Regarding Not Publishing News of the Volunteer Army for Four or Five Days
Letter to Hu Qiaomu[1]
(October 21, 1950)

Comrade Qiaomu:

If foreign news agencies have any reports about the Volunteer Army, please take care not to publish them in Reference News for four or five days.

Mao Zedong
October 21

[1] Hu Qiaomu, then Director of the General Administration of Press of the Central People’s Government.