Comment on the Issue of Slogans for Advancing into Tibet
(March 29, 1950)

Comrade Xiaoping:[1]
Some of the slogans[2] are inappropriate, and there are too many of them. Please revise them yourself or draft a new list.

Mao Zedong
February 29

[1] Xiaoping, i.e., Deng Xiaoping, who was then serving as First Secretary of the Southwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Political Commissar of the Southwest Military Region of the People's Liberation Army.
[2] Referring to the twenty-four slogans for advancing into Tibet drafted by the Party Committee of the Eighteenth Army of the People's Liberation Army.