Comment on the Death of President Zapotocky of Czechoslovakia
(November 14, 1957)

Source: FBIS, Daily Report (Nov. 15, 1957), HH 1.

According to this source, this comment was made during a visit to the Czechoslovakian
embassy in Moscow. The Chinese delegation headed by Mao also laid a wreath in the hall
of mourning installed by the Czechoslovakian embassy. The names of other Chinese
delegates who accompanied Mao on this visit to the Czechoslovakian embassy were listed
in FBIS, Daily Report (Nov. 15, 1957), AAA 3.

This comment was made to the Czechoslovakian ambassador to the Soviet Union, J.
Voshalik. We have no Chinese text of this comment. This is a representation of the FBIS text.

Your President is looking down upon us as if he were still alive and, in truth,
he is alive. Please convey, on my behalf and on behalf of our entire delegation,
our deep sympathy to the Czechoslovak people, to the Czechoslovak Commu-nist Party Central Committee, and to the members of the government and the
National Assembly. We wish to express our grief at the death of Comrade
Zapotocky.