Unmask the Enemy at the Appropriate
Moment
(June 30, 1946)
Comrade [Yu] Guangsheng:1
Starting from the present moment, please publish and broadcast all news of
attacks on us by Chiang’s forces wherever they occur because Chiang is paying
lip service to an armistice but in fact he is continuing to wage war; we should thoroughly expose him by spreading this news. Please add news items from today’s
Cankao xiaoxi,2 such as “Diehard Armies Capture the Qingzhou and Longshan
Railway Stations,” “Yan’s troops at Wenshui Occupy Our Xiaoyi Township,” and
so on, then broadcast this news and print it in the newspaper.
Mao Zedong
Regarding the lead story in today’s paper about notables such as Huang Mohan,3
it seems they are in Chongqing, not Shanghai, so please look further into the question of whether it is wrong to say they are in Shanghai.4
Our source for this text is Xinhuashe wenjian ziliao xuanbian, Vol. 1, p. 37.
1.  Yu Guangsheng was acting head and editor-in-chief of Xinhua News Agency and
Jiefang ribao.
2.   Cankao xiaoxi (Reference News), a news bulletin for restricted circulation, contains
information deemed not yet suitable for open publication.
3.  Huang Yunpeng (aka Huang Mohan, 1882–1955, native of Sichuan) was elected
to parliament in the early years of the Chinese Republic. In 1945, he helped organize the
Democratic Association for Building the Country (Minzhu jianguo hui). It is doubtlessly
for this reason that at this time Mao regarded him as an illustrious person.
4.  Mao soon discovered that these people were indeed in Chongqing. See “Telegrams
in Reply to Distinguished Personages of Various Circles in Chongqing,” July 5, 1946, in
this volume.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-189