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The Secretary of State is familiar with the paper for Ministers regarding Control Machinery for Japan which advocates an Allied Control Commission of 5 (U.S.A. Russia, China, U.K. and Australia) with an Advisory Committee representative of those powers plus other United Nations which have taken an active part in the war against Japan.
The President of this Council and Committee would be the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.
Under the draft Terms of Surrender it is proposed that the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
(General MacArthur) should be empowered to accept the surrender of Chinese forces. In a telegram from Chungking to the Foreign Office, the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs is reported by an American press correspondent to have said that acceptance of surrender of Japanese forces in Hong Kong might be presumed to rest with a nominee of Chiang Kai-shek on the ground that Hong Kong was part of the China theatre of which Chiang Kai-shek was Supreme Commander.
In a telegram to the Chiefs of Staff from J.S.M. Washington of 16th August, there is a reference to "surrender docu ments which we are informed the State Department had passed to the Foreign Office" which included the text of General Order No.1 which provided that the senior Japanese commander of all ground, sea, air and auxiliary forces within China, should surrender to
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