501.BB/10–2149: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)
Gadel 67. Dept agrees with first suggested change in draft China res (Delga 118). However, although recognizing force of criticism ref tel we have some doubts re wisdom of proposed addition to para 3, both because of effect it might have on Brit position in Hong Kong (particularly re leased territories) and because of its possible future use by Ch Communists as pretext for disregarding or refusing to accept other treaties with foreign powers.
Dept wld appreciate your further comments in light above.1
- No further exchanges or record of “further comments” have been found in Department of State files. In mid-November the U.S. Delegation was discreetly circulating a tentative draft text of a proposed resolution which incorporated the changes embodied in the previous exchanges of mid-October yet retained the section 3(c) to which the Department objected; for text, see p. 207.↩