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OCR Page 1 of 143/14/54: Reel 5, Track 2, a age 1
MR. ACHESON:
And they had quite a sizable delegation, headed by Yoshida. And they
played a very useful part and I thought behaved extremely well. They
were modest; they were retiring; they made one speech in the course of
the conference which was a good, conciliatory speech. Our main effort
that we made with the Japanese during the conference was to have them
meet with the Filipinos, the Indonesians, the Dutch, and I think also
the British-various people who were deeply concerned about reparations
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for damage which had been done in the Far East-and assured them that
within the limits of the treaty and within the limits of their power
they would do whatever they could. They would really carry out the terms
of the treaty in a generous way. I think that had a good effect. I
can't think of anything else; Yoshida and his people had lunch with me,
some of them a couple of times, and I think that they broke the ice with
a good many of the national delegations. Can you think of anything?
MR. RUSK:
No; they were held over until last for their main speech, because they
did not participate in the debate among the others, Ax in the earlier
stage. They made a major statement at the end of the debate. But they
were very helpful to us in lining up such countries as Indonesia, whose
signature was very doubtful when the meeting convened. It was due to
the Japanese effort that the Indonesians finally came in and signed.
MR. NITZE:
The Indonesians had never ratified it's had they
MR. RUSK:
No, I think that's right.
MR. ACHESON:
I think we might say a word about the Congressional delegation. We worked
on that quite kas hard. We had a pretty good opportunity, because there
were several treaty to sign that we wanted to get as large a number of
people as we could, particularly influential people from the House and
the Senate so that this would pave the way for ease in ratification and
ease in any legislation that might grow out of it. Therefore the security
treaty with Japan we used as the excuse to get people from the Armed Ser-
vices Committee of both the Senate and the House on the delegation. The
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