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Dear Botland
We have a problem here which must seen very small beer but on which I
would be glad or advice.
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2. The Thais are of course not only in diplomatic relations but also on
the chunniest of terms with the Nationalist Chinese, who have a large
and active Embassy here. Kore particularly, they have a Military Attache
who is very well in with the top Thais and who and this is the real
problem is now Dean of the Service Attachés in Bangkok. As such it is
his duty as Dean not only to preside at a regular monthly luncheon of
all Service Attaches here but also to set up welcoming and farewell
parties for arriving and departing Attachés our own included. And these
parties can, inevitably, get both written up in the press and
photographed.
3. In the light of what our people in Peking are up against, and bearing
particularly in mind para. 19 or Donald Hopson's unnumbered despatch of
31 August, I have asked our three Service Attaches to be particularly
careful about going to parties organised by their Dean, even though
these are invariably given in his capacity as Dean. (Naturally we
observe the usual rules about contact with the Nationalist Chinese as
such.) If they were to boycott the monthly lunches this would give great
offence to the Thais and would look very silly to e.g. the Americans;
and as little if any publicity is given to these routine occasions I
believe that they should continue to attend them. But I asked the
departing Naval Attache and his successor to decline the Dean's proposal
to give a party specifically for them, because this would have risked
ensuing publicity and pictures of our Attachés aparently hobnobbing with
their Chinese Nationalist colleagues. This passed over all right, but a
similar problem could arise in the future. For example, if a
Commonwealth Service Attache were to leave. The Australian is due to go
quite soon. Our own Defence Attache is due to go in March next year, but
that is not such an immediate problem.
E. Bolland, Esq.,
Far Eastern Department,
Foreign Office, 9.7.1.
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The point of this letter is to ask you (1) how matters stand with regard
to our people in Peking and whether they are likely to find themselves
for long in a position of highly vulnerable hostages; and (ii) to what
extent you reckon that the Peking authorities (whatever exactly they
are) are likely to observe and to react violently to any signs of
fraternisation between our Service Attaches and their (as it so happens
Chinese Nationalist) Dean. My instinct at present is to play all this
very safe. But I do not want to impede too much or far too long the
capacity of our Attaches to do their job, which does depend in this
place very much on their freedom to play a full part in the social life
of the Attaché Corps as a whole.
Yours ever
Ronalskenventi
(R.S. Scrivener)
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department are the arbitrators in this matter and we shall just have to
accept your
decision.
J. T. Williams, Esq., U.N. (Economic and Social)
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Thank you for your letter of 2 August, 1967, to John Powell-Jones (whom
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appointmenta in Nationalist China,
2. I am afraid that politics do enter into this question and that we do
still see an objection to Her Majesty's Government seeking to fill a
vacancy in a post which is sponsored by a government whom H,H,G. does
not recognise. I agree that there is only a thin distinction between
this and the offer of similar vacancies by the United Nations, or its
agencies, to British Citizens, but in the latter case the question of
the recognition of the receiving ṇuthority by H.N.G, does not arise, and
this is a distinction which we would wish to maintain,
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Dear John,
From time to time we receive job descriptions from the United Nations,
and to some extent other agencies, in regard to technical assistance
appointments in Nationalist China and it has always seemed to me that
our position is somewhat anomalous.
2. Because we have no relations with the Formosan government we do not
undertake recruitment for ita vacancies under the U.N.D.P, but we are
constantly asked to do so by TARS. Sometimes this has involved us in an
embarrassing situation because the interest of individual candidates has
already been aroused independently by the UN. This was particularly the
case about two years ago when the United Nations wanted our help in
finding a Manager and other experts for a shipping project under the
Special Fund. We had previously been informed by the Foreign Office that
the People's Republic of China would not like us to engage in
recruitment but that HMG would be very glad to see a few British experts
in Formosa provided they were engaged independently by the United
Nations this latter, incidentally a practice which we in the
International Recruitment Unit particularly dislike for ordinary
purposes and do our best to prevent,
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3. Further points for consideration are that we propose candidates not
to the requesting government but to the United Nations or one of its
agencies under our responsibilities as a member state. Responsibility
for recruitment as such rests with the sponsoring agency, and for
accepting a candidate with the requesting | government, so politios do
not come into it. Moreover, once we have offered a
candidate to an agency, we often have no say in what happens to him
thereafter. We may propose him for general consideration, without any
job in view, Usually we recommend him for a particular post, but the
chances work out at nine to one against his being appointed to it. On
the other hand the agencies know that anyone officially nominated by us
is worth serious consideration, and they constantly switch our
candidates to vacancies other than those for which they were notified.
Any candidate proposed by us is liable to be offered by the agency to
the Government of Formosa if there is a suitable post there. In any case
there is no means of telling how British experts in Formosa are
recruited and we would of course refrain from unduly publicising our
activities by, for instance, advertising in the press. Incidentally
there is nothing to prevent a private British individual from applying
direct for an appointment in FormoJE,
If the ban on recruitment for Formosa were a god-to-honest hypocritical
policy to achieve some definable useful purpose or to avoid an
undesirable consequence I should be all for it, But it does seem to me,
if I may say so, more like an exercise in self-deception which achieves
nothing except denying ourselves
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J.N. Powell-Jones, Esq.,
Foreign Offics,
3.7.1.
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representation in projects which might be useful to this country and
would certainly be welcome in Formosa. At all events we certainly cannot
stop the United Nations or any of the agencies from recruiting British
experts independently for Formosa and in the case of some of the
agencies we have no means of even knowing anything about it. I wonder
whether the Peking Chinese (or for that matter the Russians) know
either? If they do, I would with some confidence hasard a guess that
they assume the people concerned were officially recruited through
H.N.G., so that if there is indeed any harm to be caused by their
knowing, the damage is done anyway. But I should say we would be fairly
safe in assuming that they know very little indeed and care less. As far
as Peking China is concerned a good deal of water has flown under the
bridge since 1965 when the Formosa ban was last confirmed and it would
seem worth raising the issue again now.
5.
For convenient reference you say care to note that Han Whyte wrote to
you in this connection on 5th May, 1965 and you replied on 2nd June,
1965 reference FCN 1121/4.
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have
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Yours sincerely.
Christopher Hankey
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Change of Status of Municipali
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Please refer to your letter 1013 of 19 Juma about the new status of the
Mayor of Taipei.
2. We have consulted Protocol and Personnel Departments about your
position in Taiwan and the form of your accreditation. You will know
that you are appointed "Consul for the Island of Formosa and its
dependencies" so that Taipei, whatever its status within Taiwan, is
clearly covered. From Personel Department papers it appears that the
Consulate has merely informed the Governor of Formosa of the appointɛent
and arrival of previous Consuls.
3. Under these ciremstances it should be suf- ficient for you to send a
formal letter to the Mayor of Taipei informing him of your status and
place of residence. This should be done only if you are informed
officially by either the Governor of the province of Taiwan or the Mayor
of Taipei of the latter's enhanced status, You will presum ably continue
to deal with the Governor on any matters affecting British interests
outside Taipei.
R. J. Bray Esq.,
Tansui.
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