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3.
The Future Status of Korea
In the course of the Big Three luncheon conver-
sation on November 30, 1943 the Prime Minister asked
Marshal Stalin whether he had read the then-proposed
Cairo Declaration, which- contained the provision that
Korea was to be independent "in due course". The Mar-
shal replied that he had and said "it was right that
Korea should be independent" (Doc. F, p. D-30). At
the meeting of the Pacific War Council on January 12,
1944 the President reported that Marshal Stalin agreed
that the "Koreans are not yet capable of exercising
and maintaining independent government and that they
should be placed under a 40-year tutelage (Doc. J,
p. D-37).
4. The Future Status of French Indochina
During the first conversation between President
Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin on November 28, 1943,
just prior to the first formal session of the Confer-
ence, the question of Indochina came up in the course
of the discussion on France. The Marshal stated "he
did not propose to have the Allies shed blood to re-
store Indochina, for example, to the old French colo-
nial rule". and emphasized that "France should not get
back Indochina". The President said "he was 100% in
agreement", and remarked that after one hundred years
of French rule the inhabitants of Indochina "were
worse off than they had been before". The President
added that at Cairo Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had
told him that China had no designe on this area but
that the people of Indochina were not yet ready for
independence. The President continued that he had
discussed with the Generalissimo the possibility of
a "system of trusteeship for Indochina which would
have the task of preparing the people for independence
within a definite period of time, perhaps twenty to
thirty years" Marshal Stalin completely agreed with
this view (Doc. A, p. D-16).
At the dinner conversation among the Big Three
that 'same evening, November 28, 1943, the future of
France and French overseas possessions was discussed
in general terms. Indochina was not mentioned
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