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assumed by the nations which were allied against Japan.
The United States proposal in this matter could be con-
sidered as a parallel to the action taken by the four
major powers when they found that they were unable to agree
in regard to the disposition of the Italian colonies and
referred the problem to the United Nations.
3. In reply, Mr. Malik stated that the Soviet
Union had opposed the consideration of Formosa by the United
Nations because the status of Formosa had been settled at
Cairo and confirmed at Potsdam and that, therefore, the
question of Formosa was an internal problem of China. He
said that he failed to understand the "parallel" drawn
between Formosa and the Italian colonies since in the case
of the former there had been agreement during the war among
the four major powers, whereas in the latter case there had
been no such agreement.
4. Mr. Malik then pointed out that the memorandum
provided for reference of the Formosa problem to the United
Nations in the event that the four major powers failed to
reach agreement within a year, but that the United States
had failed to wait for the expiration of the suggested time
period and already referred this matter to the United Nations.
5. Mr. Dulles said that our experience with the
problem of the Italian colonies had led us to expect con-
siderable delay before a solution in a matter of this kind
could be reached by the United Nations. He also explained
that the memorandum in question had been prepared on Septem-
ber 11th before the Formosan problem had been placed on the
U.N. agenda, and if it had been prepared later, it might
have been expressed somewhat differently, but that this
memorandum in its present form had been handed to each of
the other nations on the Far Eastern Commission and we felt
that the Soviet Union should receive the same document
without change.
6. Mr. Malik then asked for a fuller explanation
of paragraph 4 of the memorandum which deals with security.
Mr. Dulles explained that in the present troubled state of
the world the United States felt that it would be unwise to
have a Japan, prohibited by her constitution from rearming,
in a totally defenseless state since the result might be
detrimental to peace and security in the Pacific area. The
United States, therefore, intended to retain in Japan suffi-
cient strength to serve as a stabilizing force. He empha-
sized that the United States forces would not be of suffi-
cient strength to constitute an offensive threat to the
Soviet Union or any other Asiatic power.
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