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MR. RUSK:
On that peninsula, yes.
MR. NITZE:
On that peninsula, but was that enough, really? Didn't you also need
wider deployment of troops and the use of air fields scattered throughout
the Japanese islands, and so forth and so on. In other words, what you
needed was probably more than just Okinawa and Yatruska. Wasn't that
where We finally came out?
MR. RUSK:
That's right. We needed bases that were in the middle of a sea of
Japanese people, and you needed active cooperation from the Japanese to
make those bases effective. That was the gut of the matter. But the
military were under the impression that we had the choice of -that it was
possible for us to maintain the conditions of the occupation indefinitely
the
into the future, despite General MacArthir's strong view to the contrary
view of the
US.
and despite the/State Department that opposition in Japan would continue
to deteriorate if we did not nove toward a Japanese Peace Treaty. And
Jap
that was the issue on which decision had to be made.
MR. ACHESON:
By September, 1951, a draft treaty had been pretty well worked out. The
clauses,
last/faxexx which were fluid almost up to the end were these reparation
clauses. You had a lot of trouble from the Indonesians, the
with the
Filipinos and others, the lot of claims they had, and
finally those were sort of compromised out at the last moment with the
A lot of
help of the Japanese, who talked with these various delegations.xidth
this happened in San Francisco. The Japanese would recognize an obliga-
tion to perform reparations, but they would do it by working on materials
which these nations would purchase and give to them--that was the general
area-eit was rather loesely reparations, but it was important for the
home consumption of these other countries.
MR. NITZE:
And these reparations would not require dollar expenditure, or the
surrender of foreign exchange, but the application of Japanese labor and
technique to materials supplied by others, or in direct labor such as
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