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John Foster Dulles left Tokyo this week after laying a firm foundation for a Japanese peace treaty. In companion statements, Dulles and Premier Shigeru Yoshida declared Japan's political and military alignment with...
Premier Shigeru Yoshida and the other Japanese politicians whom Dulles will see were ready for some close negotiating. The anti-Communist Japanese have little doubt about whose side they are on, but it was as plain as the peak of Mount Fuji that, in return for a pro-U.S. policy, Japan's statesmen intend to squeeze as much U.S. aid as they can out of any peace treaty...
...about the time it would take the U.S. to mobilize. With Russia and Red China facing them on the mainland, Japanese have started thinking about rearmament. Hisato Ichimada, governor of the Bank of Japan, recently said: "Rearmament is a question forced upon Japan by the international situation." Premier Shigeru Yoshida, who would like to use rearmament as a treaty bargaining point, last week cautiously added his agreement...
...June 1, however, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's Democratic Liberal Party government made a strong bid to steal the Communists' thunder. In a twelve-page note, the government gave a friendly history of the U.S. occupation, then announced that Japan was anxious to make a separate peace with any one or more of the powers with which it was still technically at war. The clear implication was that if the Western Allies and Russia could not agree on treaty terms, Japan would make peace with the West alone...
...election returns began to come in, it was quickly clear that support of a separate peace treaty with the U.S. had paid off for Premier Yoshida's Liberals. With eight seats still unaccounted for, the Liberal Party had already increased its membership in the House of Councilors from 60 to 73. At week's end the Communists had elected only three candidates...