, I said all. I wanted to say in one sentence: “President Eisenhower’s order means that we Chinese have now the right and the opportunity to fight for our freedom; we mean to make good use of the right and the opportunity.” There were other dreary questions about supplies, asked by Bill Gray and William Huie.【1】

【注】
【1】William Bradford Huie（1910-1986），美國作家與新聞記者，以調查報導聞名。
1946-1952年擔任《美國水星》雜誌副主編、主編，1950年代並曾擔任新聞節目《測時器》的主持人。
參考：Rebecca Woodham, “William Bradford Huie,” Encyclopedia of Alabama, accessed Sep. 24, 2021, http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/Article/h-1547。