Telegram to Ho Chi Minh
(May 12, 1950)

Source: XHYB, III:2 (Jun. 15, 1950), 291. Other Chinese Text: RMRB (May 4
12, 1950), 1.

The Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam,
President Ho Chi Minh

Your Excellency:

On behalf of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of
China and myself, I extend to you our warmest congratulations on this Your
Excellency’s sixtieth birthday. We congratulate the Democratic Republic of
Viet Nam which, under your leadership and with the support of the patriotic
people of all Viet Nam, has triumphed over the foreign invaders and their running dogs, and we celebrate the eternal unity of the peoples of the two countries, China and Viet Nam, and their common effort in the cause of peace in
Asia.
(Signed as Chairman of CPG of PRC and dated)

APRIL — JUNE 1950 / 89