Fu: [Recently] Mr. Chiang exhorted the citizens of Shanghai to understand fully propriety and duty, to have a sense of frugality and shame, to be responsible, and to observe discipline [ming li i, chih lien ch'ih]. These are admonitions that the nation's highest leader should make to bureaucrats, not to the common citizens.

Ch'en: I agree with most of what you say. Mr. Chiang always speaks as if he were a teacher. He imagines that the audiences to which he speaks are composed of students, not officials or common people. I advised him on this before, but he read my comments without much interest. He is aware [of this], but he does not put [this awareness] into practice. For example, he often says “compare duty with performance,” but his attention is always limited to the organs responsible for accessing and scrutinizing government organs. Although he has often said “due rewards and punishments will be meted out without fail,” he seldom punishes people and often rewards in excess. […]