What Edgar Snow wrote about Mao in 1937 may have been true then, but it is no longer a reliable guide to the China of today; similarly, what I am telling you today will no longer be relevant ten years from now.
艾葛爾．史諾一九三七年從毛澤東的洞窟總部發出的報導，那時可能真實，但那是很多年前的事了。過去真實的事，現在並不一定真實，因此我不敢說今天我告訴各位的，十年後仍然真實。