Omelette à la Richard Nixon

In his State of the World message to Congress (February 9) President Nixon, affirming that “we exerted the maximum diplomatic efforts to retain its seat in the United Nations,” expressed his “regret” at “the decision of the General Assembly to deprive the Republic of China of its representation, although [he continued] we welcomed the admission of the People’s Republic of China.”

There is no reason to doubt Mr. Nixon’s regret, nor the genuineness of his wish, last summer, that what we used to call Free China should not be ousted from the UN. However, the President is not exact in saying we exerted the “maximum” diplomatic effort to that purpose.

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In his State of the World message to Congress (February 9) President Nixon, affirming that “we exerted the maximum diplomatic efforts to retain its seat in the United Nations,” expressed his “regret” at “the decision of the General Assembly to deprive the Republic of China of its representation, although [he continued] we welcomed the admission of the People’s Republic of China.”

There is no reason to doubt Mr. Nixon’s regret, nor the genuineness of his wish, last summer, that what we used to call Free China should not be ousted from the UN. However, the President is not exact in saying we exerted the “maximum” diplomatic effort to that purpose.