Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, The Conferences at Cairo and Tehran, 1943

Roosevelt Papers

President Roosevelt to Generalissimo Chiang¹

Washington, October 13, 1943.

My Dear Generalissimo: My special representative, Brigadier General Patrick J. Hurley, is going out on a special mission² and I am hoping very much that you can see him when he gets to China. With every best wish to you and Madame Chiang Kai-shek,

Always sincerely,

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1. Carried to Chungking by Hurley.
2. According to The Stilwell Papers, p. 236, the purpose of the mission was “to arrange the final details of the Cairo conference”. See also Lohbeck, p. 203.