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The '''Cairo conference''' of 1943 codenamed '''SEXTANT''' consisted of three of the "Four Policeman" as U.S. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] referred to them in his "Great Design" of the [[Allied Powers]] of [[World War II]].  [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Josef Stalin]] refused to meet with Chinese [[Kuomintang]] leader [[Chiang-kia shek]], preferring to divert U.S. [[lend-lease]] aid to Soviet [[Comintern]] ally [[Mao-tse tung]] who was actively subverting the recognized Chinese government under  Chiang-kia shek.  

The '''Cairo conference''' of 1943 codenamed '''SEXTANT''' consisted of three of the "Four Policeman" as U.S. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] referred to them in his "Great Design" of the [[Allied Powers]] of [[World War II]].  [[CPSU]] General Secretary [[Josef Stalin]] refused to meet with Chinese [[Kuomintang]] leader [[Chiang-kia shek]], preferring to divert U.S. [[lend-lease]] aid to Soviet [[Comintern]] ally [[Mao-tse tung]] who was actively subverting the recognized Chinese government under  Chiang-kia shek.  

In Cairo Roosevelt and  British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] met with Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek.  Stalin, ally of Shinto Japan after the Matsuoka pact <ref>[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/s1.htm Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact April 13, 1941], The Department of State Bulletin Vol. XII, No. 305, April 29, 1945. Retrieved from the Avalon Project 11 August 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772681,00.html Matsuoka, Molotov Sign], [[Time magazine]], April 21, 1941.</ref> of April 1941, would not meet with the legitimate leaders of the Chinese government.  

In Cairo Roosevelt and  British Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] met with Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek.  Stalin, ally of Shinto Japan after the [[Matsuoka pact]] <ref>[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/s1.htm Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact April 13, 1941], The Department of State Bulletin Vol. XII, No. 305, April 29, 1945. Retrieved from the Avalon Project 11 August 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772681,00.html Matsuoka, Molotov Sign], [[Time magazine]], April 21, 1941.</ref> of April 1941, would not meet with the legitimate leaders of the Chinese government.  

Roosevelt secretly demanded of Chiang Kaishek that he take the Communists into his government, quit opposition to the Communist army which might then take Manchuria for the benefit of Stalin. In return, and behind Churchill's back, he pledged to Chiang that he would keep the British out of Hong Kong and other ports where they were formerly entrenched. <ref>''As He Saw It'', Elliot Roosevelt, New York : Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1946, pgs. 157 - 166.</ref>

Roosevelt secretly demanded of Chiang Kaishek that he take the Communists into his government, quit opposition to the Communist army which might then take Manchuria for the benefit of Stalin. In return, and behind Churchill's back, he pledged to Chiang that he would keep the British out of Hong Kong and other ports where they were formerly entrenched. <ref>''As He Saw It'', Elliot Roosevelt, New York : Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1946, pgs. 157 - 166.</ref>