International: I Won't Play

". . . It is common knowledge," snapped the Moscow radio, "that four powers, the United States, the Soviet Union, China and Great Britain secured victory over the aggressor Japan with their armed forces. . . . The Council of Foreign Ministers, formed at the initiative of the United States, was created precisely for the preliminary work on the preparation of peace treaties and cannot therefore be ignored in the preparation of the peace treaty for Japan."

With these words the Russians last week rejected the U.S. proposal that work on a Japanese peace treaty be begun by the eleven nations of...

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