Telegram to Tito
(October 21, 1957)

Source: FBIS, Daily Report (Oct. 22, 1957), MM 16.

We have no Chinese text of this telegram. The representation here is of the FBIS report in
its original form, which was released from Belgrade on October 21, 1957.

I received your telegram on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Chinese
People’s Republic. I am expressing cordial thanks to you and through you to the
people of Yugoslavia on behalf of the Chinese people. I wish further successes in
the building of socialism to the Yugoslav people. I wish a continuous development
and strengthening of the fraternal friendship and the relations of friendly cooperation between the people of Yugoslavia and China, united in the common cause of
the building of socialism and the preservation of peace in the whole world.