Tribune clipping shows three photos that were printed together with the following caption, "Its nap time at the San Francisco conference. These spectators sleep cozily through the harangue of Czechoslovakia's Dr. Gertrude Sekaninova- possibly dreaming of a better world to come whn peace treaties will not be necessary. They awoke to find one still going on." Handwritten on the back, "Del. sleeping during Czech. speech." Photo shows a man in the audience at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference sleeping during the speech of the Czechoslovakian delegate, Dr. Gertrude Sekaninova. He is resting his face on his left palm. [Information provided by "The Oakland Tribune" Sept. 2-9, 1951] The Japanese Peace Treaty Conference was held at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco September 4-8, 1951. In 1945, the Opera House was also the place where the United Nations had come into existence. A total of 51 countries participated in this conference. The treaty officially ended the war with Japan started when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. Some of the provisions of the treaty were: to end American occupation of Japan, make Japan pay some reparations for the war, and force it to comply with the peaceful wishes of other countries. The treaty allowed Japan to join the United Nations and rearm to a certain extent. Negotiations for the treaty had been going on for eleven months with John Foster Dulles as the primary force behind the negotions. Not all the countries participating were happy about the treaty. Some felt that Japan should be forced to pay reparations that were larger and should pay them immediately. The communists nations, primarily the Soviet Union, were not happy about the treaty, as well, and the fact that they were not involved in the negotiations. They vowed even before the conference opened to cause as much trouble as possible. After some squabbling, primarily by the Communist countries, and after those countries offically walked out of the conference, the treaty was signed on September 8 by the remaining nations. Sekaninova, the Czechoslovakian delegate, gave a blistering speech at the conference following the Communist line and ripping the treaty and the non-invitation to China to the conference apart. The Czechs and the Polish delegates walked out of the conference with the Russians.