BRITISH NOTE ON FORMOSA

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26395, 13 April 1951, Page 7

BRITISH NOTE ON FORMOSA

Foreign Office Denies

Report

®ec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. The Foreign Office to-day denied reHets that a British Note had been Presented to the American Government urging Chinese participation in ®e Japanese peace treaty and that the handing of Formosa to the CommunA Foreign Office spokesman added that the British and United States Governments were agreed that all States which olayed a major part in the defeat of Japan should participate in the drafting of the Japanese peace treaty. As a consequence, the British Government had recorded its view that the Chinese Government should be P* v *n an opportunity to take part in me current negotiations. This question would have to be considered by Wth Governments before a solution “tn be found. vAw spokesman said that as regards Nationalist-held Formosa the British royernment was itself bound by the j^° r P ec^ara tion of '943 and the PotsDeclaration of 1945. which require “te cession of Formosa to China. ne said: “The future of Formosa X* 1 , present under consideration by S*Dnited Nations, and the British government wishes to emphasise that utsJ-*® 01 "* t? l3 * * f has advocated at this putting the Central People's jlPytrnmrnt forthwith in possession of is without foundation.” vonsultation on the American dra f t -th* Proposed Japanese peace treaty L?® Soin« on between British and representatives in Washing-