MCC STEPS UP KUANG-CHOU PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600270268-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 268
• Publication Date: December 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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POLITICAL SBCTIOH TRAINS HEfi YORffiiS -- Ta Sung Pao, 28 Oct 49
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young men and va~men for training ae political vorkere. They vil7. be trained in
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arts, propegand?. and educational activities.
Preparations hate been made to eetablleh n People's Reroolutioanry Uniroereity
in %ueag-ohot} to enroll 5
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the people ela~ng political, bcona~mic and cultural lines. Thase who are admitted
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The People's Radio Station 1n %ueng-chow has called. for nex liberation eaaiga
to be contributed by cultural vorkere end propaganda groups, for broadoneting dur-
ing the music periods. 8y 27 October, 17 numbers had been eub?itted. These will
be recorded end put on the air, along with Soviet snags.
On 23 October, about 100 students from Ling-aem University xent out Sa groups
of three for 8uadgy of propaganda work. They vent through the western part of the
city explaining to the people the aev trade sad industry policies, the meaning of
the Eight Rules, end of the demoarntio dictatorship.
A similar number xent out that day fraim the People's University. They covered
a aide gran end scattering leaflets which were eagerly snatched and read.
g "YTH03TASTIC IR RITAIIG-CHOII -- Ta Hung Pao, 29 Oct 49
Soon after %unng-chou vas taken over, a mass meeting of students vas called
by the culture sad education eeotioa of tL'a Military Control Commission. It ?'ae
set for 1500 on 25 October. By 1400, bands of students from emery inetitntio~n
had arrived and packed the Rtm Yat-sea Memorial kall tc capacity, vhil,e thousands
more gathered outside. A din of applause greeted the portraits of Mao sad Chn ae
they were brought in, end the entlra crowd enreng tr, th.+,. seat end sh~utad "Hail!"
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lu his opening epaecha the chairmen advised that students should (1} unite
etud3ate end taeohere to fight for Hew Democracy etluaation; (2j give tree take-
over forces needed h6;lp so that the people's property ~ resein in the peoula'e
hands; (3} organize the process of learning to know Comaaiaiet policy and Chairman
Ylno'e way of thiaking; (4) uaderatand present conditiane end ahooee eertioe to
the people na n philosophy of life; (~} undertake propegaadn work, elimirlnte re-
maiaing imperialist MTi H~tT poison, end praalaim the ornere of the peagle'e govern-
ment.
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