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OCR Page 1 of 163/14/54: Reel 4, .rack 2,
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MR. ACHESON:
But it seemed to us that this didn't diminish the necessity for a treaty;
it rather increased it because we were putting more pressure upon a
weakening consent to occupation and therefore there had to be a clearer
end to the occupation than there was before. I think in the course of--
sometime in 1950, when I don't recall--We had discussions about
the general method; how did you go about this?
Mr. Byrnes had had a proposal about the treaty; we had the Far Eastern
Commission. We thought at one time we'd negotiate through the Far
Eastern Commission. But the more we thought of our experience with
Germany the more it was clear that all conference methods, whether you
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had a CFM arrangement such as the Russians were trying to propose in
the spring of '49, or the Far Eastern Commission, whatever negotiating
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techniques you got into, broadening out from a small group into a larger
group, would end in utter frustration. And therefore what we had to
do, since we were the major parties and interests here, was to work out
what we thought we wanted and then by negotiation to get it pretty well
accepted and then find a way of formalizing the whole thing in a cere
monial performance which would put it through. When we got on to
thinking about the forms--the content of the treaty-I think it seemed
to us that this was go ing to be pretty rough, because we were likely
to find ourselves pretty much in a minority among acx our Allies as to
the kind of a treaty, and the only kind of a treaty which we thought
with
would be successful/ix Japan. It had to be what is known as a 'generous
treaty; that is, it couldn't impose a thousand and one restrictions on
trade, on this, that and the other thing, reparations which never would
be carried out and which would put a burden on us to do the one
thing which would destroy the only chance of doing what we were trying
to accomplish which was to keep Japan in a happy and harmonious relation
with the West. Therefore, it seemed more and more that if we got into
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