142. Telegram From the Embassy in Austria to the Embassy in the United Kingdom1
125. For Ambassador from Secretary. Following personal message to be delivered urgently to Macmillan:
“Dear Harold:
As you know I am disposed favorably to consider package membership arrangement in UN. I do not see however how we can bring ourselves to swallow Outer Mongolia and from our talks on the general subject I have understood you shared this view. It seems we would be on firm ground in opposing its admission particularly in light of its exclusion from the list of applicants approved by the Bandung Conference. Word reaches me from New York that the Canadians have specifically included Outer Mongolia in their draft resolution and that your Delegation is freely indicating to other Delegations their support for the Canadian resolution as it stands including Outer Mongolia. If your views on the matter are as I understand them to be I wonder if you might make them clear to the Canadians as well as to your UN delegation. Sincerely, Foster”2
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, 396.1–GE/11–555. Confidential; Priority. Repeated to USUN and the Department as Secto 177, which is the source text. Subsequently repeated to the Denver White House in Toden 13, November 5, from Hoover to Adams. In this telegram Hoover also indicated that he had notified Adams of the contents of this message by phone.↩
- On November 8, the Secretary of the U.K. Delegation to the Foreign Ministers Meetings transmitted a memorandum to the U.S. Delegation enclosing a reply to Dulles’ letter. Macmillan wrote that he would discuss the membership matter with Dulles on November 10 and “have asked our people to go slow on the Outer Mongols. I am also telling the Canadians.” He continued “It is perhaps, worth remembering that the Communist Chinese cannot look with much pleasure on the independence of Outer Mongolia. It is their Ireland and they would like it in the Chinese Commonwealth.” (Ibid., 310.2/11–855)↩