Party Newspapers Should Recruit Non-Party People to Express Their Opinions
(March 14, 1942)
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1. Send a telegram about the Korean Interim Government within the next few
days. (2) Zhang Shenfu’s article commemorating the anniversary of New China
Daily shows wholehearted enthusiasm for our Party and has been reprinted in
Liberation Daily.1 He hopes that Party newspapers will be a place where all anti-Fascist people are allowed to speak. This is an excellent point, and both New
China Daily and Liberation Daily should act on it. There has already been
discussion on the reorganization of Liberation Daily to increase its Party
character and to reflect the opinions of the masses. New China Daily also ought
to reorganize. The Central Committee has already prepared a draft resolution on
the relationship between Communist Party members and non-Party people,
which may be adopted next week. It includes the idea that Party newspapers
should accommodate talk by non-Party people.
Notes
This is the text of a telegram from Mao to Zhou Enlai, dated March 14, 1942. Our source is Mao Zedong, Mao
Zedong xinwen gongzuo wenxuan (Beijing: Xinhua chubanshe, 1983), p. 93, where it is reproduced from
Mao’s handwritten manuscript. In that volume, it appears together with two paragraphs from Mao’s own
draft of the Central Committee resolution “Resolution (Draft) on the Relationship Between Party Members

and Non-Party People.” These other two paragraphs are not translated here because they are incorporated
into the complete text of the resolution, dated simply March 1942, which appears below.

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1. Zhang Shenfu (1893–1986) was a French-trained academic known for his Marxist views as well as a
founding member of the Chinese Communist Party. His article appeared in Chongqing’s Xinhua ribao on
January 11, 1942, and was reprinted in Yan’an’s Jiefang ribao on March 9, 1942.