Office of the Historian

310.2/9–1153: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom1

secret
Washington, September 11, 1953—7:22 p.m.

1341. Re: Chinese Representation. British Ambassador came in and suggested following compromise formula:

“That the General Assembly postpone for the duration of its Eighth Regular Session for the current year consideration of all proposals to exclude the representatives of the Government of the Republic of China and to seat representatives of the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China”.

This formula appears satisfactory to us, and you can so inform Foreign Office.

Dulles
  1. Drafted by the Director of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs (Wainhouse), cleared with the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, the Bureau of European Affairs and the Executive Secretariat, approved for transmission by the Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs (Murphy), and signed by the Secretary of State.↩