To His Excellency General Gao, Commander-in-Chief of the Democratic Revolutionary Army, and to all officers and men: The establishment of the Democratic Revolutionary Army demonstrates that the people’s cause of independence, peace, and democracy is bound to triumph, while the reactionaries’ scheme of national betrayal, civil war, and dictatorship is destined to fail. On this occasion of the first anniversary of your army’s founding, we hereby send a special telegram to extend our congratulations and to wish you further progress.  Mao Zedong Zhu De October 11, 1945