| − | 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 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, 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> | + | 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 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> |