Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, Asia and the Pacific, Volume VI, Part 1

Editorial Note

On August 22, the United States issued invitations to the Governments of Viet-Nam, Laos, and Cambodia to participate in the signing of the Japanese Peace Treaty at San Francisco. For text of the communication containing the invitation, see United States–Vietnam Relations, 1943–1967, Book 8, page 447. For documentation on the San Francisco Conference, which convened September 4, including material on the question of the participation of the Associated States of Indochina, see pages 777 ff.