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Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams
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Records of the Naval Aide to the President (Truman Administration)
State Department Briefs Files
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Parodi, Alexandre, 1901-1979
Morrison, Herbert, 1888-1965
Kirk, Alan Goodrich, 1888-1963
Jessup, Philip C. (Philip Caryl), 1897-
Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich, 1909-
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OFFICE OF
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
DECLASSIFIED
WASHINGTON
State Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1982
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
May 8, 1951
By DEB
NLT, Date 9-5-85
SECRE
SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS
USSR
Ambassador Kirk was handed a Soviet note
yesterday containing the Soviets view on our
draft Japanese Peace Treaty which we handed them on March 29. The
Soviet attitude toward our draft is, as expected, completely negative.
In rejecting it, the Soviets express their intention of convoking in June
or July 1951 a session of the Council of Foreign Ministers composed of
representatives of the USA, China, Great Britain, and the USSR in order
to embark upon preparation of a peace treaty with Japan, on the basis of
the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Declaration and the Yalta Agreement.
UK
Embassy London reports that Foreign Secre-
tary Morrison will make a statement in
Commons today on Formosa which will take the following line: Mention- -
ing British adherence to Cairo Declaration, Britain holds that the future
of Formosa lies in association with China. However, the UK does not
seek the transfer of Formosa to China while the Communists are engaged
in aggression in Korea. The UK believes the Formosan problem can
usefully be considered by the UN at an appropriate time, but this is not
urgent and must await the conclusion of operations in Korea. The UK
does not believe that the complex Formosan problem should delay the
Japanese Treaty.
FOUR POWER
At the tripartite meeting yesterday, Davies
PARIS TALKS
and Parodi announced that they will be ready
to consider the proposed aide-memoire to the
Soviets today or tomorrow. Parodi said, however, that if the French
elections are held on June 17th, the new cabinet will not be installed
until July 5th, and thus the CFM could not take place before mid-July.
Parodi agreed with Jessup's suggestion that Gromyko be told frankly that
the French elections are the determining factor in setting a date for the
CFM. Although this delay would permit the Soviets to attack the West in
their propaganda for delaying the CFM for so long, the West could answer
by citing the long delay caused by the Soviet attitude in the Deputies' talks.
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