Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-04-02
For Peace in the Pacific

In his address at Whittier College in Los
Angeles, John Foster Dulles has indicated that
the United States is making good progress to-
ward an inter-allisd agreement on a japanese
peace treaty. OF the more than two score nations
qualified to participate in defining the terms
the Soviet Union alone has shown a stubborn,
obstructionist attitude. All the Others even
though they do not yet see eye to eye on num-
Der of points, share in common both the desire
and the will to co-operate-a fact that augurs
well for the project.
AS explained by Mr.. Dulles-in his capacity
as head of the Presidents special mission
charged with working out japanese settlement
the United States has taken the lead in this
matter for several obvious reasons. The chief
of these reasons is that American power, besides
having been the prime factor in the Allied vic
tory over the Tokyo warlords and in maintaining
Western Pacific security since then, will in the
future be the main guardian of the free worlds
interests and safety in that region of the globe.
Actually, in number of respects, the 'ten-
tatiVe" terms proposed by our Government re-
feet the ideas of many other lands (including
Britain and Australia) whose long range security,
will be affected by the nature of the treaty that
must be finally agreed upon. As Mr.. Dulles has
said, our country has no desire to "go it alone"
in this project. On the contrary, it is anxious
of the views of all the victor powers-incuding
If possible, the Soviet Union. The only unyield-
ing aspect of our American policy is that the
settlement must not throw unnecessary and
tntolerable burdens of military or economic
character upon the United States, and jeopardize
the lasting peace that the war was fought to-
win" !.
Accordingly, what the United States has
proposed for Japan is "a peace of reconciliation
"a peace designed to make it self supporting
member of the family of free nations. TO that
end, in the economic and political spheres, our
Government has advocated, among other things
ID that the japanese, though undergoing
drastic reduction in their former territory, be
spared punitive reparations; 81 that there be
no dismantling of their industry, including ship
building capacity dismantling that would
impose an almost inhuman burden" on them and
work against the best interests of the allies 90
that they be permitted, wholly apart from treaty
terms, to negotiate as sovereign power in the
field of trade agreements and high-seas fisheries;
and a. that they be treated as equals, with the
right to become members of the United Nations.
In addition in the security sphere, our
American policy advocates that the proposed
treaty Cd place the Ryukyu and BONN Islands
under an American administered u. N. trustee
ship: ca permit the Japanese, despite their
SelI-lHpoSeu coLSIlIulloHdl Dali dsaAiSt tle
maintenance of military power, to rearm on
limited scale that viii prevent them from ever
again being aggressors but enable them at the
same time to contribute to their own and the
common defense of the free Pacific area; and
81 include a provisional arrangement under
which the United States would continue to sta
ton armed forces Sin and about Japan to
guard against that country's becoming vacuum
of power and therefore AN easy prey to such
aggression as has already shown itself in nearby
Korea"
The Soviet Union-together with Red China,
which is technically ineligible to speak on the
subiect-has left little room for doubt about Its