To Peng. There are a few minor revisions; please consider and decide.

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We must heighten our vigilance and strengthen our preparedness against the recent military demonstrations, provocations, and conspiratorial activities of the imperialist warmongers and Chiang Kai-shek and Syngman Rhee [2] aimed at creating pretexts for international tension. We must strictly adhere to the established policy of the Central Committee to ease international tension and strictly observe

[1]
This first section is Mao Zedong’s comment on a report dated November 21, 1956, by Peng Dehuai, member of the Central Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Minister of National Defense. The second and third sections are two paragraphs from several regulations of the Central Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee concerning the current coastal military struggle. The text printed in Song typeface was added by Mao Zedong.

[2]
Syngman Rhee, then President of the Republic of Korea.