Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, East Asia and the Pacific, Volume VI

694.001/3–3050

Memorandum by the Consultant to the Secretary (Dulles)¹

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[Washington,] June 30, 1950.

At my conference with General MacArthur on the morning of Thursday, June 22, I suggested that it would be useful if he would elaborate somewhat the idea expressed in the concluding paragraph of his memorandum of June 14² with reference to security arrangements. The General said he would do so and prepared the memorandum of June 23, 1950.³

In further discussing this concept of security with General MacArthur I mentioned that any arrangements about security with Japan should be cast in the mold of overall international peace and security rather than in terms of any special advantage to the United States at the expense of Japan. In this connection I prepared and handed to General MacArthur a memorandum of which a copy is attached indicating what would be the “normal” procedure if the United Nations were operating one-hundred percent and suggesting that arrangements with Japan could be assimilated put into the mold of the United Nations concept so that facility [sic] made available by Japan would be considered as part of the structure of international peace and security. General MacArthur at that time and at a subsequent conference said that he fully agreed with such a presentation as being the way to make the arrangement acceptable to the Japanese people.

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The normal procedure would be:

1. A peace treaty with Japan;

2. Japan’s admission to the United Nations;

3. Agreements by Japan making available to the Security Council military “facilities—necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security” (Article 43);

4. “Pending the coming into force of such special agreements referred to in Article 43” the five Permanent Members of the Security Council would take “such joint action on behalf of the Organization as may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security” (Article 106).

It is suggested that pending Japan’s admission to the United Nations and the coming into force of Article 43 agreements, that Japan would make comparable agreements for military facilities with the United States acting under the Potsdam Declaration as representative of the signatories, these facilities to be merged into the international security system of the United Nations when it is finally established.

1. This memorandum was distributed to the Secretary and to Messrs. Jessup, Husk, Kennan, Hamilton, Allison, and Fearey.
2. Ante, p. 1213.
3. Ante, p. 1227.