Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28

Australia, New Zealand, India and
the Philippine Commonwealth.
ii. Functions.
| A. The functions of the Far East
ern Commission shall be:
/. To formulate the policies, prin-
ciples and standards in conformity
with which the fulfillment by Japan
of its obligations under the terms of
surrender may be accomplished.
2. To review, on the request of any
member, any directive issued to the
supreme commander for the Allied
powers or any action taken by the
supreme commander involving pol
icy decisions within the jurisdiction
of the commission.
3. To consider such other matters
as may be assigned to it by agree
ment among the participating gov
ernments reached in accordance
with the voting procedure provided
for in Article V, Section 2, here
under.
B. The commission shall not make
recommendations with regard to the
conduct of military operations nor
with regard to territorial adjust
ments.
9. The commission in its activities
Will proceed from the fact that there
has been formed an Allied Council
for Japan and will respect existing
control machinery in Japan, includ-
ing the chain of command from the
United States Government to the
supreme commanders command of
occupation forces.
III. Functions of the United
States Government.
l. The United States Government
shall prepare directives in accord
ance with policy decisions of the
commission and shall transmit them
10 the supreme commander through
the appropriate United States Gov
eminent agency. The supreme COM
mander shall be charged with the
experimentation of the directives
which express the policy decisions
OF the commission.
2. II the commission decides that
any directive or action reviewed in
accordance with Article II-A-2
should be modified, its decision shall
be regarded as a policy decision.
8. The United States Government
may issue interim directives to the
supreme commander pending action
by the commission whenever urgent
matters arise not covered by policies
already formulated by the commits
sion; provided that any directive
dealing with fundamental changes
IN the japanese constitutional struc-
ture or in the regime of control, or
dealing with a change in the jana
nese government as a whole will be
issued only following consultation
and following the attainment of
agreement in the Far Eastern Com
mission.
4. All oirectiveS issued shall be
hled with the commission.
Nv. Other Methods of Consultation.
The establishment of the commits
sion shall not preclude the use of
other methods of consultation on
Far Eastern issues by the partici-
pating governments.
3 V. Composition.
l. The Far Eastern Commission
shall consist of one representative
of each of the states party to this
agreement. The membership of the
commission may be increased byt
agreement among the paftieinAtitiS1
powers as conditions warrant by the
addition of representatives of other
United Nations in the Far East or
having territories therein. The
commission shall provide for full
and adequate consultations, as &C.
casion may require, with representa-
tlves of the United Nations not
members of the commission in re-
fgard to matters before the commits
sion which are of particular concern
to such nations. SO.
2. The commission may take action
by less than unanimous vote pro-
vided that action shall have the
concurrence of at least a majority
of all the representatives, includ-
ing the representatives of the four
following powers: United States.
United Kingdom, Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics and China.
vi. Location and Organization.
/. The Far Eastern Commission
shall have its headquarters in Wash
ington. 1t may meet at other places
as occasion requires, including
Tokyo, if and when it deems it de-
sirable to do so. 1t may make such
arrangements through the chair
man as may be practicable for con-
Sultation with the supreme COM
mander for the Allied powers.
2. Each representative on the COM
mission may be accompanied by an
appropriate staff comprising both
civilian and military representation
3. The commission shall organize
it's secretariat, appoint such COM
mittees as may be deemed advisable,