Comrades:
Our meeting is drawing to a triumphant close. Let me express my congratulations on the success of this meeting. Just as we have been united in the
various great struggles both internationally and domestically, so have we been
united in this meeting of ours. Furthermore, our unity improves; it draws us
closer to each other and grows more vigorous year after year. This is quite
understandable, since the People’s Democratic United Front of our country
was forged, step by step, in the great revolutionary struggle. It is a united front
that includes all the nationalities, all the democratic classes, all the democratic parties, all the people’s organizations, and all the patriotic and democratic
personages in the country—a united front of several hundred million people.
It is founded on the workers and peasants; it is under the leadership of the
working class and the Communist Party, and it adopts the method of self-criticism. Therefore, it can solidly bind [us] together as one, and it can become
more and more vigorous, mightier and mightier. It is invincible. Comrades, we
have already summed up the experience of the past year and have laid down
guidelines for future work. We have also had a make-up election for eighteen
additional committee members. Let us lead the people of the entire nation in
continuing to march forward and in striving to win new and greater triumphs!
Source: People’s Daily, November 2, 1951.