PEACE TREATY WITH JAPAN

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25954, 7 November 1949, Page 7

PEACE TREATY WITH JAPAN

REPORTED VIEWS OF GENERAL M AC ARTHUR

POSSIBLE INCLUSION OF RUSSIA AND CHINA

(Rec. 9 p.m.) MANILA, November 5. General MacArthur expected a peace treaty with Japan to be signed in Tokyo next year, said a source in Japan who cannot be named. Communist China and the Soviet Union might be present when the Allies laid down their terms for Japan’s re-entry into world affairs, but only if they agreed to the British and American plans that were well developed. After the conclusion of the treaty Japan would be invited to assure herself of security in the Communistthreatened western Pacific by entering into a pact providing her with military defences. The details of the pact had not been completed, but Japan would have a voice in selecting from alternative plans. The source said that among the alternative plans the course considered more likelv would be a pact granting the United States air, navy, and army bases on long-range terms. “Minor differences on the points of view of the British Commonwealth Pacific nations and those of the United States and the United Kingdom would quickly be compromised,” he said.