894.60/3–1947

Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State ( Hilldring ) to the United States Member of the Far Eastern Commission ( McCoy )

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In accordance with a memorandum dated March 19, 1947, from the State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee, there is enclosed a copy of SWNCC 236/35 regarding United States Policy on Reparations Allocations Procedures for Industrial Facilities in Japan which was approved by the State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee on March 11, 1947.58

The United States Member, Far Eastern Commission, is requested to submit this statement of United States policy, as set forth in the conclusions of SWNCC 236/35, to the Far Eastern Commission as a matter of the highest urgency with a view to obtaining from the Commission a policy decision on the subject.

If the Far Eastern Commission has not agreed to the adoption of a policy decision on this subject within a brief but reasonable period of time, the United States Government will, after giving due consideration to views which have been expressed in the course of Far Eastern Commission deliberations, issue this policy as an interim directive to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.59

J. H. Hilldring
  1. Not attached to file copy of memorandum.
  2. For interim directive, see serial 75, April 4, to SCAP, p. 376.