793.003/940: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China (Gauss)
964. Reference Embassy’s telegram 1160, October 12. Please transmit the following message from the President to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek:
“I deeply appreciate your warm and generous message regarding the step which the Government of the United States has taken in reference to extraterritoriality. That step is one which this Government and I personally have long wished to take, and it is especially gratifying that it could be synchronized with so auspicious a day as China’s national anniversary when your country celebrates the founding of the Republic and honors the principles of freedom. We greatly admire the telling blows for freedom which China has struck against the aggressor in Asia, and we are wholly confident that our two countries in association with our other comrades-in-arms will move forward together to complete victory. Franklin D. Roosevelt”