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Adlai Stevenson Rejects Communist China's U.N. Admission

On Dec. 1, 1961, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson debates the admission of the People's Republic of China (PRC) into the U.N. by pointing out the communists' "impossible demands" of expelling the Republic of China (ROC) from the U.N. and allowing China's takeover of Taiwan.

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