Stalin agrees with Mao on the steps taken in response to the attacks, Stalin does not agree in inviting neutral countries to negotiations.
August 30, 1951
Ciphered Telegram No. 23397, Mao Zedong to Filippov [Stalin]
[…]
Товарищ Филиппов
Вашу телеграмму от 29 августа 1951 г. получил. Согласен с тем, что нецелесообразно проявление нами инициативы в приглашении представителей нейтральных государств в качестве контролёров и свидетелей на современном этапе переговоров.
Об этом я уже сообщил товарищу Ким Ир Сену.
Мао Цзэдун
[…]
SECOND MAIN ADMINISTRATION OF THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE SOVIET ARMY
CIPHERED TELEGRAM No. 23397
Copies: Stalin (2), Molotov, Malenkov, Beria, Bulganin
From BEIJING
Received 19:00 30.8.1951
SERIES “G” T
To Comrade FILIPPOV [Stalin]
Comrade FILIPPOV.
I received your telegram of 29.8.1951. I agree that it is not advisable to take the initiative in inviting representatives of neutral states as monitors and witnesses at the present stage of the negotiations.
I have already communicated about this to Comrade KIM IL SUNG.
MAO ZEDONG
No. 4358
30.8.51
Telegram from Mao to Stalin agreeing with the latter's assessment of the inadvisability of having neutral observers, at the present time, at the armistice talks.
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APRF, Fond 45, Opis 1, Delo 340, List 97; AVPRF, Fond 059a, Opis 5a, Delo 5, Papka 11, List 56; and RGASPI, f. 558, op. 11, d. 341, ll. 97.
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