The annotations to the three articles [1] in the issue of “Reactions of Foreign Newspapers and Periodicals to China” were issued (December 7, 1958). They are extremely good. Please have Xiaoping [2] deal with them immediately. Mao Zedong, 10:00 a.m. on December 7, Wuchang. After use, return to Mao. Printed from the manuscript. Notes [1] The three articles in the special issue “Reactions of Foreign Newspapers and Periodicals to China” of the journal Reference Materials are: “An Article in the Czech Red Righteousness Newspaper Discusses Our Great Achievements in Socialist Construction, Stating That China’s Tremendous Revolutionary Development Is of Major Significance to All Mankind and That Chairman Mao’s Assertion That Imperialism Has But a Short Time Left Is in Accordance with the Course of World Development”; “The Beijing Correspondent of the Czech Red Righteousness Newspaper Enthusiastically Praises the Grand Scale of Beijing’s Nationwide Steel-Making Campaign”; and “A Piece by Hans Fässler, Secretary of the Swiss Labor Party, on Our Great Leap Forward, Contending That Our Comprehensive Great Leap Forward Is a Resounding Rebuttal to the Cliché About ‘Sclerotic Marxism.’” [2] Xiaoping refers to Deng Xiaoping, who at that time served as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee.