POLITICAL INFORMATION: LU TING-YI AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY PRESS

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: March 14, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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2. LU Tingeyi , 1 z ),. a native of Kiangsu Province, was born in 1907, He
is a graduate of Joutheast University; he also studied at the University of Mos-
cow. He joined the Chinese Communist Parte in 1924. He took part in the "long
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2e LU has held the titles and roeitions of Propaganda Chief of the Chinese Communist
Armies, Chief of the Publicity Department of the Party. He is a member of the
Central Committee and is the Chief of the Information and Propaganda Department
of the Chinese Communist Party He is now living in Yenan He was one of the
Chinese Communist delegates to the Political Consultative Conference and the Con-
stitutional Committee in Chungking during the early months of 1946. He speaks
English and Russian rather well.
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3. III was one of the three leading figures (along with CHOU En-lai and TUNG Pi-wu)
of the Communist negotiators in Chungking and 'aW-ing during the first seven months
of the Larshall Vission. LU worked very hard during the Chungking negotiations and
continued to do so when the government moved to Nanking. He flew back to Yenan nith
CHCU En-lai in General Uarshalls plane about June 15, at the time the truce vas de-
clare& LU is an intelligent and capalle man. He is highly respected by Americans
who have worked with him. Fellow Communists (such as KUNG Pqeng, MIA? Lu, GIOLN
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Chieekoang ane KAC Chi) like him better than Turc Pi-':u.
4. LU is a very small ran, about five fece-three inches tall, about 125 Nunes in
weight Tie wears heavy black oleestyle hornrirree Elasses. He has a very in-
fectious -laurh ane most Americans notice this and always amment on how euch
they like his laugh. He is very effervescent in his speech ane can easily hold
an interviewergs interest are atteption,
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5, At the tire of the earls eeace Conference the Chinese Comeunist Fatty Advocated
sending a deleeate from their party to the conference. This eerson was to have
been. TUrGjiewu, At that time General CHOU En-lai was ab-25X1A6
sent from ranking an was the actinr spokesman of the Tarty ane CHPU's chief
assistant Le was very unhapey about the thought of his eossible rote= to Nan-
king which would have been necessary had TUNG been sent to the Corfereece, In-
terviewee :in Yenan at this. eine., LU said that he was very discouraged and that he
felt there would be ix reaceful settlement with -the Kuomintang, He stated that he
"had lee euerilla forces during the war agairst the Jaeanese ane (he) was prepared
to lead them now arainst the Nationalist forces",
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6. Every official Chinese Communist Party organ regardless of location in China and
banituria has an individual "eeiting board" 'hIch passes on articles being rub-
lislcee by its parer. Er'eh of these boards has a certain amount of responsibility
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to . If ore of these organs rublishes an article which deviates from the earty
"li ' orLU decides that any ef the Party earers are not eonfereire to the
ie a0 of i Party, then III rill subrit his complaint arc' recommeneetion (for eue-
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pension or reprimand) to the Central Conrittee of the 'art: in YEnan. The deei-
sioneof th4e committee is then handled by LU. LU, as an individual, ems not have
the ower to surrress any of the rarty oreans. leTNG Hsueh-p'ei, Contrul Govern"
men rinister of Information, possibly has this lower; but usual:y the order to
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surP ss a paper in rationalist China cores frer the Generalissimo or :lone other
hiEh government official.
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. The Ceieh ila h (Leber tion Lally il Tee eV ) in Yenan ane Chgun
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the Chinese Ceun s. * ei y. The China ligulp :nelish-language fortnightly maga-
zine published in Hongkong, is an example of a srensored ere-Communist magazine
which is not an official Tarty organ, This magazine is directed by KUNG Feng are
MIA? Mu and es legally registered with the Hongkong government.
LU realizes that Chinese Communist propaganda is very affective on the mass of the
Chinese people, but very bad in its effect on foreign countries and only partially
effective on englishesreaking Chinese, The greatest deficiencies in the rreeeet
eropaganeaerress organization of the Communists are; (a) its lack of sufficient
english-eaneeage publications and "high class" Chinese language publications which
could achieve the same support and reading public as the le Kunz Pao of the Kuo-
mintang Po:lei:lea' Science Clique and, (b) its lack of Englishesreakers, retureee
students ane other peerle who have travelled in Britain ane the enitee States wno
could henele rropaganea more subtly and who could work on publications which would
appeal to the foreign public.
. The Chinese Communists are now preparing for the day when there will be a
revolution iP China and/or a semenbat reaceful setelemEnt of the present
situation, For this reason: and for the reason that there are so few well-
trained reporter and writers of the Party eho are fluent in the English
language, LU has started a journalism school in Yenan, The primary aim of
this school is to teach intelligent young Chinese Coemuneste the :nglish
language and the techniques of propaganda. In order to transmit news ane
distribute eublicatiens, LU has sot up a courier system between the major
cities in China and emanating from Yellen, 'There it is roosilile radio com-
munication is used
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