Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, Korea, Volume VII

795.00/12–850

Memorandum of Conversation, by Mr. Ray L. Thurston, Adviser to the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly

secret

[New York,] December 8, 1950.

US/A/C.1/2339

Subject: Failure of Chinese Communists to Receive any Instructions from Peiping.

Participants:	Mr. M. Gopala Menon, Indian Delegation.
	Mr. Ray Thurston, United States Delegation.

Mr. Menon told me late this afternoon that the Chinese Communists had not yet received any reply from Peiping to the communications which have been sent as a result of Indian mediatory action. He then referred to the Truman–Attlee communiqué and said it was very disappointing and indicated that no agreement had been reached on the substantive Far Eastern issues under consideration, that is, either Chinese representation or Formosa.

I told him that I was not sure about the accuracy of his remark on Formosa, since the communiqué rather left that question open.

In passing, Mr. Menon referred to Mrs. Pandit’s call on General Wu last evening and said that nothing of consequence had been interchanged between them.