Telegram to Mao Zedong, April 29, 1948

Source: Tom 18

Your letter of April 26 has been received. You may take whomever you consider necessary and as many as you see fit. Both Russian doctors should depart together with you. We agree to the leaving of one radio station in Harbin. We will discuss the rest when we meet.

Note

This was a reply to Mao Zedong's telegram: "I have decided to depart for the USSR earlier than planned (the trip had previously been scheduled for mid-July 1948). I intend to set out in the first days of May from Fuoping County (100 kilometers north of Shijiazhuang) in Hebei Province and, under troop escort, cross the Beijing-Kalgan railway... It may be possible to arrive in Harbin by early or mid-June. Then from Harbin — to you..." Mao Zedong was also planning to bring Politburo members Ren Bishi and Chen Yun, plus secretaries, cipher clerks, and radio operators.