310.393/7–153: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Aldrich) to the Department of State
14. In my telegram number 6664, June 19,1 I stated I had raised with Churchill the problem of Chinese representation in the UN and that he had said he would send me an informal note giving his position.
[Page 683]I have now received from Selwyn Lloyd a note which he had prepared in reply to my representations and which he was forwarding personally because Churchill would now be unable to see me. This note in substance reads as follows:
The moratorium procedure referred to in the US Ambassador’s memorandum has worked reasonably well since 1950. In practice, the UK delegation normally votes for a procedural resolution, usually moved by the US, that discussion of the question of representation be indefinitely postponed.
HMG agrees that there is no question of changing this arrangement while fighting in Korea continues.
After the conclusion of an armistice this will need to be reconsidered and a decision taken after some reasonable interval in the light of the way events develop in the Far East.
In addition to Lloyd’s note Strang said yesterday that HMG is in no hurry to move on the question of Chinese representation.