FAR EASTERN COMMISSION
2516 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N. W.
WASHINGTON 8, D. C.
The attached is certified to be the official text of a document unanimously adopted at the twenty-eighth meeting of the Far Eastern Commission, held at 2516 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D. C., on 25 September 1946.
Stratton
For Nelson T. Johnson
Secretary General
Washington, D. C.
1 October 1946
CONFIDENTIAL
ENCLOSURE "A"
FURTHER POLICIES RELATING TO A NEW JAPANESE CONSTITUTION
The Far Eastern Commission reaffirms its previous decision, taken in FEC-031/19, Basic Principles for a New Japanese Constitution, that all cabinet ministers should be civilians, and further decides as a matter of policy that the House of Councillors should not have any predominance over the House of Representatives. The Commission considers essential its continuing right to scrutinize the implementing legislation very carefully to insure that such predominance is not established.