840.50/20581/9
The Assistant Secretary of State (Acheson) to the Chinese Ambassador (Wei)50
My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I am pleased to be able to inform you that the draft agreement for a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration will be presented to the Governments of the United Nations and of the Nations associated with them in this war, and also to the French Committee of National Liberation, during the morning of Thursday, June 10; they will also be given copies of an explanatory memorandum relating to the draft agreement. The presentation will be made by the American Missions near these Governments. At the same time, the representatives in Washington of these Governments will be given copies of the note being presented to their Governments, for their information, together with copies of the draft agreement and of the accompanying memorandum.
In view of the certainty of wide interest in this subject in the press of many countries, it has seemed wise and necessary to forestall speculation by releasing the actual text of the agreement to the press. Arrangements have been made, therefore, to release the text of the draft agreement at 9 p.m. Thursday, June 10, so that it may be published in the Friday morning papers.51 The press will be given a brief release concerning the subject and it will be furnished also copies of the explanatory memorandum and of two other brief memoranda for background purposes only, these three memoranda not to be attributed to the Department of State by the press.
I enclose for the information of your Government a copy of the note being handed to the representatives in Washington of the Governments of the United Nations and of the Nations associated with them in this war52 (this note carrying the text of the note being presented directly to those Governments), a copy of the explanatory memorandum relating to the draft agreement,53 a copy of the press release,54 and copies of the two additional memoranda being handed [Page 909] to the press for background purposes.54a Copies of these materials are enclosed also for your files.
Sincerely yours,