Comments on the Article “The Nationwide Discussion of the Draft Soviet Constitution”
(July 1, 1954)
Comrades Liu, Zhu, Xiaoping, Li Weihan, and Peng Zhen (1):
This document, No. 121, is worth a look.
Please send it to Comrade Tian Jiaying, No. 131, for review,
and then return it to Mao.
Mao Zedong
July 1st
[1]
Liu refers to Liu Shaoqi. Zhu refers to Zhu De. Xiaoping is Deng Xiaoping, who at that time served as Secretary-General of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council. Li Weihan was then Minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee. Peng Zhen was then an alternate member of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat and Deputy Director of the Political and Legal Committee of the State Council.
[2]
Refers to the article “The Nationwide Discussion of the Draft Soviet Constitution,” translated by the editorial department of the journal “Political and Legal Studies” of the Chinese Association for Political and Legal Sciences from Issue 9 of the Soviet magazine “Historical Questions” in 1953.
[3]
Tian Jiaying was then Mao Zedong’s secretary.