Telegram to the President of the People's Republic of Poland, Boleslaw Bierut

On the occasion of his 60th Birthday

April 18, 1952

To the President of the Republic of Poland, Comrade Boleslaw Bierut.

Permit me to greet you on your 60th birthday, Comrade President, as the great builder and leader of a new, united, independent, Polish people's democracy.

I wish you good health and success in your labour for the well-being of the fraternal Polish people and in the further strengthening of the friendship between the Polish Republic and the Soviet Union, in the interests of world peace.

J. Stalin

("New Germany," Berlin Ed., No. 93, 20 April, 1952)