Statement by the Spokesman for the Communist Party of China Refusing the Entry of Kan Chieh-hou to Peiping

(February 7, 1949)

[According to the Northern Shensi Radio of the New China News Agency, dated February 7] The Central News Agency of the reactionary and traitorous Kuomintang government reported from Shanghai on February 5: "Kan Chieh-hou stated that the peace delegation composed of six persons, including Yen Hui-ching and Chang Shih-chao, will fly to Peiping within two or three days. Shao Li-tzu and he himself will accompany them in a private capacity to render assistance. Mr. Kan declared that the sole mission of the delegation is to serve as a door-knocker, to urge the Communist Party of China to appoint delegates for peace negotiations promptly and to decide on the time and place for such negotiations, so that the government delegation may proceed to begin the peace discussions." The spokesman for the Communist Party of China declares: If Messrs. Yen Hui-ching, Chang Shih-chao and others are visiting Peiping in a private capacity and wish to discuss state affairs, the Mayor of Peiping is prepared to receive them. However, if, as Kan Chieh-hou stated, "the sole mission of the delegation is to serve as a door-knocker, to urge the Communist Party of China to appoint delegates for peace negotiations promptly and to decide on the time and place for such negotiations, so that the government"

[1] This message was written by Mao Tse-tung for the New China News Agency in the form of a statement by the spokesman for the Communist Party of China.
[2] Kan Chieh-hou, earlier a university professor and diplomatic official, was then a personal adviser to Li Tsung-jen.
[3] Yen Hui-ching, formerly Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Northern Warlord government, and Ambassador of the Kuomintang government to Britain and the Soviet Union.
[4] Chang Shih-chao, formerly a professor at Peking University, Minister of Justice and concurrently Minister of Education in the government of Tuan Chi-jui, a member of the People's Political Council, and a lawyer. In 1949 he was a member of the Kuomintang government's peace negotiation delegation and remained in Peiping after the Kuomintang government refused to sign the peace agreement.
[5] Shao Li-tzu, earlier acting president of Shanghai University, in 1925 secretary-general of the Whampoa Military Academy, and after the Sian Incident head of the Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and secretary-general of the People's Political Council. In 1949 he was a member of the Kuomintang government's peace negotiation delegation and remained in Peiping after the Kuomintang government refused to sign the peace agreement.