To Zhou Enlai Concerning the Problem of
Continuing the Unity Between the
Guomindang and the Communist Party to
Resist Japan
(April 26, 1941)

1. When you meet Chiang, you may put forward a request to come back to
Yan'an to attend the conference, ask him to send you here by plane, and ask him
for his views on our conference.
2. Say that our Party wishes to continue to unite with the Guomindang to resist
Japan, only we hope that the Guomindang will change its internal policies and that
it will issue pay to the Eighth Route Army and provide a reasonable solution to the
problem of the New Fourth Army.

Our source for this telegram is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 7, p. 49, where it is reproduced
from Xin Zhonghua bao, April 24, 1941.
Our source for this text is Mao Zedong ji. Bujuan, Vol. 7, p. 51, where it is reproduced from
a documentary collection published in China in 1982.