Chapter 20 10. A letter from Lu Dingyi

In November, Central Propaganda Minister Lu Dingyi wrote a letter to the Central Committee regarding Ding Ling's history.The letter said: After the enlarged meeting of the party group of the Chinese Writers Association exposed and criticized the activities of the small clique headed by Ding Ling, in her written review, Ding re-accounted for the historical materials of her time in Nanjing after being arrested by the Kuomintang. There are the following three questions: The first is the relationship with the Kuomintang Central Committee: Ding was arrested in Shanghai on May 14, 1933, and was sent to Nanjing the next day, and he did not leave Nanjing until June 1936.For three full years, except for a short time at the beginning, he has been receiving preferential treatment from the Kuomintang secret service.Xu Enzeng, Zhang Daofan, the spy chiefs of the central government, and Gu Shunzhang, the traitor, all had frequent contacts with her and expressed their great respect for her.It is said that Chen Lifu also met her.It is said that at that time, the Kuomintang spies used words such as "Yi Ling" (see Ding Ling) and "Yi Jiang" (Ding's original name Jiang Bingzhi).The Central Committee gave her a monthly allowance of 100 yuan, and once gave her 200 yuan to make a coat.The Kuomintang also brought Ding's mother from Hunan to Nanjing to live there for a while.She has been living with her husband Feng Da, a traitor, in Nanjing and has a child with him. From April 1934, Ding and Feng lived together again with the traitor Yao Pengzi (who had publicly surrendered his anti-communist declaration in the newspaper), and Yao kept in touch with Xu Enzeng and other Central Union spy chiefs until the eve of the liberation of Shanghai.During this period of history, the relationship between Ding and the Kuomintang is worth studying.

The second is the issue of self-surrender: According to Ding, in July 1933, more than a month after she was arrested, she once attempted to commit suicide, and soon she wrote a self-surrender to the Kuomintang through Feng Da, which stated that In the future, I will go home to adopt my mother and don't ask about politics.Three days later, Feng Da copied what Gu Shunzhang had written to Gu Shunzhang (the content was not explained clearly, according to the information we obtained, Gu wrote an intelligence service for the Kuomintang in Nanjing, I wonder if it was this book?) Ding went to northern Shaanxi Later, she concealed the surrender, saying that she was afraid that the party would not trust her if it found out, so she was restored to the party. (She joined the party in Shanghai in 1932). In 1943, when she was interrogated in Yan'an, she explained the issue of surrendering herself, but she said that Feng Da imitated her handwriting and wrote it for her. This time, she said that she imitated Feng Da's handwriting and wrote it, so that if the Kuomintang announces in the future , she can deny.It is certain that Ding surrendered to the Kuomintang, but whether the content of the surrender is just these, and whether he has done other things that are not conducive to the revolution still needs further investigation.

The third is the question of leaving Nanjing: Ding Ling went to Beijing once in May 1936, and went to Shanghai again in June, where she met Feng Xuefeng and Pan Hannian.I went to Shanghai for the second time in autumn, that is, I was escorted to Xi'an by Nie Gannu, and arrived in Bao'an in northern Shaanxi in November.According to Ding, she left Nanjing in secret, and Feng Da and Yao Pengzi didn't even tell her. But in fact, when she went to Beijing and Shanghai, the news was disclosed in the newspapers, and according to Yao Pengzi, she told him before she left.After she left, the Kuomintang secret service came to question Yao twice.Her departure, whether the Kuomintang deliberately let her go, and whether she was given a task can be doubted.

The letter believes that Ding Ling's history should be reviewed in advance on the basis of this ideological criticism within the party and in conjunction with the entire review of cadres. Ding Ling herself also requested this.It was also decided that five comrades, Zhou Yang, Lin Mohan, Liu Baiyu, Ruan Zhangjing, and Chen Zhong (director of the Sixth Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, who mainly helped study relevant materials and did not participate in the review of Ding) would form a task force to take charge of the review work; the task force continued While conducting the work of investigating materials, at the same time adopting the method of internal party review to talk to Ding Ling herself, asking her to make further explanations.After the clarification of the problems explained through research and verification, the conclusions will be made, and the unclear problems will be retained.

On November 24, Lu Dingyi wrote on the document: "Comrades Jichun and Panshi read it and send it to the Central Committee." Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and other central leaders all circled this document.Zhou Enlai wrote an instruction: "Review Ding Ling's task force and talks, and suggest that Zhou Yang should not participate, and Dingyi should directly control it." The date is December 3. What a great letter! "It is certain that Ding surrendered to the Kuomintang"; she had close contacts with Xu Enzeng and Zhang Daofan, the secret agents of the Kuomintang Central Union, "what is the relationship between Ding and the Kuomintang? It is worth studying"; she left Nanjing and came to northern Shaanxi. Anyone who intends to let her go, and whether she has been given a task, can be suspicious."

The power of this letter lies in its several "reports": "It is said that Chen Lifu met her"; Jiang Bingzhi) such words"...all of them are fatal questions, all of which have not been verified, but all of them may be true. The host of the Enlarged Party Group Meeting of the Chinese Writers Association knew in his heart that Ding Ling would not be defeated based on the problems (and unverified ones) exposed at the meeting alone, and the "Report" might not be passed by the Central Committee.Li Zhilian's first impression after listening to this report was: the title of the report was about the activities of Ding Ling and Chen Qixia's small anti-Party clique and how to deal with it, but the content was very abstract and general, and it mainly belonged to the performance of ideological style and work attitude.Li Xin also believed that the facts exposed at the meeting were related to "anti-Party". Only the inspection of "Literary Daily" in 1954 had a relationship with the Central Committee, and at that time the editor-in-chief of "Literary Daily" had been changed to Feng Xuefeng.If this report cannot be approved by the central government, the party group of the Chinese Writers Association will be very passive or even very embarrassed, and the entire expansion of the party group will be completely overthrown.However, it is different when dealing with historical issues. Pan Hannian was once such a trusted and respected person by Mao Zedong. Wasn’t it because he concealed from the party that he was kidnapped to meet Wang Jingwei once 12 years ago, so he was imprisoned?The issue of history, the issue of collaborating with the enemy, is a terrible issue!

This letter is definitely better than the long report of the Writers Association party group. With such a Ding Ling, who would dare touch her?Who dares to protect her?Who dares to come out and speak for her?It can be imagined that without this letter, when discussing the "Report" of the Writers Association's party group, there may be a certain central leader who will say something fair; , The lingering fear still persists! Lu Dingyi did not attend the enlarged party group meeting of the Chinese Writers Association, nor did he listen to Ding Ling's narration of her history. The materials and opinions in his letter were obtained from the report.Combined with historical issues and current issues, this time, Ding Ling is really doomed!

The establishment of a review task force headed by Zhou Yang proposed in Lu Dingyi's letter has not been realized. On August 3, 2000, at a symposium on the conclusions of Ding Ling’s history held by the Ding Ling Research Association, Liu Baiyu, who was unable to attend the meeting, specially entrusted Ding Ning, who was present, to explain the situation in 1955 to the participants: “Specific The situation is like this, the Writers Association cannot set up a special task force for Ding Ling's history, but Zhou Yang and Luo Ruiqing proposed that with Lu Dingyi's consent, they should send people to Nanjing to investigate. Went to Ning for work. Liu and Chen each brought an assistant to handle specific affairs. However, as a result of the investigation, no problems with Ding Ling were found. Only Feng Da's name was found in a list made by the KMT secret service Regarding Feng Da and Ding Ling's relationship with him, Ding Ling has already explained to the party."