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chaira CHINESE EMBASSY WASHINGTON August 28, 1946 My dear Mr. President: With reference to my acknowledgment of August 12th of your letter of August 10th embodying a message to President Chiang Kai-shek, I have the honor, in accor- dance with instructions, to transmit to Your Excellency the following reply: "I wish to thank you cordially for your message of August 10th, expressing your genuine concern for the welfare of my country. "Since General George Marshall's arrival in China, he has labored most unsparingly to achieve our common objective, namely, peace and democracy in China. I, too, have done my utmost despit te all obstacles to cooperate with him in his endeavour. "But the desire for peace has to be mutual, and for the Communists, it must mean that they give up their policy to use armed N ARCHIVES SERVICE* RECORDS NATIONAL AND of force to seize political power, to overthrow the Government and to install a totalitarian regime The President of the United States of America The White House Washington, D. C.