Central Committee Directive Concerning the Xi'an Incident and Our Tasks

1. With the beginning of a partial war of resistance in eastern Suivuan, the anti-Japanese movement throughout the whole country and in the large cities of the Northwest (such as Xi'an, Taiyuan, and Suiyuan) rapidly leapt forward with a fierce momentum that not only forced the broad petty bourgeois masses and the majority of the middle bourgeoisie to join but also created decisive divisions within the big bourgeoisie.