Foreign Relations of the United States
      FRUS 54-4)       Oct. 28, 1954
Unsatisfied US Interest
Japan did not cede sovereignty over Formosa and the Pescadores to China. Japan renounced its own sovereignty but left the future title undefined. As principal victor over Japan, the United States has an unsatisfied interest in these former Japanese islands.


Foreign Relations of the United States
      FRUS 55-1)       July 1, 1955
United States Could Assert Legal Claim
In the peace treaty, Japan has merely renounced sovereignty over Taiwan, but there has been no other disposition. The United States also has an interest in Taiwan and could assert a legal claim to the island(s). Hence, the disposition of Taiwan is not merely an internal Chinese problem.


Czyzak Memorandum, Dept. of State
      STATE 61-1)       Feb. 3, 1961
Divesting Japan of its sovereignty over the islands
That the San Francisco Peace Treaty was intended to divest Japan of its sovereignty over the islands without transferring that sovereignty to any other country is abundantly clear from the record . . . . .


Starr Memorandum, Dept. of State
      STATE 71-1)       July 13, 1971
Some of the Allied Powers expressed the view that Article 2 of the treaty should not only relieve Japan of its sovereignty over the territories in question
In its Report on the San Francisco Peace Treaty dated February 14, 1952, the Senate Committee [on Foreign Relations] stated: "It is important to remember that Article 2 is a renunciatory article and makes no provision for the power or powers which are to succeed Japan in the possession of and sovereignty over the ceded territory."


Mandate for Change 1953-1956
      EISENHOWER 63-1)       published in 1963
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Japanese peace treaty of 1951 ended Japanese sovereignty over the islands but did not formally cede them to "China," either Communist or Nationalist.