Telegram to Zhou Enlai on the Question of Winning Over the 17th Route Army for Resistance Against Japan and Opposition to Civil War

(December 19, 1936)

Zhou:

(1) Winning over the entire 17th Route Army to stabilize them on the stand of resisting Japan and opposing civil war is an important move at present.

(2) The fourteen political slogans should be put forward throughout the entire troops of the Northeast Army and the 17th Route Army, to be called out at morning and evening roll calls.

Mao