To Zhou Enlai Expressing Agreement That
Zhou Enlai's Office Should Write an
Article in Reply to Chiang Kaishek's
Speech of the 6th

(March 15, 1941)

1. We agree that your office should write something in reply to the speech of
the 6th, and the Central Committee will not put out any more documents about the
Eighth Plenum.
2. Xin Zhonghua bao in Yan'an has published an editorial commenting on the
Political Council in general and on the reactionary policies of the current authorities, without referring to Chiang's speech.
3. When you issue the document, it would seem advisable also to make general
comments (such as restating the crucial importance of the twelve articles, and so
on), without mentioning Chiang's speech or making any defensive response.

Our source for this text is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 7, p. 43, where it is reproduced from
a documentary collection published in China in 1982.