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EXHIBIT No. 15-Continued

Distinguish Clearly between Love and Hate

Some students, because of the arrest of their counter-revolutionary fathers, would be given te great grief and could not bear to part with then. Such a feeling is not normal. If one's father is a petriotic citizen, it is natural that one should love him, and this is beneficial. Such love will bring happin..ss to the hole, and make one better serve the fatherland. But if one's father is a counter-revolutionary who has betrayed the fatherland, borne hatred for the people and undermined Socialist construc-tion, then one's feeling for him would mean cruelty toward the people, and unfouling toward Socialist construction patriotic youth must love the people dearly, hate counter-revolutionaries, nd sever tics with counterrevolutionary relatives. Some students are afraid that by doing so they are not standing; right by their fathers. It is just the opposite. Since he has become counter-revolutionary, he has failed to stand right by the fatherland, and failed to stand right by his son. The breakdown in the feelings between father and son has been caused by his own criminal activitics, and the son has no responsibility.

Overcoms Hesitation, Report and Expose

Each youth shoulders the responsibility for the protection of the fatherland, to report on counter-revolution rics. But some students, as soon as they think of personal interests and family interests, bogin tɔ have numerous anxieties. Some are afraid that the counter-revolutionary father will be deprived of his future. This is not necessarily so. If ho persists in being counter-revolutionary and attempts to deceive th.. people to the very end, then naturally he is inviting destruction. But if he bows frankly before the people, the Government will deal with hifi magnanimously. He will become a new man, and there is no fear of the lack of a future in the now scciaty. Sone students are afraid that they themselves will not have a futuro. This is even greater muddled thinking. The future of youths is forever linked together with the future of the fatherland, the future of Socialist construction. It is entirely different from the future for counter-revolutionaries. The Party and the Government show the utmost concorn for the younger generation. The in thing is whether one can bo resolutely rid of the influences of counter-revolution rics. There was the caso of a graduate of a senior middle school who had succeeded in the entrance examination to the institution of his first choice. He was afraid that reporting on his counter-revolutionary father would lead to the nurfication of his chances for admission to the university. But finally ho decided to place the interests of the fatherland above all others, and was prepared to sacrifice the chance of entering a university and carried out the report on his father. The result was cut of his expectation, for tho crganization uphold its decision to allow him to enter the school of his choice.

Raise Vigilance, Bo Wary of Traps

Cno student had a relative arrested. When the latter was taken away, ho managed to tell the student secretly, "If anybody locks me up, tell hin to go away quick, inform him of my arrest." The student thought this was a small matter which would do no harm. and so he stayed at the door. Fortunately a neighbor learned or this, and pointed out to him that such an act would bo watching cut for and comunicating with counter-revolutionary special agents. Only thus was he stopped from doing a wrong act.

EXHIBIT NO. 15-Continued

It is necessary to raise high one's vigilance in dealing with counter-revolutionarios. They cro very malicious and cunning, and will be adept in the exploitation of family relationships to get one to serve that. Whatover they say, don't believe them. whatever they ask one to do, don's do it, thus, to prevent from falling into their trap.

Rely On the Organization, ba Lɔvel end Honest

Loyalty to the fatherland and honesty are qualities which should be possessed by a patriotic youth. One must roport fully to one's own organization all connections with relatives who are counter-revolutionarios, Further developments in the situation affecting the should also be reported from time to time. Make the organization understand you better, assist you in education on the basis of your actual conditions, and enable you to correctly understand and deal with these problems. If one does not report the facts, then one has not only been dishonest toward the fatherland, but is also smeared politically, and this will load to the possibility of one's boing duped by the counter-revolution?ri、s and dragged into the sea of sin.

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EXHIBIT NO. 16

[Wu Shu-jen testimony 7/10/73]

Extracts from China Mainland Magazines, No. 28, March 19, 1956

How I Deal With My Counter-Revolutionary Husband

by

Ai Nan ( 愛南 )

(Chung Kuo Ching Nien (Youth of China) Issue No. 24, 1955)

For several He was more

My husband was a university student and Party member. years we were in the same organ doing the same kind of work. capable than I and also did more work. He took extremely good care of me and we loved each each very much. A year after we got married we had a child. The child was very lovely and we felt all the happier. I never thought there would be trouble in our marital life.

An unexpected thing suddenly happened. During the recent "suppression of counter-revolutionaries" movement, my husband was found to be a criminal counter-revolutionary with a record of much counterrevolutionary work. When the organization announced his case, the news came like a bolt from the blue and I was dumbfounded. "He also had serious political problem. Was it possible?" For the years I was with him I thought I understood him quite well. I have never had any suspicion about him. And he also read many books on Marxism-Leninism. Not only

did he know why one must be loyal and honest with the organization but he often taught others to be so. How could it be that he was disloyal and dishonest with the organization and concealed his political problem?

Yet a fact remains a fact. When the Party organization repeatedly told me that his political problem was serious and produced a mass of data to corroborate the charge, reason compelled me to believe the Party organization. And this pierced my heart like a sharp knife. I felt a great pain, shed tears, knew no sleep, thinking of this problem while walking, cating and even dreaming. I blamed myself for my bad luck of having such a husband. Over 90 percent of those in the revolutionary · ranks were good men, and if with my eyes closed I picked one, he would not be a counter-revolutionary. Unfortunately I myself picked a man whom I took as my ideal husband but who proved to be a counter-revolutionary. My lot is indeed miserabloi And I also felt disgraced. The thought that others would call me "wife of a counter-revolutionary" caused me to hold my head low. The poor child, you see, was as gay as usual, playing and laughing, not knowing her father was in trouble. I shared the bed with a counter-revolutionary several years without finding out what he was. Who would believe me? Can the Party and comrades still trust me? Happy life and beautiful future vanished like a soap bubble. For a time I nearly lacked the courage to live.

But I still had a little ray of hope. The Party, I thought, repeatedly announced the policy of "leniency to those who confess and severity to those who conceal their crime". He was a sensible man and was educated by the Party several years. Maybe he would on his initiative, like a Party member, reveal all his problems to the organization, mend his ways and turn a new leaf. If so, he would naturally be dealt with leniently. Even if he still had apprehensions, he would eventually be awakened under the help of the organization and comrades and with some of my efforts. I therefore started to counsel and lead him and to move him with affections, talking about the future, about the child, about the pain in my heart and my expectations of him. Unexpectedly, with knitted eye brows he insisted on saying he had no problem. He even retorted that I forced and insulted him. The organization had earnest conversations with him, advising him to reveal his problem, but he flatly refused to do so.

EXHIBIT No. 16-Continued

The organization was obliged to confront him with some data and told him the policy. Confronted with iron-clad evidence, he reluctantly admitted some facts. How happy I was when he began to real his problem! I was sure he would reveal all his problems.

I was after all too lethargic, not knowing that without a serious struggle the enemy would not willingly admit his guilt and surrender. Shortly after he revealed his problem, he came to me in tears, saying that all his talk were false. The same afternoon he approached the organization and retracted his statement. He insisted on saying that his

But

record was clearn. As to what he revealed a few days before, he said: "It was a fabrication made with an idea of passing over the difficult time. Now I realize it was wrong. I therefore wish to be honest". I was surprised and indignant at his attitude. I told him: "Is such an attitude you should take towards the Party? You should completely admit your error, make self-examination and honestly confess to the Party". I asked him further: "What is your apprehension after all?" He simply shook his head, saying he had no apprehension of any sort. The organization wanted him to continue confessions and earnestly advised him:. "You are still young and should think of your future". he took such advice as a matter of no concern. In his leisure hours he would either read stories or played with the child, caring nothing for ideological struggle. He was still so calm and I began to wonder what was all this about. He often gave me the impression that he was wronged and told me the predicament in which he found himself, "If I confess, it is not a fact; if I don't confess, the organization will not believe me." He further declared he would ask the organization to investigate the matter further and not to give credence to denunciations at will. On seeing his attitude, I felt that my confidence in him returned and I began to waver: probably he really had no problem; otherwise, why did he not reveal it? He was not unaware that a problem could never be glossed over and that if he resisted further, his future would be completely ruined, In those days I was perplexed and very passive. I told myself: "I will not trouble myself with the matter any more. I will wait for the conclusion drawn by the organization before judging what he is."

On discovering something wrong with my sentiment, the Party organization sternly and earnestly pointed out that my wavering and passivity were extremely erroneous. The Party organization told me: "He has been verified as a counter-revolutionary only after careful investigations and therefore the conclusion admits no doubt. That the enemy will put up resistance and will not admit guilty right away is the inevitable law of class struggle. For this reason, in the course of acute and complex struggle, you should stand the test, take a firm stand and draw a line of demarcation. At the same time, it is the solemn responsibility of a Communist Party member to exert his or her best during the struggle." After this conversation, for several days I went through violent ideological struggle. After calmly going over his past contradictory records I was surprised at my stupidity. My mind became more sober and I was ashamed of my dullness. I was seized with remorse for showing.. affections to a counter-revolutionary and taking the stand with him at such a grave juncture. I began to review his past carefully and lay bare all the information in my possession.

With the continual expansion of the "suppress-counter-revolution" struggle, the organization obtained more and more information about him, thus testifying further to the serious character of his problem. In such a situation, I saw him through and hated him. My feelings about him underwent a fundamental change and I lost hope in him. What should I do? With the help of the organization and comrades, I dispassionately examined how I dealt with the question of marriage and love in the past and made arrangements for my future life.

EXHIBIT No. 16-Continued

The first feeling I got was that my union with such a husband was by no means due to bad luck but to carelessness. We fell in love during 1950 when I had just joined the revolution and my ideological training was poor and politically I was not ripe. I merely admired him as a university student, and a Communist Party member working "hard" and having a "high level" and good ability, so I loved him. As to his political quality and political records etc., I never made nay Bareful observation and study, nor did I even ask him such questions. Later I found out something wrong with his records but I did not question him penetratingly. When we were about to get married, the organization advised me to give the matter careful consideration for his political records were still not clear. Infatuated with his love I married him without the slightest hesitation. After we got married, I often heard that he and some Party dissindents criticising the shortcomings of others, but I neither criticized him according to principle nor suspected something wrong with him. I looked only at the surface and not at the substance. The trouble today was entirely due to my erroneous thinking, low political awareness and low revolutionary vigilance and had nothing to do with bad luck. Marriage and love should be treated with care and persistence in political principles is the fundamental condition for determining the happy life of an individual these words I heard often in the past, but only today do I genuinely realize that these words are not empty doctrines but immutable truth.

As to my future, I also turned it over and over in my mind. The conversation the Party organization had with me always went round in my mind. The Party organization told me: "Be firm. Your future is infinitely broad and great. You still have the right and obligation to work for the Party and the people, The abnormal affection of the past is not worth longing for. Your suffering is understandable but we believe you can heal your wound with your own strength". Yes, this thing is unfortunate for me. But on the other hand why should I torment myself with the suffering instead of congratulating myself when our combat ranks are made purer and firmer by ferreting out counter-revolutionaries? I lost my husband, but do I live for a husband alone? If my eyes look far and wide and if I dedicate my best more strenuously to the Communist cause, that will be the greatest happiness for me. beloved child, I will certainly educate and train her well. unfortunate for her to have such a father, but it would be more unfortunate if her mother lost the revolutionary position. Come what may, I will live on bravely.

As to my
It was

My love for counter-revolutionary was indicative of my poor political vigilance and was a mistake. I also understand that whether the Party and comrades will still hold me in respect and trust me shall be determined not by what happened in the past but by whether I myself can learn lessons from my mistake, draw a demarcation line against the enemy and take courage to combat counter-revolutionaries. Moreover, the Party and the comrades, in fact, do not hold me in disregard but show great concern about me. When I could not deal properly with the question of my counter-revolutionary husband, they patiently helped me take a firm stand, and inspired me with confidence in progress. Whenever I made a slight progress ideologically, they would instantly accord me welcome. Whenever I recalled the warmth of the Party in midnight I felt I was full of strength. I think I should hold my head high, straighten my back and continue to forge ahead along the bright path. In those days I read over again the Soviet novel Courage. The woman engineer in the novel loves a counter-revolutionary but, upon discovering something wrong with him, denounces him and throws away the dishonorable love of the past. She sharpens her revolutionary vigilance in her work.

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