丹麦驻华大使2月6日被召集到中国外交部会见西欧司负责人，到场后发现与其见面的是从未见过的两男一女，而且都拒绝透露个人身份。这三人以委员会的方式举行会见，而且态度比以往粗暴；蒙古大使近来多次被要求前往外交部会见“革命造反委员会成员”，尽管中方威胁如不来就要承担一切后果，蒙古大使仍然没去；苏联代办说四五天前他见到了经常会见他的中国外交部副部长，只是有两个拒绝透露身份的年轻人陪同他并屡屡试图介入会谈，只是到最后这两个人才说自己是群众代表。
Hopson向英国外交部提议：如果他被中国外交部召集会见“革命造反派”，他要拒绝；如果是被要求会见西欧司负责人，但到场后发现身份不明的人，就拒绝同这些人交谈除非他们表明身份；但如果中国外交部正式通知已被造反派接管，那就是另一回事，我想其他驻华使节大都持类似态度。
摩洛哥大使说他从一个“非常可靠的消息来源”得知陈毅上周被推在卡车上游行示众，但未戴高帽。Hopson说这个消息看起来难以置信，因为斯里兰卡使馆2月4日举行国庆招待会时陈毅还作为贵宾出席；但他又说这两天消息也并非完全矛盾，毕竟陈毅早就受到批判，而且传说他的儿子（按：应该是陈小鲁，此传说不确）被判死刑然后改为死缓。陈毅可能是在受监督的状态下履行公务。
应该说，英国人的判断是准确的，据邹一民《文革1967年乱象丛生的外交部》：1967年1月18日，外交部《革命造反联络站》（当时是外交部唯一的全部性群众组织,1966年12月21日成立。）宣布向执行资产阶级反动路线的、以陈毅为首的外交部党委“夺权”。当晚，周恩来表示支持夺权，但明确指出，夺的是“运动的领导权和业务的监督权”。
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CONFIDENTIAL
Cypher/Cat.A
PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Telno. 180 10 February 1967
CONFIDENTIAL
Addressed
to Foreign Office telegram No. 180 of 10 February. Repeated for information to Washington.
to Foreign Office telegram No. 180 of 10 February. Repeated for information to Washington.
There
are signs
that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs may have been “taken
over” by a revolutionary rebel committee.
are signs
that the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs may have been “taken
over” by a revolutionary rebel committee.
2. The Danish Ambassador who was called to the Ministry on 6 February to see “some responsible
members” of West European
Department, found himself confronted by two men and a woman whom he had never seen before and who refused
to disclose their
identity.
They ran the meeting as a sort of committee and were rather ruder than usual. I have it on good authority that the Mongolian Ambassador was asked to go to the
Ministry to see “members
of the Revolutionary Rebel Committee”. He declined the invitation which was repeated several times in
pressing terms
with
veiled
threats
of the terrible consequences that would follow if he failed to appear, The Ambassador did not of course go. The Soviet Charge ‘Affaires tells me that at his last
meeting four or five days ago he saw his usual Vice-Minister who was accompanied
by two unknown young men who repeatedly tried to intervene in discussions. They also refused to disclose their identity but he was informed at the end that they were “representatives of the masses”.
members” of West European
Department, found himself confronted by two men and a woman whom he had never seen before and who refused
to disclose their
identity.
They ran the meeting as a sort of committee and were rather ruder than usual. I have it on good authority that the Mongolian Ambassador was asked to go to the
Ministry to see “members
of the Revolutionary Rebel Committee”. He declined the invitation which was repeated several times in
pressing terms
with
veiled
threats
of the terrible consequences that would follow if he failed to appear, The Ambassador did not of course go. The Soviet Charge ‘Affaires tells me that at his last
meeting four or five days ago he saw his usual Vice-Minister who was accompanied
by two unknown young men who repeatedly tried to intervene in discussions. They also refused to disclose their identity but he was informed at the end that they were “representatives of the masses”.
3. If I am asked to go to the Ministry explicitly to meet “revolutionary rebels” I propose to decline. If I am asked to go to meet “responsible members” of Western European Department and find when I get there some unknown persons, I propose to refuse to discuss matters with them until they at least disclose their identity. I hope you will approve of this line as a first reaction. If the Ministry inform us officially that it has been taken over by a “rebel committee” this would put the matter on a different footing. I expect most of my colleagues to take a
similar attitude.
similar attitude.
4. The Moroccan Ambassador has told me that he
has it
from a
“very reliable source” that Ch’en Yi was paraded in a lorry but without dunce’s cap some time last week. This on the face of it would seem unlikely as he was the guest of honour at the Ceylon National Day reception on 4 February. Nevertheless the two are not completely inconsistent in present circumstances. We know he is still under some criticism and there are reports that his son has been condemned to death,
though reprieved subsequently. He could still be carrying out his official functions
“under supervision”.
has it
from a
“very reliable source” that Ch’en Yi was paraded in a lorry but without dunce’s cap some time last week. This on the face of it would seem unlikely as he was the guest of honour at the Ceylon National Day reception on 4 February. Nevertheless the two are not completely inconsistent in present circumstances. We know he is still under some criticism and there are reports that his son has been condemned to death,
though reprieved subsequently. He could still be carrying out his official functions
“under supervision”.
Foreign
Office please pass Washington 104.
Office please pass Washington 104.
Mr. Hopson Sent 0850Z/10 February 1967
Recd. 0943Z/10 February 1967
[Repeated
as requested]
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