Letter to Yu Guangsheng
(May 22, 1946)
Comrade [Yu] Guangsheng:1
Beginning from the twenty-third, broadcasting news of frictions should be temporarily stopped. Only newspapers can still cover them in part. If you are going to
write a commentary on Marshall’s declaration,2 please let me have a look!
Mao Zedong
Our source for this text is Xinhuashe wenjian ziliao xuanbian, Vol. 1, p. 34, where it is
reproduced from Mao’s handwritten manuscript preserved in the Central Archives.
1.  Yu Guangsheng (1907–1978, born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang) was acting head and editorin-chief of Xinhua News Agency and Jiefang ribao.
2.  The reference is to General George Marshall’s declaration of May 20 regarding cessation of the civil war in the Northeast.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-153