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Nanking Embassy Files, Lot F–73: Telegram

President Truman to President Chiang Kai-shek 33

[Washington,] August 23, 1945.

[White House No. 338.] Please accept this expression of my appreciation of your considerate action in regard to the surrender of the Japanese in Hong Kong to a British commander by which action you eased a difficult situation.

  1. Transmitted to the Ambassador in China for delivery to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.↩