Mao asks Stalin for approval on the armistice negotiation agenda.
July 14, 1951
Cable No. 4153, Filippov [Stalin] to Krasovsky, for Mao Zedong
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Товарищ МАО ЦЗЭДУН!
Получили Вашу шифровку от 13 июля. Мы подробно обсудили все факты, имеющие отношение к вопросу о переговорах с противником, и пришли к единогласному выводу, что Ваша точка зрения, изложенная в телеграмме от 13 июля, совершенно правильна.
ФИЛИППОВ 14 июля
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COPY OF AN OUTGOING TELEGRAM
Copy Nº 1
CABLE Nº 4153
to [BEIJING]
to KRASOVSKY for MAO ZEDONG
"Cde MAO ZEDONG!
We received your cipher message Nº 3511 of 13 July. We discussed all the facts in detail which relate to the issue of the negotiations with the enemy and have come to the unanimous conclusion that your point of view in the 1[3] July telegram is absolutely correct.
FILIPPOV [Stalin] 14 July"
Telegraph when this is done.
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One copy printed - to Cde. Stalin
Printed by Lavreshina 14 July 1951 Nº 1118
Authenticated: Section Chief
Colonel [signature]
(Makarov)
14 July 1951
[Stamp: SUBJECT TO RETURN
to the IV Unit of the OS [Special Department]]
VKP(b) CC Incoming Nº 545/2394/shs 15 July 1951]
Stalin agrees with Mao's position in the 13 July telegram.
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APRF, f. 45, op. 1, d. 340, ll. 48.
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