Telegram to Secretary of State Dean Acheson

INCOMING TELEGRAM Department of State owel TELEGRAPH BRANCH 27 M SECRET Action Control: 4544 UNA Rec'd: March 9 1951 FROM: New York 12:51 p m. Info SS TO: Secretary of State DECLASSIFIED E.0. 12065, Sec. 3-402 G E NO: 1250, March 9, 11:56 a m State Dept. Guideline, June 12, 1979 P By NLT He L NARS, Date 12-24-4 EUR Re Committee on Additional Measures NEA ARA Following is report of views of French Government concerning FE certain aspect of work of CAM, as outlined to me by Lacoste OLI March 8, p.m. CIA DCR French Government anxious for reassurance, which I gave, that we do not at present time intend to press for complete embargo on trade to China. I outlined again our position re selective embargo. French believe that no "enforcement functions" should be entrusted to UN body in connection with additional measures I concurred, explaining we believed UN Committee might be given function of receiving reports, disseminating infor- Action mation, and making appropriate recommendations. With regard to political measures, French Government still inclined to view that these should not be dealt with by CAM, but should be taken up initially in Political Committee I outlined US view in contrary sense, pointing out advantage we perceived in preliminary shaking down of views on political measures in committee. Lacoste indicated personal agreement and PT stressed tentative nature of French Foreign Office attitude on this point. With regard to substance of political measures, French agree 1th us re denial of representation to Chinese Communists in UN bodies, and agree also on doctrine of refusing to recognize results of aggression. However, France was "shy" as to recommendations re diplomatic relations French Govern- ment believes that a recommendation which permitted those governments presently existing diplomatic relations to maintain them, would give such governmental "a political advantage." In the French view, a general formulation might be better, for example that members of UN in taki ons with Peiping "should tal winto account pos ition in which Chinese Communist regime has out by its French Government desired to stress that their attitude toward this question does not in any way imply any change 1F present French position re its stn With reference to SECRET REPRODUCTION THIS IS PROMIBITED