File No. 893.001Y9/5.
The President of China to the President.
Intensely appreciative of Your Excellency’s congratulation and compliment extended to me on the occasion of my inauguration as President of the Chinese Republic, I offer to Your Excellency my most sincere thanks for them. The high trust and confidence which the people of China through the National Assembly have seen fit to place in me make me fully conscious of the great responsibilities that go with them. Happily in the performance of my duties I always have the luminous example of the United States to guide and help me. It also affords me much delight to observe that Your Excellency’s hope and expectation for the advancement of China and the promotion of the peace, happiness, and prosperity of her people under the republican system of government coincide precisely with my resolute aim and firm object in carrying on the new administration. With this renewed indication of sympathy and interest from Your Excellency my hope to draw closer the bonds of friendship and good understanding that unite the two sister republics has grown stronger than ever and it will be an unfailing pleasure to me to cooperate with Your Excellency to attain this end.