Letter to U.S. President [Franklin]
Roosevelt
(November 10, 1944)
Your Excellency President Roosevelt:
I have had the pleasure of receiving your envoy General [Patrick] Hurley. For
three days we amicably discussed all matters relating to the important cause of
rallying all Chinese and all military forces in order to defeat Japan and rebuild
China. To that end, I proposed an agreement. The spirit and orientation of the
agreement are the essence of the goal that the Chinese Communist Party and the
Chinese people have been pursuing in our eight years of the United Front against
Japan. We have always been willing to reach an agreement with Chairman
Chiang [Kaishek] that will further the welfare of the Chinese people. Now, with
General Hurley’s help, we have hope of realizing this goal. I am very pleased to
extend my thanks to your envoy for his outstanding talent and his sympathy
toward the Chinese people.
The Central Committee of our Party has unanimously passed the full text of
this agreement and is prepared to support the agreement with all our force in
order to make it a reality. The Central Committee of our Party authorized me to
put my signature on this agreement, as was witnessed by General Hurley.
I now ask General Hurley to relay this agreement to you in the name of our
Party, our army, and the Chinese people. Your excellency, Mr. President, I would
also like to express my thanks to you for your immense efforts at uniting China
in order to defeat Japan and make possible a united and democratic China.
We, the Chinese people and the American people, have had a deep friendship
of long historical standing. I sincerely hope that through your efforts the success
of the great people of China and the United States can forever go forward hand in

hand in the cause of defeating the Japanese enemy, rebuilding everlasting world
peace, and building a democratic China.
Chairman of the Central Committee of the
Chinese Communist Party
Mao Zedong
November 10, 1944, Yan’an
Note
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong waijiao wenxuan (Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe,
Shijie zhishi chubanshe, 1994), pp. 39–40.