Seek Unity Through Struggle with
Diehard Troops
(October 25, 1942)
Comrade Chen Shaomin:1
We have received and read your telegram of October 13. Apart from not
criticizing the Guomindang Central Committee at present, you should continue
to rally the popular masses to resist the attempts to destroy unity and attack the
border region with diehard troops. Achieve the goal of unity by means of
struggle.
The Secretariat
Notes
Our source for this text is Zhonggong zhongyang wenxian yanjiushi, ed., Wenxian he yanjiu, 1985 huibian
ben, p. 174, which notes that the draft of this telegram carried the signature “Mao’s draft” [Mao gao].

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1. Chen Shaomin (1902–1977) worked in the central soviet areas and the New Fourth Army with Guo
Hongtao and Tao Zhu in the late 1930s. In Yan’an she was the deputy secretary of the Party Committee of
the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Border Region.