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...Cairo the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek were the first to arrive, flying in from Chungking aboard a four-engined U.S. transport plane. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, with their separate parties, traveled to Africa by ship, made the last leg of the trip by plane...
Britain's contingent was even bigger. China's delegation was small by comparison: ten officers headed by General Shang Cheng, Director of Foreign Affairs of the National Military Council; Chiang Kai-shek acted only as head of his political mission, consulting with Roosevelt and Churchill on general questions but attending none of the military discussions...
President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Churchill declared at Cairo...
...officially, because of his partial deafness. Major Chennault told a friend: "I'm glad to get out [of the Air Corps]. They're still running it with the old 1917-18 ideas." That same year the dark, determined Louisianian went to Shanghai and became Chiang Kai-shek's air adviser. "Why," he had growled, "should I worry my brains out when I can prove my theories somewhere else?" In a few months, the Japs almost wiped out his infant air force, but Chennault did not regret his move or noticeably pine for the U.S. Air Corps...
...still "two wars." Only Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek were together when the war with Japan was plotted to its intended finish of "unconditional surrender" The President, the Prime Minister, Joseph Stalin of the U.S.S.R. still had to meet to plot the finish of Germany. -The first announcement from the Pacific "Big Three" restated the obvious: "Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized...