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MME. CHIANG GIVES FREEDOMS PLEDGE

Declares China Will Join to See That Four Goals Will Not Be 'Flaccid Statues'

HAILS ROOSEVELT'S ROLE

Says He Will Be 'Panegyrized' by Posterity-Hollywood Bowl Filled to Hear Her

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

  HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 4- Madame Chiang Kai-shek, given the tumultuous accolade of 30,000 persons in Hollywood Bowl today, made the last scheduled talk of her United States tour, pledging that China would do its part toward attaining the four freedoms for the world- a world, she said, which would never forget President Roosevelt for his leadership in making America the arsenal of the democracies.
  In a voice ringing with the courage which has marked her gallant fight for China through the war-torn years, the wife of China's Generalissimo called for an equitable peace and a new world based on forgiveness.
   "We in China," she said, "through these years of suffering, have not turned to indiscriminate, gally hate of the enemy.  We shall not abrade the sharp, stony path we must ravel before victory is won.  But we, like you and the other United Nations, shall see to it that the Four Freedoms will not assume the flacoid statues of ethical postulates no matter how belated may be the final victory."

Insists on Equitable Peace

   Her fists clenched and emotion welling in her voice, she declared:
   "We shall not be cozened of an equitable peace.  We shall not permit aggression to raise its satanic head and threaten man's greatest heritage, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all peoples."
   In a tribute to President Roosevelt she said:
   "Neither we nor posterity can deprive unerring tribute to the foresight and statesmanship of President Roosevelt when he envisaged to the full the implications and consequences of the struggle of right against might and took decisive measures to make America the arsenal of the democracies.  History and posterity will panegyrize your President's unswerving convictions and his moral courage to implement them.
   "We take pride in the fact that, amid all the stern and never-ending demands of war, we are preparing for a just and permanent peace and for the strenuous world-building that lies before us.  You, too, are taking similar steps and, like us, you are as determined to contribute your share in the organization of a new and happier social order as you are in prosecuting the war."
   She declared that Japan's bomber squadrons devastating countless Chinese towns and villages had failed to break the morale of the Chinese people.

Determination "Inflexible"

   "We knew that the enemy was trying to break our morale through sheer physical exhaustion," she said.  "We were therefore inflexible in our determination not to give in.  No greater tribute could be paid to our sorely tried people than this- that in all their suffering never did they complain against their leaders.  Never did they falter in the determination that the enemy must be driven from our shores.
   "They had faith, too, that in the end, America and the other democratic powers would realize that it was not only for ourselves that we were fighting, and that by continuing to engage the enemy, we were giving time to the democracies to prepare their defenses."
   The audience overflowed the seating section of the Bowl.  Film folk were out in force and every branch of the armed services was represented.  On hand also were virtually all of the more than 4,000 Los Angeles Chinese.
   China's national colors, red, white and blue, dominated the special Bowl decorations.
   Mme. Chiang told of her work at the beginning of the war in 1937 as secretary-general of the Chinese Air Force.  The Chinese, she said, had less than a hundred fighters and bombers and the Japanese had bout 5,000 fighting planes.
   She reviewed briefly the fighting at Shanghai during which "the Japanese military moaned that China was not playing fair because her troops did not know when they were defeated."

Cites Nation's Manpower

   Telling of the further fighting she said:
   "We had no navy to speak of, an embryo air force and an infantry equipped mainly with rifles, machine guns and outmoded artillery pieces.  But we had manpower, which willingly volunteered its flesh and righteousness, and also, we had the advantage of time and space.
   "It was our intention and strategy to make the enemy pay, and pay dearly, for every inch of land they wrested from us so that in time we could wear them out, provided that the will to win would withstand the onslaught of steel and high explosives.
   "Of those skeptics who sneered at China's 'magnetic strategy' I should like to ask:  What other people in the modern world has endured the agonies of war for so long and so bravely, held so tenaciously and so stanchly to the defense of principles as the Chinese people?
   Of these same skeptics I should also like to ask:  Given the same conditions, what would they have done in our position?  What could they have done?"