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"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".