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MR. ACHESON:
Mmhm.
MR. FEIS:
Well, then I think I'd like to put into the record for someone who may
later try to write the history of this thing, that inx studying the
first basic directive for Japan--I suppose it was written in the autumn
of '45--- remember *kax very well (it may have been a little bit later;
it may have been the spring of '46--I don't remember that). But the
directive was in the form of one of these mimeographed things that the
State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee had produced. It was long and
closely akin to that 1067 for Germany; and it came across to the War
Department--it was toward the end of the work I was doing there, and
McCloy, perhaps--no, Stimson was gone, so it wouldn't have been that-
perhaps it was Patterson; anyway, he became disturbed about its length,
its restraints, its rigidity. And over a weekend that was rewritten
by four or five people in all its vital causes. The changes of the
many changes, the two that probably had the greatest significance was the
would have
over the
one which still said that the Supreme the
FRUMAN
with
Let
imperial institution that this thing would be left/1 the Japanese
type of ADMINT
NATIONAL
people; and the second was, changing the prhaseology of the economic field.
us COVERAGE
And that was done over the weekend, and McCloy to ok it directly to the
White House. And the President immediately approved it in its revised
form. I just say it for some future student--that he might look at that
draft; it might be worth putting into the record.
MR. RUSK:
I think by the fall of 44 two things were important in terms of the
that they felt,
Japanese attitude toward the problem of the peace treaty: one wash and
government
I think people in the United States/felt, that Japan had by 44 completely
complied with the terms of the surrender. Demilitarization had been
pretty well accomplished; the
?
had been dissolved; the
outlying islands had been given up; a new constitution had been adopted.
And if you took the terms of the surrender, you could make a pretty fair
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