LIKELY MAIN POINTS OF A PEACE TREATY FOR JAPAN TO SIGN

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 November 1949, Page 5

LIKELY MAIN POINTS OF A PEACE TREATY FOR JAPAN TO SIGN

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (Recd. 1 a.m.)—According to diplomatic authorities the State Department has planned and reached a decision to keep American troops in Japan after the end of the Allied occupation. The Secretary of State. Mr. Acheson, will be able to present to Mr. Bevin at Paris this week the following main provisions of a peace treaty with Japan drafted by the State Department: (1) To end the Allied occupation as soon as the treaty Is signed and ratified. (2) An orderly surrender by the occupation forces of the powers and duties of governing the country and their subsequent withdrawal in about six months. The Japanese Government would then have complete conItrol of all the nation’s internal and foreign affairs. (3) Denial to the new Government of an industrial capacity to build a modern war machine and of a right to create an army. (4) A final clean-up cf all reparations questions, including the disposition of former Japanese enemy f assets in Allied and neutral countries. <5l Final removal of territories from Japanese control in accordance with the wartime Cairo agreement, as well as a surrendering of Japanese rights over Pacific mandated islands. <6> Guarantees of basic civil rights, including basic principles of Western political democracy, sucn as free elections. (7) Commitments of Japanese membership in international organisations and treaties. It is now likely the Japanese will be required to make friendship and trade treaties with the principal Allies, to stand for membership in the United Nations and otherwise try to establish itself in the family of nations. A spokesman for General MacArthur stated in Tokio today that MacArthur wanted to avoid Japanese peace treaty talks "running aground on the shoals of international politics.” He was referring to reports that MacArthur was expecting a peace treaty to be signed in Tokio next year. The spokesman added that there is no official backing for these reports.