Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, China and Japan, Volume XIV, Part 1

Secretary’s Letters, lot 56 D 459, “Memorandums for the President”

No. 111
Memorandum by the Secretary of State to the President

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[Washington,] June 19, 1953.

Subject:

• Economic Pressures on Communist China

At a meeting yesterday with Roger Makins¹ I emphasized the importance we attached to the maintenance of economic pressures on Communist China as providing a trading ground at a Korean political conference. Sir Roger said that he believed his Government would agree to this and referred to a statement along these general lines which he said had been made in Commons by Thorneycroft.² I expressed gratification.

John Foster Dulles

1. British Ambassador to the United States.
2. John E. Thorneycroft, President of the British Board of Trade.