Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, China and Japan, Volume XIV, Part 2

693.94/1–752

No. 465
Memorandum by John Foster Dulles, Consultant to the Secretary of State, to the Secretary of State¹

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Washington, January 7, 1952.

Dear Mr. Secretary: In my memorandum to you of December 27, 1951,² I said that Mr. Sebald was forwarding to me a letter from Prime Minister Yoshida with reference to China. I indicated the nature of the letter as reported to me by Sebald.

I now have the original letter from Prime Minister Yoshida dated December 24, 1951. I have given a photostatic copy in confidence to Mr. Allison. The letter conforms closely to what was forecast by Mr. Sebald’s telephone conversation.

I have also received from Prime Minister Yoshida his 3–point memorandum of December 27, which purports to be “a re-statement” of what he said in the course of conversations in Tokyo, and which conversations, of course, preceded the December 24 letter. Also Sebald has cabled that Yoshida has stated that I may “unqualifiedly rest assured there has been no change” in his attitude and policy set forth in the December 24 letter.

1. Drafted by Dulles.
2. For text, see Foreign Relations, 1951, vol. vi, Part 1, p. 1472.