CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-462-6-12-9
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 8, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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Poking. 10
July `
TO a Henry is i g r
FROM: David :due
SUBJECT Cong esvienal Delegatidn
1. You should be aware of the latest in series of faupas
committed ?by""Senator Magnuson which oft' Peking. Al Jenkins
informs me that at the banquet given July 7 by the Congress-
men for their hosts of the Chinese People's tnstitute for
Foreign Affairs, at which, Al was present and personally ob-
served the Senators performance, Senator Magnuson embarked
on the subject of" Taiwan. His thesis was that the large
number of Taiwanese on Taiwan has been foolish to allow them
elve 3 to be taken over by a small number of people from the
China mainland, and if the Taiwans had worked together they
could have prevented this established and independent Taiwan.
He did not specifically speak favorably of an independent
Taiwan under present circumstances, but he must have left the
impression with his Chinese table companion that this was in
his'mind The Chinese were of course too polite to respond.
Assistant Foreign Minister Yang Wen-chin did his best to change
the subject by entering into 4 long discourse on Chinese
history. In addition the Senator asked how the Ceneralissm.o
and his followers were transported from the mainland to Taiwan.
Quote-Was it by boat?-Unquote he inquired, Quote-No-Unquote,
answered his guest of honor, "it was by American airplanes."
2 ? Senator Magnuson further distinguished himself during his
stay here by directing Al Jextkins as, his first job to get him
a box of Havana, cigar at the Cuban" Embassy,. Al rightly said
that he did not believe it proper for a member of the Foreign
Service to contact the embassy of a country with which they
did not maintain diplomatic relations, and the Senator would
have to do so himself Magnuson remarked that State Department
officers paid too much attention to protocol. Then he let the
matter drop, It is a pity the Senator did not see the Cuban
Embassy here. On the outside wall is a glassed-in cabinet
where in it is placed a photograph of a skull with one eye
socket covered by the American flag. Incidentally, it seems
Mrs. Magnuson had a happy urge to pan small U.S. flags on the
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Chin e guests at the Fourth of July reception but was d. s-
sue f m ? doing so.
3. The Congreosanal party left Peking on the morning of
for", 8I1a, where any further affronts to
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Imese lens t vity will of necessity be on a local level.
it t o d judgement as to whether any fence-
withi e Ch .n to is in order, either in Peking or in
ngton.e the Chinese have go
to get used. try ;seeing, us with our warts, and the process
now e.ert4iniy well under way.
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