Telegram to Marshal Stalin
(August 9, 1945)
(Xinhua News Agency Dispatch, Yan’an, August 9) Chairman Mao and
Commander-in-Chief Zhu have just sent a telegram to Marshal Stalin. The original text is as follows:
Dear Marshal Stalin:
On behalf of the Chinese people, we warmly welcome the declaration of war
against Japan by the government of the Soviet Union. The 100 million people
and their army in the Liberated Areas of China will spare no efforts to cooperate
with the Red Army and the armies of other allies to wipe out the vicious Japanese
invaders.
Mao Zedong
Zhu De [1886–1976, native of Sichuan]