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dated February 09,1955: Chinese envoy meets Nehru

New moves in London on the Formosa crisis were climaxed on February 7 by a meeting between Prime Minister Nehru and Mr. Huan Ksiang, Communist China's Charge d'Affaires in London. The Nehru-Huan talks lasted about thirty minutes. In the past week, Mr. Nehru has had separate meetings with Mr. Winthrop Aldrich, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Dr. Supomo, Indonesian Ambassador, and Sao Boonwaat, Burmese Charge d'Affaires. He also had protracted behind-the-scene discussions on Formosa with Sri Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Winston Churchill and several of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers in London for a week-long conference on world affairs. The communiqué at the end of the conference is likely to divulge little of the ideas the Commonwealth statesmen have pooled on how to ease the tension in Formosa. But there has been much speculation on two possible approaches. The first is that consultations should continue in great secrecy through normal diplomatic channels to minimise the chances of the opposing sides being forced into rigid positions in public debates and declarations. The second is the idea of a conference outside the U.N. on the pattern of the Geneva meeting, which last July ended the Indo-China war.

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