740.0011 P.W./7–645: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Hurley) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 6—1:45 p.m.]
1118. I have issued the following statement for release morning papers July 7, Chungking.
“As the Chinese people enter upon their ninth year of war heroic resistance against the invasion of their country, under the indomitable [Page 128] leadership of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese have led in the war against aggression. China was the first to take the field to fight for the cause that eventually became our own. The Chinese have continued the battle under the utmost adversities.
China’s example is an inspiration to all liberty loving nations. We now gird ourselves for the final offensives that will crush our last remaining foe and establish freedom and peace.”