Chapter 97 Issues that Huang Hua should pay attention to when talking with Stuart Leighton

(May 10, 1949) The Nanjing Municipal Party Committee, and told the East China Bureau: Chen Qi [1] received a telegram. (1) Huang Hua[2] can meet with Leighton Stuart[3] for the purpose of spying on the intentions of the US government. ]. (3) The call said that "empty words are useless, and the United States needs to do more things that benefit the Chinese people first." There is something wrong with this statement.According to Li Tao's statement, no foreign country should interfere in China's internal affairs. In the past, the United States interfered in China's internal affairs by helping the Kuomintang to fight the civil war. This policy must stop.If the U.S. government is willing to consider establishing diplomatic relations with us, the U.S. government should stop all aid to the Kuomintang and sever contact with the reactionary remnants of the Kuomintang, instead of asking the U.S. to do more things that benefit the Chinese people.What you say may give Americans an impression that the CCP also hopes for US assistance.Now it is a matter of asking the United States to stop aiding the Kuomintang, sever ties with the remnants of the Kuomintang, and never interfere in China’s internal affairs, rather than asking the United States to do "things that are beneficial to the Chinese people", let alone asking the United States to do "more beneficial things" matters concerning the Chinese people".According to the words, it seems that the U.S. government has done some things that are beneficial to the Chinese people, but it has done a little less in quantity, and it is necessary to ask him to do "more", so it is not appropriate.

(4) The conversation with Leighton Stuart should be declared to be informal, because the two sides have not yet established diplomatic relations. (5) Before the conversation, the Municipal Party Committee should discuss with Huang Hua once. (6) If Leighton Stuart is friendly during the conversation, Huang Hua should also adopt an appropriate friendly attitude, but don't express excessive enthusiasm, and should adopt a solemn and friendly attitude. (7) Don't express any rejection of Fu Jingbo's [5] point that Leighton Stuart is willing to continue to be an ambassador to negotiate with us and revise the business agreement.

central Ash Published according to Mao Zedong's manuscript. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Chenqi, that is, May 8th. [2] Huang Hua, born in 1913, from Ci County, Hebei Province.At that time, he was the director of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Nanjing Military Control Commission. [3] Leighton Stuart, began to serve as the US ambassador to China in July 1946.After Nanjing was liberated in April 1949, I stayed in Nanjing to wait and see. [4] Refers to the "Statement issued by the Spokesperson of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Headquarters on the Atrocity of British Warships" drafted by Mao Zedong on April 30, 1949.The spokesman, Li Tao, was then the director of the Operations Department of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China.The statement severely condemned the atrocities committed by British warships such as the Amethyst for invading the Yangtze River, an inland river in China, and bombarding the People's Liberation Army.

[5] Fu Jingbo was Stuart's personal secretary at the time.