Instruction on a Telegram to Zhu De[1]

(October 1943)

The crisis has not passed; do not listen to sweet words.

[1] This is an instruction written by Mao Zedong on a telegram to Zhu De in which the Nationalist liaison staff officer Xu Foguan claimed that Hu Zongnan’s troops had absolutely no intention of attacking the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.