March 29, 1967
Youths of the nation!
Fifty-six years ago today, forerunners of our young men of true revolutionary spirit launched the 10th uprising at Canton in response to the cal1 of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic. The gallant stand and self-sacrifice of the 72 martyrs who are buried at Huang Hua Kang inspired the nation and paved the way for the success of the Wuchang uprising of October 10, 1911. The whole nation responded to the bugles sounded at Wuchang and the Republic was founded three months later. The glorious epic of those revolutionary pioneers will never cease to shine throughout the history of China. As Dr. Sun Yat-sen said, "Our will to establish the Republic was then realized."
Fifty-six years later, Mao Tse-tung has made the young students and adolescents of the Chinese mainland into victims to be sacrificed in the attempt to attain his own selfish ends. Intellectuals are treated as mere "straw-dogs" for the purpose of sacrifice. The great civilization of China is being reduced to rubble.
Many scientists, men of letters, artists, teachers and scholars have been beaten, kicked, stripped and paraded through the streets wearing placards and dunce caps. After such brutal humiliations, a large number of them have been driven to take their own lives.
Young students dragooned into the "Red Guards" have been forced to travel thousands of miles to engage in the so-called exchanges of revolutionary experiences. They have marched through snowstorms without food. Their backs have been bent and their feet have been blistered. They have been kidnapped and murdered by the "Purple Guards", they have suffered from chaotic brawls within their own ranks, and they have known the terror of being hounded by "corpse-burying squads". Mao Tse-tung has now ordered them to end their travels and return home. Many of them have become beggars away from their homes. Others have been arrested and sent to labor camps for reformation. The spearhead has been abruptly turned and plunged into the breasts of the "Red Guards".
As Mao Tse-tung has admitted, young cadres of the Party and army are fil1ed with resentment. They complain of losing their freedom as soon as they have pasted up big-character posters. They fear to be singled out by the masses for denunciation and attack. The whole situation is one mad scramble for power of conflicting groups, with nobody knowing who is the real authority, or who is being utilized by whom, or even who will be alive tomorrow. Consequently, the "Red Guards" have raised the slogans of "suspect everything", "oppose everything" and "down with everything".
After 17 years of being oppressed by the Communists, all those who have courageously resisted Mao Tse-tung's bribes and suppressions yearn for a return to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's San Min Chu I (Three Principles of the People). They cannot refrain from expressing their love for San Min Chu I, They know Dr. Sun's San Min Chu I is true to Chinese thought. They have said that "Confucianism nurtured the greatness of the Chinese people and inspired millions of youths of the country to carryon their valiant struggle for righteousness even in the darkness of Communist rule".
Mao Tse-tung is trembling at the confrontation with San Min Chu I, which is the cream of the national culture handed down from such ancient sages as the Emperors Yao, Shun, Yu and Tang, as Kings Wen and Wu, as the Duke of Chou and Confucius. This is the culture that has been deeply implanted in the mind of every Chinese. Mao is aware that San Min Chu I "re-establishes Confucius' prestige and attacks Mao Tse-tung thought", San Min Chu I will expose Mao's crimes and be the guillotine to behead his one-man tyranny. Now Mao is trying to make the Paris Commune, a mob-dictatorship which lasted less than 70 days, the only yardstick for the current "great cultural revolution" and the model for his arbitrary action of bringing the "rebellion" to an end.
The Communists have undertaken a bloody general purge of workers, peasants and soldiers, the so-called representatives of the proletariat.
As a result, workers have organized their own "workers' party", have rallied by the millions in protest movements, engaged in struggles that have taken thousands of lives and have launched "new counterattacks", They have cut off electricity and water, shut down factories and businesses, and interfered with ocean, rail and highway transportation.
Unwilling to submit to a hopeless life of serfdom and to remain poor peasants forever, the people of the countryside have established their own "Peasant Rehabilitation Army" and have risen up to "counterattack and retaliate", They have raised such slogans as "the three all"-dividing all, eating all and spending all—and "settle the account after the autumn harvest", In implementing these slogans they have refused to go back to the "first line of production", their fields.
Communist troops and Party cadres have been classified by Mao Tse-tung as "bad", "worse", "worst" and the "worse than the worst". The spearhead of his attack is directed against the second, third and fourth front armies, and the first, second and third field armies. Mao is casting an eye in the direction of the necks of such dissidents as Chu Te, Ho Lung, Peng Te-huai, Liu Po-cheng, Chen Yi and La Jui-ching. Numerous groups, including the anti-Communist "Red Flag Army", "Jung Fu Army" and "International Rebel Army", have emerged to undertake sharp, complicated "revolutionary power-seizure struggles" against the Mao-Lin clique.
On the Chinese mainland today, many young people are engaged in anti-Mao, anti-Communist activities. They seek directly or indirectly to safeguard Chinese culture with their very lives, in other words, "to safeguard the Republic of China with their very lives". This is by no means the struggle against the revisionists and against the capitalists that Mao proclaims.
Youths of the nation!
Since Mao Tse-tung organized children and youths of the mainland into the "Red Guards" and used them as tools in his rebellion and seizure of power, our government has daily received large numbers of letters from all over the mainland, from Kwangtung and Fukien in the south to Liaoning and Inner Mongolia in the north. Some have come from abroad, even from Soviet Russia. More than 45 per cent of these letters are written by Red Guards, members of the Chinese Communist armed forces and cadres of the Chinese Communist Party. Those from young workers and peasants exceed 37 per cent.
These are some of the messages conveyed in these letters:
- "The vast laboring masses are dying of cold, hunger and hard labor. We must overthrow Mao Tse-tung!"
- "The Mao-Lin clique is crumbling. More than four-fifths of the people hate Mao and Lin."
- "Those persecuted by Mao have become staunch anti-Communists in defiance of bloodshed, torture and even death!" Some have asked to be given missions, and have requested answers, contacts and help. Others have expressed intention to flee to freedom.
- "All the people on the mainland are hoping that the National Government led by President Chiang Kai-shek soon will undertake a counterattack to recover the mainland, overthrow Mao Tse-tung and bring us a bright new life. We people on the mainland swear to be the van· guard and to reinforce the counterattacking forces with internal uprisings."
- "We believe that in the nearest future the banner of San Min Chu I will be raised al1 over the Chinese mainland!"
Our revolutionary spirited youth have inherited the Chinese traditional culture-loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, trustworthiness, righteousness and love of peace. Mao Tse-tung's basic nature is that of the fanatic and troublemaker. He has committed cruel crimes, has persecuted, cheated and insulted our people. His conduct is that of a tyrant, a devil, a traitor, a treacherous official, a bandit and a thief. He has admitted that he is a combination of "Paris Commune" mobster and Yi Ho Boxer. He no longer has a sense of shame.
The Paris Commune revolt lasted only 70 days and was suppressed by French government forces. The four-month Boxer Incident was terminated by the siege of the eight allied powers in 1900. Today we shall not permit Mao Tse-tung and his cohorts to repeat the atrocious crimes of the Paris Commune. We shall never allow the continued existence of a bestial mentality that opposes humanity, culture, science and freedom. With this mentality and their crude nuclear devices, the Chinese Communists contemplate a genocide of millions on the mainland. They intend to cruelly eliminate all the cadres who have "eaten rice with them" for a long time and to engage in a power struggle with the Comintern that reared and protected them for 30 years. They will not give up until they have brought to China a tragedy far more terrible than the Boxer Incident and one that would leave our nation in a desperate and hopeless condition.
If we permit the insane monster Mao Tse-tung to continue, he will brutally destroy all the descendants of the Emperor Huang Ti. Either Communists or non-Communists, either real or counterfeit Red Guards, either Liu Shao-chi, Teng Hsiao-ping of today or Chou En-lai, Lin Piao of tomorrow, will be doomed to a day of destruction when "human beings will be killed by beasts and their own kind". This is a catastrophe unprecedented in China's 5,000-year history and the greatest disaster in all human history.
This is the moment for the youth of China to serve the Chinese nation and mainland with supreme effort through the Three Principles of the People. I therefore call on all Chinese youths and comrades at home and abroad:
First, to establish an "Anti-Mao National Salvation United Front". Anti-Mao individuals, groups and organizations will be united to overthrow the tyrannical rule of Mao Tse-tung, who has been crying out for revolution and power. Regardless of occupations, races, party affiliations and background-no matter what they did before - they are the friends and fighters of the Anti-Mao National Salvation United Front, provided only that they are faithful to my pledge that "those who are not our enemies are our comrades" and join the anti-Communist ranks.
Second, to assemble the following elements for the Anti-Mao National Salvation United Forces: All awakened Communist forces and militiamen, defecting armed forces units, anti-Communist organizations and guerrilla forces on the mainland. They will be united with our National Revolutionary Forces in actions of national salvation. Those who counteract rebellion and power seizure, rebel against rebels and seize power from power-seizers may fight independently, undertake anti-Communist operations against the enemy's front or carry out liaison from within the enemy ranks. They will be given designations and positions and recognized as part of the Anti-Mao National Salvation United Forces and as detachments of the National Revolutionary Forces.
Third, to expand the Anti-Mao National Salvation Youth Movement. Chinese youths on the mainland should influence one another and inspire uprisings to follow examples set by Wu Yueh against the five ministers of the Manchu dynasty, by Hsu Hsi-lin against En Ming, by Wen Sheng-tsai against Fu Chi and by Chen Ching-yu and Lin Kuan-tzu against Li Chun just before the Revolution of 1911. They should mobilize themselves for combat operations in collaboration with counterattack and thus serve and save the country. They should strive to protect our historical and cultural heritage, counteract the Chinese Communist crimes which persecute the souls and attack the bodies of the intellectuals through "struggle by peaceful means" and "struggle by violence". They should refuse to waste their lives and their blood as the tools of Mao's internal power seizure or external aggression, and finally they should contribute their wisdom and energy to the reconstruction of China from the debris of Communism. In these undertakings, everyone is in spirit a member of the China Youth Corps and part of the vanguard of the anti-Mao National Salvation United Forces.
Fourth, maintain close contact with our bases of freedom. I have ordered the radio and liaison stations of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu to keep in close touch with the youth of the mainland. Our underground forces in the enemy's rear are secretly arming themselves, taking the initiative and seeking to keep in contact with military and civilian forces that are anti-Mao. Whenever a revolt breaks out anywhere, we shall immediately airdrop supplies to the anti-Mao forces and then send troops to help them. Our compatriots at home and abroad must fight together to encircle the Chinese Communists. We shall use our political strength to create new circumstances and our military strength to win the final victory!
While the tomb of our national father Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the graves of the 72 martyrs at Huang Hua Kang are being desecrated and despoiled by Mao and his gang, the revolutionary spirit of Dr. Sun and our martyrs is guiding and cautioning us, urging us to enhance our determination and build our combat strength with an unbending spirit. With the San Min Chu I and the renaissance of Chinese culture in ethics, democracy and science as our political weapons, we shall engage in decisive struggle against the fiendish Mao and his gang who have betrayed our National Revolution and tried to destroy our national cultural. Dr. Sun has said: "The order or chaos of a country comes from the minds of its people." The end of chaos, destruction and catastrophe on the Chinese mainland is wholly dependent on the main forces of our National Revolution. Our youth will be united with one mind in the great struggle just ahead and wil1 reconstruct our country after the destruction! Dr. Sun also said: "San Min Chu I are the principles for national salvation." These principles are also those for the people's salvation. Together we believe that only by implementing the principles of San Min Chu I can we assure the renaissance of Chinese culture and that only after our revolutionary youth has risen can we assure the implementation. Our young men have inherited the revolutionary spirit of the martyrs at Huang Hua Kang and consider it their responsibility to carry out the San Min Chu I. Many of them have sacrificed their lives to protect Chinese culture as well as the Republic of China. They knew that by sacrificing their lives they would establish an indestructible foundation for the country. The present time provides unparalleled opportunities for our youths to serve their country and perform great deeds. I know they will uphold the glorious 5,000-year history of China, protect our traditional culture and how themselves to be true offspring of Yenti and Huang-ti (emperors of ancient China) and faithful followers of Dr. Sun. Those who refuse to be Mao's slaves and who will not permit themselves to be victimized by his schemes to destroy the country should rally to Dr. Sun's San Min Chu I and our national flag of White Sun in Blue Sky over Crimson Ground, destroy their common enemy—the gangster Mao—protect our national culture and restore the freedom of our people! Our young men should rise up now in a struggle that wil1 win the final victory in our revolutionary war against Mao and assure national salvation.