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The Ambassador in the Netherlands (Chapin) to the Secretary of State

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998. At lunch today, Canadian Ambassador informed me that, as result information received from Dutch Foreign Office, he was informing his government that Dutch Chargé Peking recently reported that CPG and Peking public opinion so carried away with Chinese “volunteer” successes in Korea that, in Chargé’s opinion, no con cessions other than complete capitulation existing Chinese demands would be acceptable, and China now in so exalted state of mind they think almost anything possible for them achieve.

Chapin