To Lin Boqu[1]

(August 6, 1944)

(1) Regarding what Liang Hancao said to the foreign journalists, we have decided to ignore it for the time being. When the foreign journalists return to Yan’an from northwestern Shanxi at the end of September, we will present to them the course of the negotiations. (2) The Guomindang has published in Xi’an newspapers all the slanderous fallacies against our Party uttered by Yan Xishan to the foreign journalists. We have decided to publish and broadcast Ye Jianying’s June 22 talk with the journalist corps in the newspapers within the next few days, and at the same time publish articles and news items to expose Yan Xishan.

[1] This is the main content of Mao Zedong’s telegram to Lin Boqu.