Evening star., 1945-12-06
Chinese Communists
Say Peace Hinges on
Chang sCo-operation
BY the Associated Press,


YENAN, China, Dec. 6.-The
question of peace or war in China
hinges on acceptance by Generals
slmo Chang Kai-Shek of the broad
general principle of a democratic
coalition government, Chinese Com
munist circles at this Communist
headquarters city said today.
Inability to sell that point to
, the generalissimo caused the failure
of Maj. Gen. Patrick j. Hurleys
mission as American Ambassador,
they say. ANY impression that
Chang was ready and willing to
give in on that subject and even
had offered to take Communists
into the government Immediately
was totally false, Yenan leaders
assert.
The approaching peace talks at
Chungking, likely to decide the Ell
tire course of the future, would be
helped by considering little pub
icized Communist demands, Yenan
says
Cooperative Plan Urged.
Mao TZe-tung, the Communist
leader, in recently published book
"On Coalition Government" forecast
election of central government
dedicated to pushing a policy of
"state-managed. private managed.
co operative managed economy"
The culture of this new state should
be commonly owned by the or
binary people," not for the small,
privileged minority" he wrote.
Mao calls this a bourgeois demo-
cratic revolution" which only can
be accomplished through the uni
fed employment of vast private
capital in a cooperative economy"
which poStpones to the distant
future realization of the partys
Markist social aim.
To think of establishing Socialism
on debris of colonial, Semi-col-
onial and semi-feudal China is an
empty dream" he declared.
To those who lift their eyebrows
at Communist willingness to include
capitalism in the present program,
Mao replies Our answer is simple:
To replace foreign, imperialist and
native feudalist oppression by de-
velopment of a capitalistic class as
well as a proletariat What exists
in present-day China is a superfiu-
GUS foreign imperialism and native
feudalism. We realize that under
present conditions in China, besides
the states economy, individual eco
nomy Of toiling masses and CO.
operative economy, private capital
lstic economy should be given the
facilities for development. With
out it every one would be building
on ashes"
To the fear of some that after
the Communists come into power
they will perhaps, following the
example of Russia, establish a pro-
leterian dictatorship and one-party
SYSTEM" Mao answered: Chinese
history will create a Chinese sys-
tenn"
MaoS concrete program asked for
abolition of Kuomintang one-party
dictatorship" punishment of pro-
japanese elements and traitors,
abolition OF all secret political police
and concentration camps and aboli-
ton of all laws suppressing freedom
OF the press, speech, assembly and
association.
The program also asks recognition
of the legal status of all parties,
release Of political prisoners, recog-
milton of popularity elected govern
ment in liberated areas, improve
ment of the CONSUMPTION system, aid
to retired veterans, large relief funds
for large-scale relief to war-torn
people, abolition of extortionist taxes
and levies, agarian reforms, low in
terests rates to poor peasants, relief
to students and improvement of
Sino-Soviet relations.
On October 10 Mao and Chang
reached ah agreement on three of
these principles. They were termi-
nation of period of political
tutelage with the calling of ma
tional assembly, agreement in
principle to legalize political parties
and release of political prisoners
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