Telegram to Overseas Chinese
Associations in Siam
(December 25, 1946)
To seventy-one overseas Chinese associations in Siam,1 including the Siam
Overseas Chinese General Union for Building the Chinese Nation and Saving
the Motherland, the Siam Workers Union, the Siam Overseas Chinese Youth
Union, the Siam Overseas Chinese Education Association, and the Siam Qiongya
Association, and to all overseas Chinese in Siam:
I received your telegram of November 22; it spoke with the force of justice
and I am greatly moved. The Guomindang authorities turned down the proposal
to suspend the illegal National Assembly and then refused to dismiss the illegal National Assembly. The actual intention is to shut the door on negotiations.
China’s people will never accept the illegal, separatist, single-party National
Assembly, and the so-called constitution it passed. From now on, our Party is
determined to fight to the last for restoration of the political consultation line and
to restore the January 13 military position. We hope that our countrymen abroad
will work together to bring about an independent and peaceful democracy in our
motherland.
Mao Zedong
Our source for this text is Renmin ribao, December 25, 1946, p. 1. It is also reproduced
in Mao Zedong sixiang wansui. Neibuben, November 1967, p. 276.
1.  The Chinese term used here, Xianluo, is the name by which Chinese referred to
Thailand before June 24, 1939, when it was still known as Siam.
DOI:  10.4324/9781315719511-251