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President Roosevelt to Mr. Mao Tse-tung 42
My Dear Mr. Mao: I received your letter of November 10, 194443 upon my return from the Yalta Conference and appreciate very much receiving your personal views on developments in China.
[Page 267]I have noted with special interest the emphasis which you place on the unity of all Chinese people and military forces for the defeat of Japan and the reconstruction of China.
It is my sincere hope that you and President Chiang Kai-shek will work together harmoniously to achieve internal unity. Through unity the Chinese people can add to their already magnificent contribution to the prosecution of the war against Japan.
I welcome your expression of appreciation of General Hurley. He has kept me informed of developments in China and I expect in the near future to have the opportunity of personal discussion with him.
The friendship of the Chinese people and the people of the United States is, as you say, traditional and deep-rooted, and I am confident that the cooperation of the Chinese and American peoples will greatly contribute to the achievement of victory and lasting peace.
Sincerely yours,
- Draft prepared in the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, in compliance with an instruction of February 26 from President Roosevelt (893.00/2–2645), and forwarded with a memorandum of March 6 by the Acting Secretary of State to President Roosevelt for approval: original transmitted in Department’s instruction No. 87, March 20, to the Chargé in China.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. vi, p. 688.↩