320/9–854: Telegram
The Ambassador in Sweden (Cabot) to the Department of State
confidential
Stockholm, September 8,
1954—1 p.m.
161. Notes made by British Ambassador (Embtel 160, September 7) from minutes of Reykjavik meeting say following re question of Chinese representation in UN:
- a.
- If there is a proposal for the Peking Government to represent China, the Swedish Government would vote for it.
- b.
- If there is a proposal to exclude Chiang Kai-shek or Formosa from the UN, the Swedish Government would abstain.
- c.
- If there is a proposal to postpone the whole issue or leave it to the GA as a whole, the Swedish Government would vote against it.
Notes indicate this was package deal for common action between four Scandinavian countries.
Cabot