Taiwan Today

March 29, 1973

Youths of the nation!

In this great era of today young people can shape the fu­ture of the nation and the people by carrying out the will and the work of our revolutionary heroes of yesterday.

We know that the 300-year-old Manchu dynasty and the 3,000-year-old imperial system were felled by one decisive stroke of the 72 martyrs now enshrined at Huang Hua-Kang (Yellow Flow­er Mound). In point of wickedness and treachery, the Chinese Communists of this era are a hundred and even a thousand times worse than the Manchus. The terrors of persecution, slaugh­ter and endless struggle have inflicted upon our country violent disruption and catastrophe of a dimension unparalleled in human history. But so long as all of us understand that national salvation is our own responsibility and so long as we children of our noble ancestors remain confident that our great day of triumph is sure to come, we shall be able to engender within ourselves the strength required to raise high the standard of justice. We shall proceed with the offensive against the tyrants of the mainland on the home front and shall join forces with others in actions of encirclement from abroad. This will deal a fatal blow to Mao Tse-tung and all the other Com­munist traitors.

Youths of the nation! The Chinese Communists are haunted by fear that their cadres and armed forces will follow in the steps of Peng Te-huai, Teng Hsiao­-ping, Liu Shao-chi and Lin Piao to multiply disruption by ten, twenty or thirty times; they sus­pect that all the people of the mainland may be Khrushchevs waiting to arise. They are espe­cially fearful of the grievances pent up in the hearts of the people as revealed in the frequent violations of work discipline, the "evil wind of demoting the work­ load" and the "snake passage" and escape from the mainland. Out of these fears they have intensified their rectification cam­paign of criticizing revisionism. They send down to the country­side group after group of main­land youths, hoping to make them into mere tools of labor.

Mao Tse-tung and Chou En­-lai are engaged in an all-out effort to export revolution. Using meth­ods of political chicanery, they are "building bridges" and estab­lishing diplomatic relations by capitalizing on some countries' shortsightedness and their inclina­tion to seek immediate and short-term interest in disregard of truth and justice. These countries tak­ing advantage of the attempts of Mao and Chou to use external force to suppress the internal upheaval resulting from the "ebb­ing tide" of their revolution have felt no scruples in abandoning their original position and principles. They try to rationalize their conduct by pretending that Mao and the other Chinese Com­munists, who in desperate de­fiance of all history have sealed up the people in the primitive mainland for such an extended time, are still amenable to reason, that the turmoil and disturbance are transitional and that their foreign relations are changing. But sober international opinion points out clearly the following:

- That the Chinese Commu­nists have never abandoned their basic goal of making the people into robots and the mainland into a military camp.

- That the people on the mainland "are the masses who were 'blank'."

- That "the twisting of record and the suppression of fact are creating an uninformed and misin­formed public."

- That on the Chinese main­land "the old culture and tradition have been virtually destroyed. Millions have shown they do not support the regime by voting with their feet and fleeing as refugees."

- That the people of the main­land might rise at any time tomorrow to fight against the Chinese Communists with picks, pebbles or anything else they can lay their hands on, and overthrow the regime.

All of us are aware that the Chinese Communists' united front tactics and the confused actions of the free nations have given rise to a worldwide chaotic situa­tion in which the free nations and the Communist bloc find themselves in a state of turmoil which is multi polarized, multilateral and internal as well as external. In this situation, the souls of the nations are lost, friends are not distinguished from foes, and all are engaged in mutual deception.

We are in a position to assert that in this turbulent and decep­tive era, only the Government and people of the Republic of China have from beginning to end held firm to their fundamental principle that peace must be built on a foundation of freedom and justice and that freedom and justice can be ensured only by positive undertakings to oppose Communism and totalitarianism, because we firmly believe:

- That, as historical records show, all tyrannical regimes will be destroyed either by the spread­ing poison of their ruptured ma­lignant sores or by the armies of righteousness.

That it is the common will and nature of man to avoid the terror of the dark and seek for freedom and the light. For the past more than two decades, our compatriots on the mainland have never ceased to seek for freedom at the risk of their lives. This is an invisible powerful antidote and formidable deterrent to all of Communism's designs and decep­tions.

- That, as borne out by facts, although the Chinese culture has been damaged in form by the perverse and ruthless movement of the "cultural revolution" its firm foundation to be found in the heart and nature of man has never been changed.

It is tantamount to saying that in a real sense the Chinese people can never tolerate the changes, usurpation, betrayal and control imposed upon them by the non-Chinese, anti-Chinese and Chinese-destroying traitors and rebels. The future of the Republic of China, that is, the true unifica­tion of China must be a unifica­tion characterized by the victory of San Min Chu I (Dr. Sun Yat­-sen's Three Principles of the People) over Communism, a unification based on human nature and reason and a unification as­suring freedom and the blessings to be derived from ethics, democracy and science.

In our Taiwan-Penghu-Kinmen­ Matsu bastion of freedom we have overcome all difficulties and maintained our progress in ac­cordance with our priority objec­tive of national recovery and reconstruction. We have confirm­ed our determination and rein­forced our staying power so that we ourselves shall never compromise nor desist from our cause. We can say today that we have no fear of encountering a hundred or a thousand setbacks. Instead, setbacks will only steel us and enhance our spirit. Let it be remembered that we have an army of 600,000 men on the military front and 4 million teach­ers and students in the field of education. On the frontlines of production, we have 6 million farmers and workers. We have 18 million overseas Chinese standing with us in time of crisis. The hearts of the 700 million people on the mainland are seeking for freedom and justice even at the risk of death. All of these join to constitute both psychological and spiritual magnetic poles and a fountainhead of energy. The murky skies of the world around us and the deceptive changes on the mainland stand in sharp con­trast to the integrity and stability of our bastion established to as­sure the renaissance of San Min Chu I. Even clearer is the con­trast of our superior judgment and courage in facing reality, making a firm stand against the adverse tides and striving to reverse the inauspicious direction the world is taking.

Recalling what was suffered in the ten failures and ten resur­gences during the course of his leadership of the National Revolu­tion, our Founding Father, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, said: "At that mo­ment the future of the Revolution was as dark as pitch and rays of hope were almost nonexistent." He also said: "Under the buffetings of a hundred difficulties and as a laughing stock and target for abuse, I suffered defeat after defeat, but still braved the risks and moved ahead." Consequently, "revolution became the order of the day and made immense prog­ress every day." In our time we face once more the "buffetings of a hundred difficulties" and have again almost become "a laughing stock and target for abuse" of the world. But the strength that we derive from our daily progress is incomparably greater than that in the period of the 10th revolutionary upris­ing, when the 72 martyrs now enshrined at Huang Hua-Kang gave up their lives in a struggle waged with their fists and hardly any weapons. Moreover, the ene­my in our continuing Revolution is the traitorous Mao regime, an embodiment of enslavement, pov­erty and ignorance. Everyone may rise up to kill the traitor. Nor can today's situation be com­pared with the last days of the Manchu dynasty which, though corrupt and weak, presided over a society which had known a long period of peace. So, I wish to tell you that the law of historical progression cannot be reversed, that our time-honored and abun­dant national culture cannot be obliterated, that violence will never be tolerated and that justice will finally prevail. Under the buffetings of a hundred difficulties, we still persist in our endur­ing resolve, in our courage and in our responsibility to the whole of mankind. This, we are con­fident, will gradually win the sympathy of the free world which will eventually move toward mutual understanding and attain mutual confidence.

On this day last year, I pointed out that the responsibility of young people is to revive the country and the people with a renascence of culture and ethics. In other words, the fundamental and urgent task of young people is the burnishing and propagating of our history and culture, the restoration of our national morali­ty and the overall rebirth of the country and the consummation of modem reconstruction.

Youths of the nation! In our era we must combine our energies to smash all insidious conspiracies and sinister plans, break through the miasma of prevailing confu­sion and turn back the tides of appeasement and isolation. Actu­ally, this is to assure the future of our country and people in the manner of our revolutionary mar­tyrs and is the only way in which we can translate into reality the revolutionary spirit of this epochal time.