Beautiful, cool day. My morning was spent half on the porch reading the Times and half on the grounds practicing golf. The Times article on Odets【1】 the playwright was most enlightening.
Some years ago, I reasoned that Peiping and Moscow would not quarrel until the time comes when they had to divide the spoils of empire. They have quarreled much earlier than I thought, but basically on the question of prospective division of spoils. Mao 【毛澤東] wished to expand southwards, but with Soviet help in arms and in diplomacy. Khrushchev refuses, for the reason that he does not want his partner to have an empire of his (Mao’s) own. In other words, Krushchev is bent on preventing the rise of a second communist empire. In his mind, world communism must have only one center and that could only be Moscow. The eagerness of Soviet economic aid and refusal to supply nuclear weapons or assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, are all part of Krushchev’s designs.
Mao’s ambition to create an empire of his own is doomed to failure because it is premature. He should have taken the lead in advocating peaceful coexistence.

【注】
【1】Clifford Odets（1906-1963），美國劇作家，著有《等待左撇子》（Waiting for Lefty）、《醒起而唱》（Awake and Sing!）等作品。
參考：Who Was Who in America with World Notables vol. 4, 1961-1968, p. 715。
本日記提到之文章為：Harold Clurman, “Clifford Odets; The Late Writer Had ‘Exalted Ideals’ Political Reality Sound of Torment,” New York Times (Aug. 25, 1963), p. X1。