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Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to be here today to greet you with a message from my people. We are genuinely and warmly appreciative of the assistance that the American people have given to our effort in the common cause. Throughout these heart-breaking years when we have been daily faced with the hardships which the people of an invaded land have to suffer, we have been heartened to carry on by the knowledge of your sympathy. And I want to take this opportunity to thang you on behalf of my people. 
[[strikethrough]] Being a flying we believe more in actions than words-I can asure you father fly in any weather condition then to make a speech. Thats reminds of ^of a story told by a pilot: He was adressing a meeting and he talked of the experience he had on a record flight, he was trying to establish an altitude record and up to 50,000 feet with his plane. He said, to his great amusement, his tongue got frozen and he couldnt utter a single word. Someone from the stood up and said'May be that/s where he should send all our speakers'. [[/strikethrough]]
It is difficult for you Americans to realize the leap China [[strikethrough]] has [[/strikethrough]] is tak [[strikethrough e [[strikethrough]] ing from an old world into the new. When Japan first attacked Manchuria in 1931 and again attacked China in 1932, there were practically no highways and only a few railroads [[strikethrough]] were few [[/strikethrough. We were entirely unprepared and unable to defend ourself, princepally because we had no Airforce. The bitter experience awoke the Chinese Government and they started to build an Air Force. With the help of Gen. J. Juett, the Central Aviation Academy was organized.
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[[/strikethrough]] Whenever returned from Geneva, at the time of that first attack when I returned to China on vacation I had a long [[strikethrough]] talk [[/strikethrough]] discussion with my father on the course I should persue to help China.
My father, being a true Chinese, realy wanted a boy when I was born, but I turned out to be a girl. Since I was the only child I had