A group from the Modern History Institute—郭廷以, 陶振譽, 胡秋原, and 張貴永—came to breakfast and chatted till 11:30. They are very unhappy because their institute does not pay anybody enough to enable him to work steadily at research, because it lacks books and documents, etc. Told them they must start with what they have, cannot wait until a library is built up, etc. Whether 胡秋原 is a good historian or not, I don’t know. The other three, I am sure, are mediocre.
Lunch with members of 青年黨 and 民社黨 in 自由之家. Had quite a discussion with them on the U.N., Tibet, etc.
Nap.
A publisher came to talk about republishing my sketch of the modern history of China. He brought a copy, which, reread, appeard better than I thought, except the last chapter, which is just nonsense.
Evening, American University Club dinner. Spoke on the People’s Commune.
于衡, a young and talented newspaper man, came to chat. I asked him questions about papers and their editors and writers.