Inquiry of Zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu as to
Whether They Have Proposed the
Twelve Articles to the Political Council

(February 20, 1941)

1. As for submitting the twelve articles to the Political Council, have you done
so yet or not? If you have, please inform us regarding the document, so we can
publish it openly.
2. As for the order appointing seven division commanders of the New Fourth
Army, please disseminate it in Chongqing as soon as you have received it.
3. We are thinking of sending Zhang Chong a telegram in reply in [Ye] Jianying's
name. Is this necessary?

Our source for this text is *Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan*, Vol. 7, p. 29, where it is reproduced from
a documentary collection published in China in 1982.