Greetings Telegram to Comrade Marcel Cachin

On the occasion of his 80th Birthday

September 20, 1949

To Comrade Cachin,

Dear Comrade Cachin,

Permit me, on your 80th birthday, to congratulate you, as the founder of the Communist Party of France, as the faithful son of the French people and as the eminent leader of the international workers movement.

I wish you health and long life, for the well-being of the French people and the people of all the world.

With fraternal greetings.

J. Stalin

("Pravda," 24 September, 1949)