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Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918
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Historical SummaryOn the way to a meeting with Joseph Stalin, the Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt stopped off at Cairo, Egypt, for a conference with Chiang Kai-shek. At this gathering it was decided to deprive Japan after the war of all her colonial conquests and to give eventual independence to Korea. No Russian representative was present because the U.S.S.R. was not yet at war with Japan. The following joint communiqué was released on December 1, 1943. (For the Second Cairo Conference see introduction to Document No. 285 below.)
World History 283.
The First Cairo Conference, November 22–26, 194340
JOINT COMMUNIQUÉ, CAIRO, EGYPT, RELEASED, DECEMBER 1, 1943
The several military missions have agreed upon future military operations against Japan. The Three Great Allies expressed their resolve to bring unrelenting pressure against their brutal enemies by sea, land, and air. This pressure is already rising.
The Three Great Allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain for themselves and have no thought of territorial expansion. It is their purpose that Japan shall 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, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as 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. The aforesaid three great powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent.
With these objects in view the three Allies, in harmony with those of the United Nations at war with Japan, will continue to persevere in the serious and prolonged operations necessary to procure the unconditional surrender of Japan.
40 United States, Department of State Bulletin, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1943, vol. IX, p. 393.
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Chicago: "The First Cairo Conference, November 22– 26, 1943," Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918 in Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918, ed. Walter Consuelo Langsam and James Michael Egan (Chicage: Lippincott, 1951), 937–938. Original Sources, accessed November 21, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=388MTM5JPWWJIT6.
MLA: . "The First Cairo Conference, November 22– 26, 1943." Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918, in Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918, edited by Walter Consuelo Langsam and James Michael Egan, Chicage, Lippincott, 1951, pp. 937–938. Original Sources. 21 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=388MTM5JPWWJIT6.
Harvard: , 'The First Cairo Conference, November 22– 26, 1943' in Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918. cited in 1951, Documents and Readings in the History of Europe Since 1918, ed. , Lippincott, Chicage, pp.937–938. Original Sources, retrieved 21 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=388MTM5JPWWJIT6.
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