UN General Assembly
1967

19. From January this year Mao Tse-tung has repeatedly ordered the Red Guards to return to the provinces from which they came, has repeatedly tried to prevent the peasants from coming to the cities. But his orders have not been obeyed. Last month he prohibited the people from taking guns and other weapons from arsenals on the pretext that they needed them to fight the "counter-revolutionaries", and ordered them to turn in the weapons that they had already appropriated. These orders have also been met with defiance. It is all too clear that Mao Tse-tung and his gang have manoeuvred themselves into a blind alley from which there is no way out.