which criticized a "very small handful" of such people
 in the "revolutionary ranks" who refused to cooperate
 with the old-line party leaders retained in the new
 revolutionary committee which had been formed for the
 province on 31 January. The broadcast stated flatly
 that these dissidents were "counterrevolutionaries."
 44. the
 party central committee issued a notice on 12 February
 reprimanding part organizations for firing party members
 simply to "satisfy the demands of the revolutionary
 masses." The notice specified that party
 leaders could be punished only by the party itself
 and stated that this information should be posted in
 all government and military organizations in cities
 and rural areas. Japanese correspondents reported
 that they had in fact seen such instructions posted
 in Peking on 15 February.
 45. Provincial broadcasts soon began to reflect
 this new approach to the party machine at the local
 level. On 15 February the radio in Tsingtao, a port
 city in Shantung Province seized by Maoist "rebels"
 on 29 January, lashed out at those who had charged that
 "all leading cadres are guilty of suppressing the
 revolution." The same day the Harbin station in
 Heilungkiang demanded that leading cadres "must be
 given an opportunity to repent" and enumerated
 broad categories of cadres who were redeemable.
 New Impetus to "Tripartite Alliances"
 46. Editorials in People's Daily on 17 February
 and in Liberation Army Journal on the 18th underscored
 earlier announcements praising the policy of forming
 a "tripartite alliance" among old-line party officials,
 the army, and "revolutionary" organizations and
 claimed that this had already been achieved in four
 provinces and two municipalities. This concept apparently
 supplanted the notion of establishing new
 revolutionary "communes" as governing bodies. Until
 early February an organization supposedly based on
 the Paris Commune of 1871 was being touted as a model
 and the formation of "communes" was announced with
 great fanfare in a number of cities. On 19 February,
 however, the party central committee ordered that
 no city or province would use the name "commune" in
 its title and that those which had established them
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