893.01/12–2249: Telegram
The Chargé in the United Kingdom (Holmes) to the Secretary of State
London, December
22, 1949—7 p. m.
[Received December 22—4:11 p. m.]
[Received December 22—4:11 p. m.]
5088. Counselor Chinese Embassy has confirmed press rumors he delivered this afternoon a note to Foreign Office containing caution that any nation recognizing Chinese Communists was helping to wreck the UN. Representations were apparently as described in UP story of December 20 with Taipei dateline. Counselor stated similar notes being delivered other Western European capitals. He was unable to state whether similar note being delivered Washington.
Holmes