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Free elections in Korea supervised by a neutral country; a hands off policy for Chinese affairs, including Formosa; foregoing German rearmament and stationing a 20 division Angle-American garrison in France and the low countries, supported by French forces of equal strength were other recommendations urged in the telegram...
Russia and China could not agree within a year-the U.S. assumed they would not-the U.N. General Assembly would make the decision. Similarly, if these four nations could not agree on what to do about Formosa and Formosa's best-known inhabitant, Chiang Kaishek, that too would be put up to the veto-free U.N. General Assembly...
...diplomatically correct fashion, the Russians went on to insist that the Kurils and southern Sakhalin became theirs at Yalta; that the Cairo agreement of 1943 gave Formosa to China (Russia contends that now means Communist China); and that at Potsdam it was decided that no "occupation troops" could be left in Japan once the peace terms were fulfilled...
Three days later Wu made his first appearance before a U.N. meeting. Wu and two of his assistants strode into a morning session of the Political & Security Committee while Russian Delegate Andrei Vishinsky was charging the U.S. with aggression against Formosa. With a broad smile, Vishinsky interrupted his speech to welcome "the legal representatives of the government of China...
...marched in for their Security Council meeting. The Chinese listened intently for 2½ hours while Russia's Malik and U.S. Delegate Warren Austin argued whether the Council should discuss the Formosan question alone or the Korean and Formosan problem jointly. In the end the U.S. view that Formosa and Korea should be discussed simultaneously won out, and it was agreed to seat the Chinese Reds at the Council table. In one weekend, the Chinese Reds had punched a 20-mile hole in the U.N. line in Korea and an even bigger hole in the diplomatic front resisting...