Mr. Wei’s claims regarding the allocation of Lend-Lease supplies are deliberate fabrications and shameless lies. He stated: “A considerable portion of the Lend-Lease materials delivered to the central government for the war against Japan has been allocated to the Communist Party for use in the same cause.” This is an outrageous falsehood. Unless, in Mr. Wei’s peculiar arithmetic, zero equals “a considerable portion,” such a statement is a brazen attempt to obliterate the facts.

Since the Southern Anhui Incident in January 1941, the Nationalist government has declared the New Fourth Army a “rebel force” and has completely severed all supplies to the Eighth Route Army. Not only has it provided the Communists with not a single gun, bullet, pill, or penny, but it has also encircled the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region and the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines with hundreds of thousands of troops, confiscating every item entering the region—among them several tons of medicine raised in Britain and the United States by the Chinese Defense League. This situation remains unchanged to this day. The only connection between the Chinese Communist Party and Lend-Lease supplies is that the Nationalist anti-Communist forces surrounding the Border Region are indeed armed with “a considerable portion” of those materials. Therefore, Mr. Wei’s remark should be corrected to read: “A considerable portion of the Lend-Lease materials delivered to the central government for the war against Japan has been allocated to anti-Communist forces for purposes other than the national resistance.” Only then would it accord with the facts.

As for why Mr. Wei feels compelled to utter such shameless lies, the reason is readily apparent. Both the Anglo-American press and government officials have expressed grave concern about Sino-Soviet relations and about how the Nationalist government is utilizing Lend-Lease aid. Recently, U.S. Under Secretary of State Grew and British Lord President of the Council and Minister for the Dominions, Lord Cranborne, have publicly expressed their hope for Chinese unity and for “assisting both the Nationalist government and the Communist government in Yan’an, despite their differences” (as Lord Cranborne put it). In their panic, the Nationalist autocrats have resorted to having their ambassadors abroad openly lie—claiming, for example, that “the Nationalist government has made numerous concessions to the Communists” or that “a considerable portion has been allocated to the Communists”—with the aim of deceiving international opinion and thereby enabling them to maintain their one-party fascist dictatorship. However, international public opinion and foreign statesmen, like the people at home, will not be easily fooled by such fabrications. We urge the Nationalist authorities to show greater respect for the nation’s dignity and to prevent their diplomatic envoys from being perpetually regarded as swindlers and liars.