Word: ryukyu
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...concur if the U.S. proposed a U.N. trusteeship for Okinawa "with the U.S. as sole administering authority," and pending such trusteeship, granted the U.S. full jurisdiction. The U.S. has never applied for a U.N. trusteeship. The Japanese government has expressed "pain and anxiety" about the future of the Ryukyu Islands, and in 1953 the U.S. returned the northern Ryukyus to Japan. At the same time, the U.S. stated that it would keep control of Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyus, "so long as conditions of threat and tension exist in the Far East"-that is, said Secretary of State...
Secretary of State Dulles announced flatly that the U.S. regards Okinawa and the bulk of the Ryukyu and Bonin Island chains as "essential links" in the strategic defense of the whole Pacific area, intends to keep control of them "so long as conditions of threat and tension exist in the Far East." Under a defense system that accents air power and mobility, the Ryukyus and Bonins will be strong U.S. air and naval outposts in a defensive line that stretches along the China coast from Japan to the Philippines...
...Japan renounces its claims to Formosa (now held by the Chinese Nationalists), Korea, the Kurile Islands and South Sakhalin (Russia got both at Yalta), the 623 islands of the Caroline, Mariana and Marshall chain (now controlled by the U.S. under U.N. trusteeship), and the Bonin and Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, now an important U.S. air base...
...last big holdout was heard from: India will boycott the conference. Jawaharlal Nehru told a cheering Parliament that he opposes the treaty because: 1) it does not prohibit U.S. forces in Japan; 2) does not turn over Formosa to Red China; 3) gives the U.S. trusteeship over the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands, including Okinawa; 4) does not confirm Russia's Yalta title to the Kuriles and South Sakhalin; 5) does not give Japan "honor, equality and contentment...
...government sent a note to Washington formally protesting against certain provisions in the Japanese peace treaty draft (TIME, July 23). India feels 1) the treaty should not provide for U.S. troops to be stationed in Japan; 2) Formosa should be handed over to Red China; 3) the Ryukyu and Bonin islands should be returned to Japan, instead of being turned into U.S. bases...