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Now, [[strikethrough]] we must [[/strikethrough[[ I hope you do more than ever before to extend the hand of [[strikethrough]] honorable [[/strikethrough]] [[strikethrough]] friendship and firm assistance to our Chinese friend and ally, fighting our battle across the seas. Therefore, it is heartening to know that United China Relief has already taken measures to meet the demands of the new emergency. [[strikethrough]] It is [[/strikethrough]] We are intensifying [[strikethrough]] its [[/strikethrough]] our fund-raising efforts throughout the country. Local committees which have reached their quotas and closed their drives are being urged to renew their campaigns, and other committees in the midst of their campaigns will be urged to redouble their efforts. In cities where no committees exist, steps will be taken to set up committees immediately.

[[strikethrough]] No. 1 [[/strikethrough]] Aid to China must not stop now. As the ferocity of the war in the Far East increases, China's need for humanitarian aid will also increase She must be given relief and medical aid -- now -- [[strikethrough]] and generously.[[/strikethrough]]

[[strikethrough]] In the opinion of observers,[[/strikethrough]] China after 4 1/2 years of war is stronger than ever before. While [[strikethrough]] China [[/strikethrough]] we fight[[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]], she builds. The roadless West has been opened up by highways and by industry. Railroads are penetrating former frontier land. Ancient fields bear bountiful harvests. [[strikethrough]] Her [[/strikethrough]] Our armies are larger, and better equipped. [[/strikethrough]]

Because all [[strikethrough]] her [[/strikethrough]] our wartime reconstruction has been designed to create solid foundations for recovery and general economic progress in postwar China, China's potential value to the democracies as an ally has increased.

From a military point of view China has already performed an invaluable service to [[strikethrough]] America [[/strikethrough]]  United Nations. The military stalemate that has existed in China since December 1939 remains unbroken. Since that date, the Japanese have launched many campaigns but have made no progress, and today are immobilized on a front 2,800 miles long, [[strikethrough]] separated   from the Chinese fighting line by a 50 to 100- mile belt of no-man's land -- the famous "roadless area."[[/strikethrough]]