Annotation on a Telegram [1] to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Embassy in the German Democratic Republic
(January 1960)

An 80-year-old professor (university president) in East Germany said that the resolution of our people’s communes clearly points out the tasks and prospects of the first and second stages of communism, and he felt extremely pleased.

[1] This telegram, dated November 4, 1959, from the Chinese Embassy in the German Democratic Republic, stated that in their respective replies thanking our embassy for congratulating them on the tenth anniversary of the founding of their country, leading Party and government officials of the GDR and various democratic parties unanimously praised the tremendous achievements made by New China over the past decade. Among them, the founder of the Spartacus League of Germany—the predecessor of the German Communist Party—