Office of the Historian

893.00/14833: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Chungking, December 24, 1941—6 p.m.
[Received December 27—2:20 a.m.]

529. Session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang adjourned yesterday issuing a manifesto of which a summary of points of special interest follows:

(1)
Endorsement of the eight point Atlantic Charter as coinciding with peoples’ three principles of Sun Yat Sen and pledge of collaboration and solidarity of purpose in carrying war to a successful peace based on those principles;
(2)
Call for effective mobilization of national strength behind, and subordination of all military economic educational and social consideration to war efforts;
(3)
Demand for more thoroughgoing execution of Government’s wartime policies—specifically (a) completion of system of representative local government and effective use of nation’s talent and intellect, (b) strengthening of economic control including price stabilization and elimination of hoarding and speculation, (c) institution of government machinery to deal exclusively with land registration and the equalization of land ownership, and (d) improvement of methods of conscription for military and labor service in connection with fuller mobilization of national man power. In conclusion the manifesto reaffirms faith in peoples three principles as basis of national policy and as guide to victory.

Changes made in occupants of Cabinet and party posts will be reported upon separately.

Gauss