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Major General Patrick J. Hurley to Mr. Mao Tse-tung
My Dear Mr. Chairman: I am grateful to you for the splendid cooperation and leadership that you have shown in bringing your party to the offer of agreement which you have authorized me to take to President Chiang Kai-shek and also for the splendid letter64 that you have given me for transmission to the President of the United States.
[Page 690]Be assured, Sir, that I have appreciated those qualities of mind and of heart that you have brought to bear on a solution of a most difficult problem. Your work is a contribution to the welfare of a United China and to the victory of the United Nations.
It is our earnest wish that this splendid spirit of cooperation will continue not only through victory in war but through the period of making a lasting peace and in the reconstruction of a democratic China.
Sincerely,
- Supra.↩