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November 22, 1948

Cable, Stalin to Mao Zedong

Com[rade] Mao Zedong!

Received your telegram dated 21 November.

Your decision to postpone for some time your trip to us in connection with the circumstances which have materialized at the fronts of military actions appears, evidently, to be correct.

When the circumstances allow you to implement your intensions with regard to the trip to Moscow, [I] request that you, ahead of time, some days before that, inform us as to the date and the place where we should direct our planes for you.

Wishing you a rapid and full recovery.

Stalin
22 November 1948

Stalin agrees that Mao should postpone his visit to Moscow for a month.

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APRF: F. 39, Op. 1, D. 31, L. 48. Reprinted in Andrei Ledovskii, Raisa Mirovitskaia and Vladimir Miasnikov, Sovetsko-Kitaiskie Otnosheniia, Vol. 5, Book 1, 1946-February 1950 (Moscow: Pamiatniki Istoricheskoi Mysli, 2005), pp. 482-483. Translated by Sergey Radchenko.

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