The Cairo Declaration

27th November 1943: Roosevelt and Churchill agree their war aims for Japan with the Chinese nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek

General Chiang Kai Shek, President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the grounds of the President's villa in Cairo during the North Africa Conference, 27 November 1943.

Historians¹ are now increasingly taking the view that we should see World War II as a conflict beginning in 1931.

The Japanese invasion of China beginning in 1931 unleashed a bloody confl…