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Secretary of State Dean Acheson is shown signing a draft tripartite treaty among the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Directly behind him (in a row) are John Foster Dulles, Sen. Alexander Wiley, and Sen. John Sparkman. The man in the back is Sen. H. Alexander Smith. Directly in front of Smith and to the right is Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper. The others are unidentified. The signing of the draft tripartite treaty, which was created from discussions that occurred between 1949 and 1951, was initialized in San Francisco, California, on July 21, 1951. For photographs of the final signing of the treaty (ANZUS), on September 1, 1951, see 96-1185 and 96-1186.