October 10, 1964
Fellow Countrymen:
The establishment of the Republic of China in 1911 marked the end of a 4,000-year-old monarchical and autocratic system of government in China and heralded the birth of freedom and democracy in Asia. As we welcome our Double Tenth National Day today, we recall the sacrifices of our early martyrs and at the same time look forward with absolute confidence to the complete fulfillment of the aims and purposes of the National Revolution still in progress, as well as to the sure success in our endeavor to regain the mainland. The fact that the Communist regime is doomed illuminates our nation with a light brighter than ever. It is time for all of us collectively to rededicate ourselves to the sacred though difficult task that has fallen upon our shoulders.
The Republic of China was born 53 years ago to the day in the face of many dangers and difficulties in an age of darkness and confusion brought to an end only after a sustained struggle lasting sixteen years. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, inspired and led the revolution, in which our martyrs shed precious blood and made supreme sacrifices, thus evoking the support of the entire Chinese people. Nevertheless, the birth pain of the Republic was no less than ten tragic failures in the form of abortive uprisings high-lighting that 16-year period. Holding high the revolutionary banner of the Three Principles of the People, and being fully energized by the revolutionary spirit of the nation, our predecessors fought on with indomitable devotion to the cause of saving our country and our people from enemy domination or designs. It was this same spirit which guided us toward success in the Northward Expedition against the warlords and victory in the war of resistance against Japanese aggression. Now, after 15 years of continuous effort at recuperation and training, we have built on Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu a mighty fighting force as our contribution toward the world-wide struggle against Communism. This brief review of the past fortifies our conviction that so long as we retain confidence in ourselves as a nation, and in the potency of the spirit of our Revolution, we shall be able to overthrow Mao Tse-tung's blood-stained regime, rehabilitate the mainland, and thereby consummate the task the martyrs of our Revolution had in mind in 1911.
The Republic of China is a part of the free world and its fate is inseparable particularly from that of its Asian neighbors. The present problem of Asia centers on China, and the Communist regime on the Chinese mainland is the source of all the troubles throughout Asia. Today, these criminal and cunning Chinese Communists are using "trade", at the cost of starving their own people, as a means of external infiltration. They are also using"racism" to kindle the hatred of various peoples so as to foment and facilitate subversion and insurrection in many countries all over the world. This is particularly true of Southeast Asia where several nations are suffering from division, violence, terror and disintegration due to Communist conspiracy. For the same reason, the people in these countries are suffering from cold, hunger, intimidation, massacre, and nameless fear. Recently, the Chinese Communists have intensified their "Fight U.S. and Support Vietnam" campaign, and are playing an increasingly active role in the Communist armed insurrections in South Vietnam and Laos. Their purpose is to bolshevize and enslave all countries in Asia and to use these as tools for subjugating all mankind. This is a crucial moment for us Asians. We should close our ranks and help one another in order to checkmate the further spread of Communism. Freedom and security are indivisible. If an anti-Communist dike should collapse anywhere in Asia, it will necessarily result in the inundation of the whole region.
I would like to warn free nations and people in Asia that nothing threatens us more than the Communists and our first concern is unity among ourselves. We Asians are in the same boat and therefore must help one another. We should all realize that it is the common responsibility of us Asians to rid our region of the source of our common danger. But it is the special responsibility of us Chinese, both military and civilian to overthrow the Communist regime on the mainland. This is the way to save our nation and also to remove the threat to our Asian neighbors. We shall sincerely welcome the moral and material support of our allies, but we will not ask for the participation by foreign troops in our fight to liberate the mainland. Meanwhile we shall never abandon our responsibility, or relax our efforts, in our anti-Communist fight.
During the past year, Mao Tse-tung and his cohorts have reacted to the double pressure of "anti-Communism on the outside and anti-Maoism on the inside" to push relentless campaigns against the United States and Khrushchev. The one against the United States is aimed at suppressing opposition outside the Chinese Communist Party and preventing by brutal methods any anti-Communist revolution on the mainland. The one against Khrushchev is designed to control the rank and file inside the Chinese Communist Party by ruthless purging of every dissident or revisionist element. Both campaigns are calculated to keep in power the Communist tyranny. It is against this background that the Chinese Communists have stepped up their infiltration into the "interstitial zones" in between committed power blocs, and reinforced their anti-American and anti-Khrushchev activities. Simultaneously, they have capitalized upon the Moscow-Peiping conflict, especially upon the recent "border" and "territorial" disputes, to arouse the "nationalistic" sentiment of the Chinese people. This is obviously an attempt to confuse the mainland people and to carry out a "united front" tactical maneuver both at home and abroad. The conspirators are unaware of the fact that their own brutalities against the Chinese people during the past 15 years are giving the lie to their propaganda.
We all know that since the founding of the Third International, all Communists, both in their beliefs and dogmas, have unfailingly looked upon Soviet Russia as their one and only Communist fatherland. The Marxist-Leninist slogan of "workers have no fatherland" is another way of saying that Communists owe allegiance to no fatherland. This is, of course, nothing but treason. Mao Tse-tung, therefore, as an orphaned spiritual son of Stalin, dedicated to "safeguarding the Communist fatherland," has on innumerable occasions emphasized that "The Soviet Union is the head of all Communist countries," and "We must love the Soviet Union as we do our own eyeballs!"
Communism, according to the definition of its faithful, seeks "class demarcation," not "territorial demarcation." It also seeks completely to destroy nationalism with internationalism. Communism and nationalism are basically incompatible with each other. For this reason, neither Moscow nor Peiping dares to bear the slightest mark of "nationalism." Khrushchev therefore accuses Mao of "nationalism," "racism," "expansionism" and "warlikeism." Mao verbally hits back with such charges as "big-nation chauvinism," "narrow nationalism," "nationalistic selfishness," and "in the mire of nationalism." We are witnessing a spectacle in which Khrusbchev and Mao each indicts the other with the crime of "nationalism," and neither has a word in favor of this noble sentiment. Besides, Mao has styled himself the successor to orthodox Communism and to Marxist, Leninist and Stalinist thinking. If anyone in the free world should think that Mao has become a nationalist overnight, he has fallen once more into Mao's trap of deceitful treachery. Didn't he once use the Three Principles of the People as a front and didn't he once pose as an agrarian reformer?
Claiming that "the distribution of the earth is unbalanced; the land must be redistributed," Mao is ready to sacrifice our 300 million compatriots on the mainland as capital for aggression in pursuit of his policy of "bellicosity" and "adventurism." They try to use "racism" to stir up the national feeling" of the newly independent countries and to inflame racial hatred between the blacks and the whites in all nations. In all these devices, the Communists merely hope to fulfill their ambitions for aggrandizement. How could they shamelessly advocate "nationalism" and hope to deceive our compatriots? As a nation we love peace and treasure freedom; how could any treacherous element ever be tolerated by the Chinese people?
To tell the truth, the Chinese Communists' "border" or "territorial" claims are only a trick they are resorting to in their attempt to sell out our country and our people. In the days when Mao was a favorite of Stalin, who took under his protection the Chinese Communist Party as an offspring of the Russian Communist Party, Mao shouted "lean-to-one-side" and "toe-the-Russian-line" and "Stalin is an infallible great leader", and other such slogans. He used every possible means to indicate his complete sell-out. Now, faced with his own imminent defeat and demise, he has turned right round to make use of our 600 million compatriots for blackmailing purposes against his Communist fatherland. Actually, he is trying to save his own skin. He used to say "when two come together, they make one." Now he is saying "one can be split into two," as if he wished to split up the Communist bloc. He is making an open bid for the right to lead the international Communist movement. This is Mao's habitual trick of threatening, blackmailing, and bargaining. His outpourings on "border" issues are particularly preposterous. Although his methods vary from time to time, the essence remains the same, namely, to effect a national sell-out. Mao and his cohorts have been selling out our country for the past 40 years and will continue to do so. This is their nature and it will never change. In treacherous, sordid Mao Tse-tung, we cannot find a single drop of patriotic blood or national consciousness. This is something proved by actual happenings of the past 15 years. No one should ever be deceived or misled and utilized by Mao again on this point.
We must point out that though the struggle between the Chinese and the Russian Communists has ,been intensified, for the free world this does mean that the two Communist forces are checkmating each other. On the contrary, Communism in this instance merely has assumed two faces and adopted two ways of aggressive expansion. This is to proceed from two different directions and under two different sets of conditions, but the goal of world communization remains unchanged.
We see why the Chinese Communists have found it necessary to commit so many atrocities on the mainland. They are trying to maintain internal control by means of external struggle and to conceal their crime of selling out our country and people by throwing up a smokescreen of hatred for Russia and Khrushchev. Regardless of their content, the "Fight U.S. and Help Vietnam" and "Hate America and Oppose Khrushchev" movements are being carried out by the Communists as a last struggle in the face of destruction. In safeguarding the sovereign rights of our country, we naturally shall never recognize the validity of any agreements signed by the Chinese Communists concerning concessions in communication systems or in mining rights in favor of the Soviet Union. We shall expose the false "nationalism" of the Chinese Communists for what it is, namely, a mere camouflage in their attempt to save themselves from collapse. The Chinese Communists, who have betrayed our country and our people, are soulless automatons and must be utterly destroyed in an early military campaign.
Fellow Countrymen: We are approaching a new milestone in the development of this island, which is the base of action for our national recovery. Increasing farm production and industrial growth have accelerated economic development and brought prosperity to the people. The contrast with the Communists is not only between freedom and slavery, between plenty and starvation, but, more so, it is between humanity and bestiality, between heaven and hell. Following the success of the "Land-to-the-Tiller" program, our government has recently implemented the urban land reform, which marks another important step forward in the consummation of the reconstruction projects as envisaged in the Principle of the People's Livelihood. This is also a concrete measure of carrying out Dr. Sun Yat-sen's teachings regarding the equitable distribution of land ownership and regulation of private capital. The Father of our Republic said: "The further civilization progresses, the more prosperous will be the nation." Prosperity and the welfare of the people are major goals of our urban land reform program. The reform, however, is not merely in the short-term interest of the people; it will serve their interest in a new era of social welfare. We shall use our achievements in building up Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu as a model for nation-wide application once the mainland is recovered.
In the world of today, the shortsighted are groping without direction while the foresighted are filled with worry and anxiety. In the midst of the resultant uncertainty, the loyal can be clearly distinguished from the traitorous on the Chinese war front. The ultimate outcome of the war has long been determined. Intensive training and daily improvement of our armed forces have changed the relative positions in matters of defense and offense in the Taiwan Straits. The aggressive ambitions of the Communist traitors have been blunted. In the last year, our armed forces in their three branches staged more than 130 ventures to the mainland, either as commando raids against important enemy points along the coast or as routine airdrops. Their range of operation has extended from the southwest region to the southeast coast and to targets in North and Northeast China. Their brilliant successes have struck :ear into the hearts of the Chinese Communists and imparted new courage to anti-tyranny forces of the mainland. Both our reconstruction achievements on this island base of national recovery, and the high morale of our valiant troops are the result of hard work on the part of all bur countrymen, military and civilian. They provide a guarantee of victory in the accelerated prosecution of our national task.
Fellow Countrymen: The Chinese mainland is just across the Taiwan Straits. After darkness comes daybreak. Whenever we resolve to make the necessary sacrifices, we shall win the glorious victory in our war against Communism for national recovery. Dr. Sun said: "The strength of revolution is different from ordinary strength. Ninety per cent of the strength of revolution comes from spiritual sources and only 10 per cent is material." Today, we have 600,000 men under arms and there are reserves of more than a million, ready to fight for the Three Principles of the People. There are 600 million people on the mainland who are ready to follow these Principles. We are on the winning side and the Chinese Communists are destined to defeat. There can be no doubt about the victory of our revolutionary forces in the battle with the slave troops of the Chinese Communists. In addition, the anti-Communist forces are growing in strength in the enemy's rear. All our compatriots on the mainland are freedom-lovers; all of them are anti-Communist fighters. To us, the present situation proves that "The benevolent are invincible." To the Communists, it means that "Tyranny is sure to fall." Looking at the situation from any point of view, there is every reason, nay, factual basis, for our faith that our sacred task of recovering the mainland and removing the cause of a global war will end in triumph.
Fellow Countrymen: The Republic of China has fought the Communists longer than any other nation, has suffered the most, has made the greatest sacrifices and the greatest contributions to mankind; and in the process, has learned the most unforgettable lessons. All of us, descendants of the Yellow Emperor, both at home and overseas, should unite as one under the national banner of the Bright Sun in Blue Sky over the Crimson Ground. Following in the footsteps of Dr. Sun and our revolutionary martyrs who founded the nation, we shall fight unswervingly for success, glory and the survival of our nation. As we approach final victory, circumstances may be more difficult and our situation more hazardous, the battle fiercer and more bitter. We must, therefore, discipline ourselves for adversity and firmly tread on our path of duty. We must bear the severest of hardships and accept the trials of the times. We know that the war against Communism is a total war: every place is the battlefield, every minute is the moment; every thought should be part of the plan, and every action should add strength to the struggle. With a single purpose, common devotion and complete unity, we shall march toward the great goal of national restoration, and break down the dark and tragic Iron Curtain. In so doing, we shall open up a glorious future for the Three Principles of the People, write a new chapter in the history completing the Revolution of 1911, and win the victory of national recovery and reconstruction.
Now let us stand together, raise our hands and join in the cheers of the day:
Victory to our national recovery through counter-offensive!
Victory to our national revolution and national reconstruction!
Long live the Three Principles of the People!
Long live the Republic of China!