A similar principle is reflected in Article 26 of the Japanese peace treaty, which gives the United States certain claims if subsequent Japanese territorial concessions to other powers are more favorable. When the Japanese were reported to be under pressure from the Russians for additional territorial concessions in 1956, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles pointedly described that article of the treaty in his press conference and said that he had recently "reminded the Japanese of the existence of that clause."

XREF: Connects to the broader diplomatic/territorial concessions dynamics being discussed in the surrounding text.

Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, loc. 360