Statement [Comments on the Monthly Report
(August 6, 1964)]
Comrade Wang Dongxing, after reading this, should immediately pass it to Jiang Qing. War may break out soon; therefore, my planned activities13 should be reconsidered.
Mao Zedong
6:00 a.m., August 6
[1]
This statement was published in the People’s Daily on August 6, 1964.
[2]
Wang Dongxing was at that time Vice Minister of Public Security and Director of the Guard Bureau of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.
[3]
This likely refers to Mao Zedong’s original plan to travel by horse along the Yellow River for an inspection tour.