Home
Search transcripts:    Advanced Search
Notable New     Yorkers
Select     Notable New Yorker

Frances PerkinsFrances Perkins
Photo Gallery
Transcript

Part:         Session:         Page of 912

Chiang to meet him and Churchill in Cairo. They had, you know, two or three days of conference, and they were photographed for the world Press and so forth. Roosevelt commented upon it favorably, and said, “Chiang had some very good ideas and I think he's honest and patriotic. Of course, his face has to be saved. That's the continual problem with the Chinese. They have to be made to look right. But I think he has some excellent ideas.”

There was no great attempt to evaluate Chiang Kai Shek then. He was the only fellow there was around, you know, that could in any way represent the Chinese, and it was assumed that he did represent them.

Madame Chiang Kai Shek's visit to this country, however, and to Washington assumed a different color.





© 2006 Columbia University Libraries | Oral History Research Office | Rights and Permissions | Help