399.10–UPU/3–1651
Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by Mr. David H. Popper of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs
Subject: UPU Referendum on Chinese Representation
| Participants: | Mr. Redding, Post Office Department |
| Mr. Popper, UNP |
I telephoned Mr. Redding with respect to this matter. Mr. Redding said that the Post Office Department would mark the US ballot in favor of representation for Nationalist China and return it to Bern. He said that he had informed Mr. Clubb about the referendum so that the Department could decide whether there should be any electioneering [Page 244] on the matter. Bearing in mind the conclusion reached in FE, CA and UNP that we could gain no further advantage through continued pressure on this subject in each minor case where the Chinese representation issue arises, I told Mr. Redding that we did not believe that there should be any electioneering. I explained that positions of states had not changed for some time on the Chinese representation question; we had sent a number of circulars to our posts on this problem and our position was well understood; and, we feared that further representations might be resented. I also noted with respect to the outcome of the referendum that a survey of the UPU membership indicated that there would be a substantial margin of votes in favor of Nationalist China.