To the Letter Addressed to Wang Lüfu, Zhen Yuying, and Others[1]

(May 25, 1941)

We have just received your esteemed letter of the twelfth day of the first month, and we see fully your concern for the motherland and your firm advocacy of unity and resistance against Japan, for which we feel the deepest admiration.

What is cause for concern is that the talk of a U.S.-Japan compromise to lure and force surrender has lately, with a great clamor, suddenly become rampant; the Far Eastern Munich conspiracy has revived from its ashes; and the activities of the pro-Japanese faction must not be overlooked.

What we can assure you is this: no matter how treacherous the international situation may be, and no matter how the enemy, the puppet regime, and the pro-Japanese faction may echo one another, we, the comrades of the Chinese Communist Party, will surely unite with all sincerely anti-Japanese parties within the country to carry the resistance through to the very end, and we shall never cease until the goal of national liberation is achieved.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong's letter in reply to the overseas Chinese in the United States, Wang Lüfu, Zhen Yuying, and others.