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concerning China, and added that he did not believe
the subject appropriate for the current session of
the Council.
Secretary Marshall declared that the position
of the United States Delegation was almost the same
as that of Messrs. Bevin and Bidault, and that he did
not regard the question of China as an appropriate
matter to be discussed at the Council table. Mr.
Molotov insisted that the subject could be discussed
informally, agreement sought, and a communiqué issued
as had been done in December 1945. Mr. Bevin declared
that he had to reserve his position with regard to
the issuance of a communiqué on China and stressed
that he found it embarrassing even to discuss this
matter. Accordingly he requested that the Soviet
Delegation withdraw its proposal. Secretary Marshall
reiterated that the United States Delegation did not
regard the Chinese question as a proper subject to be
discussed at the Council table and asked if it might
not be possible to pass on to the next subject on the
day's agenda. There was no objection to this course
of action (Doc. B, p. K-11).
In Nanking on March 11, 1947 the Chinese Foreign
Minister issued a statement, which was communicated
to Secretary Marshall by the Chinese Ambassador at
Moscow on March 12, objecting to the inclusion of a
discussion of Chinese internal problems in the Council's
agenda (Doc. C, p. K-14) . On the other hand Chou En-lai;
a leader of the Chinese Communist Party, in a statement
broadcast on March 12 and later submitted to the Council,
took the position that the Council was obliged to take
up the Chinese question at the Council table. He
asserted that inasmuch as the Chinese Communist Party
shared control of Chinese territory with the Nationalist
Government, the former claimed the right to be heard
at the Council table if the Chinese Government were
present when China was under discussion (Doc. D, p. K-15). .
After preliminary correspondence, in which they
agreed to an exchange of statements away from the
Council table, on the fulfillment of the Moscow Agree -
ment of 1945 regarding China, Secretary Marshall addressed
a letter to Foreign Minister Molotov on March 31, 1947.
Secretary Marshall touched upon his efforts to halt
the spread of the Chinese civil war during 1946,
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