893.00/14810
The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State 46
[Received November 10.]
Sir: I have the honor to enclose for the Department’s information copies of the text of an address by Madame Chiang Kai-shek,47 which [Page 540] was broadcast by transcription throughout the United States on October 10, 1941, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China. Given in response to a request of United China Relief, it is understood that Madame Chiang’s address was transcribed on a record at Chungking in the latter part of September, and that the record was flown to the United States in time to be broadcast over the networks of the National Broadcasting Company and the Mutual System on October 10, 1941.
Madame Chiang in this broadcast speech is particularly outspoken over what she regards as the failure of the democracies to accord China equality of status in the councils of those nations resisting aggression, and over the shipments of American materials to Japan.
She fails to take note of the changed situation following upon American “freezing” operations and restrictions on exports to Japan; and she touches but lightly on the extent of American aid to China.48
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Respectfully yours,