Cairo conference
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 [1] of April 1941, would not bother to meet 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 Kuomintang was broken. [2][3]
References
- ↑ Matsuoka, Molotov Sign, Time magazine, April 21, 1941.
- ↑ The Yalta Betrayal, Felix Wittmer, 1953, pg. 43, 83.
- ↑ The Roosevelt Myth, John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Betrayal, Ch. 9, The Great Conferences.
