Central Committee Telegram to the Shandong Sub-Bureau on Sending Birthday Gifts for Stalin
(December 1, 1949)

Comrade Stalin will celebrate his seventieth birthday on December 21 this year. The Central Committee has decided to send Shandong-produced large yellow bud cabbages, large radishes, large scallions, and large pears as birthday gifts. Upon receiving this telegram, you are to purchase five thousand jin of each item, totaling twenty thousand jin, within three days (i.e., before December 4). The Central Committee will dispatch an aircraft to Jinan for transport. The aircraft will arrive in Jinan on December 4; please pay attention to the timing. When procuring the above-listed items (large yellow bud cabbages, large scallions, large pears, large radishes), be sure to select the best quality.

Central Committee
5:00 p.m., December 1

This telegram was drafted by Mao Zedong on behalf of the Central Committee and sent to the Shandong Sub-Bureau.

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Letter to the People of Lüda
(December 1, 1949)

Comrades of the Lüda District Party Committee, and through you to the people of the Lüda District:
The signed letter and gifts brought by Comrade Kang Minzhuang have all been received. Thank you and the people of Lüda! I hope you will exert even greater efforts in production and construction and achieve even greater accomplishments!

Mao Zedong
December 1

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