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Volume #12 - 157.

CHAPTER III

JAPON PEACE SETTLEMENT IN JAPAN

PART 1

OCCUPATION AND CONTROL

157.

DEA/50061-40

Secretary of State for External Affairs
to Ambassador of United States

No. 3

TOP SECRET

Ottawa, January 3rd, 1946

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Note of December 29, 1945 in which, in the name of your Government and on behalf of the Governments of the United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom and China, you extend an invitation to the Canadian Government to participate in a Far Eastern Commission. I am happy to inform you that the Government of Canada accepts with pleasure the invitation to participate in the Commission on the basis of the terms of reference contained in your Note.

2. I should be glad if you would inform your Government that the Government of Canada will be represented on the Commission by Mr. L. B. Pearson, Canadian Ambassador to the United States.

Accept etc.
W. L. MACKENZIE KING



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