501.BB/11–2049: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:40 p. m.]
DelGA 233. Following is copy of official text of communication received by SYG28 from Communist government in China:
“Peking’s 291/290 18/11 1535.
“Mr. Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations Organization, Lake Success, New York.
“The Central Peoples Government of the Peoples Republic of China was formally formed on October 1st. On the day of its formation, Chairman Mao Tze-tung of the Central Peoples Government solemnly proclaimed to the world:
‘The Central Peoples Government of the Peoples Republic of China is the sole legal government representing all the people of the Peoples Republic of China. The Central Peoples Government of the Peoples Republic of China has now fundamentally liberated the territory and people of all China and also won the enthusiastic support of the people throughout the country, while the Kuomintang reactionary government is now in exile and dispersed and its remnant forces will soon be eliminated.’
This reactionary government has lost all de jure and de facto grounds for representing the Chinese people.
“The so-called, ‘Delegation of the Chinese National Government’ participating in the United Nations Organization and attending the present session of the United Nations General Assembly in the name of the Chinese people has therefore become the tool of a handful of exiled elements, and is absolutely unqualified to represent the Chinese people.
“On behalf of the Central Peoples Government of the Peoples Republic of China, I formally demand that the United Nations Organization immediately deprive the ‘Delegation of the Chinese National Government’ in accordance with the principles and spirit of the United Nations Charter,29 of all rights to further represent the Chinese people in the United Nations, so as to conform to the wishes of the Chinese people.
“Chou En-lai, Foreign Minister of the Central Peoples Government of the Peoples Republic of China.”