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    "ocrText": "7. Mr. Malik in reply merely stated that there\nwas no difference between the United States proposal and\nthe present situation since United States troops stationed\nin Japan after the treaty would be in effect the same as\nUnited States troops remaining in occupation.\n8. Mr. Malik then returned to the question of\nterritories and said that since the Surrender Terms speci-\nfied that the four main islands of Japan and \"other small\nislands\" as determined by the Allied Powers would remain\nunder Japanese sovereignty he failed to understand the\nUnited States proposal with regard to a trusteeship over\nthe Ryukyu and Bonin Islands since those islands were a\npart of the \"other small islands\" referred to in the Terms\nof Surrender. There had been express agreement regarding\nthe islands to be detached, i.c. Kuriles, Pescadores and\nFormosa. Mr. Dulles replied that our proposal was as set out in the\nmemorandum.\n9. Mr. Dulles said that it was our hope that\nthe treaty would be signed by all the nations represented\non the Far Eastern Commission but that if any failed to\nparticipate it was our intention to proceed anyway pro-\nviding the Japanese were willing to negotiate a separate\npeace.\n10. Mr. Malik evidently misunderstood the above\nstatement and asked if the Japanese were to determine the\nprocedure which would be adopted by the Allied Powers. Mr.\nDulles said no, but that it was not our intention to coerce\nthe Japanese into signing a treaty which would not be\nsigned by all the nations on the Far Eastern Commission.\nHe said that we had not yet made up our minds as to the\nprocedure which should be adopted and that we would prob-\nably do that after we had gotten the reactions of the\nother nations to our initial proposals.\n11. Mr. Malik asked if we had yet received any\nanswers to our proposals and on being informed that we had\nnot said that he too would have to wait until after he had\ngiven further consideration to our proposals.\n12. Mr. Dulles then said that he hoped very much\nthat we would be able to produce a treaty which the Soviet\nUnion and the United States could both sign and that he\nfelt that if the Soviet Union were really desirous of tak-\ning a step which would lead to a relaxation of the tensions\n-3-"
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