"We should certainly continue to resist Soviet accession, as a
matter of principle. But it would be difficult to argue that
Chinese accession did not constitute a precedent they are both
large, state trading economies unless China "resumed" the old
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Nationalist seat (but, see below, this is the least likely
course). In the immediate future, it would probably be possible
to block a Soviet application, even were China admitted as a
member. But we could expect Soviet pressure for admission to
increase, and with China in, and political considerations to the
fore it would be progressively more difficult to sustain the one-
third blocking minority needed to prevent Soviet accession
under Article XXXIII".