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dated May 26, 1955: `Menon plan' for Formosa

The U.S. is prepared to give urgent consideration to any concrete proposals Mr. V.K. Krishna Menon may bring for a conference with People's China on the Formosa question, official sources said in Washington on May 24. Mr. Menon is understood to have gained at least partial approval from Mr. Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of People's China, and the Premier, Mr. Chou En-lai for a complicated formula which would offer hope of overcoming the main obstacles to a U.S.-China conference. In broad outline, this formula called "the Menon plan" is believed to be a three-phase device. First, the Nationalists would withdraw their garrisons from Quemoy and Matsu, accompanying this move by renouncing plans for invading the mainland. Secondly, the Communists would renounce their avowed intention of assaulting Formosa and would demonstrate their peaceful intentions by releasing Americans now held in China. Thirdly, arrangements would go forward for a five-power conference to comprise two nations nominated by Washington (presumably the U.S. and Nationalist China), two nominated by Peking (presumably China and the Soviet Union) and India.

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