202. Telegram 751 to Geneva1
751. For Johnson.
Following is text of note received from Indian Embassy dated September 16:
QUOTE The Ambassador of India presents his compliments to the Secretary of State and has the honour to acknowledge on behalf of his Government the note dated 10th September, 1955, presented to the Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India extending the cordial invitation of the Government of the United States to assume the functions described in the Agreed Announcement of the Ambassadors of the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China concerning the repatriation from the United States of Chinese nationals who express a desire to return to the People’s Republic of China. The Ambassador has now been asked by his Government to state that they have agreed to assume these functions. The Embassy of India has been asked to carry out on behalf of the Government of India the responsibilities which are to be discharged in the territory of the United States.
[Typeset Page 266]The Ambassador wishes to state that he proposed to provide both in his Embassy in Washington, D. C. and in the two Consulates-General of India in New York and San Francisco, necessary facilities for Chinese [Facsimile Page 2] nationals wishing to return to China to bring to notice any difficulties which they might encounter.
The Ambassador of India avails himself of this opportunity to renew to the Secretary of State the assurances of his highest consideration.
UNQUOTE
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.93/9–1955. Official Use Only; Priority. Drafted by McConaughy; cleared by Robertson and Sebald.↩