Most respected Comrade Cachin!

On the day of your 80th birthday, permit me to greet you as one of the founders of the Communist Party of France, a faithful son of the French people, and an outstanding figure of the international workers' movement.

I wish you health and long life for the good of the people of France and the peoples of the whole world.

I firmly shake your hand.

I. Stalin

Pravda. 1949. September 21.