JAPANESE PEACE TREATY

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26123, 27 May 1950, Page 7

JAPANESE PEACE TREATY

Mr Dulles Plans To Examine Problems VISIT TO JAPAN AND KOREA (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 25. Mr John Foster Dulles, Republican special consultant to the United States State Department, said to-day that he planned to visit the Far East next month to study problems connected with the Japanese peace treaty. Mr Dulles was recently assigned by the Secretary of State (Mr Dean Acheson) to study the treaty question. Mr Dulles said he would visit both Japan and Korea. He would leave Washington about the same time as the Secretary of Defence (Mr Louis Johnson) and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (General Omar Bradley), who are going to Japan to examine military aspects of the Japanese problem. The fact that Mr Dulles is to examine treaty problems is regarded in Washington as an indication that the State Department hopes to reconcile the differences between itself and the Defence Department. It is known that United States military officials oppose an early peace treaty on the ground that America's strategic position in the Western Pacific would be weakened. The State Department favours an early treaty. Government officials said that Mr Dulles would attempt to reconcile these differences during personal discussions with General MacArthur, General Bradley, and Mr Johnson.