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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01617A006100040039-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: November 12, 1949
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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GENERAL
I. British views on Chinese Communist recognition--UK Foreign.
Secretary Bevan at the 10 November Council of Ministers meet-
ing informed Secretary Acheson that the British are currently
giving careful attention to the matter of recognizing the Chinese
Communist regime`, Bevin said that recognition must be
accorded sooner or later, but certainly not before the General
Assembly had disposed of the Chinese case or the Dutch had
transferred sovereignty to the Indonesians. Bevin also said
that Australia "did not want" recognition before the 10 De-
cember Australian elections. At the same meeting, French
Foreign Minister Schuman expressed his concern over the
impact on Indochina of the Chinese Communist advance and
urged some immediate gesture by the US and UK in support
of French policy and the Bao Dai regime. Bevin replied ghat
the British would be willing to take. steps in this direction only
after the French themselves had taken further action.
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