Jap Peace Treaty Expected Next Year
MANILA, Nov. 5. According to the Assoicated Press' General MacArthur expected the peaco treaty with Japan to be signed m Tokio next year, said an» occupation 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-entrj into world affairs, but only if they agreed to the Anglo-American plaus that already were well developed. After the conelusion of the treaty Japan would be invited to assure herself of securitv in the Communistthreateued Western Pacific by entering into a pact providing her with military defences. Details of the pact had not been completed, Rut Japan would have a voice in selectirig from alternative plans. The source said among the alternative plans the course consideted inore like'y would be a pact granting the' United States Air, Navy and Army bases on long-range terms. The source represented General MacArthur as believing, with hiniself sitting as a presiding but non-voting mediatror and adviser, that "minor differences on the viewpoint^ of the British Commonwealth Paeilic nations and those of the United States vvould be quicklv compromised. "
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1949, Page 5
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