Appointment of Ye Jianying, Nie Rongzhen, and Liu Zhidan as Members of the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Northwest[1]

(April 10, 1936)

Lin, Nie; Xu, Cheng; Liu, Song; Zhu, Xiao; Zhou Kun:

By order of the Soviet Central Office, Ye Jianying, Nie Rongzhen, and Liu Zhidan are hereby appointed as members of the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Northwest. This order is hereby issued for notification.

Peng, Mao, Zhou

April 10

[1] This is a telegram from Mao Zedong, Peng Dehuai, and Zhou Enlai to Lin Biao, Commander of the First Army Corps of the First Front Army of the Red Army, and Nie Rongzhen, its Political Commissar; Xu Haidong, Commander of the Fifteenth Army Corps, and Cheng Zihua, its Political Commissar; Liu Zhidan, Commander of the Twenty-Eighth Army, and Song Renqiong, its Political Commissar; Xiao Jinguang, Commander of the Twenty-Ninth Army, and Zhu Lizhi, its Political Commissar; and Zhou Kun, President of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army School.