Telegrams in Reply to Distinguished
Personages of Various Circles in Chongqing
 (July 5, 1946)
(Xinhua News Agency dispatch, Yan’an, July 7) Last month, distinguished personages of various circles in Chongqing, including Huang Mohan, Huang Cixian,
and Deng Chumin, numbering 4,271 in all, as well as the Pray for Peace Assembly
of the Protestant Christian Promotion Society, sent telegrams to Chairman Mao of
the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee appealing for peace. Chairman
Mao replied by telegram as follows on July 5:


Messrs. Huang Mohan, Huang Cixian, Deng Chumin,1 and others in Chongqing:
I have received your telegram and greatly admire your brilliant ideas. Resolute
support for peace and opposition to civil war is the only national concern in China
today. Our humble Party is determined to fight to the very end for this policy. We
hope we can all work together to promote the rapid achievement of peace.
With respectful regards,
Mao Zedong


Respectfully submitted for the perusal of the gentlemen in the Pray for Peace
Assembly of the Protestant Christian Promotion Society:
I have received your telegram and am greatly moved by your enthusiasm for
national affairs and your appeal for peace. Our humble Party has always insisted
on solving all domestic disputes through peace and unity, and the delegation of
our Party in Nanjing has proposed that both sides should give explicit orders to
end the civil war absolutely, permanently, and unconditionally. But a few bellicose elements still believe in solving problems with armed force, so the civil war
crisis continues on. I hope we can work together to stop the war; the fate of the
nation and the survival of the people depend on it.
With respectful regards,
Mao Zedong


Our source for this text is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 8, p. 107, where it is reproduced
from Jiefang ribao, July 7, 1946.
1.  Huang Yunpeng (1882–1955, aka Huang Mohan, 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). Huang Cixian (1890–
1952, aka Huang Xizu, native of Sichuan) was a member of the association as well as a youth
leader and a Christian. Deng Chumin (1889–1981, native of Hubei) was a prominent scholar.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-193