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Comment on Allowing Japanese Journalists to Accompany the Japanese Socialist Party Delegation on Their Visit to China [1] (September 5, 1954) To Premier Zhou for your consideration.
It seems appropriate to grant the request to send ten journalists.
Mao Zedong, September 5. Should we also include representatives from the Liberal Party?
Printed according to the manuscript.
Note [1] This comment was written on a letter dated August 23, 1954, from Tadatatsu Sata, Director of Foreign Affairs of the Japanese Socialist Party, to Zhang Xiruo, President of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, which had been forwarded by the Secretariat of the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs on September 4, 1954.
In his letter, Sata stated: The representatives of the Japanese Socialist Party have now reached a stage where they are able to visit your country, which is a matter of great joy.
Recently, our party has received support from public opinion; in particular, those involved in news reporting have been actively advocating that resuming diplomatic relations between China and Japan is an urgent task at present.
They have also expressed a strong desire to take advantage of our party’s visit to your country by sending their own representative journalists along with us.
Although we are aware that it would indeed be difficult to accommodate all those who wish to come, we hope at least to be permitted to dispatch around ten journalists to accompany our party’s delegation during its visit to China.