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scene of its drafting. There can
be no question that it represents
Russian official thought as to how
a defeated Japan should be dealt
with, although the Soviet govern
ment stood rightly aloof from the
Cairo conference as a neutral in
the Allied-Japanese phases Of the
world war.
Russian endorsement Of China's
detectives in the Pacific was at
least broadly implied in the in
clusion of China as a signatory OF
the Moscow four-power pact. The
Cairo meetings were obviously
staged as preliminary to the
fore gathering of Churchill, Roose-
welt, Stain and probably Chang,
which already may have Occurred.
At that meeting, among 0 h
things, the big four of the United
Nations will personally approve
| the Moscow blueprint for a new
world order of enforced peace. Chi
ang's presence in Cairo foreshad-
owed his participation in t h t
phase of the Russiar-Allied con-
versations to implement the Mos
COW agreements with action.
Nor is there any barrier to his
participation in Anglo American
Russian military planning against
Germany and her European satel-
lites such as kept the Russians
out of the Observation-Disclosures
proceedings in Cairo aimed at ia
pan. China is at war with Ger
many and her nerve-racked Bal
kan accomplices. 1t is as essen
tial that the Chinese president and
military commander should under
stand the pattern Of Russian-Al-
lied strategy in Europe as that
Moscow should appreciate the de-
mands in the Pacific upon Ameri-
can war making resources.
The -Hltler-first axiom of
Anglo-American war strategy was
last reaffirmed at Quebec. That it
was repeated in principle at Mos
COW and is now about to be trans
lated into military plans at Te-
heran or wherever else the Chur
chill Roosevelt Stain confer
ence is staged goes without say
ing.
The high ranking personnel Of
the British and American military
and naval stats accompanying
Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt to
Cairo and beyond vouches for the
theory that their meeting W i t h
Stain is primarily to perfect the
dove-tail1ng Of Russian and Allied
military operations for the final
phases of the fight i'll Europe. A
merging OF the tluebec Allied vic
tory dlrectives with Moscow war
plans, and with tine utterly chang
ed face of the war in Russia, in
the Mediterranean and in Italy
since the Quebec conference, is
at hand.
The military decisions of the Al
lied leaders will be better kept
secrets than the rrelininaries, but
there are two visible aspects OF
the Cairo conference and OF the
subsequent four-power parley that
the war lords of Toxic cannot fail
to weigh. For one, the Cairo dec
laration is open to the assumption
that it looks no less TO the appre-
hension ano punishment OF Japa-
nese war criminals at the scene
and under the laws OF the coun-
tries where their crimes were COM
mitted than do the Moscow de-
crees with relation to the Nazls.
For another, the close association
of the Chinese generalissimo with
Russian Allied military dellber-
ations at this stage of the struggle
has it's own orninous portent for
Toxic.
It does not indicate any Rus
sian purpose of breaking the non
aggression pact with Japan. 1t
does, however, serve notice on To-
kio that with the Nazi foe Keeling
back westward beyond the Dniep-
er under multiple Russian blows,
Moscow no longer breads a two
front attack.