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    "ocrText": "Nov. 23 1945\nTo Miss Pearl S. BUck of the American Writers Committee for Aid to China\nand to all the American writers:\nWe are writers of China, who have always cherished unlimited respect for\nyou, the American writers. Although there is no personal friendship be-\ntween you and us, we believe however that our minds are always maiting\nwith those of yours, because the common aims of our work: the exertion\nfor\ndemocracy, freedom, independence and peace in order to achieve mankind's\ncommon happiness, are the same.\nWe feel boundless enthusiasm for you, the \"engineers of the soul\" of the\ngreat American people, at this moment when all the fascists in the East\nand the West are finally defeated. However, there is no need to hide up\nthe fact that when we write this letter, our hearts are heavy. For the\nsinister civil war has broken out in China and there are symptoms that\nthe American troops in China are involved in it. We believe that neither\nthe American people nor the American soldiers wish to be a part in China's\ncivil war. Our frankness however must be pardoned when we say that a fact\nis\nalways a fact. Only by facing the reality straightforwardly, can a\nway be developed to redress the misfortune injurable to the common friend-\nship between the two peoples. Since the happenings within the last two\nmonths\nmust have reached you through the American papers, we are not\npresenting them here. But we will tell you the following with our utmost\nsincerety.\nThe Chinese people are resolutely against civil war. We will explore our\ngreatest possiblities to prevent the civil war and to demand the realiza-\ntion of democracy. Simultaneously, because the Chinese people value very\ndearly the mutual friendship between the Chinese and the Americans, we\nurgently hope that our American friend will also do whatever they can\nto\nprevent any action that may injure the two countries' friendship. We\nparticularly ask you to exert the power of your beam-like pens in order to\ninform the American people about the truth of the developments in China.\n(We hope) also (that you will) take intelligent and powerful action\nfor\nthe peace of the Fareast, the future of China's democratic politics as\nwell as for the permanent friendship between the Chinese and the American\npeoples. This is our urgent hope.\nSigned :\nKuo Mo-jo -\nHung Sen\nSun Fu-yuan -\nLau Shaw\nMao Tun\nYeh Sheng-tao\nTsao Chin-huaw\nHu Feng\nYang Han-sheng\nMa Yen-shiang\nChin I\nthe\nSung Chih-ti\nFeng Nai-tsao -\nFeng Hsueh-feng -\nChen Pai-chen\nWu Chu-kwang\nMei Lin."
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