Telegram to Czechoslovakia on Gottwald’s Death
(March 15, 1953)

The Presidium of the Government of the Republic of Czechoslovakia!

It was with the most profound grief that I learned the news of the pass
away of Comrade Gottwald, Comrade Gottwald was not only a great leader?
the Republic of Czechoslovakia, but also an outstanding fighter in the cat
world peace and democracy. His death is an irreparable loss to the


JANUARY ~— MARCH 1953 / 333

people and to the entire camp for world peace and democracy. On
yi of the Chinese people, the Chinese government, and on my own
whem if, | sincerely express to you and, through you, to the Czechoslovakian

- the Chinese and Czechoslovakian peoples to march forward heroically
| mur
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niga jovakian peoples and further strengthening the camp for world peace
pa democracy headed by our common ally, the great Soviet Union,
signed und dated in Beijing)
--- Notes

Source: RMRB (Mar. 15, 1953), |. Other Chinese Text: XHYB, 4 (Apr
1953), 47. Available English Translations: NCNA, Daily Bulletin, 749 (N
16, 1953), 1-2; SCMP, 531 (Mar. 14-16. 1953), 1.