Eternal triangle: communist China, the United States and the United Nations

It is past eleven years now since the United Nations Security Council first discussed whether to seat Communist China. The possibility that the question may be resolved in Communist China's favor when the General Assembly reconvenes this fall is very real indeed. In the years intervening, this question has be come one of the most heatedly-debated-yet, paradoxically, one of the most frequently misunderstood of the many perplexing foreign policy issues confronting the United States and the United Nations.
This book is a historical and analytical study of United States policy on the Chinese representation question in the United Na tions. It begins by defining this question in both legal and political terms, and then proceeds to detail against this backdrop the origins and development of American policy and American opinion on the question until the present time.

In preparing this study, every effort has been made to cut through the emotionalism and narrow partisanship which has toot often characterized discussion of the "which China?" question. The writer has tried to search out the hard core of factual in formation which scholarly studies and first-rate reporting have made available on the subject, and to apply the analytical procedures of the social sciences to minimize the inevitable gap between what is known and what it is desirable to know.