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At Cairo, Roosevelt announced that it was the intention of the allies to force Japan to unconditional surrender and to strip her of all her island possessions taken during all her wars. Thus another of Stalin's aims - completely to destroy Japan as a strong power — was insured. When U.S. Secretary of State [[Cordell Hull]] heard, he expressed misgivings, saying,  about "Japan was about to disappear as a power in the Orient" and that "there would be nothing left in the Orient to resist an aggressor."<ref>''Memoirs of Cordell Hull'', Cordell Hull (N. Y., 1948), pg 1587, quoted in ''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn,  New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf  pg. 48] pdf.</ref>
 
At Cairo, Roosevelt announced that it was the intention of the allies to force Japan to unconditional surrender and to strip her of all her island possessions taken during all her wars. Thus another of Stalin's aims - completely to destroy Japan as a strong power — was insured. When U.S. Secretary of State [[Cordell Hull]] heard, he expressed misgivings, saying,  about "Japan was about to disappear as a power in the Orient" and that "there would be nothing left in the Orient to resist an aggressor."<ref>''Memoirs of Cordell Hull'', Cordell Hull (N. Y., 1948), pg 1587, quoted in ''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn,  New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf  pg. 48] pdf.</ref>
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Roosevelt promised to Chiang the return of Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores; a few days later, at the [[Teheran conference]], Roosevelt agreed with Stalin that the Soviet Union should obtain warm-water ports on the Pacific Ocean. That meant Port Arthur and Dairen -- Chinese ports -- and, the pledge made to the legitimate government of China, the Kuomintang, was broken. <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Claxton Printers, 1953, pg. 43, 83.</ref><ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, ''Betrayal'', Ch. 9, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Nine___The_Great_Confere.htm ''The Great Conferences.'']</ref> Admiral William Leahy also says sharply that Roosevelt broke his word to Chiang.<ref>''I Was There'', Admiral William D. Leahy, New York, 1950, pgs. 200 – 218, quoted in While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It, John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [*[http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf  pg. 48] pdf.</ref>
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Roosevelt promised to Chiang the return of Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores; a few days later, at the [[Teheran conference]], Roosevelt agreed with Stalin that the Soviet Union should obtain warm-water ports on the Pacific Ocean. That meant Port Arthur and Dairen -- Chinese ports -- and, the pledge made to the legitimate government of China, the Kuomintang, was broken. <ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Claxton Printers, 1953, pg. 43, 83.</ref><ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, ''Betrayal'', Ch. 9, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Nine___The_Great_Confere.htm ''The Great Conferences.'']</ref> Admiral William Leahy also says sharply that Roosevelt broke his word to Chiang.<ref>''I Was There'', Admiral William D. Leahy, New York, 1950, pgs. 200 – 218, quoted in ''While You Slept'', John T. Flynn, pg. 48.</ref>
     
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