My follow countrymen:
This is the 58th New Year's Day since our Founding Father resurrected China and consummated the National Revolution with establishment of the Republic. This is also the anniversary of the Republic's founding.
The Republic of China has had to endure more than half a century of hardship, danger and sorrow. Yet these adversities also have brought into the open and disciplined the integrity and the moral energy that are found in the soul of our nation.
During these last 20 years, we have achieved notable successes in our Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu bastion of anti-Communism and mainland recovery. These accomplishments have been based on feelings of equality, security and harmony growing out the system of ethics, democracy and science set forth in San Min Chu I (Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People). This progress also attests to the attainment of Dr. Sun's ideals and principles pertaining to national reconstruction and demonstrates that we can move from national recovery to national reconstruction. So it is that we are providing hope for our mainland compatriots as they struggle to free themselves from the tyranny of the Mao regime. Our compatriots are looking toward the dawn, toward the new day when they can bask again in the love of the nation and live once more under the white sun and blue sky emblem.
For these two decades, our compatriots have endured terror and despotic abuse of power without sur-cease. Never for a moment shall we forget the misery of these comrades and relatives. During the course of what the Communists call the "great cultural revolution" and "violent struggle" of the last three years, the "Red Guards" have carried out orders to persecute workers, peasants, intellectuals and cadres of various levels together with their children, students, teachers and especially those of the so-called "seven black categories". Group after group has been herded into the countryside and the mountains. Tens of millions have been callously sent into slavery in harsh frontier regions. Our nation and our people are condemned to a role of martyrdom in this unprecedented, incredible tragedy. What is it that prompts Mao to oppress the descendants of Yen Ti and Huang Ti (ancestors of the Chinese people) and why he is so relentless and cruel? The answer is that Mao has reached the end of his road. He seeks to convene the "ninth national congress" of "rebellion" and "power seizure" as part of a deathbed struggle to preserve power and to establish his unique, monolithic empire. In hope of finding a panacea, he is resorting to the tactics of Shih Huang Ti, who burned the books, who buried scholars alive and who terrified the people by killing those who were apprehended in whispered discussion.
But why has the "ninth national congress" not been convened even after a lapse of 12 years? If the congress were to be modeled after the "enlarged 12th plenary session of the eighth Chinese Communist Party central committee", it could be convened at any moment. The people have been told not to be concerned about elections and the delegates to the plenary session were handpicked. This session of nondescripts was called together in disregard of the statutory number of delegates required. What really stands in the way of the "ninth national congress" is the people's unceasing opposition to Mao. During the last 19 years, purge has followed purge, struggle has followed struggle, arrest has followed arrest and persecution has· followed persecution. Yet Mao's opponents have continued to oppose him. Those who are against power-seizure continue to obstruct it. The nation as a whole-including enslaved "workers","peasants" and "soldiers" - is waging a continuous life-or-death struggle against oligarchy. For Mao, the crucial problem is that he doesn't know how to prevent even his closest comrades-in-arms including Lin Piao-from becoming renegades and joining the company, of Peng Teh-huai, Huang Ke-cheng, Liu -Shao-chi and Teng Hsiao-ping, - once the congress, is over. These Mao associates have no assurance that they win not be purged as have the others.
Mao's difficulties are further complicated by his 19 years of overt and covert conflict with such people as Kao Kang, Jao Shu-shih, Peng Teh huai, Huang Ke-cheng, Lo Jui-ching, Tan Chen-chi, Liu Shao-chi and Teng Hsiao-ping. He has been compelled to retreat to a "second front", from where he has rebelled against and "seized power" from the power holding faction of Liu and Teng. He instigated tens of millions of "Red Guards" to undertake a two-year rampage that smashed the organizations of the Communist regime, yet failed to strike down Liu Shao-chi. Although Liu was stripped of his duties at the "enlarged 12th plenary session", his agents have not been vanquished and are to be found everywhere. For these reasons, Mao dared not call the regular "12th plenary session". As an alternative, he summoned the "enlarged 12th plenary session" with handpicked delegates who would speak in his voice, give him courage and serve his insane self-interest.
Mao has repeatedly voiced intention to call the "ninth national congress " ever since the "Red Guards" were created in 1966. First he said the congress would be convened by October 1 of that year. Then he said it would be held not later than May 1, 1967. When that meeting failed to take place, Mao changed the date to September 5. But there was no congress then nor on October 1. This was because the Party was disintegrating; outside the Party, the people of the mainland were rising against Mao in a powerful and angry wave. He was afraid to call the meeting even at the end of 1968 and still has not solved this problem.
Mao Tse-tung fears that the Party will downgrade and denigrate him after his death. He is afraid that those outside the Party will seek revenge for gruesome and sanguinary sufferings inflicted upon the people. Mao's universe is peopled by "Quislings", "renegades" and "demons". His life is haunted by the ghosts of the "revisionists", "capitalists" and "Kuomintang agents" he imprisoned, tortured and murdered. Such circumstances compel him, even against his will to convene the "ninth national congress" as soon as possible. The congress will be Mao's last mortal act' in his own tragic drama. The outcome is self-evident.
Fellow countrymen:
Since his usurpation of mainland power 19 years ago, Mao has attempted to alter, to obliterate or to destroy the history, the morality and the culture of the Chinese people. Heedless of the consequences, he is trying to efface the history and beliefs of Marxism-Leninism and the Communist International. This is opposed by his followers, the Marxist-Leninists and the International Communists. The "draft party charter" adopted by- the "enlarged 12th plenary session" provides corroborative evidence of his intentions.
The general principles of the draft charter stipulate that "only Mao Tse-tung's thought is to provide the Party with its theoretical basis and ideological guidance. Lin Piao, who has raised high the red banner of Mao's thought, is to be Mao's closest comrade-in-arms and his heir-apparent". This confirms that at the "ninth national congress", Mao is to be the chief and Lin Piao the deputy chief. The general principles of the draft also stipulate that the charter is based on the thought and Party line of Mao Tse-tung. The "ninth national congress" is obviously intended to be the personal organization and private tool of Mao. Even Stalin dared not resort to such reckless and fanatical irrationalism. Who can believe that the Mao party is representative of any "class"?
The draft charter pays lip service to Marxism-Leninism but this is followed by assertions that Mao's thought is "socialism marching toward the victory of Marxism-Leninism" and "brings Marxism-Leninism forward to a new phase". Mao seeks to emasculate Marxism-Leninism and to usurp and negate Marxist-Leninist ideology. Who could regard Mao's party as one of Communist and Marxist-Leninist ideology? The Mao party does no more than parrot quotations from Mao and urge that these be used as incantations to cure disease, to increase production, to move machinery and elevate Mao to supreme leadership.
The draft charter categorically rejects any Peiping relationship with the Communist bloc and forecasts defeat of the "imperialists led by the United States" and of the "modern revisionists led by the traitors of the soviet Union". No other Communist charter in history has declared war on the rest of the Communist bloc. In identifying the Communist International and the Communist bloc as his supreme antagonists, Mao has shamelessly turned his back on his erstwhile comrades and is seeking their destruction. In the event Mao should again attempt resort to the trickery of the Bandung "five principles of peaceful coexistence" in the hope of gaining his objectives, could anyone believe him? Mao's embrace of peaceful coexistence could lead only to betrayal and destruction.
Article 1, Chapter 2, of the draft charter provides that Mao's party will be made up of "workers", "poor and lower-middle peasants" and "soldiers".
First, let us think of Mao's "soldiers". The "old cadres" and "close comrades-in-arms" who long have followed Mao in the Party and in the armed forces at the risk of their lives are charged with having committed "black element" crimes, Now prostrate, they are told that they are forever barred from regaining their former positions. Even some of the new members of the "cultural revolution group'" have become waste products in the "cleaning up the rank and file" and "exhaling the old and inhaling the new" processes initiated by Mao and his wife Chiang Ching. Except for those who wear the pedigree of the "4th field army", who can be sure he is not a "waste product"? Even officers and men with a "4th field army" pedigree may fear charges of anti-Maoism that could sweep them away with the rest of the discards.
Second, let us look at the "workers". According to its original charter, the Chinese Communist Party was supposed to represent the "highest form of organization of the workers' class". The workers did not lose their position during the conflict with the "Red Guards". Now, however, the new draft charter compels the "workers' class" to accept co-equality with the "poor and lower-middle peasants" and the "soldiers". The traditional party charter of International Communism has been scrapped. At first the workers were targets of propaganda. Then they were abused by the "Red Guards". Now they have been told to go into schools of various levels, become "propaganda teams" for Mao's thought and attack the "Red Guards". The workers are permanently trapped in Mao's recurring and sanguinary movement to "entice a group and beat up a group". This amounts to annihilation among workers themselves.
Third, there are the so-called "poor and lower-middle peasants”. The draft charter implies that they are to remain in penury for the rest of their lives. To be classified as "poor and lower-middle peasants" is to be accorded protective coloration that saves them from a worse fate. But the present generation of "poor and lower-middle peasants" must watch its offspring grow up without any prospect for a better life.
"Workers", "poor and lower-middle peasants" and "soldiers" have already tasted the dregs of Mao's deceit. Who would believe him and continue to be deceived?
The draft charter of 6 chapters and 12 articles (replacing one of 9 chapters and 60 articles) is replete with trickery and intrigue. The document is in effect a confession of Chinese Communist maliciousness and an admission that Peiping is alienated from the Communist International externally; at the same time it is destroying the Party machinery and antagonizing 700 million people internally. Its own members now understand that the Party is no longer one that fights for a class but is one that oppresses irrespective of class distinction, that it is no longer a member of the International Communist family but an outsider that is trying to bury its progenitor. Even his handful of cronies cannot follow Mao and has turned against him. Mao is carrying out the "rebellion" alone. If the "ninth national congress" is convened, the new Communist machinery will be a worthless collection of instruments for "power seizure" and "instigation". Who then could believe in the new doctrine of Red imperialist hegemony and Mao individualism and continue to support the Party?
Before convening of the "ninth national congress", Mao will have to take action against cadres who have shown an affinity for Peng Teh-huai,Huang Ke-cheng, tao Chu, Ho tung, Lo Jui-ching, Tan Chen-lin, Liu Shao chi and Teng Hsiao-ping. The revisionists must be struggled against and liquidated. After the congress, groups that have sided with these cadres will have to be eliminated. But whether old or new, Mao's cadres cannot be gotten rid of completely and Mao has to resort to the tactics of struggle and "send-down" on a large scale. Most of the cadres have survived. The broad masses of the mainland are inclined toward Sail Min Chu I and cannot be annihilated or seriously deterred by violence. They have increased in number after each confrontation. Now Mao has no old cadres except Lin Piao-no Peng Teh-huai, Huang Ke-cheng, Tao Chu, Ho Lung, Liu Shao-chi or Teng Hsiao-ping. Mao can only cling to Lin Piao, give him orders, assure his tractability by clipping his wings and name him as successor. Lin Piao is compelled to hold high the red flag of Mao Tse-tung's thought, to carry out struggles in the open and behind the scenes, and to use the military to rectify the armed forces. Mao wants to make Lin Piao a scapegoat for armed clashes and civil war. Mao and his wife will force Lin Piao to follow in the footsteps of Peng Teh-huai, Huang Ke-cheng, Liu Shao-chi and Teng Hsiao-ping until Lin's demise. There is no doubt that Mao himself will be criticized, struggled against and placed on public trial in the not too distant future. He will be denigrated, "struggled down" and finally put to death by the people as a whole and by the armed forces during the course of the National Revolution.
If Mao convenes the "ninth national congress" to destroy the Chinese Communist Party, to usurp its power and to establish a new charter that exalts his thought under the cloak of Marxism-Leninism, he will be walking into a cui de sac. His internal and external struggles must lead him to the end of this long road of despair. Instead of referring to Mao's assemblage as the "ninth national congress", it will be more appropriate to regard it as the last rites in which he says farewell to the Chinese Communist Party organization, to Party principles and to Party members. All these then will be regarded as worthless.
Whether Mao actually convenes the congress and the precise timing of the meeting are not important. What matters is that the people of the mainland have awakened to Mao's crimes. He can no longer hide behind his magic tricks of 20 years ago. Never again can he make use of the lies and illusions to which he resorted to save himself during the clashes of the "great cultural revolution" and "power seizure struggle".
Mao's draft charter and his irrationality indicate that the free world is wrong in thinking that the "ninth national congress" will signal the end of the "great cultural revolution". Rather, this will be a day of judgment stemming from the evil wrought by the "Red Guards" during the years of the "cultural revolution". The meeting will sound Mao's death knell. The dirge will be first for the Chinese Communist Party and then for Mao himself. The successful culmination of our National Revolution cannot be far away.
All our endeavors in this Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu bastion of national renaissance are for the purpose of national salvation. Yesterday’s hard work was accomplished quietly in preparation for tomorrow's actions to win the war of national liberation. The conflict will be a fierce one and our preparations, including the strengthening of combat capability, must be continuously carried forward. The greater the preparedness, the smaller the bloodshed. We need to reinforce the foundations we have already laid and to emphasize political and economic reconstruction and growth. We also should stress social and cultural renovation and remobilization.
Politically, we have decided to hold elections this year to choose additional representatives and to fill vacancies in representative organs on the central level. We shall broaden and enlighten the functioning of our democracy by electing intelligent, competent persons to public office. We shall strengthen our program of self-government, enhance our system of responsibility in the service of the people, rid ourselves of bureaucratic abuses and thereby reinforce the foundations of efficient, honest government.
Economically, we shall review our accomplishments and examine the results of the land-to-the-tiller program, make, more land available for lease and construct model rural communities. In doing so we shall permanently preserve our gains from the full utilization of the land. We shall make large-scale use of our natural resources, increase our national income and strengthen our social welfare. In providing for the effective use of land, capital and labor, we shall prevent any misuse of these assets.
Socially, we shall encourage austerity to increase savings and investment. We shall perfect environmental sanitation and promote modern habits of life that emphasize orderliness and cleanliness. Men will be able to bring prosperity to their families and the community without becoming effete and decadent. We shall base our code of civic behavior on self-examination and initiative. Our people will be persuaded to assume responsibility for raising the level of man's morality and to regard material inequalities as of lesser importance.
In education, we shall complete and then strengthen the nine-year program of schooling. We shall promote education in science and in ethics. In this way all of our people can be progressive and yet disciplined in seeking personal 'prosperity and long life and in contributing to family, community and humankind.
Our common objective is to construct a modern country with up-to date, honest and competent government to erect a cooperative and patriotic citizenry; and to assure a society in which there is decorum, self-respect, justice, and adherence to law. We shall increase our combat capability for national recovery through further construction in this model province ofSan Min Chu I. We shall prepare to utilize the experience acquired in the process of San Min Chu I construction for rebuilding the whole nation as soon as our lost territory is recovered.
Fellow countrymen:
We are living up to the ideals and objectives of San Min Chu I in this intensive struggle for the cause of the National Revolution. All of us must stand up and contribute without reservation all that we have to the country and to the people so as to accomplish the tasks of the third phase of our National Revolution.
Our only national enemy is Mao Tse-tung and we have innumerable anti-Mao comrades everywhere. All of those who are assembled under the banners of the National Revolution and San Min Chu I-regardless of party affiliation or whether they are old or new Communist cadres are to be counted as our revolutionary comrades. The anti-Communist people arid the soldiers of the mainland are joining forces. There is a spiritual reawakening of Chinese at home and abroad. The causes of righteousness that are inherent in China's national soul and character are shining ever more brightly. We are waging total war for our principles and the preservation of our history and of our culture. The final triumph of San Min Chu I and of our National Revolution in implementing benevolence and love, freedom and peace is assured by our dedicated promise of unceasing effort and persistent striving. Thus shall we recover the mainland, liberate our compatriots and comfort the souls of our Founding Father and the Revolutionary martyrs!
President Chiang Kai-shek's message to the Mao-Suppression and National Salvation rally on the 15th anniversary of Freedom Day
January 23, 1969
Fifty years ago, more than 14,000 former prisoners of the Korean War repudiated the Chinese Communists and chose to be free. This momentous decision gave rise to the Freedom Day movement of free China. As a result of the efforts of the anti-Communist people of the world and the unanimous resolution of the Second Conference of the World Anti-Communist League, this movement has now assumed international significance. New energy has been injected into the historic undertakings of opposing slavery and de fending freedom. We ourselves have assumed a larger share of responsibility in the struggle for human liberty. The regime of Mao Tse-tung is the source of the evils that threaten man's right to be free. The snake is killed by striking at its head and the weed is eliminated by pulling it out by the roots. So it is that the establishment of the Mao-suppression and National Salvation United Front on the occasion of Freedom Day is a matter of great importance.
With the tides of freedom surging ever higher the Peiping regime is on the edge of collapse. The radiance of humanity enlightens the world and the victory of our National Revolution of San Min Chu I (Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People is in sight. History's iron law that freedom will vanquish slavery is in the, process of being borne out. However, the wicked Mao knows that he is isolated internally and externally and at the end of his rope. He is therefore engaged in a last-ditch struggle of trying to amend the Chinese Communist Party charter and to convene the "ninth party congress", hoping thereby to conceal the failures of his "cultural revolution", "rebellion" and "power seizure". But the oppressed people of the mainland and the Party members who have been so long deceived are now alert to Mao's intrigues of "grasping: Party members" and "deceiving: those outside the Party". They are ready to use tactics they have learned in the course of the struggle and will "raise high red flags to oppose red flags". The bitter experience of Mao's attempts at vengeance and liquidation will be applied as people and Party members become the vanguard of an all-encompassing rebellion that will bury Mao.
Regardless of party affiliation or occupation, all of the Chinese people: should now rise up to perfect our Mao,Suppression and National Salvation United Front and march forward together under the flags of San Min Chu I and the National Revolution. Our anti-Mao and anti-Communist comrades, are imbued. with the spirit of ethics, democracy and science. In their political, economic, cultural, military, or social posts, they are now prepared to contribute their wisdom and their energy in implementing San Min Chu I, in developing Chinese culture and in saving, recovering and reconstructing their country: As they endeavor to fulfill their duty, all of the people will rise up in total mobilization. Chinese at home and abroad will be united spiritually and will expedite a rendezvous of anti-Mao and anti-Communist people and military forces both in front of and behind the enemy That will mark the end for the chief enemy of freedom.
As Freedom Day develops, we shall unite with all freedom-loving peoples and with all the forces of liberty and righteousness to be found in the world. Together we shall liberate those who are enslaved behind the Iron Curtain and restore their freedom. We should also exert ourselves to frustrate the international counter-current of Communist appeasement. With a single strategy and concerted actions, we shall bring lasting peace to the world and realize the noble ideal of one great commonwealth set forth in our San Min Chu I.
Vice President Yen Chia-kan's address to the Mao Suppression and National Salvation rally on the 15th anniversary of Freedom Day
January 23, 1969
Today marks the 15th anniversary of Freedom Day. Just 15 years ago, 14,000 former prisoners of the Korean War made their unprecedented, sagacious and greatly courageous choice between freedom and slavery and between the brightness of day and the darkness of night. Determined to cast off their shackles, these brave men received the righteous support of the free world and succeeded in returning to their free fatherland. This magnificent feat has added one of the brightest pages to the history of man's struggle to survive in freedom. For these reasons, we decided at the first rally celebrating their freedom to designate January 23 as Freedom Day. The objectives are to strengthen the anti-Communist forces of the world and bring them together in a mighty movement to destroy the Iron Curtain and liberate enslaved peoples everywhere.
The courage of these 14,000 freedom fighters reflected man's unshakable aspirations for freedom and ceaseless antagonism toward tyranny. The momentous goals of Freedom Day constitute an expression of the free world's determination and confidence that justice and human rights will prevail. Our Freedom Day movement subsequently has brought an enthusiastic response and strong support from Asia and other parts of the world. Freedom Day is now the symbol of the world anti-Communist movement. With constant enlargement and expansion, the Freedom Day 'spirit has become a towering beacon for the enslaved people and a weapon that can penetrate the Iron Curtain.
Encouraged by the Freedom Day movement, many people have succeeded in breaking through the Iron Curtain of both East and West during the last 5 years. More than 150,000 refugees from the Chinese mainland have made their way by air and sea to freedom in Taiwan. More than two million escaped to other places in Asia. These escapes testify to the profound influence of the Freedom Day movement in the anti-Communist struggle.
This growing importance led the Second Conference of the World Anti- Communist League, meeting in Saigon last month, to designate January 23 as World Freedom Day. The day thus acquires a deeper significance in anti-Communist history and is assured of further growth of the potential of generating an overwhelming anti-Communist tide throughout the world.
As yet we have not completed the task of tearing down the Iron Curtain and freeing the enslaved people of Asia. The anti-Communist war rages on in our region. Nevertheless, the situation is becoming more favorable to us and to the rest of the free world. We are moving toward unity while the Communists know only schism and disruption. Our chances of Iron Curtain destruction and of the liberation of those behind it are improving day by day.
Celebration of World Freedom Day and establishment of the Mao- Suppression and National Salvation United Front involve much more than our own survival and progress. We are also fulfilling our obligations to the causes of world peace and human freedom. I should like to make these three points:
First, the world's worst "hell on earth" is the Chinese mainland, where Mao Tse-tung's tyranny and fanatical ambitions have not been curbed by internal turmoil. President Chiang Kai-shek has told us that the center of gravity in world affairs is in Asia that the root of Asian evil is on the Chinese mainland and that mankind cannot escape from wickedness until the evil Peiping regime is destroyed. We must solemnly acknowledge that the suppression of Mao for the salvation of the country is our inescapable responsibility. Chinese at home and abroad, in front of and behind the enemy, will respond to President Chiang's ringing summons. They will join the alliance in both spirit and in action. So it is that we shall forge our united front for Mao-suppression and 'national salvation, overthrow the Peiping regime and restore liberty to the hundreds of millions of our mainland compatriots.
Second, we shall remind our democratic allies that we have reached the dividing line between day and night in the world anti-Communist struggle. We must not lose this golden opportunity for the expeditious strengthening of the world anti-Communist front and for the unifying of our global strategy. Marching shoulder to shoulder, we shall take the strong actions that are necessary to pull down the Iron Curtain and bring about the earliest possible liberation of our compatriots. Additionally, we shall heighten our vigilance against Communist peace traps, thereby assuring that the tens of thousands who have given their lives to resist Communist aggression in Korea and Vietnam shall not have died in vain.
Third, we call once more upon the countries of the free world to provide humanitarian support and relief for refugees from the Chinese mainland. We join in expression of hope that overseas Chinese everywhere will unite together and accept their share of responsibility for assisting compatriots who escape from Communist tyranny.
The supreme objectives of Freedom Day and the Mao-Suppression and National Salvation United Front are both the extinction of the Communist threat, the freeing of those who are enslaved and the bringing of permanent peace to the world. I call upon my fellow countrymen and all the freedom-loving people of the world to gird themselves in courageous determination and march resolutely for ward to victory in this most decisive battle of human history.