CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE DECIDES TO SEND COMRADE CHOU EN-LAI
TO CHUNGKING TO DISCUSS UNITY

22 August 1945

[Text] HSIN-HUA NEWS AGENCY, Yenan, 23 August--The Chinese Communist Central
Committee has decided to send Comrade Chou En-lai to Chungking to discuss
unity. Chairman Mao cabled Committee Chairman Chiang on the 22d. The text
of the cable is as follows:

To Committee Chairman Chiang, Chungking: We read your reply in the CENTRAL
NEWS AGENCY wire of the 20th. For the sake of unity, we are sending
Comrade Chou En-lai to call on you, and we hope you will negotiate with
him after his arrival.

Mao Tse-tung, Yenan.

CHIEH-FANG JIH-PAO, 23 August 1945.