740.0011 PW Peace/10–1449
Memorandum by Mr. Robert A. Fearey, of the Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, to the Deputy Director of the Office (Allison)
Attached are the last 14 pages of the treaty and the 9 Annexes.1 The first ten pages you already have. The draft is based on that of Jannary, [Page 878] 1948,2 but with, changes of varying degrees of importance in almost all Articles and Annexes. The technical Articles and Annexes have been carefully reviewed by the experts and revised as necessary. Mr. Hamilton left for New York yesterday before the draft was completed but had approved almost all of it. You may wish to postpone reading the treaty until it has been reviewed by Meeker,3 but I doubt if he has many important changes to suggest in view of the care with which it has been gone over by the experts here.
Since Mr. Butterworth was so emphatic in his desire to have the non-security Articles and Annexes ready by October 15 I have left a copy in FE. Although I doubt whether he will wish to do anything with it this week end, he may have had some reason of which I am unaware for wanting it by that date.
I will be writing a commentary early next week explaining why the various Articles and the key sections of the Annexes are as they are. Mr. Davies has suggested that a meeting attended primarily by Mr. Butterworth, Mr. Kennan and someone from the top ranks of the Economic Offices be held next week to resolve points of difference on major substantive issues in the draft which have developed or may develop. I should think that the attached draft, after necessary revisions by NA and FE, and a commentary should be distributed to the participants before such a meeting.
- Draft not printed.↩
- For draft of January 8, 1948, see analysis of January 30, 1948, Foreign Relations, 1948, vol. vi, p. 656.↩
- Leonard C. Meeker, Office of the Legal Adviser.↩