Marshall Mission Files, Lot 54–D270
Memorandum by Mr. Tung Pi-wu to General Marshall 95
My Dear General Marshall: General Chou En-lai requests the following message to be delivered to your hands:—
“With the inauguration of the one-party-manipulated National Assembly, the PCC agreements have been utterly destroyed by President [Page 591] Chiang Kai-shek, and there is short of a basis for the negotiation between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. However, with a view to comply with the aspiration of the entire Chinese people for peace and democracy, our party takes the stand that if the Kuomintang would immediately dissolve the illegal National Assembly now in session, and restore the troop positions as of January 13 in accord with the Cease Fire Order, the negotiation between the two parties may still make a fresh start. Request the foregoing be transmitted to President Chiang.”
Yours faithfully,
- Received by General Marshall on December 5.↩