Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLTCMard (Aide) 368 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE DECLASSIFIED WASHINGTON E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 state Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982 June 24, 1952 By DEB NLT, Date TOP 7-24-85 SECRET SECURITY INFORMAT TION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS JAPAN Prime Minister Yoshida asked Ambassador Murphy to lunch with him on Sunday, and, during the course of a lengthy conversation, Yoshida said the following concerning Japan's relations with Nationalist China. Yoshida is encouraged by reports of the Japanese Special Emis - sary, Ogata, who has recently been studying conditions in Southeast Asia and particularly Formosa. Ogata said that Chiang Kai-shek had hinted he might be thinking in terms of eventual Japanese military intervention on the Chinese mainland; Yoshida remarked to Murphy that this is evidently out of the question, as Japan is and will for a long time be unprepared for military operations. Yoshida said he felt the solution lies in fifth column penetration and subversion in Communist China, using tactics analogous to classic Communist methods. In this respect, he asserted, Japan could be useful. Yoshida hopes that Chiang will react favorably to a Japanese invitation to send a confidential agent to Tokyo. Yoshida said he hopes to build a relation of confidence between the Japanese Government and Chiang; he said he still stands by his letter of last December concerning Japan's intention to conclude a treaty with the Chinese Nationalist Government and is not worried about the trade angle with Communist China. No important Japanese businessman, said Yoshida, entertains illusions about trade with the Chinese mainland under current conditions. He added that he wanted to conduct matters with the Chinese Nationalist Government under our friendly "inspection". JAPAN AND The Department will refrain from suggestions to the THE UN Japanese as to the timing of their application for UN membership, but we believe it would be desirable to provide for separate handling of Japan's application by the Security Council in order to show our own deep interest in Japan's admission and to place the onus on the USSR if it should veto it. We believe, therefore, that at the outset of the first Security Council meeting on membership, either the US or some other friendly member should propose the inclusion, under agenda item 3 concerning various membership applications, of a new sub-paragraph which would relate to Japan's application alone. During consideration of this sub-paragraph the US would express strong support for Japan's admission and indicate its willingness to bring the application TOP SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION