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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 583 of 26 May. Repeated for information to: Hong Kong POLAD Singapore
Washington.
People's Daily of 26 May reports rally in Peking on day before, attended by ten thousand people to "support the just struggle of the Palestine and Arab peoples against United States imperialism and its tool of aggression, Israel". Chou En-lai, Li Hsien-nien,
Kuo Mo-jo and Liu Ning-i were present. Kuo Mo-jo made main speech. 2. Also present were the representative of the Palestine Liberation Front in Peking, Gerbou, the U.A.R. Ambassador, Imam, Yemen Ambassador, Hameed, the Syrian Chargé, Farah, a First Secretary from the Algerian Embassy and a Third Secretary from the Iraq Embassy.
3. In his speech Kuo Mo-jo accused United States imperialism of instigating Israel to prepare large scale armed provocation against Syria. The Syrian people and all Arab people had urgently mobilised and are prepared to smash the aggressors. The Chinese people stand firmly on the side of the Syrian, Egyptian and all Arab people. He also attacked the Soviet Revisionists for working on behalf of United States imperialism in Arab countries. The Revisionists were colluding with United States and British imperialism to persuade the Arab people to take a "cautious" and restrained" attitude to United States and Israel aggression.
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Kuo Mo-jo also condemned United States imperialism for escalation in Viet Nam. He said the Chinese people are paying close attention to the development of the Viet Nam situation. "No matter to what degree United States imperialism escalates the war or expands the war on whatever scale, the Chinese people are determined to support the Viet Nam people to the end".
5. Kuo Mo-jo also accused the "Hong Kong British authorities" of colluding with United States imperialism and Chiang bandits to carry out Fascist suppression of Hong Kong compatriots. He said, "I once again seriously warn the British Government and the Hong Kong British authorities, you must immediately and unconditionally implement the five just demands of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and immediately stop suppression of Hong Kong compatriots. If you continue to go your own way and are determined to make an enemy of the Chinese people then you will certainly get a bloody head".
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