Office of the Historian

740.00119 PW/6–1746: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Political Adviser in Japan (Atcheson)

secret
Washington, June 17, 1946—6 p.m.

359. For Political Adviser from the Acting Secretary. You will recall that on April 29 in Paris the Secretary announced his proposal for 25-year disarmament and demilitarization treaties for Germany and Japan. At that time he made public the text of the draft for [Page 254] Germany.21 In order to complete the public record, Department now plans to release for publication on June 21 draft treaty for Japan.22 Department’s following telegram (Number 360)23 contains revised text of draft treaty on Japan in form in which recirculated to Moscow, Chungking, and London on June 13, 1946. Please inform General MacArthur.

Acheson
  1. Released by the Department on April 30; Department of State Bulletin, May 12, 1946, p. 815.↩
  2. For text, see Department of State Bulletin, June 30, 1946, p. 1113. An official copy was sent on June 24 to the Far Eastern Commission for its information.↩
  3. Not printed.↩