893.01/5–2649: Telegram
The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China (Clark) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 27—7:26 a. m.]
Cantel 478. Agree Hague Foreign Office [that] Ambassadors Nanking unlikely agree on common front, Depintel May 24, 1 a. m.,58 regarding recognition Communist regime China, and gather from public statements Department canvassing problem other interested governments. If French Foreign Office contemplated recognition Communist acceptance French-Chinese treaties only, suggest desirability approach France and point out that more is involved than mere French-Chinese relations. With all we have been doing for France, she should be willing consider this matter from other than purely selfish motives.
Sent Department, repeated Nanking 329.
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