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123 Strong, Robert C.

Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Deputy Director of the Office of Chinese Affairs (Freeman)

[Washington,] December 15, 1949.

I telephoned Mr. Ford of the British Embassy and Mr. Daridan of the French Embassy87 today to inform them of the decision reached in the Department to instruct Mr. Strong, our Chargé d’Affaires to China temporarily residing in Hong Kong, to proceed to Taipei under the following conditions: (1) in the event that we receive official notification from the Chinese Government of the removal of the capital to Taipei, and (2) if Foreign Minister George Yeh no longer remains in Hong Kong in that capacity.

  1. J. F. Ford, First Secretary of the British Embassy, and Jean Daridan, Counselor of the French Embassy.↩