Office of the Historian

226. Telegram From the Embassy in the Republic of China to the Department of State1

Taipei, December 19, 1955—2 p.m.

562. Department’s 368.2 Concur Department’s view that new representations to GRC on Japan’s behalf to forego veto against Outer Mongolia would be fruitless. Moreover it could harm Japan-GRC relations to place latter in embarrassing position of again refusing Japanese request in which this time no other free nations have direct interest.

With above in mind I simply asked Foreign Minister at dinner Saturday (6 a.m. Washington time) whether Japanese had approached him on possible two-country package deal. His indicated surprise I interpreted as negative reply and his subsequent comments confirmed impression such approach would be fruitless.

Foreign Minister went on to indicate that he regarded latest UK proposal re Japan’s UNO membership, presumably to be considered by Security Council December 21, as most promising step available for time being. He thought Soviets probably would not be in position to oppose.3

Rankin
  1. Source: Department of State, Central Files, 310.2/12–1955. Secret. Repeated to Tokyo.↩
  2. Document 223.↩
  3. See Document 219.↩