740.00119 Control (Japan)/9–2245

Memorandum by the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs ( Vincent ) to the Under Secretary of State ( Acheson )

London Embassy’s no. 9838 of September 22 reports a personal conversation with the Chief of the British Foreign Office Division for Far Eastern Affairs, during which that Foreign Office official said that there were “strong British convictions” that a five-power Control Commission be set up in Tokyo and that therefore no official British reply has been made to the American proposal for a Far Eastern Commission.

Sir George Sansom, of the British Embassy, called on me this morning and in the course of the conversation I mentioned the matter to him. He said that he understood definitely that the British Foreign Office intended to discuss this whole matter with the Secretary and Mr. Dunn in London and that, therefore, there would be no need to give any particular attention to the personal conversation reported in 9838 unless of course we desired to do so.

J[ohn] C[arter] V[incent]