To He Long, Guan Xiangying, and Others[1]

(February 21, 1940)

Pay attention to drawing in a group of middle-of-the-road personages who are neither left nor right to take part in government and in cultural and economic work, so as to win them over. For any non-Party organ, it is sufficient as long as the leadership of ourselves and the leftists is guaranteed.

[1] This is the main content of the telegram sent by Mao Zedong and Wang Jiaxiang to He Long, Guan Xiangying, and others.