時代別テーマ解説

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 I have the honor to present to Your Excellency, at the instruction of my Government, the following requests for the consideration of the Department of State with regard to the recent revised draft of the Japanese Peace Treaty.
1.　My Government requests that the word “renounces” in Paragraph a, Article Number 2, should be replaced by “confirms that it renounced on August 9, 1945, all right, title and claim to Korea and the islands which were part of Korea prior to its annexation by Japan, including the islands Quelpart, Port Hamilton, Dagelet, Dokdo and Parangdo.”
2.　As to Paragraph a, Article Number 4, in the proposed Japanese Peace Treaty, my Government wishes to point out that the provision in Paragraph A, Article 4, does not affect the legal transfer of vested properties in Korea to the Republic of Korea through decision by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific …
3. With reference to Article 9, my Government wishes to insert the following at the end of Article 9 of the proposed Peace Treaty: “Pending the conclusion of such agreements existing realities such as the MacArthur Line will remain in effect.”

日本語訳
私は、閣下に対し、本国政府の指示により、最近改訂された対日平和条約草案に関し、米国国務省に対する以下の要請を開陳する光栄を有する。
１．我が国（韓国）政府は、第2条a項の「放棄する」との語を「日本国は、1945年8月9日に、韓国並びに済州島、巨文島、欝陵島、ドク島及びパラン島を含む日本の韓国併合以前に韓国の一部であった島に対するすべての権利、権原及び請求権を放棄したことを確認する」と置き換えるよう要請する。
（以降の翻訳は省略）