Telegram of Birthday Congratulations to
Comrade Foster
(April 1941)

Mao Zedong, congratulating [William Zebulon] Foster, chairman of the Communist Party
of the United States, on his sixtieth birthday, sent him a telegram, which reads as follows:

To Foster:

Our congratulations to you on your sixtieth birthday. Your leadership of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. and of the labor movement has made the American
proletariat a powerful revolutionary force. At a time when war and Wall Street's
reactionary schemes are destroying peaceful life and violently damaging the civil
rights of the American people, the working class and all progressive people will
unite ever closer around the Communist Party of the U.S.A. that you lead and
carry on a triumphant struggle for peace and democracy.

Mao Zedong