John Foster Dulles' blueprint for peace with Japan lacked a cornerstone: Japan's future relations with her old enemy China. Since Britain and the U.S. could not agree whether China meant Peking or Formosa, the decision was left to Japan. Last week Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida made known his choice. In a letter to Dulles, he wrote that Japan wants "a treaty which will re-establish normal relations" with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. As for Red China: "The Japanese government has no intention to conclude a bilateral treaty with the Communist regime of China."
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