CHAIRMAN MAO ISSUES STATEMENT IN CHUNGKING HOPING FOR GOOD RESULTS IN
THE NEGOTIATIONS

13 September 1945

[Text] UNITED PRESS, Chungking, 13 September--Chinese Communist Party
Chairman Mao Tse-tung stated this afternoon:

The policy of the Communist Party is to establish peace and democracy in
China. It is the reason for my trip to Chungking. In regard to the two-party negotiations, he said that he could not comment on the progress of
the negotiations with the Kuomintang leaders. He said: "The most important
thing for China is peace." He said that the Communist Party hoped for
favorable results. "Then China will pass from the stage of resistance war
to the period of peaceful construction. I believe this is the hope of the
whole world as well as of the people throughout China." He declared that
the Communist Party would devote all its efforts toward the above goal.

° CHIEH-FANG JIH-PAO, 14 September 1945.

* "Struggle for Peace," HSIN-HUA JIH-PAO, November 1945.

REUTER, Chungking, 13 September--For the first time since the beginning of
negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party 2 weeks ago,
Communist Party leader Gen Mao Tse-tung made a public statement today:

As the people of the entire nation hope for peace, I have come to Chungking
to devote all my efforts toward that end. We Communist Party members hope
for favorable results from the negotiations so that China will shift from
the resistance war to peaceful construction. The progress of the negotiations will not be made public. Nevertheless, he hoped that the negotiations
would be successful. He also said: I hope that, while the negotiations are
in progress, no conflict will arise between the troops of the Communist Party
and the Kuomintang. The Communist Party troops would rather withdraw than
to clash with the Kuomintang troops, but they will continue to fight the
enemy and puppet troops.

° CHIEH-FANG JIH-PAO, 14 September 1945.