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    "ocrText": "2012\nDEPARTMENTOO STATE\ns/ 5\nMemorandum of Conversation\nMiss Ashymon\nDATE:\nOctober 15, 1951\nSUBJECT:\n877\nVisit or Japanese Diet Members\n3. ARCHIVES \"HATIONAL RECORDS AND\n297\nPARTICIPANTS:\nMr. Selichi Ohmura, Liberal Party\nNr. Morio Sasaki, Liberal Party\nMr. Unjuro Muto, Socialist\nMr. Ino Dan, Liberal Party\nMr. Toshito Satow\nCOPIES TO:\nxxxxxxxx\nThe Secretary\nMr. U. Alexis Johnson, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretar:\nfor Par Eastern Affairs\nMr. William Sherman, Vice Consul, Yokohama\nMr. Munio Sakaue, DRF (interpreter)\nCopies to: S/S, S-Mr. Dulles, FE, NA, USPOLAD\nu. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-61120-1\nThe foregoing members of the Foreign Affairs Committees of\nthe upper and lower Houses of the Japanese Diet paid a courtesy call\non me this afternoon at 2:30. After an exchange of the usual\npleasantries and a formal expression of appreciation by Mr. Ohmura\nof my role in the San Francisco Peace Conference, Mr. Sasaki ex-\npressod the interest and concern of the Japanese over the question\nof the Ryukyus, Habonai and Shikotan. In reply, I stated that\nMr. Dulles and others in the Department were working on the former\nproblem. Mr. Muto expressed the interest of the Japanese in the\nAdministrative Agreement for the implementation of the Security\nTreaty and requested my views concerning the timing of negotiations\nbetween the United States and Japan of the Agreement. He specific-\nally asked whether 1.t was my view that the Agreement should be\nnegotiated before ratification of the Security Treaty by the U. s.\nSenate. In reply, Nr. Johnson stated that there were many complex\nproblems to be rosolved in connection with the Agreement and that\nthe U. S. Dovernment had not yet reached decisions on all of the\nquestions. However, the U. S. Government was working most urgently\non these questions in order that it would be in a position to enter\ninto negotiations with the Japanese at the earliest possible moment\nand that in his personal view there was not necessarily any direct\nrelationship between the timing of those negotiations and ratifica-\ntion of the Securi ty Treaty by the U. S. Congress.\nDECLASSIFIED\nFE: UA Johnsontmw\n10/17/51\nE.0. 10501"
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