Roosevelt Papers
President Roosevelt to the Chinese Minister of Finance (Kung)
My Dear Dr. Kung. It was good of you to think of me and I am delighted to have that delicious Chinese tea1 —especially because I am more and more substituting tea for coffee.
Our visit here in Cairo with the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang has been not only very delightful but it has been a true success. It is the beginning of many such conferences, I hope. They have spoken to me in regard to the inflation problem and when they get back to Chungking they will speak with you in regard to a suggestion which I have made.2 I have not, of course, had a chance to talk with the Secretary of the Treasury3 about it but I will do so just as soon as I get home.
I do hope that I shall have the pleasure of seeing you one of these days very soon. My warm regards, Sincerely yours,
The Honorable Dr. H. H.
Kung,
The Executive Yuan,
Chungking,
China
- On Madame Chiang’s return from the United States to China earlier in the year, Roosevelt had sent with her a letter (not printed herein) and a box of cigars for Kung. Kung replied to Roosevelt in a letter (not printed herein) of November 17, 1943, which was forwarded from Washington to Cairo. A gift of tea accompanied this letter.↩
- Regarding the suggestion referred to here, see post, p. 804, and The Stilwell Papers, pp. 251–252.↩
- Henry Morgenthau, Jr.↩