Editorial Note
On September 1, 1951, at the Presidio of San Francisco, representatives of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States concluded the [Page 251] Security Treaty between the three countries. The signers for the United States were Messrs. Acheson and Dulles, Senator Wiley, and Senator John J. Sparkman of Alabama, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ambassador Spender signed the Treaty for Australia and Ambassador Berendsen signed it for New Zealand.
For text of the Treaty, see 3 UST (pt. 3) 3420. Statements made at the signing ceremony by Secretary Acheson and Ambassadors Berendsen and Spender are printed in the Department of State Bulletin, September 24, 1951, page 495.
President Truman ratified the Treaty for the United States on April 15, 1952, after the Senate had given its advice and consent to ratification on March 30. The Treaty came into force April 29, 1952, upon deposit of ratifications by all three Governments that day.