Congratulatory Message on the 80th Birthday of Marcel Cachin[I]
(September 15, 1949)

Dear Comrade Marcel Cachin and dear comrades of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party:

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China warmly celebrates Comrade Cachin’s 80th birthday.

Comrade Cachin is the living symbol of the French revolutionary workers’ movement and the French people’s patriotic democratic movement since the end of the 19th century. Comrade Cachin’s loyalty to proletarian internationalism, his loyalty to the friendship between the French and Soviet peoples, and his warm sympathy for the liberation movements of the Chinese people and other oppressed nations are not only the pride of the French working class, but also the common pride of the international working class.

Wishing Comrade Cachin good health! Extending fraternal regards to Comrade Cachin and to the Central Committee of the French Communist Party headed by Comrade Thorez!

Mao Zedong
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
September 15, 1949

[I]
On September 15, Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, sent a message congratulating Cachin, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party and editor-in-chief of *L’Humanité*, on his 80th birthday.