Telegram to the People’s Republic of Mongolia
(January 27, 1952)

Source: RMRB (Jan. 29, 1952), 1. Available English Translations: NCNA,
ily Bulletin, 465 (Feb. 4, 1952), 3; SCMP, 264 (Jan. 26-30, 1952), 7.

Chairman,

Presidium of the Greater Hural,
People's Republic of Mongolia

Comrade Bumatsende:

aad are stunned to receive news of the passing away of Marshal
alsan, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of

be ag On behalf of the government and the people of the People’s
ic of China | extend to you and to the government and people of the

oc KAA BE


246 | MAO ZEDONG

People's Republic of Mongolia our deep condolences. Marshal Chg,
was @ great leader of the Mongolian people and an outstanding
organizer of the Mongolian People’s Revolution. His death is not only
mendous loss to the Mongolian people, but also a loss to the camp of
peace and democracy. The assistance that Marshal Choibalsan rende
Chinese people in the War of Resistance against Japanese imperialig
live forever in the hearts of the Chinese People.

(Signed as Chairman of CPG of PRC, dated, in Beijing)

Note

|, Marshal Khorloogiyn Choibatsan (alternately spelled Choibulsang) was the fem

Mongolian People's Revolution and one of the co-founders of the People’s Reg of
lia, He died in Moscow on January 26, 1952. For a biographical sketch of Chotbafean. »
K, Sanders (1968), p. 172; alse see CR. Bawden (1968), chs. 6-8,