Comrades of the Ninth Team:

Congratulations on your establishment of the National Salvation Room. These two words, "national salvation," are the sole general objective for you and for the people of the entire nation at the present stage. The road to achieving this objective is the Anti-Japanese National United Front. It is hoped that you will study the theory and methods of this united front; only through the united front can the objective of national salvation be achieved.

Mao Zedong

December 25