§ 56. Mr. Platts-Millsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the basis of what treaties or other instruments or binding declarations, His Majesty's Government recognise the control at present exercised by the Chinese authorities over the island of Formosa.
§ Mr. Mayhew:The only relevant declaration is that made at Cairo in 1943 in which the heads of the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom and China stated that the territories stolen from China by the Japanese, including Formosa, would be restored. The Cairo Declaration was reaffirmed by the Potsdam Proclamation of 1945, to which the Soviet Union adhered. It was on the basis, of the Cairo Declaration that the Chinese authorities took control of Formosa at the time of the Japanese surrender, and have exercised the administration of the Island ever since.