Comments and Revisions on the People’s Daily Editorial Draft Commemorating the 47th Anniversary of the October Revolution [1]
Return to Comrade Wu Lengxi.
Read and approved; well written.
(November 6, 1964)
There is one minor revision on page four.
Mao Zedong
November 6
Imperialism and the reactionaries bitterly hate the friendship and unity between the Chinese and Soviet peoples. They are utterly vicious…
Chuan
This document consists of two parts: First, Mao Zedong’s marginal notes on a letter from Wu Lengxi, President of Xinhua News Agency and Editor-in-Chief of the People’s Daily, dated November 5, 1964, which accompanied the submission for review of the People’s Daily editorial titled “Unite Under the Banner of the Great October Revolution” commemorating the October Revolution. Second, Mao Zedong’s revisions to the editorial draft; the passages printed in Song typeface represent text added by Mao. The editorial was published in the People’s Daily on November 7 of the same year.

Comments and Revisions on the People’s Daily Editorial Draft Commemorating the 47th Anniversary of the October Revolution
U.S. imperialism and its lackeys regard the unity of China and the Soviet Union, the solidarity of the socialist camp, and the unity of revolutionary peoples worldwide as the greatest obstacle to their domination of the globe. To this end,
U.S. imperialism
is doing everything in its power to sow division within the Sino-Soviet alliance, among the countries of the socialist camp, and among revolutionary people around the world,
in order to defeat them one by one.