RALLY HERE HAILS CHINESE REPUBLIC
Chiang and Truman Messages Are Read-Generalissimo Pleads for Allied Unity
New York Times: Thursday, October 11, 1945.
President Chiang Kai-shek urged that the unity in war among the allied nations be continued in peace and President Truman pledged American support of China’s efforts to build a democratic nation in messages read last night at the China Friendship Day rally held at Carnegie Hall on the thirty-fourth anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China.
“We are deeply grateful for help from the American government, which has been a decisive factor in the pacific war,” President Chiang said.
“Now the days of war have ceased and days of rehabilitation and reconstruction have come. During the war the Allied armies fought as one, Allied governments planned as one, Allied peoples bore their burdens as one. In unity was strength and in strength victory. Therefore, let us now be resolved that this cooperation and brotherhood may not be things of the moment only but, in deeper measure, may characterize the days ahead so that peace as in war unity will prevail.”
President Truman’s message said the American people joined all free nations in saluting the people of China on the anniversary of the national revolution, which they could celebrate without fear of aggression for the first time in fourteen years. Declaring that the tremendous sacrifices of the Chinese had been rewarded with complete victory, he added:
“China now faces the urgent problems of reconstruction of her devastated nation, a task which will require all the inspired leadership and full cooperation of the Chinese people which have been so evident during these years of desperate struggle for survival and without which Japan’s savage aims of aggression might have succeeded.
“On behalf of the American people I take pleasure in reaffirming our abiding faith in the ability of the Chinese nation to accomplish the democratic objectives established for it by Dr. Sun Yat-sen and in pledging our assistance and support to the attainment of this end.”
Chennault Praises Chinese
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers and commander of the United States Fourteenth Air Force in China until his recent retirement, reviewed the eight-year war in China, saying Japan in her attempt to conquer China had not given enough weight to the Chinese love for freedom and to her ability to endure suffering. Praising the strategy adopted in 1938 by Generalissimo Chiang of giving way in front while attacking thinly held lines of communication, he said:
“Military men of western powers have criticized this policy on many occasions, but none has suggested a better plan.”
Dr. Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States, author and president of the National Peking University, declared in an address that all the intellectual, social and political progress made by China since the revolution would have been lost if China had not fought the eight year war and ultimately won it.
James A. Farley was chairman of the meeting, which was sponsored by United China Relief, the China Society of America, the East and West Association and many other groups. W.R. Herold, president of the International General Electric Company, was chairman of the China Friendship Day Committee.
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