President Franklin Roosevelt was not so easily charmed and, before long, his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau observed, was "just crazy to get her out of the country". She appeared on the cover of Time magazine twice. She wore a long, tight-fitting black gown, the skirt slit almost to the knee," which was, of course, as revealing of American orientalising fancies as of the garment that it praised. Her address to Congress in February 1943, 14 months after Pearl Harbor, was described thus by Newsweek: "The effect was enchanting. She is best remembered for her wartime courtship of American public opinion, when, in spite of poor health, she charmed the headline writers, and most politicians, with her impassioned appeals that the US, increasingly preoccupied with the European and Japanese fronts, should not forget to help "Free China" against Japan.
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