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U.S. #906
5¢ China Resistance
Issue Date: July 7, 1942
City: Denver, CO
Quantity: 21,272,800
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Rotary Press
Perforations: 11 x 10.5
Color: Bright blue
U.S. #906 was issued to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the resistance of the Chinese people to Japanese aggression. This was the first U.S. stamp to features Chinese characters.
Chinese Resistance Issue Although Adolph Hitler’s takeover of Austria in 1938 was one of the earliest contributors to World War II, the atrocities in China a year before were likely another factor. It was on July 7, 1937, that Japanese forces first took aggressive action against China. Five years later, the Chinese were still battling against Japanese warlords for their independence, but began showing signs they could soon crack under the pressure.
Across the ocean, President Franklin Roosevelt was earnestly trying to provide whatever aid America could. To help raise their national confidence (and to gain their support against Japan in the war), Roosevelt requested a stamp be issued to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Chinese resistance. He specifically requested that the stamp have a 5¢ denomination so it could carry first-class mail to China.
Roosevelt wanted the stamp to honor Sun Yat-sen, the father of modern China, and Abraham Lincoln, whose example Sun Yat-sen hoped to follow. As Sun had adopted a portion of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, “Of the People, By the People, For the People,” Roosevelt wanted this to be included on the stamp in both English and Chinese.
Denver, Colorado, was selected as the first day city because it was from there that Sun Yat-sen returned to China to assume the presidency of the new republic. |