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Legal Aspects of the Yalta Agreement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Stephen C. Y. Pan
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The Far Eastern Agreement signed at Yalta at the very end of the Conference on February 11,1945, was frequently defended and criticized at the hearings held in April–May, 1951, on General MacArthur’s dismissal. Yet its legal status has not yet been adequately discussed.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 1952 , pp. 40 - 59
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1952

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1 Editorial comment in this Journal, Vol. 40 (1946), pp. 376–383.

2 Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Eolations, United States Senate (5 parts, Washington, 1951), Part 4, p. 2829. Hereafter it is called the MacArthur Hearings.

3 Ibid., Part 3, p. 2128.

4 Department of State, Agreement Regarding Japan (Washington, 1946). Italics added. This full text was released in February, 1946.

5 Department of State Bulletin, Feb. 18, 1945, pp. 213–216; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 39 (1945), p. 103.

6 Ibid., Supp., Vol. 19 (1925), p. 53.

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11 Manchuria: Treaties and Agreements, op. cit., p. 13.

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14 Ibid., p. 72.

15 Ibid., p. 78.

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27 Ibid., pp. 560–561.

28 Department of State Bulletin, Feb. 10,1946, pp. 189–190.

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32 Dept. of State Bulletin, Vol. 9, No. 232 (Dee. 4,1943), p. 393; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 38 (1944), p. 8.

33 MacArthur Hearings, op. cit., Part 3, p . 1885.

34 The New York Times, Jan. 13, 1950.

35 Ibid., Nov. 29, 1950.

36 Dept. of State Bulletin, Vol. 14, No. 345 (Feb. 10, 1946), p. 201; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 40 (1946), p. 51.

37 Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 635 (Aug. 27, 1951), p. 349. See also Department of State Publication 4330.

38 Roosevelt and the Russians (New York, 1949), p. 93, footnote.

39 The New York Times, Sept. 9,1951; New Times (Moscow), Supp., No. 37, Sept. 12, 1951, p. 19.

40 The New York Times, Sept. 4, 1951; Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 638 (Sept. 17, 1951), p. 462.

41 The Washington Evening Star, Sept. 8, 1951. The text of the Yoshida statement is not printed in the New York Times.

42 The New York Times, Aug. 30, 1951.

43 Page 2 of the quoted document issued by the State Department as an official document circulated to the public.

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