The Allies and Soviet Support
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2011

In contextualizing the Far Eastern Agreement, which in the United States proved to be extremely controversial, giving rise to Republican charges that President Roosevelt and the Democrats had ‘sold out’ the United States’s Chinese ally, Chiang Kaishek, at Yalta,1 it is useful to examine Allied foreign policy in East Asia at the time. With respect to China, the US state department had two aims. The first was to bring about an effective joint prosecution of the war. The second was to recognize and