“I have reached your country, therefore, with no misgivings, but with my belief that the American people are building and carrying out a true pattern of the nation conceived by your forebears, strengthened and confirmed.”

— Soong Mei-ling

Address to the U.S. House of Representatives (February 18, 1943)

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