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Soong Mei-ling, “Addresses to the House of Respresentatives and to the Senate,” February 18, 1943.
February 18, 1943
宋美龄1943年2月18日在美国众议院的演说
Mr. Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives of the United States:
Japanese Note to the United States ("Fourteen Part Message"), 1941
December 7, 1941
Japanese Note to the United States, December 7, 1941,(Generally referred to as the "Fourteen Part Message.")
Message From the United States President to the Emperor of Japan, 1941
December 6, 1941
One day before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with 420 airplanes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent the following message to the Showa Emperor of Japan.
United States Note to Japan, 1941
November 26, 1941
The text of the document handed by the Secretary of State to the Japanese Ambassador on November 26, 1941, which consists of two parts, one an oral statement and one an outline of a proposed basis for agreement between the United States and Japan.
Japanese Government, “Twenty-One Demands,” April 26, 1915
April 26, 1915
This is an English translation from a Chinese translation of a revision of the demands originally submitted on January 18, 1915.
‘Statement of His Excellency Governor Sir John Pope Hennessy, KCMG, on the Census Returns and the Progress of the Colony, 1881’
December 13, 1901
An increased Chinese community of great importance to the commercial interests of England 1881
Lin Zexu (LinTse-hsu) writing to Britain's Queen Victoria to Protest the Opium Trade, 1839
December 13, 1901
Lin Tse-hsu saw that the opium trade, which gave Europe such huge profits, undermined his country. He asked Queen Victoria to put a stop to the trade.
The First "Open Door Note," 1899
December 13, 1901
The First "Open Door Note" by John Hay, U.S. Secretary of State to Andrew D. White September 6, 1899
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