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    "ocrText": "TOP\nC-1\nARCHIVES SERVICE\" RECORDS NATIONAL Tusman AND\nTHE CAIRO CONFERENCES\nNovember 22-26 and December: 4-6, 1943.\nIntroductory Note\nThe Firsti Cairo Conference. was the only Allied\nwartime conference of Heads of Government devoted\nentirely to: a' consideration of questions dealing\nwith the war against Japan. President Roosevelt;\n: Prime Minister Churchill, and Goneralissimo Chiang\nKai+shek met together for the first and only time de\nCairo, Egypt, from November 22 to 26, 1943, on the\ninitiative of President Roosevelt The .President\nand : Prime Minister were accompanied by their respective\nmilitary and diplomatic advisens. Anthony Eden,\nBritish Foreign Secretary, was in Mr. Churchill's\nparty. John G: Winant, Laurence A. Steinhardt, and\nW. Averell Harriman, American Ambassadors to the\nUnited Kingdom, Turkey; and the Soviet Union;\nrespectively, and Alexander C. Kirk, American Minis- -\nter to. Egypt, as !well as Harry L. Hopkins; Special\nAssistant to the President; were members of the\nUnited States Delegation, which included a large\ncontingent of high-ranking military; mavalylandiair\nofficials. Apparently neither the officersifrom the\nDepartment of State nor those from the Foreign Service\npresent at Cairo participated in the Far Eastern\ndeliberations on either -the (political or military\nlevel. The Generalissimo was accompanied by Madame.\nChiang, Chinese military and naval officers, and\nUnited States : Army officers thenion duty in the\nhina-Burma-India theater.\nThere was: no definitive agenda. The Secretariat\nof the Combined Chiefs. of Staff irecorded the military\ndiscussions in which the three Heads: of Government\nparticipated. No record hasi been found of the\nthe\npolitical discussions among the Heads of Government\nand there is no indication that such a record was\neven made. Madame Chiang acted as interpreter for\nthe Generalissimo (Doc. AA, p. C-80).\nDECLASSIFIED\n11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) DE\nDept. of St te 7-15-25\nTOP SECRET\nNLS HC TARS Date 7-20-76"
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