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The Chinese Ambassador (Koo) to the Secretary of State
The Chinese Ambassador presents his compliments to the Secretary of State and, pursuant to instructions, has the honor to transmit to the Secretary the following message from the Minister for Foreign Affairs:87
“The General Assembly of the United Nations having in its Fourth Session decided to refer China’s appeal against the Soviet Union to the Interim Commission for consideration and report to the next Session of the Assembly,88 any Government which chooses to extend recognition to the Communist regime recently set up in Peiping would be prejudging the case and would seriously prejudice the position of the Interim Commission in its effort to implement the Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on December 8th.
“The Communist regime in Peiping is not a free, independent political entity. It is a creation by a foreign Power. It has no spontaneous. [Page 236] support of the Chinese people, whose national character and traditional culture are basically opposed to the Communist ideology.
“In international law it lacks all the attributes of a sovereign state. Any recognition accorded to it constitutes a violation of the principles of the United Nations’ Charter.
“At a time when the whole democratic world is struggling to arrest the advance of totalitarianism, any such recognition would inevitably further the cause of international communism, for the consequences of which democracy will one day have to pay dearly.”