Telegram to the People’s Republic of Poland
(July 21, 1956)

Source: RMRB (July 22, 1956), 1. Other Chinese Text: XHBYK, 90 (Aug. 21,
1956), 174. Available English Translation: NCNA, Daily News Release (July 22,
1956), 1.

Comrade Aleksander Zawadzki, Chairman of the Council of State of the People’s
Republic of Poland,
Comrade Jozef Cyrankiewicz, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People’s
Republic of Poland,
Comrade Adam Rapacki, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of
Poland:

On the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the national day of the People’s
Republic of Poland, please allow us, on behalf of the government of the People’s
Republic of China and the Chinese people, to express to you, to the government of
the People’s Republic of Poland, and to the Polish people our warm felicitations.
The Chinese people have always been concerned about the struggle the Polish
people wage to build a better life and to consolidate the system of the people’s
democracy.1 We are convinced that under the leadership of the Polish United
Workers’ Party and the government of the People’s Republic of Poland, the Polish
people will achieve new successes in their endeavor to implement the new five-year
plan and in the cause of safeguarding peace in Europe and the world. May the
fraternal friendship between the Chinese and Polish peoples be ever more developed and consolidated.
(Co-signed as Chairman of PRC with Liu Shaoqi as Chairman of Standing
Committee of NPC and Zhou Enlai as Premier of State Council and Foreign
Minister, dated in Beijing)

Note

1. See text Sept. 21, 1949, vol. I, note 4, for an explanation of the term “people’s
democracies.”