Directive on Handling Birthday Congratulatory Telegrams [I]
(January 4, 1951)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
All such incoming telegrams should be replied to with thanks, but neither the incoming nor the outgoing telegrams should be published.
Mao Zedong
January 4
[I]
This directive was written on Stalin’s telegram of December 25, 1950, congratulating Mao Zedong on his 57th birthday.