Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, The Far East, Volume VIII

894.011/5–946

Proposed Revision to SWNCC 228/2⁹²

May 9, 1946

2. If the Japanese people should desire to adopt a new Constitution through the medium of a constituent assembly, a specially elected Diet, or a popular referendum, they should not be discouraged from so doing.

92. Transmitted by General Hilldring to the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee on May 9 for consideration. This paragraph was not adopted at the 40th meeting of SWNCC on May 9 and was dropped at the 41st meeting on June 27 after General McCoy had expressed disapproval.