Telegram to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
(July 18, 1950)

Source: RMRB (July 19, 1950), L. Available English Translation:
Daily Bulletin, 74 uly 19, 1950), b-2.

Comrade [Wilhelm] Pieck and all comrades of the Central Committee of
Socialist Unity Party of Germany:

We are extremely honored to receive your invitation to send delegates 0}

our Party to attend the national congress of your Party to be held from July
to July 23. We have now appointed Comrade Wang Jiaxiang,! member of 8

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Central Comniitice of our Party, to go to Berlin to attend your congress as the
representative of the Communist Party of China and to convey our congratulations and good wishes. ‘

We hereby send from afar our best wishes for the successful convening of
the national congress of the Socialist Unity Party of the great German Demo-cratic Republic, for an early end to the phenomenon of the forced division of
the whole of Germany by the imperialists, for the early establishment of an
integrated, unified, and democratic Germany, and for an early liberation of
the entire German nation under the correct leadership of the Socialist Unity
Party and the Communist Party of Germany,

Long live the great Socialist Unity Party and the Communist Party of Ger-

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Note
{, Wang was also at this time the ambassador of the PRC io the USSR. For more biographical

information on Wang. see D, Klein and A. Clark, eds, (1971), Il, pp. 895-900, and Zhonggong
renmning fu, p, 1093