893.01/11–1449
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Director of the Office of Chinese Affairs (Sprouse)
[Washington,] November 14, 1949.
During the course of a conversation on another subject, Mr. Graves referred to the British Embassy’s note of November 1 regarding the question of recognition of the Chinese Communist regime and asked if the Department had yet prepared a reply. I pointed out that the Secretary had discussed this general question with Mr. Bevin at Paris and that I felt certain that no reply could be expected until after the Secretary’s return.