Speech at Banquet Given by Polish Delegation
(April 9, 1957)

Source: RMRB (April 10, 1957), 1. Available English Translations: NCNA, Daily
News Release (April 10, 1957), 2–3.

See text April 8, 1957, source note, for context of this reception.

Comrades, friends:
We are grateful to Comrade Cyrankiewicz, chairman of the Council of Ministers
of Poland, and the delegation of the Polish government led by him for bringing the
brotherly friendship of the Polish people to the Chinese people. We ask the delegation
of the Polish government to convey to the Polish people, on their return, similar
sentiments of our friendship and the very best wishes from the Chinese people.


May the People’s Republic of Poland undertake the building of socialism even
more successfully.
May the Soviet Union, Poland, and China and [all] other socialist countries be
even more firmly united together.
May the countries in the socialist camp join with other peace-loving countries
and peoples throughout the world to strive more successfully for the cause of world
peace and human progress.
I ask everyone to join me in proposing a toast:
To the health of Comrade Cyrankiewicz, chairman of the Council of Ministers
of Poland, and to that of his wife, and to the health of the other comrades of the
delegation of the Polish government;
To the health of Comrade Gomulka, first secretary of the Polish United Workers’
Party;
To the health of Comrade Zawadzki, chairman of the Council of State of Poland.
Bottoms up!