Telegram Congratulating Comrade Gomułka on His Sixtieth Birthday (February 4, 1965)  To Comrade Władysław Gomułka, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, Warsaw, Poland:  On the occasion of your sixtieth birthday, please accept my heartfelt congratulations.
Your long years of work have been closely linked with the revolutionary and construction endeavors of the Polish Party and the Polish people.
We warmly congratulate you that, under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, the socialist cause of the Polish people has already achieved significant successes and will continue to secure new victories.
We are confident that the friendship and solidarity between the Communist Parties of China and Poland, as well as between the peoples of our two countries, founded upon Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, will be continuously enhanced and strengthened.
I wish you good health and a long life.
Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China  February 4, 1965  Printed from the lead-type copy preserved in the Central Archives.