Telegram to the Republic of Czechoslovakia
(October 29, 1949)

Source: RMRB (Oct. 30, 1949), 1. Available English Translation: NCNA, {
Weekly Bulletin, 126 (Nov. 1, 1949), 2. !

President Gottwald,
The Republic of Czechoslovakia

Your Excellency:

On the happy occasion of the thirty-first anniversary of the independence of |
your country, I sincerely express my warmest congratulations and my best
wishes that the diplomatic relations between China and Czechoslovakia will
become closer with each passing day.

(Signed as Chairman of CPG of PRC and dated)

SEPTEMBER — DECEMBER 1949 / 31