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The Agenda. Despite Vishinsky's maneuvers, the Assembly voted against seating the Chinese Reds, passed the problem on to a committee.
The Assembly's steering committee adopted an agenda of 69 items, many of them perennials including: 1) U.N.'s condemnation of Franco Spain; 2) Communist threats to Greece; 3) Nationalist Chinese charges that Soviet Russia interfered in the Chinese civil war; 4) Western charges against Russian jamming of foreign broadcasts; 5) Russia's failure to repatriate German and Japanese prisoners of war. The steering committee also put on the agenda, without protest from Russia, Dean Acheson's proposals for strengthening the role of the Assembly( see above). Then it passed, without protest from the U.S., a Russian proposal to debate "American aggression" against China by its intervention on Formosa.
The U.S. itself submitted an item for inclusion in the Assembly's agenda called "The Question of Formosa," announced that it would invite the General Assembly to consider and settle "the future of Formosa" and of its nearly 8,000,000 inhabitants. The move was an unmistakable slap at the Nationalists (see box), gave aid & comfort to the Chinese Reds in their effort to get into U.N.