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

293.1111/7–2954: Telegram

No. 247
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the United Kingdom¹

confidential

Washington, August 3, 1954—5:56 p.m.

684. Your 523.² Arrangement for informal exchange information with Chinese Communists at subordinate Consular level Geneva is merely extension staff level conversations Geneva Conference re detained Americans. No negotiations or representations contemplated at Geneva. Geneva arrangement in no way intended interfere with British representation American interests Communist China. British Foreign Office will be apprised any information re American citizens which may be obtained Geneva.

Dulles

1. Repeated for information to Hong Kong and Geneva.
2. Telegram 523 from London, July 29, inquired whether the continuing U.S.-Chinese staff-level meetings in Geneva temporarily precluded representations by Trevelyan in Peking concerning U.S. nationals in Communist China. (293.1111/7–2954)