Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, Asia and the Pacific, Volume VI, Part 1

Editorial Note

On September 13, 1951, a statement signed by 56 members of the United States Senate was presented to President Truman. The Senators stated in part that they opposed recognition of Communist China by Japan and that they would regard with disapproval any bilateral treaty between those two countries. Full text of this statement is printed in the New York Times, September 14, 1951.