Evening star., 1951-09-02

JOHN FOSTER DULLES.
He gaUe the treaty life.
ally, it probably will take at least
a couple of days longer than that.
But our delegation obviously does
not expect to remain in San Fran
cisco indefinitely, as evidenced by
the fact that its leader, Secretary
of State AcheSon, has important
appointments in Washington, ar
ranged for a week from tomorrow.
The ceremonies are scheduled to
begin at GAS pm. Tuesday (9:45
pm, our time), in the Opera House.
Delegates of the 81 nations repre-
sented will be greeted briefly by the
Mayor of San Francisco and the
Governor of California. Then Mr..
AcheSon, as temporary president of
the conference, will introduce Pres
ident Truman for a speech. Before
the first session adjournS, creden-
tialS committee is supposed to be
formed.
Wednesdays will be an organ
izing session" at the Presidio. We
expect Mr.. AcheSon will be elected
president of the conference, which
then will try to adopt rules of pro-
cedure. The United States will press
for rule limiting each delegation
to one-hour speech on it's views
of the treaty-at least until all dele
cations have had a chance to be
heard. 1t is at this stage that
Mr.. Gromyko may have his best
chance to stage filibuster-before
the conference has adopted the
rules which, later, may silence him.
When the rules have been
adopted, there will be explanations
of the terms of the treaty by the
co-sponsoring powers. The Amer
lean spokesman is to be Ambassa-
or-at-Large John Foster Dulles,
who fathered the treaty and will
serve as floor leader of our delega-
ton at San Francisco.
If our timetable still were in
effect, Thursday and Friday would
be given over to the statements of
the various delegations. The treaty
would be signed on Saturday.
Treoty-With Propaganda
The feeling in Washington is
that the treaty we have drafted is
certain to be signed at San Fran
cisco by vast majority of nations
repreSented-in other words, that
Russia has no chance of actually
torpedoing the conference But no
one doubts that the Reds will have
plenty of chance to make propa-
ganda against us. Even If they are
squelched in the conference cham
ber itself, there will be 500-odd
newspapermen on hand who can
easily be lured from the routine
proceedings to cover a scorching
Gromyko press conference.
If they wish to use it, the Rus
slams will not lack for ammunition.
In private talks with borderline
delegates, for inStance-as well as
on the conference floor-they can
suggest the possibility of Korean
peace agreement in exchange for
a scrapping of the proposed Japa-
neSe pact.
They can, if they wish to go SO
far, place the United States dele
CATION in an awkward position by
proposing to forgo all territorial
acquisitions from Japan if our side
agrees to cross out that part of the
treaty which provides for American
administration of a U. N. trustee
ship over certain Japanese offshore
islands.
But the main line of the Red
propaganda attack at San Fran
cisco doubtless will center on the
treaty itself, and the way it came
into being. Judging from what the
Kremlin already has said, Mr.. Gro
myko's two principle contentious
will be:
/. That this is treaty dictated
by the United States alone, which
has usurped the international pre-
rogative of making peace with
Japan-a white mans" peace i'm
posed on the Orient.
2. That this is not peace treaty
at all, but an offensive alliance
against Communist Russia, cooked
up between American and Japanese
'imperialists."
Both these contentious are worth
a close look.