Memorandum: Conversation in the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Dept. of State

Date: November 16, 1950

Subject: The Question of Formosa

The United States, as a principal victor of the war in the Pacific and as the sole occupying power of Japan has great responsibility in the disposition of Formosa; . . . .

[ source: United States Department of State / Foreign relations of the United States, 1950. East Asia and the Pacific, Volume VI (1950), page 575 ]

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