Mr. President. is that had Nationalist China been invited to San Francisco. Russia could have and would have wrecked the treaty. It would be a conference in which Britain would refuse to sign. The abstention of Britain would cause the abstention of several Dominion and Commonwealth nations. Had we invited Nationalist China. some nine Asiatic nations would refuse to sign. Had we invited China. quite possibly a number of LatinAmerican nations would refuse to sign. Had we invited Nationalist China. several European nations would refuse to sign. I have even heard an unofficial estimate by some of the highest Amer.ican authorities that an invitation to Nationalist China would have produced a treaty with only four signatures: Our own. that of Japan. that of the Philippines. and that of Nationalist China.