800.76 Monitoring/1–449: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 4—6:35 p. m.]
14. Embassy has thus far been able to monitor only garbled and incomplete version of CCP19 New Year’s editorial broadcast by North Shensi station December 3 [31?] and January 1 and 3, entitled “Carry Revolution to Very End!” This news editorial does not reply to Generalissimo’s New Year’s message of December 31. However, fact that North Shensi station twice rebroadcast its editorial seems to indicate that CCP may consider it as sufficient reply to Generalissimo’s last statement. Following are more important sections which Embassy monitored.
“Chinese people will win final victory in liberation war. Not even our enemy doubts this.” During 1946 “People’s Liberation Army (PLA) adopted correct strategy of placing main emphasis on destroying enemy’s certified [fortified?] cities”. “Main Kmt forces annihilated north of Yangtze River. As result future PLA operation of crossing Yangtze and advancing southward to liberate all China has been greatly expedited. Chinese people also won great victories on political and economic front. Because of this there is absolutely no dispute about victory of Chinese PLA throughout entire country even among world opinion including all imperialist powers.”
“Enemy will not expire of its own accord. Neither Chinese people nor forces of American imperialist aggression in China will voluntarily retire from scene. Precisely because they see that nationwide victory of PLA cannot be blocked by means of military struggle, they are daily attaching more and more emphasis to political struggle.”
“Policy of American Government has turned from mere support of Kmt counter revolutionary war to struggle in two different forms. First is to organize remnants of Kmt military strength and so-called provincial forces to continued resistance to PLA south of Yangtze and in distant border provinces. Second is to organize opposition within revolutionary camp and exert all efforts to put halt to revolution or for revolution to take on moderated coloring so as not to encroach too much on the interests of imperialism and its stooges. British and French imperialists support this policy of American imperialism.” If Chinese people are going to thwart American imperialist [Page 6] plans, “this means overthrowing the reactionary rule of Kmt and establishing democratic dictatorship dominated by alliance between workers and peasants so that China can be changed from semi-[colony?] into really individual state, so that Chinese people can be liberated from shackles of feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, so that the country can be democratized and restored to peace, so that prerequisite conditions into industrialization can be created and so that society of exploitation of man by man can be developed into society of socialism. There are two roads ahead of us. Which one shall we choose.”
Broadcast next listed names of eminent Chinese leaders recently named as war criminals and pointed out that record of each is connected with US imperialism and anti-Chinese activities. Broadcast then characterized as dangerous snakes Americans, some Kmt [liberals?] and [non-]Kmt liberals, and Sun Fo20 who recently sought “honorable peace”. “Since enemy is trying to use peace and infiltration into our revolutionary rank as means to preserve themselves and to strengthen their ground, and since the people’s fundamental interests demand thorough eradication of all reactionary influences and expulsion of American imperialism, then all those who want us to take pity on enemy and to permit continued existence of reactionary forces are not people’s friends but friends of enemy.”
“Fury of Chinese revolution is forcing every social class to determine stand it will take. Changes are taking place in relative strength of China’s social classes. The nearer people’s war of liberation approaches victory, more closely revolutionary people and their friends stand together and under leadership of CCP determinedly expand revolutionary forces. Although Chinese reactionaries and their friends cannot stand together to form united front and quarrel with and desert one another, they do cooperate in one point which is to use all open and secret, direct and indirect methods to destroy revolutionary influence and preserve reactionary influence. But Chinese people and CCP will smash people’s political schemings just like they have smashed enemy’s military advances and carry great war of the PLA to very end in 1949. PLA will cross Yangtze and advance southward and score greater victories than in 1948.”