500.CC/3–2245: Telegram
The Charge in China (Atcheson) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 22—10:06 a.m.]
482. I have received a letter from Soong dated today March 22, in reply to my letter of March 19 which I handed him on that date and which was based on Department’s circular of March 16, 9 a.m. [p.m.]:1
“I am in receipt of your letter dated March 19, 1945 and beg to inform you that during the Dumbarton Oaks Conference three proposals were made by the Chinese delegation concerning (1) the settlement of international disputes according to law and justice (2) codification of international law and (3) educational and cultural cooperation, to which the American and British delegations both agreed.
The form in which these three proposals were finally phrased and endorsed by the American and British representatives at Dumbarton Oaks will be found in the record of the discussions held.1a
The Chinese Government wishes to take this opportunity to request the Government of the United States to transmit, either on behalf of China alone or preferably jointly if this course meets with approval of the United States and British Governments the above proposals to all the governments invited to the San Francisco Conference with a view to having them embodied in the final charter of the new international organization.
As a co-sponsor of the United Nations Conference the Chinese Government does not wish to make additional comments on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals before the conference is convened.”2
- Not printed.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. i, p. 863.↩
- In reply, the Charge in China was informed in telegram 489, March 24, 7 p.m., that the Department was awaiting the Soviet Ambassador’s views regarding the note transmitted to him March 17 with respect to the Chinese proposals. For text of note, see telegram 619, March 16, 11 p.m., to Moscow, p. 126.↩