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 694.001/9-651: Confidential File

From Saigon, desp. 152, Sept. 6, 1951. Enclosure no. 5, UNCLASSIFIED

US Invites Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos to participate in signing of Japanese Peace Treaty.

No. 11

The Legation of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Vietnam and has the honor to transmit the following message on behalf of the United States Government.

"The Government of the United States of America and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have the honor to enclose herewith two copies of a draft of the Peace Treaty with Japan, of two declarations which have been prepared on the basis of earlier drafts and observations thereon by countries which were actively concerned in the Japanese war. The draft protocol which is open for signature at any time has been proposed by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and is circulated for the information and comment of these countries whose domestic law permits them to sign it. It is believed that the . enclosed draft treaty and declarations combine and reconcile, as far as is practicable, the point of view of all the allied powers which were at war with Japan and will establish, with Japan, a just and durable peace.

"The Government of the United States of AmericannAmerican [sic] has the honor to invite your Government to a conference for conclusion and signature of a treaty of peace with Japan on the terms of the enclosed text. The conference will convene at San Francisco, United States of America, on September 4, 1951.

"Invitations have also been sent to the allied powers at war with Japan, except where special circumstances exist.

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