Big Three at Cairo & Tehran: FDR, Churchill, Stalin, Chiang & Madame Chiang 1943 US OWI Newsreel

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more at http://quickfound.net Cairo Conference: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, PM Winston Churchill, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek [Soong May-ling] Teheran Conference: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, PM Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin "United Nations Leaders Meet in Middle East!" United News Newsreel Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Conference The Cairo Conference (codenamed Sextant) of November 22--26, 1943, held in Cairo, Egypt, outlined the Allied position against Japan during World War II and made decisions about postwar Asia. The meeting was attended by President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin did not attend the conference because Chiang was attending, which could cause friction between the Soviet Union and Japan. (The Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact of 1941 was a five-year agreement of neutrality between the two nations; in 1943 the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan, whereas China, the U.K. and the U.S. were.) The Cairo meeting was held at a residence of the American Ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, near the Pyramids. Two days later Stalin met with Roosevelt and Churchill in Tehran, Iran for the Tehran Conference. The Cairo Declaration was issued on 27 November 1943 and released in a Cairo Communiqué through radio on 1 December 1943, stating the Allies' intentions to continue deploying military force until Japan's unconditional surrender. The main clauses of the Cairo Declaration are that the three great allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan, they covet no gain for themselves and won't involve themselves in territorial expansion wars after the conflict, "Japan be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the First World War in 1914", "all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, including Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China", Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed and that "in due course Korea shall become free and independent"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_May-ling Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang (traditional Chinese: 宋美齡; simplified Chinese: 宋美龄; pinyin: Sòng Měilíng; March 5, 1898 -- October 23, 2003) was a First Lady of the Republic of China (ROC), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. She was a politician, painter and the chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. The youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, she played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Republic of China preceding her husband... Soong died in her sleep in New York City, in her Manhattan apartment on October 23, 2003, at the age of 105, her life having extended into three centuries... ... Madame Chiang struck a chord with American audiences as she traveled across the country, starting in the 1930s, raising money and lobbying for support of her husband's government. She seemed to many Americans to be the very symbol of the modern, educated, pro-American China they yearned to see emerge -- even as many Chinese dismissed her as a corrupt, power-hungry symbol of the past they wanted to escape. - Life magazine called Madame the "most powerful woman in the world." - Liberty magazine described her as "the real brains and boss of the Chinese government." - Clare Boothe Luce compared her to Joan of Arc and Florence Nightingale. - Ernest Hemingway, called her the "empress" of China... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran_Conference The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was a strategy meeting held between Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943. It was held in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran and was the first of the World War II conferences held between all of the "Big Three" Allied leaders (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom). It closely followed the Cairo Conference and preceded both the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences... the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies...