Yip 【葉良才] came from N.Y. to talk about China Foundation 【中華教育文化基金董事會] business. He told me that the insurance company paid Mrs. Hu 【江冬秀] about $16,000; Hu’s 【胡適] other assets amounted to $10,000. With $26,000, she ought to be able to live comfortably in Taipei. But she is worried and thinks everybody has turned enemy since Hu Shih died.
Pauline Frederick phoned from N.Y. to tell me that Hsin Hua News Agency had announced the shooting down of a U-2 plane, and asked if I knew anything about it, particularly if the U.S.A. based any U-2 in Taiwan. Told her that her phone was the first news for me, and that the U.S.A., so far as I knew, had no U-2 based in Taiwan. Later, she called again to say that Peiping radio announced that the U-2 was a Nationalist plane. Later in the day, State Department stated that 2 years 【ago] Taipei bought 2 U-2 planes from Lockheed Corp; the downing meant the Reds had a land to air missile—serious.