Cypher/OTP
Mr. Lamb
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FROM PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
FOREIGN OFFICE AND
WHITEHALL DISTRIBUTION
No. 55
D:
25th January 1952
R:
12.31 p.m. 25th January 1952 1. 52 p.m. 25th January 1952
CONFIDENTIAL
Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 55 of 25th
January
Repeated for information to Singapore
and Saving to Washington
Moscow Tokyo
I assume that you have fully translated the statement made by the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 22nd January on Mr. Yoshida's letter of the 24th December to Mr. Dulles.
2.
The principal points seen to be:
(a) Attack on the United Kingdom for its support of the
United States which has enabled the latter to realise its plans. This may be part of an attempt to split the United Kingdom from the United States by showing that the United States is dragging the United Kingdom into war, of which an example was afforded by the Peoples Daily comments on Vyshinski's proposals on Korea at the United Nations (please see my telegram No. 29). It also coincides with attacks on the Hong Kong Government for the expulsion of Chinese allegedly in collusion with the United States Government and Chinese Nationalist Agents. t is too early to say whether these portend the beginning of campaign against His Majesty's Covernment or are only flare-ups such as have happened intermittently over the past year or
more.
(b) Specifically mentions Sino Soviet Treaty as of great significance as a guarantee of peace. The previous statement of the 18th September by Chou En-lai only referred to the Treaty indirectly (please see my telegram No. 1501).
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