The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-12-02
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WOntuueu FrOm rage Onc)
A communicate issued at tn I
close declared they had agreed up
on plan of military operation!
against Japan which would bring
unrelenting pressure against theil
brutal enemies by sea, land ane
air."
Declaring their purpose to drive
Japan back into her home islands
the three powers outlined this spe
eific four-point program:
l. Japan must disgorge all the
islands she seized in the Pacific
from the beginning of the FRS
World War in 1914 (from which
she gained, from Germany, the
Marshall, Caroline and Mariana
archipelagoes in which she plant
ed bases for her attack on the
United States).
2. Manchuria. Formosa, the Pes
cadores (the 81 islands lying be-
tween Formosa and the Chinese
mainland) and all other territories
taken from China must be restored
t cher.
3. Korea Is to be made free ano
independent Sin due course"
4. Japan must be expelled from
call other territories which h {
has taken by violence and greed.
(This would cover all the lands
she has seized since Pearl Har.
Dor, the Philippines, w AXE and
Guam; British Hong Kong, Mala-
va, Burma and islands of the Pa.
cific: the Netherlands East Indies
and also French Indo-China.
The above blueprint for break
ing up the japanese empire and
liberating it's conquered peoples in
effect would dtvest japan of the
territorial loot won by aggression
or trickery in five wars-frorn the
Sino-Japanese war Of 1894 to the
present conflict, climaxed by her
surprise attack on Pearl Harbo1
and her rapid conquests in the
South Pacific.
(Japans possessions would be
reduced from sorne 3,000,0 900 square
miles and 5OO,OO0,Oc people to
little more than $4,000 square
miles and Japanese population
of $4,000, 900.
(Thus, the three chief conferees
apparently had agreed on a pro
gram which did not specifically in
clude Sakhalin island, half OF which
japan acquired from Russia in the
Treaty of Portsmouth III 1904. Pre-
sumably this was because Russia
was not represented at the con
ference and is not now at wal
with Japan.)
The conferences were held in
strictly guarded zonn which re
strictions even yet will permit only
to be described as in North Africa
Qn Washington it was presumed
that the meeting took place II
Cairo or nearby, since the new:
came under that dateline, and the
principal participants visited the
Sphinx and pyramids which are
in the vicinity.)
That the decisions reached were
no matter of mere long range
planning was suggested by the
fact that good fighting weather
now prevails in China, Burma ane
India and that Admiral Lord Loui:
Mountbatten, 1t. Gen. Joseph w
Stilwer and Maj. Gen. Claire L
Chennault, the three Allied com
manders in that theater, had plen
ty of time to present their plan'
to the conference.
The noted absence of Gen. Doug
las Macarthur, Allied command
er-in-chief in the Southwest Pa
cific, somewhat localized the dis
cussions, however.
| Generalissimo and Mrs. Chan,
arrived by plane on the morning
Of Nov. q, Prime Minister Church
i'll arrived by sea the same eve
ming after stops at Gibraltar, Al
giers and Malta, and Presiden
Roosevelt arrived the next morn
ing by plane.
Behind a guard Of thousands o
thousands of soldiers and secre
agents who toured the bedlam o
bars, hotels and night spots seeth
ing with rumors, the three chief
of government, their chiefs of. stat
and highest advisers conferre'
morning, noon and night.
| Newspaper correspondents wer
not permitted to see single prln
cipal in the drama, and the onl,
news given out by four non-Journa
listic observers was largely limit
ed to the physical facts, such a
who conferred with whom, an
various social phases of the dis
cussions.
! AltogetherS there were 2o1 Brit