Comrade Dehuai:
After reading your analysis on the twelve points,2 I know that you must have put a lot of effort into it. This is a very good attitude toward research. In general, the content is correct, except for a few shortcomings in some places.
Mao Zedong
Our source for this document is Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, pp. 224–25, where it is reproduced from the manuscript.
1. On Peng Dehuai, see above, note to the text of January 25, 1943.
2. Referring to Peng Dehuai’s speech at the regional cadres rectification and study conference held at the Northern Bureau Party School in June 1943. The title of his speech is “Regarding Stalin’s Twelve Points on the Bolshevization of the Party.” Three of Mao’s marginal comments on the draft notes of Peng’s speech are quoted in Mao Zedong shuxin xuanji, pp. 224–25.