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    "ocrText": "C o Y\nCOPY\n8.\nMessage from Mr. Bevin to Mr. Acheson\nSERVICE\nI was very sorry to receive your message delivered by\nyour Chargé d'Affaires here, to the effect that it may not be\npossible for you to give us your views about a Japanese Peace\nTreaty before the Commonwealth Ministers Conference assembles\nin Ceylon on 9th January, 1950. We cannot at this late stage\nremove the item of Japan from the agenda, while to discuss it\nwithout knowing your views will mean on the one hand that we\nsuffer the same disability a S we did at Canberra in 1947 and\non the other that Commonwealth opinion may harden on certain\naspects of the Treaty in a way which may ultimately prove to\nbe at variance with the views of the United States.\nWhile I recognise that the United States are bearing almost\nthe whole burden of the Occupation and are likely to be involved\nto a greater extent than any other Power in preserving the\nsecurity of Japan against possible Russian aggression in the\nfuture, nevertheless this question of security is one which\nvery much concerns us all. We had hoped to be consulted before\nUnited States policy is finally settled, and I should have\nthought it might assist you in your consideration of the\nproblems before you if we were apprised of their nature.\nIn the circumstances I do very much hope that you will\nafter all be able to let us know how you are thinking about\nthis problem before the Ceylon Conference meets.\n8th December, 1949"
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