November 8, 1943.                      
 
                          Dear Dickie:-                     
 
                                                            
 
 
It is good to get your letter via Brehon Somervell and he 
      confirms all that you say about the success of the Chungking 
      meeting. I trust you are giving a full account to Edwina of all 
                  that happened| Be a good boy.             
 
                                                            
 
 
I am really thrilled over the fact that for the first time 
      in two years I have confidence in the personality problems in 
      the China and ourma fields and you personally are largely responsible 
                            for this.                       
 
      As you probably know, we succeeded in Russia in having China 
      included in the Four Power Declaration toward saving the world 
      from aggression during the immediate and post-war periods. I 
      really feel that it is a triumph to have got the four hundred 
      and twenty-five million Chinese in on the Allied side. This will 
      be very useful twenty-five or fifty years hence, even though 
      China cannot contribute much military or naval support for the 
                             moment.                        
 
                                                            
 
 
As you will know by the time this reaches you, I am on my 
      way with full confidence that the Joint meeting will be as successful 
                       as its predecessors.                 
 
                                                            
 
 
I much wish you could be there.