China’s Memorandum To The West

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28702, 27 September 1958, Page 13

China’s Memorandum To The West

(Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 25. The United Press International reported from London that Communist China has distributed a memorandum among Western Powers that gave no indication that she could compromise on the Formosa crisis.

The Communists handed the Notes to the British Charge d’Affaires, Mr Duncan Wilson, and Other envoys in Peking last Sunday.

Diplomatic sources said the memoranda restated China’s position on the Far Eastern conflict without indicating any sign of willingness to compromise. However, Reuter’s reported that Indian sources at the United Nations who had seen the memorandum did not interpret it as threatening. They said Communist China had indicated in it that she did not want to quarrel with the United States.

There was some talk among diplomats in London of a change from the two-party ambassadorial talks in Warsaw to a “little summit” meeting ,in the United States or Europe.

However, there was no indication how far such a proposal had gone or just what countries it would encompass. Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the British Foreign Secretary, conferred fdr an hour tonight with Mr Dulles,

the United States Secretary of State.

A British spokesman said the two statesmen continued the exchanges begun last week when Mr Dulles was in New York heading the United States delegation to the General Assembly. The spokesman declined to go into details on what was discussed, saying that Mr Lloyd wished the conversation to “remain confidential.” A Reuter correspondent at United Nations headquarters reported that one usually Wellinformed source said the possibility was developing that Mr Chou En-lai, the Chinese Communist Prime Minister, might be invited to New York for talks with Mr. Dulles, Mr Lloyd, Mr Maurice Couve de Murville, the French Foreign Minister, and Mr Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister. This informant said that Mr Dulles would have to overcome probably Defence Department opposition and pave the way with American public opinion for such a conference.

They suggested that the meeting might be arranged by November.