Zhou (2):
Comments on the Signature Campaign (1)
(September 8, 1950)
This matter should not be handled too hastily or too rigidly, lest we lose the opportunity to unite more people and create antagonism, which would be detrimental to the development of the Wu-Liu (3) campaign. Please try to influence Wu and Liu.
Mao Zedong
September 8
[1] These comments were written on a report dated September 6, 1950, from the United Front Work Department of the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, regarding reactions from various quarters to the signature campaign for the Three-Self Declaration of the Chinese Christian Church initiated by Wu Yaozong, Liu Liangmo, and others.
[2] Zhou refers to Zhou Enlai.
[3] Wu refers to Wu Yaozong, then director of the Publication Department of the National Committee of the YMCA of China. Liu refers to Liu Liangmo, then director of the Program Department of the National Committee of the YMCA of China.