333. Telegram From the Embassy in Poland to the Department of State0
1906. Beam–Wang Talks. 98th meeting two hours and 10 minutes.1
I led off with brief statement urging need for elimination threat of force in Taiwan area and urging consideration our renunciation of force proposal. Wang responded by attacking US activities at Summit and in West Pacific since last meeting, accusing US Government of talking peace while preparing for war. He charged President’s proposed visit Taiwan2 was provocation against Chinese people.
I denied Wang’s allegation US responsible for Summit failure3 and referred him to President’s speech May 254 and Secretary’s May 27 testimony5 [Page 666] for full statement US position. I then pointed out US collective security activities in western Pacific at which he complained were made necessary by his side’s threat to use force against allies of US. I rejected his protest re President’s Taiwan visit. Wang came back with more detailed recital of alleged US provocations and aggressive actions including intrusions into his country’s territorial sea and air which I refuted briefly.
I then made statement on Bishop Walsh, prisoners and unaccounted-for servicemen along lines paragraph 4 Deptel 1222.6 Wang made routine reply reiterating allegation Walsh was justifiably sentenced as subversive agent and US had no right interfere.
On newsmen I presented argumentation paragraphs 6 to 8 of Deptel 1222 in three installments. After each of first two installments Wang accused US of “arrogance” in denying his country reciprocity and insisting that signed agreement essential because of US “faithlessness”. However, proposal that US prepared agree to public statement as contained last paragraph Deptel 12207 caught him off balance. He hesitated and pressed to make sure that what we had in mind was in form of agreed announcement rather than separate unilateral statements. Then said he had reservations concerning both content and form of proposed statement but would comment further at next meeting. Since he did not reject our proposal, I did not take final step as per last sentence Deptel 1222.8
Next meeting Friday, July 15, 2 p.m.
- Source: Department of State, Central Files, 611.93/6–760. Confidential; Priority; Limit Distribution. Also sent to USUN and repeated to Taipei. The documents cited in footnotes 1, 6, and 7 below are in the Supplement.↩
- Beam sent his comments and recommendations in telegram 1907 from Warsaw, June 8, and a transcript of the meeting in airgram G–238, June 10. (Department of State, Central Files, 611.93/6–860 and 611.93/6–1060, respectively)↩
- The President was scheduled to visit Taipei June 18-19.↩
- Documentation concerning the abortive four-power summit conference which met in Paris on May 16 is printed in volume IX.↩
- For text, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1960, pp. 434–441.↩
- For text of the Secretary’s statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, see Department of State Bulletin, June 13, 1960, pp. 947–955.↩
- Telegram 1222 to Warsaw, May 13, conveyed Beam’s instructions for the meeting, then scheduled for May 17. (Department of State, Central Files, 611.93/5–1360) Telegrams 1330 and 1337 to Warsaw, June 4 and 6, modified the instructions. (Ibid., 611.93/6–460 and 611.93/6–660, respectively)↩
- Telegram 1220 to Warsaw, May 13, transmitted the text of a statement of the U.S. position on admission and treatment of newsmen. The last paragraph stated that PRC newsmen would be admitted to the United States on a basis of equality and reciprocity and accorded the same facilities for news reporting as were generally accorded to foreign newsmen. (Ibid., 611.93/5–1360) Telegrams 1222 and 1337, cited above, authorized Beam to agree to issue this statement, together with a reciprocal Chinese statement, as an agreed announcement.↩
- It stated that if Wang continued to insist on a signed agreement, Beam should inform him that the United States intended to release the text of the statement and to note that he had rejected the principles it contained.↩