In the five days of the San Francisco conference, the U.S. found out more about the modern world and its own destiny than it had discovered in the full six years since the end of World War II. The 49 signers of the Japanese Peace Treaty wrote a resounding diplomatic victory for the world's free nations, the sharpest defeat yet suffered by the Communists, and marked a decisive turning point in cold-war diplomacy.
To the U.S., the signatures meant even more: San Francisco was the most clean-cut demonstration yet of what bold U.S. initiative can accomplish. This...
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