A letter written by Chairman Mao in 1937 to Clement Attlee calling for Britain to join the “life and death struggle” against the Japanese is set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s with a list price of more than £100,000.
The letter to the then Labour opposition leader was an early attempt by the Chinese Communist party to foster relations with British politicians.
It has been put on sale by “Anne, Countess Attlee”, daughter-in-law of Mr Attlee, who went on to become one of Britain’s greatest prime ministers after the second world war.
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