Dear Comrade Pollitt:

The Communist Party of China warmly celebrates the twentieth anniversary of your tenure as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Under your leadership, the Communist Party of Great Britain has over the past twenty years overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, and tempered itself into a standard-bearer for the liberation struggle of the British working class and for the solidarity and friendship between the people of Britain and all other countries. The Chinese people firmly believe that the Communist Party of Great Britain and the British laboring people and progressive intellectuals it leads are the most reliable allies of the Chinese people in Britain. The strength of the Communist Party of Great Britain is one of the important guarantees for world peace and for cooperation between the Chinese and British peoples. Wishing you health, and wishing success for the just cause of you and your comrades-in-arms.

Mao Zedong
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
September 10, 1949