2001/10/16 WED　Jeffrey Geer
Taiwan Passport

As you probably know, I've been exhaustively researching the legal status of 
Taiwan under SFPT, and the role of the Allied military occupational 
regulations (civil affairs) plays a silent but prominent role for many 
reasons.

Unknown to most folks, author George Kerr was a US Navy Civil Affairs 
officer prior to WWII. He even edited the volumes of Civil Affairs 
regulations used by SCAP's occupation of Japan especially during his time 
with SCAP and the US State Dept. Thus I am trying to assess the historical 
role of Kerr and for purposes of more openly clarifying the lurking "legal 
ambiguities" of the constitutional formulations of the Taiwan Relations Act.

I was part of a US Army Civil Affairs unit in the Gulf War, and the status 
of Taiwan under SFPT is quite seriously effected by the Taiwan Relations 
Act. It created an "escrow agency" function of the USA, and there are legal 
civil rights with the "undetermined" treaty status of Taiwan.


George Kerr's "Formosa Betrayed" p. 466
http://serv.formosa.org/betrayed/kerrframes.htm

Quote:
Anthony Eden wrote that "The Allies approved Chiang's occupation, but this 
did not constitute legal transfer." The London Times published a series on 
the legal status of Formosa, and Canada's Foreign Secretary (Lester Pearson) 
proposed an international conference to treat the problem.

Do you know of any online archives for this series by the London Times?

If so, please forward a link or article copy to the helpful folks at 
http://www.taiwandocuments.org site, and if possible to me, too.

This is of great historical significance to Formosans.