Re: UK treatment of China in WW2

Andrew Clark wrote:
"Rich Rostrom" <rrostrom.21stcentury@xxxxxxx> wrote

Eisenhower withdrew to the exact occupation
lines agreed to at Yalta by the US and
British governments, as per his orders
from those governments.

Actually, that isn't accurate. Yalta agreed the principle that there would be occupation zones of Germany and the general configuration of them (Soviet in the east, British in the NW, US in the centre and south), but did not agree the precise boundaries between them. In fact, at Churchill's insistence, the matter of the zones was left open until the war was over, so that they could take account of the actual position of troops on the ground. Churchill, in other words, ensured that the West could hold what it grabbed.

As we discussed in August 2005, your interpretation of this is incorrect. I've seen nothing since that time to change this. Please feel free to provide citations.

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